Roy Ubu

Looks like you bring some feel for the medium. Not sure about the best way to hook with the art guys. There's a piece of that in us all of course, but there are fewer art guys than tool guys. I guess that makes sense and helps anyone "new" to figure out how to accomplish what has been imagined. Luck to you.

Boa dia. Easier than Welsh to learn. More  experienced smiths here, maybe, than other sites. It's mostly the lesser guys who show their stuff though. 

As usual, there's more to it than meets the eye, but for most of us, including professionals, I think there is more potential for profit than damage in showing your stuff and not worrying.  

I want to see as much of everyone's work, dead or alive, as possible... In fact, I think that many of the best pieces that forum members have made, are not displayed here. We are free with our tool shots, but the really good stuff only shows up at the conference if at all. How much of the highest quality is in one of the multiple homes of the people who can afford it, never seen by anyone but the person dusting it and the one percent friends/guests? Not likely to steal your ideas. They couldn't tell if it was forged or cast. 

Best to be proud of your work, show it to anyone who wants to see it, and hope they have something to show you in return. We all get better, move forward with our designs, probably without losing money or prestige. 

The gentleman asked a simple question, with apparent enthusiasm, about an activity some of us want to share. Or would some prefer an exclusive club? Does the part that wants a club include the administration? 

A lever that passes through the door to lift a bar out of a keeper. Beefy feels good for an entrance door.

Don't know if this is the right place...as good as any. There is a metal worker in the Seattle area. Looks like it's scrap price or so.  Maybe that means it needs a lot of work. Don't know any details, but someone here might could use the thing for $1200 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

There are a few problems with this post:   1) we have a section for machines this is for simple tools. 2)sales should go in tailgating not the general forum, and 3)  No off site sales please.

Sun dial a la Habermann. I gotta have one.

Some kind of pipe to support the part you don't want to bend is the obvious design but localizing the heat exclusively to the part you want to upset accomplishes a similar result. Thing about a tool is that you would probably need a bunch of different sizes of the same tool for different situations.

Que yunque mas bonito.

That anvil prettier.

Good idea to at least draw. It feels better to me than computer generated because moving hand on paper helps ideas develop better. May have to do with how slowly I work a cad program. Clay is good too, but mainly when it models a small part of the piece I haven't done before or have done too few times to be absolutely comfortable. 

All of the thinking, drawing, figuring best order of process, has never resulted in a finished piece that is exactly the embodiment of my planning. If I stumble on an improvement as I go, I'm not handcuffed to what I've generated on paper. What happens equally often is that the execution is a little lacking. It's a hand made thing. It's nice to see the tracks. They're an important part of the story.

Rock, paper, scissors...cast doesn't fit. 

Think it has to be a cross/straight peen hammer. No surface to strike. I have one, but with the usual rounded peens. That would stretch and groove at once. Probably best to use for some kind of groove texture.

You're on your way and you have some good ideas. Luck.

Teepees are nice work spaces, although your wife/neighborhood association may associate them with "undesirable" counterculture types. Pole buildings are pretty easy. My 34x22, slab floor, salvage metal roof, salvage windows and doors, rough sawn lumber and poles from my property cost me about $3000 and I had fun building it.

It seems like I have seen another similar chart on the web with more info than included here. Thing about information, nothing is gospel, or shouldn't be. Just a point to start. Take a look - Machinerys Handbook