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JHCC

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  1. JHCC
    Welcome to IFI! If you haven’t yet, please READ THIS FIRST!!! If you are just starting out (and even if you’re not), you would be much better advised to follow John McPherson’s advice above and get an an anvil of known quality from a reputable dealer or to consider improvising a nonstandard anvil as in this thread:
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    The only snakes in my part of Ohio are non-venomous, which is fine with me.
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    Remember that garage door springs come in two varieties: tension and torsion. You want tension.
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    Lovely. One good option for springs is the counterbalance spring off a garage door. A repairman near me gave me half a dozen old ones that he’d replaced:
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    Looking back over your original photos, I realize that I have failed to draw your attention to one very important detail: you appear to have cut off your thumb.
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    My first knife

    JHCC replied to Gub410's topic in Knife Making

    We’v seen lots of KSOs — Knife-Shaped Objects — but I think this is our first OSK: an Object-Shaped Knife!
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    Nice ash dump.
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    I don’t kn— AAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHHH!!!!!
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    Or two of them could carry it with a sling!
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    Doesn’t matter; there is an absolute hard limit to the amount of force that your design will produce, and that’s the force created by a 20lb weight falling about a foot. You’ll get more striking force with a heavy hand hammer.
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    My welding and fabrication skills are minimal, and I was able bust out this bad boy out of scrap, donated springs and lead, and some industrial surplus. It has completely changed what I can do in the forge. When I’m not using it, I disconnect the treadle chain and the springs pull the head up and out of the way of my ~1835 Mousehole, allowing me to switch back and forth from hand work to treadle work almost effortlessly. (Sorry for the poor picture quality.)
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    A cheap cast anvil with poor rebound would make an ineffective setup even more so.
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    Not by itself, but perhaps carried by a swallow.
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    If you persist in pursuing this folly, you might consider positioning the hammer both so that it hits where you want and can simply be swung up and out of the way when not in use.
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    People will justify just about any kind of nonsense by saying “That’s how _______ did it.”
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    There’s also this, from Peter Parkinson’s The Artist Blacksmith:
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    Did you search for earlier discussions about this? There are at least three other threads about grappling hooks, maybe more.
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    He’s got a pretty sweet deal with his scrap guy, but charged me what he usually gets paid. It’s more than I would have liked to spend, but I’m thinking of it as a tooling expense rather than raw materials.
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    The husband of one of my coworkers runs a dive shop and just sold me a scuba tank that failed hydrostatic testing. A bit more than I wanted to spend, but I may be getting a commission for some bowls, and it would be nice to have a good dishing form.
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    I'm a dad!

    JHCC replied to Daswulf's topic in Everything Else

    Good lookin' kid! Life as you know it is OVER!!!! As a good friend said to me when my daughter was born, "Congratulations, you have exactly twelve years in which what you say makes any difference. Remember, girls have little fingers for one purpose only: to have something to wrap their daddies around!"
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    MrDarkNebulah, it's not necessary to quote the entire comment immediately before yours: it clogs up the forum and slows down page loading for those of us still using dial-up. Please read The Quote Feature.
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    And Hammahead (great name, BTW) is new to the forum and thus unfamiliar with the posting speed.
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    The habit the paychecks had of bouncing occasionally was another. A few months after I left, one of my coworkers had to go to the ER and discovered that the boss hadn't paid the health insurance for six months, so the coverage had lapsed.
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    Welcome aboard, Hammahead! If you haven't yet, please READ THIS FIRST!!! Your forge sounds like a really interesting approach, one that I personally haven't encountered before (although some of the senior folks here have seen more than I ever will). Please, give us some pictures!
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    IFI: Come for the blacksmithing; stay for the random fascinating tidbits of obscure knowledge (and the horrible puns).
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