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That was interesting, i like how the cart guy was in such a hurry and everyone else didnt seem to work as fast as he tried to.

cutoff tools must be set as short as possible to get the job done, even then i find mine chatter alot. I will only plunge cut with them as i dont want to break them off. Pulley looks great!

Lol........

My bridgeport has tight ways, it also has a ballscrew setup in it if i remember correctly. I can climb mill fine with it, but avoid heavy cuts when doing it, and always use a sharp end mill.

Mine is a 3 car garage, i will have a lineshaft up at some point and have my trip hammer and a drill press in shop. For now its just the forge, anvil, swedge block and a workbench tho

Looks good, i think the last one is my favorite.

I am not going to look through all the posts, but dryer sheets keep mice out of cars qutie well around my place.

If you honestly didnt have any problems with it and sold it in good working condition then it must be something he did to it to make it that way, i would not give a refund. I also agree that 3 weeks is quite a wile and you did tell him when he bought it that warranty is covered through microsoft and not you. You are not a retail store or microsoft, i would personally expect that it was a buy as is item and that is how i would treat it.

Thanks sandpile, the hat is a fenderwasher driven down over the head. I know the plating on the washer is toxic but i had plenty of ventillation and stayed back wile i took the finish off.

now if the wife dosen't see it i'm ok, well done, jimmy

LOL i know how that goes, i dont hae a wife but after that she wanted me to come up with more things for her house from very vauge descriptions sying, well you are creative......

That could be his name, im not sure, Thanks for the compliments

The glass is held in with some 3/4"x1/8"x1" tabs rounded off on the belt sander and then i fitted a rubber cap on them with some heat to make the rubber conform. Then I drilled the bars and tabs and used machine screws to apply tension. I also used clear art type glue to help secure the leaves and birds, it was used sparingly and is hardly noticeable from the "backside".

I use item specific or brand specific searches, then use the sidebar categories to narrow it more.

Well made a cowboy like i was thinking of, turned out pretty decent. The boots could be a little better but thats ok its the first one.

Seems the cat decided all of downstairs was his litterbox so that created a small problem for her :D

Here is a project i completed for my grandmother, its not really blacksmithing but i couldnt decide a different place to put it. I just found the picture and thought you might like to see it. The vertical bars are all twisted hot rolled which was done cold the frame is just 1.5"x1/4" There are two pieces of glass to sandwich the leaves and birds. I made the birds from feathers glued to cardboard cutouts. This fits into an opening next to her stairwell and was intended to block the cat from getting downstairs and be decorational as well.

I dont know if it works on anvils or not but on alot of things a person drills a hole at each end of the crack it will stop. The problem i see with an anvil is you are dealing with a 3 dimensional crack and you wont be able to follow the crack end with the drill bit. I dont know how you would fix it but it would be good information to know.

Welcome, ive found some good ideas here hopefully you willg et some good ones too.

Wow, cant wait till i am able to make some damacus and see what kind fo patterns i can get. Beautiful

I was going to walk the tracks and salvage some spikes. Just havent gotten time yet.

Also thought up something tonight, if you wanted a brim on the hat, all you have to do is drive the hat through a flat washer and you have a brim. I tried it on a simple piece of metal and it works good.

Thanks guys, my dad saw it and now he wants to make one too so i guess i have to go find some more spikes.

Well was on anvilfire and decided tonight i would make one of those Tennesse Trolls. All in all for my first one it turned out great. There are a few things i will do differently next time. My eye punch didnt have enough of a recess to work well so it has sunken pupils and i should have made the details like the robe deeper. Anyways here are some pictures of the final project. It was a fun little project and i would suggest it to anyone wanting something to do, only problem now is that was my last spike!

I worked some iron tonight and did just that frosty, I was at an angle most of the night and also built my fire a bit deeper as i wanted to do more spot heating to work areas of the project instead of the whole thing. The combination of the two worked great.

I think that halogen i have is more of a flood light so maybe thats why i think it works so well, its one of those yellow construction lights hung from a board on the rafters so i can move it wherever i want.

Wow beautiful knife there bill, im still learning my forge welding so im a ways from anything even close to comparable!

ATTA boy! Electricity is a wonderful thing in the shop. Now you can start gathering up those big toys, ahem, TOOLS you NEED.
You may want to reconsider the spot light on the anvil. IMO, too much bright light and you can't tell the color of the steel on the anvil.

Ahh i forgot to mention the big toys, they were sitting outside the shop when i took that picture, i have a 50lb trip hammer, drill press, and pedastal grinder to start with for now, i have to get my line shaft in and going before i worry about them to much tho.