Daswulf

brilliant solution to that.

Thanks.

Thank you.

Thanks.

Welcome Duckwalk. Glad to hear your getting back at it. Good luck with the rest of your gear hunt and look forward to seeing some of your new work.

Another awesome job Black Frog!

Awesome work.

Lucky Nephew.

Lol Thanks Nick.

Thank you Charlotte

Beautiful work Scotty. Love the bark texture, and how the limbs are bent to hold the individual pieces perfectly. Positioning on the rock is really nice and the mushroom fills that space in perfectly.

Thanks Ausfire. Yes the eye parts are rocker arms/tappets. When I found those it immediately struck me as the right parts. I had to weld a couple parts from the top but the majority is welded from the back side. Always hard trying to hide welds. The old wrenches weren't nice to begin with, only in shape. I almost used a nice one but upon wire wheeling it I found out it was made here close to me in Pennsylvania and decided to keep it. Thanks so much for comments and inspiration.

A frog made of engine parts. this was inspired be Ausfire and made for Rthibeau who sent me a hammer that I love. Hope I didn't step on anybody's feet here. Yeah RT. surprise. Lol.hope you like it.

I made a nice customized SSO ( sword shaped object) for a friends birthday. it was at a bar. i intentionally left it very dull as it's a wall hanger. sure enough had it been sharp they would have run out of bandages for all the hands on it. our Ren Faire is kinda lame on stuff me thinks..

Never been to any cosplay event but I think that's usually why they do use cardboard or foam. Almost anything "could" hurt anyone and I'd be surprised , even being mild and probably not sharp, that they would let him in one of those events with and metal, metal weapon. Just a thought from someone who was turned away from a ren fair wearing a SSO in a sheath. Wouldn't peace tie it or anything just made me put it in my vehicle. Just a thought. I'm not against it . Society just seems like they want it padded and overly safe. They even got on my case when I made a wooden pirate sword with an aluminum guard. I painted the wood silver so to them it looked too real can't have much fun anymore.

Interesting design. Looks like it was a starting point for learning what works and what needs more work. Can't say it couldn't hurt anybody but it isn't too pointy to easily do so.

Oh so true.

That is beautiful wood. Heck of a nice job cutting out the anvil. Nice touch.

Nice work!

That's an interesting idea. Can't hurt to try it. If memory serves correct I think they are thicker then the original thrust washer but I'll scrounge around and see what I find.

Thanks and Good luck with your rebuilds. I keep getting side tracked on finishing this guy but this week is looking promising.

Nice work! they look like they will indeed be good hawks.

Thank you Paul, much appreciated. so far it's in waiting for me to get more stuff done before i try to sell it.

This has been alot of great information and the images help. seeing the destruction test would be very interesting as well. Again Thanks for posting and keeping us up on the process. Birth and death of a blade. very understandable to know that your work is what it needs to be quality and strength wise. I know i'd be pretty sad to destroy that much work but it's also done throughout industry to know products are up to standard.

Nice work. And without flux? Cool. It is a shame that you were not only making it but also explaining it step by step and he didn't even pay attention. Should have made the ball into the shape of a potato for him. That would have got his attention.