Iron Falcon 72

I don't procrastinate. I just consider all the angles. Here are some shots of a little stand I made for the wood turning my wife has. It has a warmer, more bronzey hue to it than the photos show.

I think you have more weight in that stand than I do in my three anvils and 4 post vises! Awesome! I'm going to go try to make friends at the railyard. Course I have no idea how to cut an axle that big!

Does anyone need a new forge? My link

It looks good! Did you think about making a three-point base? I'm currently using a wooden base but would like to have something sturdier like yours. A lot of folks seem to think that the tripod is able to handle more uneven ground. Thanks for the article.

From Maddog For different ratios of anvil mass to hammer mass, I get these numbers for the percentage of energy lost to anvil movement. Ratio %Loss 5:1 55% 10:1 33% 15:1 23% 20:1 18% 25:1 15% The equation I used was %Energy loss = 4r /(1+r)^2 x 100 where r is the anvil to hammer mass ratio. These results should be treated with some skepticism. I am not an ME. The numbers do seem plausible. They say there is not much point in going beyond 20:1 which seems to be industry practice and it's hard to get more than 80% efficiency. Sorry to be so late getting to this thread. I don't think I understand your ratio. You say it's anvil mass to hammer mass. So does that mean a 25:1 is 50 lb anvil : 2 lb hammer. Obviously I'm missing somethig.

That is so beautiful and inspiring. Thank you for the process explanation. I suppose one could braze or silver solder the mokume piece in place as well, depending on the materials and their melting points? Thanks again for sharing.

I like it without the pickets but....if he wants pickets maybe you can get him to pay to have you repeat the top part of the rail that you made and then turn it to the step on each side.

Very beautiful work! Thank you for sharing. DO you have any idea how much each gate weighs? Also, I'm very curious about the cutouts. They look to be a great idea to relieve the expanse of flat metal. Do you have some closeup pices of them that you'd share? Thanks again

Brian, Thank you for the video. Excellent work as usual. I just reviewed your profile and saw the horse head in your hand. Wow. What size stock did you use?

Or the area of the end of a 1/2 inch square is .25 and the area of the end of a 1 inch square is 1. The ratio of .25 to 1 is 4 so every length of a 1 inch bar will make 4 lengths of a 1/2 inch bar. I think!

All of the standoffs I've found are either zinc or cad plated so I'll have to treat them in muriatic acid. I've jsut been informed that she'd prefer steel so I'll be brazing!

What material did you use for the threaded bungs? Will brass hold up being brazed or would they melt? Thanks

Thanks, I'll check to make sure none of them are.

I don't have either kind of lathe so it wouldn't be particularly easy to make my own. I'd planned to braze on store-bought brass or steel bolts. But, it sounds like I was on the right track, no? Do you know if anyone sells internally threaded rod? Then I could just cut off each piece.

This is the idea. I thought of doing this with the screw posts that binding cos. use. They call them sex bolts. Is that what you mean by threaded bungs? To those with the cautionary tales thanks, I'll be careful. These are all old ones so no chrome I think.

I thought I'd seen it somewhere on the Web but, I've done the Google search and I've searched here but I can't seem to find this topic. Has anyone ever made cabinet pulls from old wrenches?

You might consider a real apology.

Both of those are excellent ideas. Unfortunately, they are mutually exclusive or are they??

I agree with you and stand by what I said, if that makes sense. I've also done quite a bit of horsetrading usually to my good. I've found that some folks who you could otherwise get to a reasonable price will shut down if you don't appear reasonable with your initial offer. As you say depends on how it's done and who's on the receiving end.

That's really good! Those are Aussie dollars!

$75 might be insulting low. I'd say go to $100 if you want to go for it. Otherwise pass.

It's not mine although I did try to take it home. Here's a headstone I found in a cemetary in Pocomoke, Md. I did an Internet search and the only info I found was an article in a New Zealand newspaper from 1899! I called the cemetary's church and they said that I now knew more than they ever did. When I first saw it before I found the article I thought that it was a bronze casting of the original anvil. The second day I got close to it and it looks like it's coated with something. There's very little rust showing. The hammer is fitted with a hardy and the chain to keep it from walking away. The label looks like it probably says Peter Wright. "An odd tombstone is to mark the grave of J. G. Angelo, a blacksmith, of Pocomoke City. It will be the anvil and hammer on and with which he began work as an apprentice in 1828. They were presented to him by his employer on the completion of his apprenticeship, and he has used them constantly ever since. His age is 84 and he is still vigorous."

Did I miss how much you want for the 50 LG'?

20 cents a pound. I can scrounge here. Sometimes if I get a real big piece in the smallest yard they just guess.

Yes, and I appreciate your story. I had to lift a 500 lb welding table out of the back of my pickup with the front-end loader on my tractor. I was very careful to check my coat everytime I got off the seat!