Michael

Your coming along just fine there. Some sort of table or shelf around the brake drum would come in handy for laying down tools and hot work to cool slowly. I made 3 different forge bases for my first brake drum forge over the years, till a cast iron forge table and firepot fell my way. Never enough space around a brake drum forge.

Dragon heads, I like it! that'll be the next few I do. Thanks for the hint.

I like the idea of a hook to keep someone IN the cubicle. At least the new ones are lower height than the old space. Less of that Gopher Popping experience when something happens and everyone's head pops over the top of the cubicle. I'll stick with the leather under the hooks. Modern office needs some iron, leather and wood (stll working on that part) in a den of plastic and electronics.

Earning a paycheck and smithing for fun.

I'd been meaning to make something like this for a while, as a way to hang my coat in the office. When my office moved, the new cubicles were profoundly lacking in any sort of accoutrements to get stuff off the desk. I think I heard the term "clean design" mentioned.

Anyway, made a paperclip template to get the opening sized right and hang my headset, radio and rubber band stack on these. Contractor freak outs over scratches on the painted black surfaces warrented the leather strips under my ironwork.

I've forged with charcoal for about 5 years, and found that a 5 gallon bucket of Cowboy brand will last me about two hours, give our take, with a lot of fire control work (wetting, shoveling, pushing to the middle). Just swapped over to coal and I get about the same time frame with a 1 gallon bucket of coal, less time messing with the fire, more checking with the neighbors about the smoke, and trying to keep that reserve of coke from the last fire.

LOVE those tool stands! Especially the short pipe sections for chisels and punches. Nice work.

Nice stand there! I also just added a 2nd vise to my vise stand, not as heavy as yours but the vise alone adds enough weight to make it worth while.
Well Done

Really well done video. Lighting and framing are fantastic!

My daughter keeps pointing them out to me on TV, I think she likes to hear me howling with laughter!

Nice work! the heart double hook is a great design.

You're off to a Great start there.

These stories got me wearing both a face shield AND safety glasses over my regular glasses when I was doing some angle grinding the other day.

I have a friend, he repairs industrial lasers. He has a stack of stickers in his tool box that he applies on each new machine he workes on. "Don't look at LASER with remaining eye!"

Just past 7 years of frightening my neighbors I finally get around to making my first knife. The RR spike attempt on the bottom was started about a week into forging and shows it.

Viking style knife made from a transmission bearing race. Stock was given to me 3 years ago, and I finally figured out how to work carbon steel at bright orange to be able to move it. Water quench, I was expecting cracks but didn't have a good oil container for the ATF, came out of the slack tub ok.

2 hours in the kitchen over at 350 degrees and I have something to improve upon. There's enough bearing race for another 2 blades if I'm careful.

Look for sideways and too small photos on CL too. Some of my best deals have come from CL listings with Lousy photos

I like it! That chisel slice off the back of the spike to make the third leg is neat. Is it top heavy at all?

I was cleaning out the smithy corner of the patio and discovered there is nothing more unstable and likely to fall/trip over than an unmounted post vise.

A second post vise came my way thru a CL sale that could not be passed up. My whole set up is sort of portable, the better to shift into a smaller pile in the corner of the patio when not in use.

Bolted the second vise to the same bolted together stand as the first one, Really should have mounted it opposite the first one, but the diamond plate table was a little too large to allow the leg to be u bolted to the cast iron v belt wheel that makes up the heavy part of the base. I don't have any convenient way to cut steel plate, but I think I can borrow my FIL's steel cutting circular saw this weekend and remedy that.

Nothing like adding another 50 lbs to a vise stand.

Thanks for the ID. It seemed to heavy to be a body work hammer. Considering the rusty pile of tools it came from (BIG soldering irons, more Coe's style wrenches than I could count) boiler work fits really well.

I picked this up at an estate sale, couple of bucks, thinking to use it as a rounding hammer. It works quite well in that capacity, and seems to have been made as a hammer. Can't find a mark on it. The long body and short handle is a little odd to forge with, but the heavily domed faces really spreads leaves over the centerline of the anvil horn like nobody's business.

Could this be a body work tool?

thanks.

Michael

Adam Carolla's podcast. A favorite for years now.

I just picked up one of these last weekend. I"ll try and find a motor today. Not too worried about the cutting time, and it'll take up a lot less space than the horizontal bandsaw. No vice parts save the one fixed jaw. Jury rigged vices seem the #1 mod to these saws on a Google image search.

Got to try out the new coal forge and blower. Haven't worked with coal in a while, nice not having to shovel so much charcoal all afternoon. Tried a couple of dragon flys for a windchime I'm working on, don't quite have the sequence of steps down. Heat treated a couple of tools I modified. A small chisel reshaped to a curve for cutting dragon ears/horns and a punch reshaped to round.

Made a bottle opener out of 1/4 by 3/4 stock.

and a chance to try out both the new forge and blower and try out what I learned at the CBA gathering a few weeks ago. A lot of Craigslist and flea market tools have been jumping out in front of me recently, everything but time to forge!

Made up a curved chisel and round nosed punch, tempered them, then knocked out a horsehead bottle opener. Thank Clinton, great instruction. Much easier with all your own tools around you.

Bummer! Just missed it! Finally got a minute to sit down and watch and its gone! Arghhhh!!!!!

Big chunk of I beam was my first anvil. about 75 lbs, webs about an inch thick. Had to stay over the center of it, but it worked. On end would have perhaps put the mass under the hammer face, where it belongs.

Yes, a lot of fun at Oktoberfest! Funny how the rain didn't seem to make much of a difference, forging keeps you warm. Daniel Miller was one of the best guest speakers I can imagine. Very accessible and open, his discussions on process and his work reflecting the human condition were eye opening and informative and his demos made it clear that a flypress is absolutely needed in my smithy.

Nice pics Clinton, I took pretty much the same ones, including the big kitchen cooker!