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Yes, Mr. C, good to see your words. IDF & C, Hoping that you get your garage door installed prior to the cats and dogs - that would be icing on the cake! Robert Taylor

Beautiful Three Flat Things. I too, am interested in your sander. Robert Taylor

404's for me as well - galaxy S9+. Would sure like to have a look Robert Taylor

Just looked on Denver CL. You were not kidding. I KNOW that there is a least ONE Interstate going through Colorado! Try thrift stores? In mining districts? Pawn shops? Garage sale/ yard sale? Good luck. Robert Taylor

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More on the DaVinci Cam hammer:

I just saw on an another thread that Latticino mentioned a Da Vinci Cam, which is what you have pictured.

I have been saving Do-All bimetal blades for years. I folded a piece over lengthwise once, seemed to want to weld OK. I knock the teeth off and use them for tooling elements, think super-shims. Robert Taylor

Just in case you missed it: lyuv, looks like a trip hammer to me. What if one were to move the fulcrum forward and apply a foot-controlled sliding counterweight to feather hammer force? Robert Taylor

Got to spend an hour or so with Tim Lively back when he was in Tucson. He had a video out, called "Knife Making Unplugged" Therein, he documented the process of cooking bacon and eggs, or eggs and bacon, through constructing a washtub forge, then forging and fitting a finished knife. Should work great. Robert Taylor

Give us a specific example, including: Machine you are using. Be specific. Type of material you wish to ream (be specific: "metal, or steel, is not a satisfactory answer). Diameter of hole. Depth of hole; blind, or through? Tolerance of finished hole. "Accurate Size" is a relative term. Do you have reamers on hand, or have you yet to acquire these? Welcome to the Forum. Robert Taylor

I like your analogy. One COULD increase feed pressure, but your approach is better standard shop practice. Bicycle wheels Robert Taylor

Yes indeed! An auto-darkening helmet. I can not wait to try it! Robert Taylor

My Son-in-law, a certified weld inspector came over a while back to have some welding done. He did not take kindly to my deluxe antique welding helmet. Shucks, I have been striking by brail all my life. He was not having it. Always wanted one....

That is Organic - it is a Feature. I would be jazzed to stick that in to a scorched hunk of beefcritter, er ah, tofurkey. When is supper? Nice spurs, Mr. Mark. Robert Taylor

I agree that "striker" conjures a two-handed image. Perhaps the OP will be back to clear that up for us......

Note that the OP only mentions "arm" in singular terms. The FIF contestants are not two handed striking, are they? Respectfully, Robert Taylor I agree, Jennifer, it is my dominant arm and overall muscle tone that determines the sensibility of the hammer weight that I apply.

Das, CGL, and Jasent, good words. May I add, Mr. Spud, that when we have nothing to work with, the only thing holding us back is balanced in the scales of desire in one pan, and discouragement in the other. Let your passion for the craft burn within you. As an aspiring Blacksmith, you are a Problem Solver and an Innovator. your desire for triumph vanquishes you fear of defeat. How bad do you want it? https://www.iforgeiron.com/topic/52308-a-collection-of-improvised-anvils/ You may have already looked through Charles' thread, but how bad do you want to forge? Robert Taylor

Wow that is a tough question for someone not your primary care physician to answer on an open forum. Speaking for myself, I was wedging and sledging at ten years old to keep the house warm. When it started, I was sure that I would die. How many pounds was the hammer of which you have spoken? 7 - 10 minutes could be a LONG time, if you have never swung one before..... Anvil, just caught your post - well spoken. Be Water. Robert Taylor

Personally, Jennifer, I would trade my hairness for another's baldness any day... I am a bit confused, the chimes were from the same type of shoes as pictured - as I drew them out, I made them narrower and thicker... Thanks for the compliment on the presentation. I use a hairdryer on the lower setting. It is very handy when I start the wood, it is a screamer! The shell is bare steel, less the ash-made trough on the bottom, so there is indeed a lot radiant heat. Someday I will sheet it and put a blown hot fresh air pipe into the Smithy. Would REALLY like to see some pics of YOUR wood burner! The big aluminum pot is full of minus ½" charcoal fines. The forging cycle starts with picture #1 (and note that the tuyre holes are visible): 1)Start small wood fire. 2)Put the air to it. 3)Load wood on the sides, just like green coal. 4)Throw a few handfuls of fines over the tuyre. Throw more wood into the back. 5)Add your stock. 6)Blow and Forge. 7)Rake charcoal forward & throw more wood into back, add more fines to taste. 8)When through forging, load with wood and when volatiles are burned off, close front and rear valves (flue & front door). Fire is killed. Below is the clean-out result: 3 gallons of material. All +½"is surplus. Some -½" is surplus. ½ gallon of loose ash, aka, forge liner/crucible stock. There in the green scoop is the CLINNNKERRR! Terrible! That is the big downside Nice stuff, JHCC. Dax, what is that smell - yikes it is meeee! Robert Taylor

Mr. Dax, I set my hand on fire once with the flaming molten rubber of a car door seal. More similar to your adventure, Overhead cutting torch blowback gave me a nice neck tattoo. Is it against your religion to even it up with some snips? Glad you were not further injured. Robert Taylor

I shall stay tuned......

I do not mind at all! If you get good results, I will copy right back at you. If bad results, I will know not to step in it! Robert Taylor

CGL, it was one of these:

Got make one of those. Hope I get to do pretty stuff like yours in the coming year. alexandr, when you come back, please to tell me of that monolithic table shin and feet: Это великолепный! haha, reason I used but one hammer - could not locate the preferred others! Everything, in some way, is a bell. Atoms ring, 2 x 4's ring, galaxies ring. Some things go clunk. Let the Scientists amongst us clean up my mess: I could not locate the proper piece of junk to gift to the Son-in-law. I said to the wife, "I will just give him one of my old shoes". So, I pick up a nice looking shoe, and give her a strike, and she said, "dwunk!", and, says I, thet ain't gunna work! To the forge!", says I! OK, as I understand it, in this moment, ringing is resonance, which is when a vibration is ideally supported by it's medium. One could say that the ringing of an anvil is the (adiabatically) uninhibited return of the original vibration as it bounces back and forth. Harmonious origination and return is NOT self-cancelling. OK, forget all of that gobletygook. Your are making the shoe look more like a tunafork. A dinner triangle rings. When you squish the legs of the shoe closer together, straighten them out, and forge their cross sections similar enough to each other that they say to each other, "Hey ve are tvins!" Viola! Resonance! The closer together, and the more "similar" the tines, the better the conversation! Just remember, they do not talk when they are hot! Thank you Jennifer. Do not know. A former Canadian neighbor here on an H1B visa for HVAC was a Farrier by trade, and gave me that pile of shoes. I will post a pic in the pre-altered state. And I must say, I was very pleased with how my hammer and tong hands faired with the very hectic session. A Smith knows that it is not a lot of work to shape two shoes, as per, if one does this for a job. But I had to teach myself turning on the horn in this session..... Thanks! Nice Horseys! Well said, Mr. Bones. Iforgeiron makes me smarter! Robert Taylor