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Ridgewayforge: Thanks guy! A couple years ago my son graduated from college and we paid off our house. That's when the finest woman who ever lived said "Build that blacksmith shop you've been yacking about...". Nothing fancy. 4x4 posts sided with T-111. Dirt floor. Tin roof. I built a brick forge around a centaur forge cast iron pot. Champion 400 blower. 12 X 12 feet of solitude nestled in a wooded corner of our little half-acre.
Glad you liked it. I'll see if i can find some pix of the not-so-neat interior. Bart

Almost, sorta, kind of like this?



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Trip...
1/4 square for the sconce. Candle cups are copper water pipe split and opened up and are about 2 inches in diameter. The trivet is 1/4 inch round stock. Thanks for looking.

Forged a pair of box jaw (hope thats what they're called) tongs and a little punch. Tongs are forged from 1/2 inch square stock. Punch from a tire tool. Used the punch to make holes for rivet in tongs. Thanks for looking...comments encouraged...bart

A friend of mine has a junk removal business. He was driving past yesterday, saw me working outside and stopped. He was on his way to the scrap yard to drop off a load, but asked me if I had any use for this odd vise before he scrapped it.

I don't really know anything about it, but its obviously meant for sheet metal / thin plate.
The jaws are 9" wide, but only open 1/4". It was free, and bound for the scrap, so I'm sure I can find a use for it.

I remember reading somewhere (here?) that the crank handle should be at shoulder height at its highest point. Thats how I installed mine and it seems to work well that way. However, as one of the other posters pointed out, it may be a very personal subjective thing, so that height may need to be tweaked a bit. bart

I like the lamp, and the hammer. Did you forge the head of the spike into the ball on the hammer?

I decided to make a dedicated hammer for sinking lamps, candle cups, etc into my swage block:



Made from HC railroad spike...comments encouraged. Bart

Made another today :-)



Thanks for all the comments! Bart

The pan is filled with bacon grease, animal tallow, or wax. A wick, usually made of rolled cotton cloth or string, is rubbed with the fuel and placed in the pan. When the fuse is lit, the fuel is liquefied, and as it burns, more is drawn up from the reservoir through capillary action.

I absolutely love this kind of knife. Looks great! bart

Looks great! Head and sholders above my first tongs. Keep making them...each set gets a little better. bart

Hey! I like that trivet;will it scratch wooden tables ?
Did you rivet the bowls on the wall sconce?
Thanks for sharing.

Nice lamp whatever it's called Bart. I'd make Deb one but I get all antsy with something like that burning in the house, earthquakes aren't uncommon at all. Still. . .

Yeah, dont like open flames outside the forge or campfire...wife is using one of those battery powered led tea lights in hers. A little of the old...a little of the new i guess! Bart

Frosty The Lucky.

Thanx for the comments! I've not tried it with grease. Wife using a candle in it. Glen: I'm no expert but from what I've read a betty (english corruption for german word for "better") lamp has a cover. Thus it is a "better" lamp than the open crusie lamp. Have also seen open top lamp called a "slut" lamp. Slut is an old word for mud. Makes sense when you think of what the mixture of various animal fats, waxes and oils being burned probably looked like!

I made a little grease lamp yesterday. Dont think i got the proportions just right but i'm pleased with my first try. Plus my wife likes it!



Thanks for looking. Comments encouraged. Bart

Thanx guys. Gonna b there mon-wed next week. Been there before. Thought there might b something i missed. Bart

Takin a lil trip with my wife to Pigeon Forge/Gatlinberg next week. Any must-see blacksmith sites in area? Thanks. Bart

Hay rake tooth/tine. Thanks for looking! Bart

I thought this one turned out particularly well:



Thanks for looking...bart

Just finished restoring this drill. Completely disassembled, replaced bearings, painted and mounted on a nice board. I think it is the smallest one Buffalo made so is portable. It can be held in a vise ir clamped to a bench usung the angle-iron bracket i mounted on the back of the board. All in all a really sweet little drill. I plan on using it at demos.

I am just starting out making friction folders and this is so beautiful I could weep with envy. Please tell me how you do the brass or perhaps you could post a diagrammatic sketch? I don't sell BTW. So if I imitate it would be sheer flattery.