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Nice work,simple but elegant. I like the hammered finish, it gives the piece character. How is the timber fixed? Cheers Ian

G'Day Adam, welcome aboard, as Dale and Phil said Get Hammered is certainly a weekend to get along to. I'm up here in Bowral, just a hobby smith but your welcome to come up one weekend and have a "play" Cheers Ian

Nice work Bryce , it's always a good feeling to make make something better than a cheaply assembled original. There's a ladies dress shop in town here where all the clothing stands are hand forged, looks so much better than the factory made standards. Cheers Ian

It certainly looks in good nick, with the combined weight of the stand it wouldn't be something you would move around a lot. So I guess you bought 799 anvils before you found the right one :rolleyes:

Excellent work nuge, I particularly like the fact that all the metal has been textured in some way. It really looks like it's been built by a craftsman, not something that looks like it's been assembled in a factory.

You guys eat squirrels? :blink:

Wrote this post 8 months ago, picked up some coke last week and it is now $440 a tonne :(

Very nice, I like it a lot. Thanks for sharing and great photos too. Cheers Ian Ross

Very nice piece, deceptively larger than the photo suggests. Would look very nice on the fireplace mantle of our American Indian themed dining room :D

I'm with Beth, awesome man, when I saw Brian's offer I got tingles all over All the best Ian

Congratulations Grant on your purchase, sounds like a nice hammer, but your supposed to be saving your dollars to come to OZ for "Get Hammered". Cheers Ian Ross PS I checked out the website, very impressive hammers ;)

Thanks Dale, I used the hammer on the pineapple twist and a few other things too, it weighs in at 2.9 lbs which is close to the 3lbs I was wanting. The stamp you put on at Braidwood is still there, on the other side of the hammer Cheers Ian

Count me in Dale and a big thanks to you and Glenn for the other weekend at Braidwood. Attached is a photo of the finished hammer and my first attempt at a pineapple twist letter opener. The hammer started life as a Hyster forklift axle shaft supplied by Dale and was roughed out by Glenn on the Massey with final shaping,polishing, hardening and tempering done at home using 60 and 80 grade flap discs on a 4" grinder. You were right Dale, flap discs leave grinding discs for dead. ;)

Another fine example of your work Adrian, thanks for sharing. Cheers Ian Ross

Looks great Jeremy, thanks for the instructions and dimensions. Cheers Ian

Thanks for the comments everyone. Because I didn't want to make it look to masculine, the frame is 10mm square rod and I'm going to sandwich it between the frame and some 10mm x 2mm flat using rivets countersunk on the back It's a 1930s house and I think her bedroom was a living room originally. Yes she a lucky girl, I've also just finished making her a timber stand for a large triangular fish tank we bought for her on Ebay for $50 -bargain- the timber, paneling and screws for the stand, $175 -not so much a bargain. They're called gumnuts Beth, they're the seed pods on eucalyptus trees. I cheated or compromised depending on how you look at it,I used 20mm steel balls, then made rings from 4mm rod which I welded onto the ball and then filed the weld with a rat tail file to a smooth groove. Cheers Ian

These are firescreen doors that I'm working on for my youngest daughters bedroom.They feature Eucalyptus leaves and gumnuts and at daughter's request, a bug. I still have to forge hinges and a latch and attach mesh

Great thread Larry, heres my contribution. I too, like cavala and yd, lost my power (long hair) so i have included before and after photos. I don't own a bike but I get to ride this quad at one of the places I work, its massive, they recently had four 19 year old girls in a row riding it, all sitting on the seats -highly dangerous of course. Seems I have a bit of catching up to do in the tattoo department too. Cheers Ian

Bryce, the gates look great. Don't worry about the shop too much,not everyone can have a shop thats 100% clean, if your happy working in there then everything is sweet. Then again there's always the safety aspect.Where did you get the Chip Foose helmet from? I have a cheap auto helmet at the moment and its a bit slow to respond some times, and Miller ones out here in Oz are about $400 plus.

Thank you for sharing,always appreciated. I love the anvil stand and and the simple idea of using chains with weights as hold downs and as usual the quality of the work is first class. Cheers Ian Ross

Looks great! I always think there is more skill in laying bricks than welding steel,it takes you back to the time when all forges were built that way. Cheers Ian

G'Day Divermike, we have had about four batches of chooks over the last 12 years or so. We're in Oz, but I guess there is not a lot of difference ( apart from snow ). In a nutshell you need a coop with a horizontal pole for them to perch on, one to two nest boxes per 4 birds, food and water supply, an attached fenced on all sides area, where they can scratch around during the day and ideally a concrete floor on the coop. I put a drain hole in the concrete floor to make it easy to hose out, I also put mesh over this to keep vermin out. Ideally the whole coop should be vermin proof. I'm not sure what sort of predators you have over there but the outside area really needs to be fenced on all sides, as some animals can dig underneath and some can climb over. It can be great if you can let them out during the day to scratch around your garden, they will eat weed seeds and bugs and turn the soil over, but, they will also eat seedlings and some other plants. Not sure what breeds you have over there but cross breeds are usually better layers and they can be feed on commercially available feeds or on kitchen scraps with some supplements. Also try to get birds that are breed humanely, we once got birds that must have crammed together in cages, as they had their beaks trimmed to stop them pecking each other and it took them 2 months to work out what the perch was for. Lastly try to get birds at an age called point of lay they are a little dearer but it saves you waiting many weeks if you buy young chicks. Hope this helps Ian