Kevin Olson

Thats awesome Jim! Is it 1 piece or are the wings a separate forging?

Hey Mike. Im down in brooklyn park. Your more then welcome to come over and check out my forge and get some practice. Ive been through the beginners class and can give some pointers to practice on.

That is awesome. They were casting those in Rollag Minnesota at the Western Minnesota Steam Threshing Reunion a few weeks ago. They could not make them fast enough and I missed out. Only 20 USD each too

Turned out great. Those Champions are cool. Its a great piece of family history.

I totally understand your friend that is critical of his own work. Mine isnt so much with smithing but in my job. I paint in an auto boby shop and I rarely like the look of a paint blend into a door. As a whole the jobs end up passing but I wish they were better. Sometimes I see a problem that in the end would pass but keep going to try to make it better and actually make it worse but it still passes. If I would have just stopped trying to fix it it would have been fine. A painting instructor once told me "don't be a hero, you have to know when to give up and it will be fine" But its hard to do that. Its a total reversal from my thought pattern sometimes. Its hard to say "It's good enough" and move on.

Disassemble!!! No disassemble number 5

Heres Einstien getting some attention from the butchers brush. Sorry that Stryper is so loud in the background. I was rockin out when when he came to visit me :-)

Prayers sent. You will be forging soon. They will have you walking the next day.

Hey Reeltree, your arm lasted long enough to make a nice hot cut!! Beauty of an anvil also!!!

Demoed at the Nowthen threshing show. Nice area to work in. Heres some pics of it and my work space. The steam tractors where lined right next to us. The pic only ahows half of them . At noon they all blew there whistles for 5 minutes. Very cool!

William will be in my prayers.

1.34$ a pound for a peter wright!! . Im going to faint with anvil envy :-)

Mouse Hole anvil. 115Lbs. 112+0+3=115. Although the numbers look odd being so big.

Made a bunch of leaf blanks to demo at the "Nowthen" (I do not know how the town got that name) threshing show. There was 5 forges last time I was there but the a guy says theres 8 now. Beautiful place to demo. I'll post pics of the space when I get back

Wow 101 H-B,Just when I think I have read on this forum about all the different makers of anvils and vises along you come with a new one to me! Thanks for your knowledge and input!!

Thanks Das. I hope everything keeps goin good with Ayana.

Our 7 year old grand nephew visited and wanted to weld. 4 rail spikes and an engine harmonic absorber hub for a base and a cross was born. Charley did everthing from running the porta band to welding and grinding to putting beeswax on. We had fun!

Under 2 hours

Hey hanzosbm. I use the same process as you but my coil springs are new out of my buddies new plow truck when he upgraded to heavy duty springs. You probably have spring with micro stress cracks from years of flexing.

Wow. The labor involved to make them. I like the lathe too. Even when the shingle guy was just standing around the lathe guy just kept goin.

Happy fathers day. My plan is to go to the Crystal airport for their open house and fly in breakfast and get a plane and helicopter ride. But the weather might have everyone grounded :-( Maybe it will clear up I hope!

Im curious if has a reddish color after seasoning. If it does that would indicate someone put it in a fire and will never season correctly. So then its a piece do practice brazing on. Just remember to preheat it prior to brazing.

Steve, the motor does have a 120v ac input. And if read this right its a dc motor. So that 120v would get rectified into dc inside the blower. From there an electronic speed controller (esc) in the blower controls the speed of the blower. The esc get its control signal from his signal generator. The lower the signal voltage the slower the blower. The higher the signal voltage the faster the blower. Looks like a treadmill configuration. You plug a treadmill into your outlet but its really just powering a big dc motor. Edennis, I see in the blower diagram there is a mechanical wiring diagram that would eleminate your sig. gen. It says you can set the blower speed through a potentiometer in the blower. Try that configuration and see if you can raise and lower the the speed with the potentiometer.. If that works, it might be your sig. gen is not compatable or your wiring it wrong.

JT that thing is awesome. I see bending jig with all those holes to use. Also alot of vise envy going on here! Hey Das. That blanket(bed sheet actually) has been on that window for 15 years. But was a real hassle to try to tuck it up out of the way to get light in the shop. It was just thumb tacked to the wall. It was emotionally hard to take it down but I put a piece of it on the big door. :-)

WOW. Great find!!!!! Anvil envy ! Finally found some free CL blinds for tbe shop window to replace the Alf blanket my son gave me when he no longer had use for it. Love ya Alf, but we all have to grow up sometime. I'm 54 :-)