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RALPH --DAWN-- You folks are on our list till something changes, hopefully for the better.

Hang in there

GOD BLESS

Chuck

Meco-- On the handle for your kitchen tools. I would not worry about rivets or peining, neither are neccessary. The pins in Epoxy is all that is needed.

If you have some real tight grained wood and just want to rivet or pien, you can get by with it. Butt you will still have to epoxy the handles to keep them from pulling away from the metal, after being wet and dry for a few months. Been there, did not like it.

I clamp my handles with two small C lamps for about twelve or fourteen hours after attaching them. Then grind them down to what ever I want. I will cut the pins off as close to the wood as I can. Then when I start to grind the pins down they will not get hot enough to damage the epoxy

GOOD LUCK

Chuck

Well, Murphys here to. I did not get the pic installed. sorry about that.

Chuck

RICHARD-- Any hardwood will work fine. Just make sure you epoxy the wood to the clean and sratched handle. Leave your wood sratched and the metal you attach it to. Devcon makes a pretty good choice for the epoxy. With the epoxy you will not have the wood curling away from your handle, after washing and using the tools for a while.

Pins for the handle can be anything you have handy. With the epoxy you don't have pein the pins. The reason for not peining, is to keep from splitting or cracking the handle wood.

Good luck.

Chuck

Hello out there.. Can you hear me now??OH-- I forgot I was not on the cell-phone.

I did get some shop time in lately. I have two pairs of spurs ready to go. Took some pics--The wife is going to see if she can figure out how to post.

If not I might just email them to you, Glenn.

Have a gooden

Chuck

TOMMY DEAN AND FAMILY--

Tommy thank the Lord for the good memories you have of your Mother . Now you have the very best guardian Angel that you possibly could have. You will feel her presence, when times are hard and when things her going the very best.

Our thoughts and prayers are still with you folks.

Hope to see you in March.

Chuck Bennett

We are glad to hear the better news and will keep up the knee-mail.

Good luck and GOD BLESS.

Chuck

JERRY glad to hear the better news.

Now then you all can diet, walk and change your life styles together.Grin.

Good Luck and GOD BLESS

Chuck

TOMMY-- We are with you Pard. We have your family in our thoughts and prayers.
My wife was blessed with two MOMS and it was a blessing for us.

GOD BLESS and good luck

Chuck

One hundred and sixty eight thousand pounds. By golly JIM, when you go, you go whole hog. Don't you. GRIN

Nice to hear the press is about ready for the trial run..

BE CAREFUL. That thing is going to be POWER--FULL.

It could shoot a two pound piece of steel two hundred yards before it started to drop.

Chuck

Hello Karl-- I am in the panhandle of Texas. it is getting late here. So this will be a little short. it might be what you are wondering about.

The Damascas or Pattern Welding of blades is very interesting procedure. In the old days of sure enough Damacas-- It was necessary to weld some good steel to the Wrought iron to make a durable edge holding blade. They layered or laminated alternating iron and steel to get the disired blade metal.

Today they do it for looks and appeal. The different patterns are laminated and forge welded, then they can be twisted(dots you spoke of) and flattened back out. some times the bladesmith will fuller them(drive a round bar down into the steel at 90 degrees to the blade. This will create a pattern that is called a Ladder Pattern. There are very many ways to get the different patterns.

A bladesmith is really only limited by his imagination. Basically you laminate the steel, fold it back on its self and reweld, doing this a number of times. You can have straight lines or any number different patterns.

Hope this is what you were needing.

Good night and good luck

Chuck

BEACHER--Sorry I am late on this.. Been out of pocket for a few days.

She has been added to our list.

GOD BLESS

Chuck

JR.-- I misssed a few days checking the list.

What a scare. We dread any illness in the kids. You know we are going to have problems--simply because of the years. Our kids are supposed to stay safe.

We have her on the list. We are glad to hear she is making good progress.

GOD BLESS

Chuck

Well GRAMPA-Congrats on a pretty little girl. I saw the pic. over on Don Foggs site, Beautiful, little girl.

chuck

DENNIS-- I have for years and years wondered why I did not get the GIFTED talent that some others have. It is in fact a GIFT.

We can aquire different skills and be copycats. You can mix and match different things and come up with some thing original.

To be totally first time ever, creative, is very hard unless you are GIFTED.

It is like being faster on foot or a truely good artist. It is a GIFT.

After saying that, I have acquired a certain amount of expertise, in a couple of different mediums. It just ain't as easy for me as it is for the GIFTED.Big Old Grin.

Chuck

JERRY-- Thanks for the up date on CAROL'S conditon. Tell her we will keep on keepin on. .

I had my first attack at 49, quit smoking and was doing good. I started back smoking and everything went to pot. Closed off veins everywhere, Hands, lower legs, hips. Smoking and lack of excercise are the two worst things you can do.

Chuck

GOBBLER--You can etch with Lemon Juice or Vinegar, just takes longer.. Some people use a citric acid. BBUUUTT Half and half FERRIC is the prefered. Keep trying the different RADIO SHACKS, you will finally find it. I did Grin.

One part water to one part FERRIC ACID. The Lemon juice will take an hour to three hours( longer if you want it really dark) to get the contrast. Not quite so long for Vinegar. I have not used Citric.



Chuck

The other night on EBAY. A man from Italy offers for sale

#1 2003 model L3010 Kubota tractor
#2 front end loader
#3 five foot box blade
#4 five shreader
#5 New 8'X18' car hauling trailer with ramps
He is to pay the shipping and freight to your place.

All of this for the grand total of $3,200.00 US money.

The catch --The money($3,200.00) in the form of a cashiers check is to be sent to ITALY.

I bet he got a taker.BOG.

Chuck

#10-- He is so tight he jumps over the gate , to save the wear on the hinges.

#11--He is so tight , he and his wife share their false teeth.

IRNS.--Dang shame we don't live closer together. You would be handy to have around.LOL. Nice -NICE.

I too do a little wood work. have not done any thing with it in years.

Congrats on some nice inlay. and cabinet making.

Chuck

MECO3HP-- We have made a lot of stuff from used shoes. In playing around with them, we found that Evantor shoe from ST CROIX has the most carbon in them. I have no idea wether this was just one run of steel for the shoe company or if they planned to have a little carbon in the Evantor shoe. They will harden a little, we never tempered them.

I use to guide and pack hunters from all over the country. Once a man from Okla. came to hunt with me and had shoes on his horse, made from oil-field SUCKER-ROD. The shoes were so hard that they were too slick for the horse to stand up on. Had to reshoe him for the hunt.

Chuck

GOBBLEFORGE--I had a hard time finding the etchant at RADIO SHACK. I finally found one store that had it in Dumas Tx.

All of the others could have ordered it for me. Just did not want to, not enough demand and they have to buy a case or so at a time.

Can not help on the letters, sorry.

Chuck

GLENN --Thanks. I sent it. It is huge but I can not help it. YET.grin.

chuck



If someone wants to try these .. I started with 1/4" square-- cut the pieces 6" long. You need about a 5/8" set for the pivot pin. You can place your rivet so the crackers will not close completley, mashing your finger.GRIN. After setting the rivet, you can file or grind the excess off in front of the rivet.

IRN--You painted a very good picture of what a fellow can get into. From the reaching for the improvished ladder to the inevitable slide down in the tight quartered hole, then making the best of it and fixing the valve. I would have give any thing to have had that on film. He heh. What is great, you had sense enough to not wreck both elbows and armpits.

Glad, it all came out allright.

Congrats on a great humorus story.LOL

Chuck

Hellol QC. How you been??

I tried all night to post over on the Forgemagic and ended up sending it to Alan L. It was too big a pic.

I will have to get the daughter over here and straighten me up.BOG

But come hook or crook I will get this infernal machine figured out and then wil be able to post.grin

Chuck