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irnsrgn

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  1. Okay grundgedog and dodge, here is the missing page about the conference.
  2. I enjoyed Ian's visit here, altho it was compounded by my having to take my wife Cookie to the ER the day Ian got here, and then they admitted her and they let her out the day (Friday) Ian left, Ian did get to go up and look at my cluttered and dirty smith shop, it hasn't operated as a smith shop since Jan, 2006 when I injured my lower back really good. Ian did get to see some of my railing work at a couple of local church's and I took him to the Brown County AG Museum in Hiawatha, Kansas to see the brick forge with the Hofi style thru the wall Flue I used with it. Thanks for stopping Ian, I wish things could have worked out better, but Mother Nature and Father Time have their way off intruding into our lives at inopertune times. Jr. and Cookie Strasil irnsrgn and Mrs Irn
  3. Brian Brazeal will be the instructor at the 2011 PBA Fall Conference at Randy Dacks's shop in Grand Island, Nebraska Saturday and Sunday October 1&2, 2011. And will give a 2 day limited space Workshop Monday and Tuesday October 3&4, 2011 following the Fall Conference.
  4. The PRAIRIE BLACKSMITHS ASSOCIATION has a new website, www.pbsmiths.com and is on facebook at www.facebook.com/pbsmiths
  5. Stanley Schwartz 6303 State Route 127 Pinckneyville, IL 62274-2201
  6. After Stan gets recuperated, no one is going to know him, as he will probably be living on bbqed ribs and ice cream and will need a new wardrobe, and won't have to stand in the same place 3 times to cast a shadow. LOL Get Well Stan and don't push the envelope to the limit. Knee Mail still going out to you and your family from Extreme Southeast Nebraska. Jr. and Cookie Strasil :P
  7. Our Thoughts and Prayers are with you and your family Stan! Jr and Cookie Strasil
  8. any bark at all left will deteriorate and either let the wood slip inside the stump or draw moisture and bugs. Its easy to debark, just girdle the log every foot with a hatchet to sever the bark into sections then use a bark spud,( A tool with a covex cutting edge about 3 to 4 inches wide welded to a 1/2 or 3/4 inch pipe handle and start it under a section that has been girdled and pry the bark up, go all the way around the log and it will just fall off. Fireing(charring) the bottom portion about an inch deep in an open fire, dries the wood, seals it and kills any insects present. If a job is worth doing, do it right the first time.
  9. One of the Woodworkers on one of my Woodworking Sites has contacted me wanting me to put him in contact with someone in the vicinity of QUEENS, NY. To: Hi Mr. Strasil, I am making a set of heavy oak door faces for a fridge/freezer combination. I am copying a photograph of a set of old doors. The owner wants them "distressed and weathered" to look old and he wants hand forged strap hinges even though they will be decorative. The actual doors are hinged independently. Do you know of a blacksmith who might be interested in this type of work? They are willing to pay to get what they want and what they want is "hand forged". They also want a set of heavy, forged pulls to match. The strap hinges will need to be about 3" wide and 20" long and the pulls should be at least 16" long. If you are interested and are qualified to do QUALITY work, contact me or Glenn and include a few pics of anything similar you have done, and I will put the two of you in contact. Respectfully irnsrgn
  10. Short hilites video of last weekends Lie Nielson hand tool event in KC,ks. http://sandal-woodsblog.com/2010/03/28/lie-nielsen-event-in-kansas-city/
  11. The Lord came for Clarence Mertins Wife Betty at 3 AM this morning, Saturday March 20,2010.
  12. Amazing the info that pops up when Woodworkers start argueing about which are the best Plane and Chisel Blades. this too, Ancient Blacksmiths http://traditionaltools.us/cms/files/ancient%20blacksmiths.pdf
  13. Ancient and Modern Laminate Composites https://e-reports-ext.llnl.gov/pdf/238379.pdf
  14. My Cone Jig, I used it mainly for Calla Lilly's, but it works well for chisel and other tool sockets. Tip, roll the edges some first,
  15. I once took my mostly wood demo smith shop to a hammerin, one of the snooty old boys who retired as an English prof. made a comment about whether I was a smith or a carpenter. I flat out told him that back in my grandfathers day in his shop most everything was wood reinforced with iron and if a smith couldn't work wood also he wasn't much of a smith as in small towns the smith was the blacksmith, wainwright, wheelwright, coachmaker and everything in between, he even shod horses. The old prof who thought he was one of the professions greatest smiths never did like me after that, my first wife always said he was just jealous. He lived not to far from me in another town and one morning he was setting around the coffee table in a resturant with a group of retired farmers who unfortunately for him where once my customers and started to berate me. His friends told him what they thought of me and of him and walked off. And one of them came down to my town and told me they found out what a jerk he was after all their years of friendship. LOL
  16. there is one like it in Audels engineers and mechancis guide its a steam piston.
  17. Sisu, with a hood you will always have smoke in your shop, especially with that small flu pipe, A larger flue pipe and making it into a side draft is really simple and will insure you a smoke free shop if the top of the flue is at least 4 feet above the peak of your building. Nice setup otherwise. This is the side draft forge I built for the Brown County Ag Museum Blacksmith shop. The smiths who have used it call it the "Super Sucker", its based on Uri Hofi's school forge flues. http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v81/irnsrgn/museum%20forge%20construction/?action=view&current=3b55e9da.pbw
  18. Save ur money and a lot of headaches and wait for something decent to work with. like mike said, they don't do anything good except absorb ur hard earned cash, and then lots of dust when you find out they won't do a decent job on most things.
  19. we had sewn cloth wheels to polish plow lays after pounding out and grinding so they would scour, they were 2 inches wide and from 8 inches to 12 inches in diameter. we had to apply glue then roll them in a mixture of 40, 36 and 24 grit alum oxide granules then let dry, they changed the glue formula, so the grit didn't stay on very long. So I found an expanding rubber wheel that takes sanding belts, from Brownells SANDING DRUMS - World's Largest Supplier of Firearm Accessories, Gun Parts and Gunsmithing Tools and the special belts, SANDING BELTS - World's Largest Supplier of Firearm Accessories, Gun Parts and Gunsmithing Tools I use the 3 inch wide drums. do a search for polishing on the brownells site for finer polishing.
  20. old soap making recipe for getting the lye strong enough when using a lye runner to make lye from wood ashes, was boil the solution till an egg floats. boiling evaporates the water.
  21. 10% salt solution, 1 part salt, 10 parts water.
  22. Unicorn, U need to go here, southbendlathe : All about South Bend Lathes: All Models
  23. Nostalgic is Fine Jrmy, you have been in my shop and used some of my Nostalga, the big lathe in my shop is Pre WW1, but it still has 48 between centers. Stan S is the one you want to talk to about ur lathe.
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