Steve Sells

I would leave out the clinker

Had a Total Eclipse here, boss let us take work break early to watch it, even had a few pair of glasses for us to share for viewing

I finished downloading from the wayback site, and have most of the 000 and 100 series online. This leaves about half of the 200 series and most of the 500 series to locate Just keeping you posted on my progress. My little vacation is almost over and I return to work Monday so I wont have as much time to devote to searching other archives, but if anyone has other suggestion, like the wayback site was, I am grateful for it, post it here or send me a PM

Thanks to a suggestion in an older post from JHCC i went to the Wayback web site and located many of the missing photos, so I am in process of leading those

The Articles and Stories have been cleaned up and moved over now. I don't know how but the update that glitched and removed so many photos way back when, also inserted sometimes as many as 12 blank lines in the middle of the text so I hope those are getting easier to read now that they are fixed. Sorry it took so long, but I had to wait til they were available to clean up before I could do anything with them, Glenn was collecting what he found, but was not in a rush to get them ready, after being offline for so long. Do to a few broken links that I can still read in his notes, I think I may have found there is a directory in Glenn's computer Hard drive of his back ups that can access the pictures. He already moved many over to this system, While neither I nor this program, have access too that Hard Drive, FOO does, so in time when he gets back to WV if they are there, he can put those somewhere available to me and I can load them in and get the rest of the 250 or so remaining BPs online again as well. that's it for now

I took 000 and 100 offline until I can get the photos sorted out, they dont make a lot of sense as they are now

no clue, its a Glenn number system. I honestly think its based on when it was presented as much as anything everyone should be able to read and post to the forum sub section,. the Pages will be going away after I finish up, I have been deleting from there as I transport them into the forum itself

added 700 last night, and 800 and 900 this morniong, plus half of the 200 and none of the 500 series have photos If everyone can do us all a favor, I noticed while doing the 900 series that there were many duplicates there from other series. So if while browsing these you notice a copy, let me know the BP numbers of say 923 and 400 are the same so I can removed the copys.

YES always Sadly we stopped hosting the Tuesday night BP presentation because Glenn and I could not do it anymore, and no one else would commit to being in the chat room every Tuesday to present them, but I will still add to this list when they get sent it, I will format them if you cant as well. I also added some of the 200, 400 and 600 series today, still so many are missing drawings or photos Perhaps someone would be willing to go over the old ones like that and re do them?

slowly getting them moved over, so far I have 00, 100, 300 series moved into the forum and they can be commented on now as well. I dont have photos for 200 or 500 series yet still searching for them, we have them somewhere I think

when you select a BP in that section, it does bring up the BP but its at at the bottom of the page after the articles listings, confusing I know.. It took me a while to notice that myself, that is why I am trying to move them into the forum properly

they are not really in the forum, there are in a separate section called Articles and I cant find out how to transfer them from one to the other, I am working on it

I have to figure out how to get them in one place, Glenn had his own way of doing things that I am still sifting through. Some are in a forum listing as Blueprints the others are under Pages, eventually I will get them all under blueprints , bear with me I know they are a bit of a mess still, I have more to get posted again as well, keep checking back there

Sorry it took so long, we had to wait for the updates, and the January update had a bug so we had to un-do that and wait for the March fix before we could make the changes

Finally, most of the old Blueprints are back, and we started a new sub forum for Historic Ironwork If you find any of these posts scattered in other forum sections please use the report tag it so we can relocate it to the new place

We just finished the latest of the updates that took us offline for a few hours. Hopefully this is it for a while. Let us know if anything wonky is going on now thanks IFI Staff

I first met Glenn in the chat room at Anvilfire many years ago. when he was still Ntech and I was using Kyoto. I got drug over here shortly after, after a year or so Glenn talked me into actually joining (I don't join much just hang out) On the other front I grew up a few miles north of Foundryguy in Muskegon, I should pop in and meet him face to face some time when I am up there visiting relatives

I am surprise you didn't make a silver and bronze Habaki for it, thanks for re posting

I went to see what was added to your website since I was last by there, Love the silver/gray sword listed above that one, but wife would kill me for spending that on someone elses blade for myself... great work as always Jim If the silver doesn't sell, can you leave it to me in your willl ? Can you post a pic of that one here also to show people why I am excited about that one?

Have you made regular damascus before? Do you have experience with Extremely toxic flux? How do you expect the steels to show differences without etching? Or are you just worried about etched topography? try starting D2 and 304 and then 304 and 440C

she is a typical smith, notice she isnt even finished with construction, and her building is already full of stuff and in need of more space

Go ahead and post the name, many members would like that. Just not a live URL, I will add that information to the info in the supplier list in the knife section as well FYI the OP never returned after posting his question

all I can remember is 3.1415926535 but looking it up the next 3 sets continues as ...8979323846 2643383279 502884197

One problem with average people is they call many types of metal work Wrought Iron, even tho it isnt that material, its just made to shape, I saw a wouoght iron railing that is actually cast aluminum

I remember Y2K when a few neighbors were stocking up on water, ammo and foods, they asked why I wasnt, I said I dont need too, if it doesnt happen I still have my money, while they will be broke from stocking up; if it does happen I can take stored water jugs and food from the other peoples stockpiles, all I have to do is lay low for a few weeks while the rest of the world panics and kills each other fighting zombies I normally keep about a months supply of food in the deep freeze and pantry, that is plenty of extra to have laying around