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Your prayers went up to the ONE ABOVE for my daughter and were answered! I have never known a more caring and loving group as you wonderful BLACKSMITHS! Carrie rallied about 11 PM B/P came up and her kidney function returned. Thank YOU is a small way of expressing my feelings. We hope you each have blessed day and remember to count your blessings as I will for all you have in friends and family. Sincerely, Cookie, Jr and family

To Clarify a few things, tuesday night just as the blueprint reading started, we were notified that Carrie was rushed to the Emergency room in Lawrence, Ks, with severe pain and such from kidney stones. We were informed this morning that they were going to put a stint in to keep the kidney stones from block the exit path from her kidney, and that the procedure would take place late afternoon or early evening of Wednesday. She was rushed into the OR just after noon instead, and suffered complications from the procedure or the anethetic or the pain killer. Her Blood pressure dropped to about 60/40 and she had trouble breathing, she is a severe asthmatic. Due to infection and elevated temp,103+ she was moved to ICU just about the time we arrived at the hospital. It was very stressful for cookie and an almost 3 hour drive. The girl was semi-concius when we got there and looked like warmed over death, and here BP had dropped more. They were attempting to force fluids thru an IV, but because of years on prednisone her veins are small and very weak, so the put a pick or shunt in her upper chest and this seemed to work. They ran all the family out as she needed rest. Sometime after we got to hospital, I called Glenn and Tio and it was put on the prayer list and the pub. Thank you Glenn and Tio. Cookie and I headed home about 8:30 and about half way home we got a report from her son that her blood pressure was up to a little over a hundred and she was resting at last. Cookie Thanks you all for the prayers, they worked a miracle this night. Thank you friends for your prayers and concern it was much appreciated. Irnsrgn

Beacher, we will for sure add your mother to our prayer list and you too. Cookie and Jr.

Exceptionally good news Jerry, we will keep prayers coming.

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one side is north pole, the other is south pole, place it on the other side. or they make little cheap magnatizer, demagnatizer things with a hole in them that you just stick things thru the hole.

Brian if you look closer at the picture you will notice the corner of the sq tube are in line with the rod.

Creativity is one of those things that varies greatly from one smith to the other 10 smiths will do the same thing differently and each one has a look and personality of its own. Best way is get some paper and a pencil and doodle, one thing leads to another and pretty soon you have something you like that you can go create at the forge. Start out with simple things and then figure out ways to combine things into more creative things. You might start perfecting your ability to make scrolls, make many different and varied examples, then hang on wall to use as more or less patterns. Nice thing about patterns is you can actually pick a pattern and see how it will look integrated into your project. Another good exercise when you get some patterns that you like made is to try and make 4 or 5 of the same thing and see how close you can get them to each other or the pattern. One thing to remember, is to get one of those hard cover blank books or a spiral bound note book and put down the measurements for each piece of iron in a project and if you number or label your patten scrolls you will always know how much stock to start with. Be meticulous in writing down everything and sketch the finished product as you may want to make another just like it someday or someone may see one of your projects and decide they can't live without one. Presto you have a pattern with measurements already.

NIce work Strine. Made by you, you don't actually Say.

lots of old English anvils in the States. The weight was marked on the waist of the anvil as 3 numbers. X Y Z X is the british hundred weight 112 lbs american Y is the quarter hundred weights 28 lbs american Z is the pounds 1 pound american. So 2.1.3 equals 2 times 112 = 224 + 28 lbs + 3 lbs = 235 lbs american weight Edit: Typo in your math. The total is 255.

What is your favorite explanation of tight. 1. He is so Tight he squeaks when he walks. 2. He is tighter than the bark on a tree. 3. He is so tight, when he opens his wallet, the moths fly out. 4. He is so tight, when he gets a dollar bill out ole Georges eyes are squinting. 5. He is so tight, he askes the waiter if they have paper plates to eat off of. 6. He is so tight, he asks the check out girl at the grocery store if there is a discount if he bags and carries out his own groceries. please number your quips and keep the sequence going.

I proved that a light burns brightest before it burns out. I got the bright idea to go down in my recently bricked up water meter pit and free up the shut off valve. The cut out in the cement floor is about 18 inches square and the pit is about 7 feet deep and 3 ft diameter inside. I have the cutting table off the chop saw down in the hole as a ladder. but it is narrower than my size 14 shoes. I sat down on the edge of the hole and felt for the ladder with my foot. thought I had the step located with my foot and kinda slid off the floor. Whoops foot pushed improvised ladder over and down goes a one-eyed, elderly, portly fat old blacksmith down into the void. A good foundation is not necessarily a good thing at times. No way to put the brakes on the runaway blacksmith, so raise arms to facilitate the slide down into the void, and avoid injuring arms. No blood evident and nothing injured but my pride and a pair of slightly damp bib overalls. LOL Landed on my feet and size 14's missed the bucket I had lowered into the void, so no prybar necessary for extraction. Used bucket to set on and Marvel Mystery Oil to lubricate froze up ball valve. Attempted to remove my body from the void. After 3 tries to no avail, reach for cell phone,swallow pride and call neighbor to come to the rescue. Wouldn't have been so bad but, he had a hard time with extraction due to the shaking of his body and tears from the laughter. Wouldn't have been so bad, but I was laughing so hard I couldn't see either, but that came to a halt when he grabbed my bib suspenders and helped lift me out. My laughter changed from a humourous roar, to a high pitched sort of squeek, when he gave me the snuggy. I gotta be nuts for sharing this with you, but just a warning don't get old and try to be a kid again, and don't try to drink and read this, well go ahead a good laugh is a good laugh. May you laugh till your sides hurt and you are laying on the floor writhing in pain, well you will get some of the floor clean anyway.

Work done with the tools.

Made with the tools in them.

wish I hadn't got carried away with my humor, lets just concentrate on the beautiful workmanship in those exquisite knives.

WOW! WOW!

Spelling is correct, Capitalization is lacking, Punctuation is non existant, No Virus is apparent, Test complete. I couldn't resist, LOL.

I watched the flag pass by one day, It fluttered in the breeze. A young Marine saluted it, And then he stood at ease.. I looked at him in uniform So young, so tall, so proud, With hair cut square and eyes alert He'd stand out in any crowd. I thought how many men like him Had fallen through the years. How many died on foreign soil How many mothers' tears? How many pilots' planes shot down? How many died at sea How many foxholes were soldiers' graves? No, freedom isn't free. I heard the sound of Taps one night, When everything was still, I listened to the bugler play And felt a sudden chill. I wondered just how many times That Taps had meant "Amen," When a flag had draped a coffin. Of a brother or a friend. I thought of all the children, Of the mothers and the wives, Of fathers, sons and husbands With interrupted lives. I thought about a graveyard At the bottom of the sea Of unmarked graves in Arlington. No, freedom isn't free. Enjoy Your Freedom & God Bless Our Troops, Past, Present, and Future, Who gave us this freedom, And will continue to do so. Thank a Vet Today. .

don't know about the blob, but the shaft may be case hardened or induction hardened like the do hydraulic cylinder shafts before chroming them. you will be able to tell by a spark test, tho.

Well said Ralph, I have resisted the temptation to jump in this. LOL

Jerry , you and your wife have my sympathy and you will be in my prayers.

we always used a hand corn sheller on walnuts

first off if you are serious about putting bands on, you need a traveler to accurately get the distance around the mallet and get the ring the right inside diameter. second you need to make the turned part for the ring deep enough so there will be at least a half inch of wood sticking past the ring. Third, you need to drill at least 3 holes around the ring to put either nails or screws into. fourth you need to determine how much shrink fit you need on the ring. 1/8 shorter in circumference may be enough, but is probably too much for that small a ring. fifth you will need a small dead stick from the yard to gauge the temperature of the ring to tell when it is ready. Just rub the stick against the ring and when if feels greasy, put it in place and drive it on. then immediately quench in water. 1/8 inch is normal shrink fit for an old buggy wheel.

have no idea why it works, but it does. don't know if it works with steel wire or not, never tried it.

thomas point taken, I didn't think I said my way is the only I don't think, but if I did I stand corrected, LOL, glad you are on top of things. have a good one and keep us straight