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you might look into the 2part marine epoxy it comes in a black and a steel gray i have used it to attach steel and glass together with good luck and the nice thing is it looks quite a bit like metal that is what i used to hold the pieces together and some of the glass portions weigh around 20lb

having done blown glass shapes into both bronze and steel forms i can tell you that you are running the risk of having this shatter down the road from the stresses put on the glass from the steal shrinking around it just over all as they say " you could put your eye out" i think though you could slump the glass in your forge if you cut it to shape before hand and had a form to having it settle into but even then annealing glass takes far more time and temp control than dose steel if you happen to be near any place that dose medical glass or scientific glass they tend to use a Borosilicate glass and might be able to help with the project

well if you do go with Ravens Wing Forge a nice simple touch mark could be something along the line of this sorry for the grainy photo and the less than stellar drawing but i kind of liked the idea

any idea what the real name is for them? and yeah i realized it was to simple an idea for me to have been the first one to make them lol still up here some people think i am

thanks and yeah normally i make them out of round stock but i was out of mild round stock when i did this last batch on the plus side these ones are on my dump wagon so i can pull them off and straiten them and knock down the edges if they give me any trouble i will admit that i was kicking myself when i took a look at these after they were painted and in place my only saving grace is that for this set up the rope goes through at a very flat angle on a side note the ones i do for flag and banner poles are out of long unplated lag bolts that i just cut the heads cut off so they are A round and b screw right into the posts what these are good for is with banners in particular they let you keep the rope flat to the pole to above head hight so that no one gets clotheslined but you can free the rope to take down the banner

i had a friend stop by with a shed he had found while out in his sugarbush getting set up to start tapping anyway he asked if i could make him a simple knife out of part of it i am not a knife maker but i had some time today and as there are 4points on the antler i thought what the heck i got some room to experiment here this is my first shot at it the blade is made from part of a old file forged to shape with minimal sanding i did a oil quench at a hair over non magnetic and then tempered for 3 hours at 410*F until the blade had turned a deep straw color the guard on the blade was a piece of scrap aluminum i had kicking around and was drilled and filed to be a tight hammered fit over the tang? of the blade and then epoxied into the the handle (note to self do not do a burn fit for the handle in side again) i chased myself right out of the shop with that smell anyway i am just stalling here it is and if i did this wrong let me know there are still three more points i can work with lol

i have made on and off a simple hook for flagpoles and trailers that i have always called a pigtail tie-down i dont know if it has a real name or not but i like them bc you can run a rope through them and not have to worry about it falling out and yet since it is a spiral instead of a ring you can get the rope on and off with out having to unthread it the way you would with a eye-bolt anyway i tend to leave these as soft as possible so that they can straiten out instead of snapping or pulling out of what ever they are attached to any way they are not works of art but they sure are handy to hold a tarp down on top of a dump wagon

well i got to do a bit of the old dumpster diving while at recycling today and came up rusty but quite happy among other things i found some one inch re-bar and some half inch plate and a bunch of short chains <- (i always need these for something) and free is a wonderful thing

having just shipped a anvil UPS has a max of 150lb and then you get into the big bucks i was under that but i got to chatting with them

well it took some digging but i finally found the old thread i was looking for good photos and it talks about how to weld a face onto a anvil as well

how about Nevermore Fabrication and forge thought i have to say the Spotted Dog got my vote

I know i sold a 80lb fisher for about 1.25 a lb to someone that was starting out first person i "tried" to sell it to would have had it for $1 a lb but they never came back for it so some one ells got it anyways my thought is sell things to people at a price they can afford and hope someone ells will do the same for you

i was using my 20ton to push out a seized pin from a hay wagon hitch tong and i was pumping away next thing i knew the shop was full of a fine mist of hydraulic oil and i was nice and shiny anyways my condolences on your aborted attempt at making a A-frame press

this was a real treat thanks for taking the time to put up the photos

i really like the idea of the wooden inserts having recently switched hammers i found that my anvil stand is now about 1inch short for comfort and as it it entirely welded up i cant adjust it that easily with this set up i could just add a new slice of wood and be good to go same thing for when i have people drop buy now and then to work i could see this being the work of a 5min or so to set them up with the anvil at there preferred hight and that for a days work is not bad at all i have long arms for my hight so as in i am 5ft11in and my wingspans is about 6ft4in so i am constantly dragging my knuckles around on the ground anyways

here is hoping your reported him i had been looking at that anvil but the shipping just seemed a bit odd having just shipped a 108lb anvil

grats on the new anvil

huh new anvil fact to me today thanks TP i never knew about the multiple pieces used to face anvils it makes so much more sense for how some of them fail

nah thats ok i dont like giving out tickets anymore than i like like getting them this was just more a if someone jumps on your opinion dont get bent out of shape over it "own it" if i was to get a sobriquet i would be far happier to be known as the the Teflon PackRat :) nothing is more of a treat to me than jumping into a scrap-pile and coming up with something i can use

it looks like its missing the back half of the face but thats not so bad since the real working portion of the face is still there i would say take a hammer and tap on it and see if it rings or if it makes a thack or buz noise if it dose not ring it might be worth passing on it if it rings or at least dose not sound or feel dead offer him 5o-75bucks and think of it as a learning anvil the horn looks good and the hardy hole is there for tooling so even down the road it could become a secondary anvil for cutting and doing striking on just my op

Celt i would say you could reply XXXXX "i am i am the anvil police" nothing wrong with that i know up my way if i had had the cash about 10 years ago i could have saved several anvils from the scrapyard had i been a bit more with it i still regret not asking for a lone

yup first thing i do in the morning is chuck craigslist and a few other sights and then check the paper while i am eating breakfast as well the traditional whenever i go anywhere i ask a few near misses but no luck so far but the hunt is still on

you can always cap them with tennis balls if you want a quick fix

i have some relatives down in Virginia that have been doing quite a lot of genealogy of late and i know there is at least one blacksmith that served down there i will fire off a e-mail and see if they can come up with anything

i used to help doing historical glass work at a fair and we worked out that just for the gas and power we were using it was costing us $80 a day just to keep things hot that is not counting cullet having to get there a day ahead of time to set up the furnace get it up to temp and charge it with cullet(glass pellets) so that it had time to melt and have the air bubbles clear this meant that for a weakened show we had a minimum of 240bucks invested and around 4days sins you had to let everything cool before you could break it down admittedly sales were usually good bc people want to buy stuff they see made but with glass there is a 24houre or so waiting period aka the time it takes to anneal so it wont explode down the road anyway we did a tip jar with a little run down of what it cost us to come set up and demo instead of just selling product it had a little sign over it saying "help us keep it hot" as always whenever you see someone tip/donates say thanks and give your little shpeal about how it helps with the cost of doing the demo and is appreciated this can lead to a few more tips so thats my 2 cents on this just be honest and keep your fingers crossed