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very nice but I agree raise the price

that is just neat I am going to have to do some research and try that one

not to change the subject but I personaly wouldn't lease my shop out to anyone, last time I let someone use my shop they moved some stuff and made a mess, but it's your shop do what ya want.

by the way John Wayne and Henry Fonda were good friends and worked together even though Wayne was very conservitave and Fonda a bleeding heart liberal, it's because they never dissused politics with each other, food for thought

Discussion of politics is not allowed on these forums, this has been an admittedly passionate discussion of law, there is a difference

generaly I try to be polite and nice to anyone who stops by when I am demonstrating even the heels but I did have one guy who wouldn't leave after a hour when he had run off several customers I started some way to hot and pointless forge welding, he went away :D

very informative thanks for posting

I trim around my beard and shave my neck with one, weird topic

That should work with the caveat about walls in winter and a heat resistant quench tub. Metal buckets are heatproof but dropping a sharp piece of metal in can punch holes in them. I put a piece of 14 ga. in the bottom of mine to protect it.

The other thing I see lacking (from MY perspective) is a comfy stool. I demo a step or project, then take my position on my stool to oversee and kibitze while the students discover things.

Frosty the Lucky.

I live in Tennessee but it seems like in Wisconson walls might help with winter work

I have seen mask for woodworking that have filtration but it has been awhile they were at woodcrafter you might want to check something like that out, they were full face for wood workers with beards and had all sorts of hoses

well I like the little knife I don't care who had one like it first, good job on it !

thats a big pile of heads!!

Valid

the only thing I can add is I cut green hickory in the spring while cutting fire wood I pick straght grained logs and split them like rails into quarters then wax the end grain and store it in my shop rafters next to the tin roof to cure. After about 6 months they are perfect for the shaving horse good luck

when I swithced from charcoal to coal I noticed a huge diffrence 30lbs of coal last all weekend for me

Thanks for the input ya'll, by the way on second weekend of the tip jar I made more off it than my sales!

I just saw 2 4in ones in Gurley Alabama for a hundred each which I think is high

Very nice hope you don't mind if I steal it I have a Lebal that would look good in those

you know the strange thing is I started smithing because I needed chisels and you have reminded me ( I still haven't made any) strange how things move down on the list, nice looking stuff by the way

Last weekend I started demonstrating at a show cave near home, this is going to be a regular thing now. Sales were good and just for poos and giggles I put out a tip jar, for a while nothing then I put a few bucks in it. I made almost as much off the tips as the stuff I sold. Any one else ever tried this or am I breaking any unwriten law. Thanks for any input !

you have inspired me to work on my tongs!

normaly I am not the jealous type but right now I am just a bit, enjoy it !

ya'll are scaring me all the yards I deal with are out in the sticks and they don't seem to care where I go or what I do one guy won't even charge me for under a hundred pounds

so thats what a new anvil looks like

I use both in my shop but 300 seems high to me

I use ball-peens for all types of smithing work all of witch have been mentioned but as far as non smithing work I keep one on the tractor for changing equipment driving out pins and what not the peen works good on stubern pins