Daswulf

Cable is challenging by hand but fun and gets neat results when it goes right. Nice work all around. I can see why you keep getting more orders.

If i were looking for something ultra portable I would buy that. At the moment I have too many welders and no need for ultra portable. I have taken my Lincoln 135 mig welder to a few locations with the co2/argon mix bottle to help out some friends in a pinch. I do own a lincoln tombstone stick welder but have not used it yet and have never stick welded. Pretty sure I could get the hang of it quicker than tig welding. Ya can't beat something like that setup for $70. if you wanted small and a usable welder.

Just watched this demo of a pro welder trying out a $70. Welder. Honestly looks like it works well.

Well now... So, I look up "snoot jewelry", then having no real understanding of why I am seeing what, I look up "snoot". Lol, thanks Frosty. What a weird rabbit hole to go down. Nothing bad really, just... different...

How realistic are they ohio? If they came from a school they are probably good quality. Good quality skeletons fetch a premium. The cheap ones they sell now are even $40. or so. While they are getting better with some of the articulations, they aren't the best looking for realism.

We only have so much time to play. I get it. "I'll eventually get to that." I have tons of ideas for other halloween props as well. I haven't had the time i used to to go all out decorating for halloween. Maybe when my girls get a little older and can help more and require less supervision. Just keep moving and do what you can when you can. Yeah sad about the typewriters. I only tear apart dysfunctional stuff to make art from.

Whatever works for the application. Maybe a 5min. epoxy as well. Works for gluing on knife handles.

I've had ideas to combine animal bones and skulls to make sort of cyborg-ish looking sculptures.

Looks like red crayons to me but also looks like some sort of bracelet.

You can also think of several impossible things everyday and live like Alice in wonderland. I won't lie, I do dumb things all the time. I also think of impossible things. If I had any bit of money I would be dangerous. Glad you are having fun building and still making things whatever they might be. I built a life size wooden coffin years ago. Had a motor to open and close the lid with a skeletal hand coming out from inside. That was put up in the woods against a pine tree many years ago and is likely returning to the earth as we speak. Haven't checked on it or used it in years. I do have some halloween skeletons hanging out in my shop. Needed a place till next halloween and they find fun things to do in my shop. One hangs from a horse yoke or whatever it is called. He never even made it out for halloween. Just hangs out in the shop now. I have had some old typewriters in the past but no longer have them and couldn't say what they were. Sold them at the fleamarket for next to nothing and then learned the buyer only wanted them to make jewelry from the keys. Live and learn.

Always good to hear from you Ohio. I don't see anything there as dumb, but hey, we as humans do do some dumb things, might get boring if we didn't.

Mr. Magic mushroom man is cool. I'm at a loss as to what the red things for the moustache are. He looks to be on a wild ride. No drugs for me other than tobacco and some beers. Sometimes lack of sleep lol.

Still on the list Paul. Keep your own positive energy and thoughts up as well.

Nice work! I love it. For charcoal you night want to make the pot shallower as to not burn as much fuel un neccesarily. You could do that a bunch of ways but simply build up the floor of the fire pot. If anything I think I would have sang in the table part a bit to hold extra fuel easier from falling off the edges. Minor thing that could be remedied for such a beautiful forge.

Thanks Billy and Bluerooster about the bearing snowman. The bearings work well for the look. I have one more started and depending on bearings, I plan to make more in different poses or such. I have some projects started that are still waiting as of years to be brought back out. So taking a break on something is no big deal. No worries, we get back to them when the time is right. Whether it be a day or 7years. Lol

Nice work Billy. We all have those days. Sometimes more often than we should.

Also fish lips can happen from just heating it where the outside is showing hot but the inside is not up to temp or not as hot. The yang to the yin it getting the whole thing so hot that it burns up. The balance comes from experience and getting things just right. As you adjust your forge and continue working you will get to the "Ah Hah" moments where it works out right.

Could always do a spark test to get an idea. They would make good improvised anvils.

It would be Charleroi in Pennsylvania, United States. I'd gladly stop by were it the closer Charleroi. Frosty, I get it when the price is right. I know what you mean, some second hand places want .50c each. I could actually make the price work if they sell, but much prefer free or dirt cheap. I have enough at the moment that I'm not desperate enough to pay much. I do use butter knives for dragonfly wings and have used utensils in other pieces. I have posted some here. Somewhere.

Scott, Frosty Thanks. We always need a bit of luck Scott. It is about over. It was local in my hometown Charleroi that isnt as busy as it used to be. The bicycle rim snowman sold to a lady that owns a local pizza shop. Psycho jack snowman sold but I still have the new one, Happy Jack. The little fork reindeer were a hit and sold. I will have to make a bunch more since they were easy and I have a lot of old silverware to work with.

Thanks!

Last night I finished up a few things for an event I am selling at today.

Reminds me of a Marty Feldman. I think he could use some Body. If you can, a springy neck and body. Magnum Opus Feldman also needs a cowboy hat and a 6shooter. Yeah, Marty Feldman in a western. Don't throw away your tools, just set them some place you know they will be and turn around to do something else. Then go back to them and they will be gone long enough that you will beg them back. Works for me.

That looks good Davor.

Well best way to decide is what is available or abundant to you cheap, what Can you use in your area and what kind of work do you plan to do. Plus no one says you can just have one forge or kind of forge. There are also some trade offs between solid fuel forges and gas forges. Simplest and easiest to build and adjust is a JABOD "just a box of dirt" side blast solid fuel forge.