ThomasPowers

How about a Christmas Tree ornament for Christmas Challenge? Forge welded from rusty Barbwire:

Large postvise!

Mayflower? Some of my Ancestors *walked* to get here! Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe predates the Mayflower landing(s) and is still in use! 400+ years so far.

Prepping for NASCAR! As usual; no trick or treaters out here.

I'm sure they *look* bigger if you are charging them carrying a spear or axe....

Was tweaking a log grate so it would fit a woodstove; anyway it's helping fill the "feed the forge" stein to buy propane next time I need it.

I've heard of potato chain as being higher C to resist abrasion in use. We make steels for "flint&steels" from them.

Peavine, Lincoln, Prairie Grove, Fayetteville, been around those parts; shoot I was born out there as well as my eldest daughter! (During a full Moon in Springdale!) I picked up a small blower like that from the "Black Hole in Los Alamos"; cept mine has AEC scratched into the paint....of course all the folks at the BHofLA have Geiger counters in their off hand(s).

My coat hooks tend to get piled up with multiple items so a little more "throw" is a good thing!

If it's Swiss and vertical; is it cogged?

I've been to Peavine; you haven't missed much; bestest part is that collection of old small engine stuff off the side of the road...

B3 is the largest Beverly shear IIRC and cuts up to 7 ga mild and 10 ga stainless. I covet one too; but paid US$35 for my first B1, $75 for my better condition B1, (sold the first one to a friend.) Still waiting for the "reasonably priced B3" to magically appear...

Well most warriors during the Viking era didn't have much metal to rust on them! Very class based arms and armour.

Look at some "light and whippy" Horseman's hammers. Foot Jousting hammers from the full plate era tend more toward the "can opener" and "incurable dent" size.

Clean the stones and get a container for each one individually to prevent cross contamination.

Combat Repairs were common; many maille shirts have patches of a different size rings/wire sometimes several different ones. Unfortunately the ones on display in museums are usually the *best* ones; the damaged ones are in back in storage. The Royal Armoury in Madrid, (now moved IIRC), used to have broken blades and damaged armour on display and I saluted them for that! In one of my research books; there is even a "repair kit" with etched and gilded tools for use by upper class servants to repair armour on a march or after a battle. Remember that fancy armour was an insurance policy that screamed: "This person is worth a whole lot MORE *ALIVE* for ransom than dead for looting." Full decorated plate and a trained war horse was like a Lamborghini in the early Renaissance. Peasants were lucky to have a leather jacket and a spear.

Sort of like asking "Can I get into a fatal accident driving a Ford Escort and not a Ford Mustang?" May be harder but still a possibility!

Yes I control the burner totally with a regulator. Note that unless regularly tested a regulator gauge can be off quite a bit! Comparing PSI between set ups is a loser's game. I tune by eye and by ear and so never worry if the regulator got dinged last rod trip. I think my cheapest HP propane regulator was US$3 at a fleamarket and most expensive was US$35 brand new at the propane supply place in town.

I don't. I try to build/tweak my forge so that all the charcoal contributes to the forging heat and so no need to wet down "excess" charcoal on the sides and then have to cook off the water to use it.

Amazing how making a worker's location the most comfortable place to be winter or summer; helps keep folks where they are supposed to be...

I have a 150# old swage block and it won't fit under my screwpress and I have a fairly good sized one! Hopkins H frame

Also some of the hardness of the face of RR rail may be due to work hardening and so machining the face makes it SOFTER! I try to find chunks of worn rail---they have a flatter face and are work hardened to the max! My local scrapyard usually has dozens of feet of used rail in it at 20 USCents a pound. In various lengths too.

"Behind the seat of my truck "30" hacksaw, trash bags, rope, plastic tarps, 2 rolls of toilet paper, roll of duct tape, kitchen matches, candles, 40 bottles of water, hatchet, shovel---It was once pointed out to me that I carried "a serial killer's basic needs"...I'm sure that person will turn up again someday...when the glacier melts... I had my own TSA experience when I realized I hadn't "sterilized" my carryon after my last campout and it still had my hand forged pattern welded camp knife in it and they were boarding my flight *NOW*! My knife spent a week under a trashcan in the parking garage. It was still there when I got back.

No I don't forge weld the twisted wire toasting forks; I'd send a picture but they are at a gun show this weekend hopefully replenishing my collection of steel engravings of dead presidents! (Plus a few other people...) I once did a demo for a pack of cub scouts where every scout made a toasting fork and then "proved them in" with hot dogs and marshmallows! With that young of students it was all 1:1 and hyper vigilance. (Though they all tried to feed me afterwards.) Length is often dependent on their use. A small BBQ means short "small" toasting forks works fine. My Pastor down on the border likes LARGE fires and so I used some 3/8" sq stock and made him a 6+' (2 meter) toasting fork with a Y support to lean it on near the fire.