Bryce Masuk

If I remeber right corten is usually mandatory for shipping containers in most cases It also is used on ships in some cases im pretty sure you can find some scrap of it somewhere if needed its pretty strong stuff as far as i know david, your gates turned out great I pictured them looking different but my mind takes off on its own now your off on the next project maybe blacksmiths should advertise that they will throw in free electricity with the patina, I have seen scientists in canada playing with metal and producing many colours from different metals pink i think from brass and a blue color from iron were the most interesting to me

I actually met up this fellow I was hoping to buy some tongs and hardies and stuff and check out the forge he didnt seem too inclined to split it up he said he was offered 2500 for the anvil but I guess it didnt happen not that many people are buying this kind of stuff out in this area selling the forge for 1000+ dollars would be pretty hard if he wanted to sell it all as a lot 5-6 grand would probley be a reasonable price he could sell it all piece by piece over a few years and probley get the money he wants for it maybe not though things arent exactly booming I have gotten emails myself from guys with incredible skills looking for jobs as blacksmiths and fabricators

seems like a pretty cool method of doing it should be less grinding than just building up right on the face unless it warps too badly on you you can save anvils that are really far gone as well wrking 4 living you should preheat any anvil before welding on it

welding from the inside out would be pretty tricky to say the least did you stick a something like a 1 x 3/8 flat bar in the middle and work your way out cleaning the slag would have been a nightmare it would be pretty hard to clean 5 inch's in or at least really slow I bought a new anvil it needs some work it was used in a blacksmithing school in england the right side of the horn and the face are worn near the front its not too bad but it ould be nice to have a real flat face on it

I have seen some bad things in my short time as tradesman and nearly had some bad things happen to me using mostly hydrulic equipment every bend you make with a big bender has the potential to hurt you and bad milling machines and gear drive presses dont stop when you turn them off they keep going until all the gears stop just today I nearly picked up a 8000lb piece of steel with a 7800lb strap that was worn eventually we got the same thing done without the strap just be sensible I could have used two straps and a link but if it broke then you have a 2 pound bullet I shudder at the thought of the damage it could do you never know where it might go. sometimes I just think to myself of what the shear or ironworker or press brake can do to a human being the effect is similar to what would happen if whatever body part was under a powerhammer, just think of it as GONE and never coming back sometimes its simple stuff that hurt people though like getting a piece of steel off the rack that is too big or something rolls off and falls on you. or even the accumlative damage from welding smoke and grinding dust or the numerous flashes or the sounds of steel on steel or grinding/cutting some people never worry about it and always seem to be fine, but then again some people smoke 2 packs of smokes a day and inhale welding fumes and dust and never get cancer either. so what's the answer I guess maybe just think abit and try not to rush into things even if you are pressured into it

I like how 500lbs is blurry in the video on the end of a wooden beam gives you a good dose of reality I bet running that thing mechanical hammers are cool in my books some people have told me the bradley's are undesirable I couldnt figure out why other than they fact they are the size of most blacksmiths shops themselves lol

Beauty shop I take it most of those in inventory are 88's I bought mine but cant use it because my shop is small and too many people live close by I have been searching for place with a upper messanine that I can move into and set up shop, or find someone who does welding and share the space and hopefully set each other up with work. either that on on farm land out here you quite the setup looks like you have an engine drive welder under that cover too the thing i hate about my shop is its about 18 x 19 and a full length of steel cant be stored inside so it all stays outside doesnt really matter much if its solid steel but tubing rusts overnight so i have to order it as required that and its power supply is inadquate for my needs I was suprised I didnt blow the breaker welding 3/8s plate for the power hammer base

Now i want something that bangs big holes in stuff gate looks good hopefully you got a decent price for it

Hey those hooks should last forever! that's bad business in the production world havent you heard every year you need to apply gravity coating to them otherwise whatever is attached might just float away

Hey if they can sell it then so be it Look at some of albert paley's work some of it is incredible... and some of looks like shrapnel so be it being good at something isnt the same as being good at making money at something I have just spent twice as long on a project as I should have to make it my way and be happy, will it get me any more money... Nope but doing something right is different than getting something done

Great, I am glad your liking it Blacksmithing is more of an obsession than a profession or a hobby

those are huge lol made on a power hammer? they match up pretty good how do they work they stand up vertically? with a hole in one in pin in the other? or do i have it wrong?

you have an excellent mind for design into reality it says on your website you started your business in 2002, were you an experianced metalworker before? I noticed all your other jobs were more art related in one way or another.

like southshore smith said it depends what you want to do if you planning on hitting things real hard in the vise without a striker lower is going to be better if you have a benchvise too i would probley mount it pretty low the heavier the leg the better the one you have if the leg was cut off was probley really bent so it was lopped off or it could be a box vice

I think its pretty cool its not a typical handrail if the house suits it then it will look good all your work seems to match itself I am sure your sister is quite happy

how did you cut the one leg off? with a bandsaw? I havent seen a shear that would clear that past the buttons unless it had a groove you could snap it into with one leg down

that sucks larry cutting up nice work is like a double waste of effort one day I will need a platen table but for now I need a bigger shop where I can run my power hammer, its on the list of goals first i need the work or someone to share space the old shop that my dad worked in has some weird machines from the 40's they had this giant tube with a glass window where 2 electrodes ran down inside the chamber welding I forget what it was about I was probley 10 at the time when I saw it looked real cool though

Bob you definately have it right, That is one thing about metal it has this feeling it creates of entirely being solid like nothing could possibly behind it wood doesnt have the same effect it always looks soft Back to the drawing board its time for more idea's Good or bad weather I will keep going down the path.

I bought it from kms it was on sale for $290 they didnt know they had it in stock and the paint was chipped with nothing in the box they found a bag and sweatband for it and gave it to me for $200 i didnt care about the paint its going to get splattered either way its the vista 3000 helmet it makes the elite screen seem tiny and its screen is pretty big on it but this one has 3 7/8 x 3 1/8 screen or 98mm x 81mm has no battery in it either usually I wouldnt spend that much on a helmet but honestly you would be suprised how much quicker and easier welding/fitting is with a really nice view i have a cheap everlast helmet I won on welding web I dislike it more than a regular flipper mask the way it fits my head I see more helmet than screen and when you bend over the helmet has no grip system so it flaps down and entirely blocks my view if anything it hinders my welding its really annoying using your hand to block the light from tacking or looking the other way so it doesnt blind you eventually those missed blocks/or looking away into someone else running a bead it adds up to poor vision having a good helmet especially when tig welding makes it alot easier, when your putting pressure on something with one hand so you can tack it tight you have the torch in the other hand pedal under your foot and the filler rod within reach its tricky I can do it but not perfect everytime most old school guys all use a flipper mask once you get used to it after 20 years a automask probley seems pointless by then after the thousands of flashes you have gotten one more doesnt seem so bad thanks for the comment on the gates they are pretty simple lots of guys make gates like this you will see them with the same spears and ball caps but its what my friend wanted. I figure if you cant make a basic gate forget about making a fancy one

Well here we go I bent the back supports by hand on my table and zip cut them to fit I was going to push myself to clean and paint them today but its so close to raining its probley not worth it everything is an exact fit with no adjustabilty with these hinges Instead I will clean my junk up and the back of the shop too

whoops I see that is the thickness of the material not a break

haha working with wood is also good, I like it you really have to be one with the wood though look at it and know what its for that gate is great though it might techincally be "sheet metal work" Did you use a Large pittsburg type machine to turn the edges on the radiused pieces? or roll them by hand on a rotary machine?

Will do I think I should spend time drawing things separately then put it together the trick is making it all fit and make sence and still be right. I usually sketch for line drawings you mostly want to make single swoops but for a scroll that is pretty tricky definately an experiance thing

Wow they turned out really nice totally different than what I was picturing I wondered what was going to happen in all the other space

yeah its about time for that lol I swear I was using everything in there at once... my brother wanted to see somethings so i just kept pulling stuff out and not much got put away I try to stay out if there because I know i will start working myself too hard if i am in there today is the day i finish this thing though