Tom Lumpkins

Thats awesome, Thanks for sharing with us.. Yea that smile told the story..

Good haul find., I bet there's a good story thats goes with that stuff, And I would love to hear it... Thanks

The first blower I had was a Squirrel gage, "heater Motor"
out of a 64 chevy truck. I would hook at battery up and it worked fine.

very nice, thanks for sharin with us.

Looks good, Did you also do the leather work.. Thanks for sharin with us.. One other thing, Where is out in the Sticks.. lol

The prayer has been sent. Keep us posted.

Looks good .. Thanks for sharing with us..

Thanks Frosty, No she ain't got no flower pots or nothing on there. " YET" lol....

Looks good thanks for sharing with us..

Posted this last weekend, and just got the time to load some picture's.Got to the meeting and everybody shows up, And this old feller comes in with two huge work table's Said he got a good deal on the two and wants to donate one for Iron in the cup or Auction it off. Everybody decided it would be part of the Iron In The cup.
This table also has a huge vise that come with it.. Myself and other's marveled over the table.. And Boy's I wanted the table bad.. So I bought ten tickets and you get eleven when you buy ten .. so I put all except one ticket in the cup.. The wife also puts three tickets in there. That cup was stuffed plum full of tickets. I wasn't the only one that was trying to buy the table. LOL..
Lord I sure could use that Table, I thought.. But I'm the type that don't never win nothing.
Everything went then the drawing for the table.. The wife has the winning ticket.. Yes I am one happy feller.. I gotta head out to MS.. in a few, But come next week after I get it in , I'll take a few picture's and post them on here.
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As you can see , I have already started loading the table up with stuff.



I can't think of the name of the Vice. But its a bigun, and was made in Chicago;

Good deal glad you got it unstuck..

Congratulations Jeff. all that hard work has paid off for you..

Looking forward to seeing some picture's of your shop..

Looks good, thanks for sharing.

Alittle Tweaking and you'll get her there, Thanks for the report , and keep us posted.

May have to get me one of those "Bean Can Forges" That would probably work good in my big Truck Frosty.. lol

The link I posted above takes you to a old event they had.
This one may work for you.
Southern Ohio Forge and Anvil (SOFA) Blacksmith Association

There's some good info to be found on here. Welcome to the site. you may want to try and find a local blacksmith group and joiin them.. I looked on line and the closest I found was a club in Troy,Oh.. thats exit 73 on I-75 .. it would be along drive for you.. You may contact them and they may know of a club in your area.. here's the link..
Southern Ohio Forge and Anvil (SOFA) Blacksmith Association

Glenn inspired me, and I guess if I could train under someone. I would like to train Under the Iron Surgeon. J.R .. can't think of his last name.. . And would also love to train under Mr Hofi.

Jr. Strasil is irnsrgn surgeon

I did some searching and found the site your talking about.
ANGELE Schmiedetechnik - ANGELE-SHOP

Besure and click on the American Flag on the right side, For english.. They even got info on Mr Hofi on this site.

Looks good thanks for sharing with us..

Nice knifes. and I know you have been here awhile, But welcome to the site.. Besure and check out the knife chats on friday nites.. some good info passes thru there..

Selden, you'll be getting that phone call real soon, Most of the time when I come thru there I'm on a dead run or its late or nite. Or I just plum forget to call,, But you'll be getting that call soon, I'm looking forward to meeting you..

Well have I got a story to tell, I was up neer Ft Wayne today and had some time to spare so I thought I would give Steve Sells a call and try and meet up at the truck stop, We agreed to meet up, and we figured I would be there around five thirty pm eastern time. I told Steve that I would have a white hat on and also about my beard, He said I would recognize him by his long hair. So when I walked in the restaurant at five thirty there sit along haired dude sitting at the counter drinking coffee ,, I sit down there beside of him and said howdy or Hey.. he looked at me and give me one of those " what do you want " looks. I thought well this ain't him so after a few seconds I got up and got me a table and sit and drunk a couple of cups of coffee,, then got to thinking that I might be at the wrong place, I left my telephone out in the truck.. So I told the waitress to give me a cup to go, and as I was walking out the long haired feller at the counter Said " Tom " I said yes ,, lol .. He thought I was someone else there at first. . I reckon there was some other driver's that come in there with beards. .. Steve it was a pleasure meeting you.. I enjoyed it Brother and look forward to meeting up with you again one day soon.. Thanks for sharing a part of your day with me.. Tom

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