ironrosefarms

Welcome hayseed, You'll find smiths of every experience level here. To give you fair warning, you might want to pack a lunch and bring along a tall cold drink before you start digging into this site very far... that warning was given to me and all I can say is I paced myself... Look forward to seeing you around IFI. James

Get a new job... or suddenly become independently wealthy!

Uhhh Errrrr Ummm yep I guess I'm speechless! (and that takes a lot!)

Get a new job... or suddenly become independently wealthy!

Welcome to IFI... I use my mowing scythe several times a year, though I've never attempted to make one... I do know that one of the greatest sins is to grind an edge on a scythe, I use a smallish slightly rounded block of steel and a small hammer and work out any nicks in the blade cold. Sharpening a scythe this way, I don't think it is possible to wear out a blade??? With 50+ countries represented here, I would think someone who can read the website you posted may show up and or someone who has made a scythe blade. You might want to go to the UserCP at the top of the page and enter your location, it helps a lot in answering questions and often in what kind of help can be offered. Look forward to reading more about your adventure in making your own scythe... James

If you get across the moat and she doesn't catch you and give you the boot... maybe you can get the LOOT???

Great to have you on board, look forward to seeing you around IFI... James

If she is after you with a colt I think you might want to take the next BOAT

I hope this little story does not ring a BELL for anyone???

The foam he used is likely a isolatory foam made for sound absorption. Do be careful in the process of insulating and sound proofing that you don't cause a serious fire hazard...

and just as the jail cell door slams behind him, he FELL

Mulciber, without a magnet or chains on my anvil my neighbor claims he can hear my anvil at a 1/4 of a mile. This being said, I still don't use anything to deaden the sound as I can hear his machinery, parties and mobile home tenants as well, so I just don't worry about it much. (After he called my wife and cussed her out for her Christmas decorations several years ago I pretty much lost interest in his wants or desires) Lysdexik, Sound waves are not easy to understand all the time. Different sound waves (Highs or lows) travel and are absorbed or bounced differently. If a neighbor has a two or three walled car port it may act as a bass trap and rattle them good yet they may not hear the ting of the anvil? Yet the high tingy sounds will travel farther... A good thing to remember is that sound waves bounce but can also be transmitted through solid objects, most any hard surface is going to bounce or transmit sound. If you look into sound deadening insulation it tends to be very porous and most intend to absorb the energy. "sound deadening" insulation is becoming more available especially in the bigger cities and do work to varying extents, some insulation materials come with sound deadening rates given on the package. "Wool bats as you call it may or may not have a great deal of sound deadening abilility but in comparison to a solid foam (with some exception of specialized materials made for this and used in many audio studios) will tend to help where as the solid foam may allow the sound to transmit. Another thing to think about when looking at a neighborhood or even a specific building is hollow spaces can act as amplifiers of certain sounds, they can act like the body of a acoustic guitar. I had a floor in a church sound booth that acted this way, we tried packing it with fiberglass insulation with little results, what finally helped was we filled it with sand bags. The sound energy did not have enough "strength" to move the mass of the sand and thus no longer made the floor "boom". Ok I'll stop rambling but if I can help in any way let me know... I have some technical papers somewhere that go into a lot of big worded details some place if you want anything like that I'll dig for them... James

especially when it is buried to the HILT

Praying! James

It took days to SIFT through the wreckage to find the pilot

Welcome Paul! Be sure to click on the User CP link so you can enter your location. This will show up with each post and makes an amazing difference in the help that can be offered as you have questions! You'll find smiths of every skill level and style and I'm sure you'll fit right in. Look forward to seeing you around IFI! James

With a pilot aboard that balloon will need a lot of LIFT

Stopped off and picked up about 100 pounds of coal from the side of the road. About 4 or 5 times a year coal trucks tip over along this one section of road, they get off on the shoulder a little dab and over they go. So I picked up some of it and plan to give it a try this week to see if it was worth the effort or not???

leatherunltd montanaleather crazycrow brettunsvillage These are a couple other places other than Tandy that I have purchased from over the internet. Check prices carefully and read the descriptions well... If you are not sure at what you are looking at call, I've had good luck with all four of these companies over the years in service and getting what I ordered but sometimes it is worth the call to verify... James

There is a lot of sources for leather and tools, what type of projects do you have planned? Are you doing simple stamping, tooling, carving (the most fun in my opinion)? or are you using textured leather and such? I'll try and find some of my web links for you and post again. James

I'm sure the balloon will swing to the LEFT

I was working with a guy at a scout camp once my tape measure was pretty standard with each inch broke into 8th of an inch segments... However the other guy had stopped to pick up a new tape measure on his way and after about four boards that didn't come out the right length we figured out his tape measure was broke into 10th of an inch segments! Talking about goofey, it also had metric on the opposite side. It would have worked great if it was a whole inch measurement needed... but the difference between 1/8" and 1/10" is plenty to mess everything up.

You'd be on my LIST if you threaten me with your fist!

The original lumber in the walls of my home are of various varieties... I have identified tulip poplar, red oak and white oak with a good level of surety. I have a couple rafter truss boards that I swear are persimmon? Other woods may be mixed in as well. My brother in law works construction and has some very nice pneumatic nail guns and he gave up and went to screws as well (drilling pilot holes in some cases). When I remodeled my daughters room (the first room I tinkered with) I found quickly that nails are simply a futile attempt at accomplishing anything productive, the nails that required pulling often ended up being removed via an angle grinder. The man who built our home in 1973 has since passed away so I have no way of knowing where he got the lumber or any other details of interest. All I can tell you is a good many studs are hard enough to resist any good attempt and on a couple cases bent the nail while still inside the nail gun!

covforge sounds like you may have received the best present of all! Angel Rose is a beautiful name and I'm sure you are one very proud pappa!