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wow. that's a coinky-dink.

yeah, sure. here's the youtube video... YouTube - Blacksmith pt 2 Making a Copper Rose He uses copper but really its pretty easy to follow and it works just as good with brass.

Got the idea and how-to from a youtube video (believe it or not) while surfing the net. All that's required is some scrap brass or copper and a duplex nail. I made it as my lapel for prom but the person i asked is going with someone else so i didn't bother with the matching corsage.

EUREKA! Fast, simple, and easy to whip up when you need them! And it just so happens i need something fast and simple like that for railroad spikes! I'll try these out next time i light up the forge!

I've been using mystery steel, per usual. But the funny thing is, i have no flint!

So i was out at my forge the other day and i thought back to my summer camp days, and remembered fondly my setting of the camp record of starting a fire with flint and steel. So i made this: Anybody else make these for use? If so show us all your style!

oops, wrong button. Awesome signs though. I have to get over to my pallie Scott's and use his plasma cutter...

I was tired of beeswaxing all my thin leather and was sick of my knives punching through the sheaths, so i went down to tandy leather this weekend and bought a belly piece and some stamps. Went back home and promptly finished my hugely procrastinated sheath commission for a friend. Then, not a day later, my mum and sister came back from alaska, and they brought me back an Ulu, so its first use was used to cut the leather for this:

What i did to purge the tank is i went to my local hardware store (coincidentally i work there so it's a bit cheap and i get a lot of tool accumulation) and i bought a handheld, battery powered explosive gas detector. then i went and unscrewed the purge valve and turned the tank upside down overnight. Then i went and clamped the valve in a vice and spun the tank to get the valve off. Then i flled the thing with water and left it overnight. Then i took the gas detector and checked if it read the all clear in the tank. It did so i went at it with an angle grinder.

oh. Missed that. Sorry. Still. Fancy tomahawks.

I am extremely jealous of all you who can make decent 'hawks. I've done many axe-like objects but i've never been able to weld so i can't get a true folded tomahawk. One thing i may suggest though is that you think of using tomahawk specific handles ordered through the internet, and that you not use wedges in tomahawks. Just a thing to consider.

huh. i just did a general google search and used the average consensus of the hits that came up on the first page... i never really thought to look on anvilfire for that...