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  1. jimbob
    do a spark test as the cheaper ones are low carbon the higher end are carbon tool steel
  2. jimbob
    I've made sevral small chief knives(choppers) and machetes. as machetes the blades don't bend as the store bought ones do...they work just fine withe mounting holes left in
  3. jimbob
    put some Lucas oil in it
  4. jimbob
    after the army I got hired on at the phone company. been doing that for the going on 37 years now...it is getting old !
  5. jimbob
    mine has 75lb of lead in the head
  6. jimbob
    I do it for the love and enjoyment of it. That would make me and Amateur!
  7. jimbob
    If you are going to leave it out in the weather I think I would use lead instead of epoxy
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    looking at the bottom of the globe I wonder if you made it solid then take a nail set re ground at an angle and punch down all around you might be able to get it look like the spines on the sides og the globe
  9. jimbob
    could you make the blub with a tab for like a russian rose but cut it with chisel then roll it back on itself lite one does the rose..
  10. jimbob
    isn't that more or less what has been airing on the history channel; on Japanese sword making; where they cook it for several days in a clay oven, then break the oven open and pull the chunk of steel out
  11. jimbob
    The Book "The Recycling,Use & Repair of Tools by Alexander G. Weygers isbn 0-442-29357-7(cloth) or 0-442-29358-5 (paper) chapter 19, Files,Rasps, and grindstones pg 71 How to clean dirty but sharp files,acid sharpening....Making Files and Rasps 73...a File cutting jig. etc. I think you can now get all three of his books in one on E-bay...it a good read and as pointed out you need to make one sometime
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    I think thats like everything else it depends on where you buy it!
  13. jimbob
    actually its called a file card (File card (tool - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia). We seem to have hijacked this post it started out as how to sharpen a file. if you do some reading on the web several people talk of doing just that with mixed results most of them say the acid bath but it removes metal and does not last too long; for the money make something else out of the old file and buy a new one!
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    their calle Vixen files for non ferrious metal or wood or plastic they work great for shaving gunstocks ...I like to use them to shape the handle on my forging hammers bearley need to sand them
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    I do the same when my back starts to hurt
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    I guess one could take a magnet and put it in a plastic bag and then pick up dust below the sander/grinder...that way you'ed only get the iron/steel dust and exclude the rest
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    that sounds like a good ideal how deep/wide is the V ?
  18. jimbob
    that sounds like a good ideal thanks Bruce
  19. jimbob
    Any of you guys use a small piece of iron on your forge table to make that quick weld on small pieces?...if so what do you use and about how big is it(the piece you weld on on the forge table)
  20. jimbob
    It would seem to me that what ever you needed would now be on the BOTTOM of pile at the down slope necessicating that you now must unload the pile to get what you want. Maybe you are useing color coded strings?
  21. jimbob
    well I guess I could use the powder fom where they turn my brake drums it wouldn't have that grit in it....I might give that a try
  22. jimbob
    It would be nice if a group of Blacksmith or like minded people could purchase the old bridges of the country and stock the wrought iron for other smiths to use.
  23. jimbob
    I wonder if I could use the Iron/steel dust below my sander/grinder and mix it with my Borax...seem like I read somewhere in one of the old books I have that that is what they used to do...any one try this?
  24. jimbob
    A bastard file is a file whose teeth configuration is in between a rough or coarse file and a
  25. jimbob
    I've had the square one for six or seven years now no problems. I did have to make a plate to attach my air pipe from my blower.
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