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Bud in PA

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  1. If my dad made me a knife like that I wouldn't use it. I'd keep it as a memory of him and the love he had for me.
  2. Thanks for the video. As I am just starting out I am amazed at what you can make by hand.
  3. Looks good. I like the fact that it has shelves. You can never have enough room to store stuff.
  4. If that is your very first rose wow. I have trouble drawing stick figures.
  5. VJ if nobody in your parish will help you, how about going back to the parish you come from just to find some scrap. I have a set of wood lathe chisels that I hardly used. They come from Harbor Freight, so they are not the best quality. Email me your mailing address and I will send them to you. My email is<stinkie@ptd.net>. Foxfire from this forum helped me out and I am happy to pass this tradition on. Bud
  6. Thanks for the picture, I just bought 3 pairs of nippers and was going to do the V notch. This looks to be a more secure hold.
  7. Bud in PA

    post vise

    As usual I went about this bass ackwards. I checked previous posts about this vise and found out that it was made in P'burg by Iron City Tools. They made blacksmithing and mining tools. They went out of business in 1958. You would think that after 71 yearsI would learn to do some things the right way. DUH i
  8. Micah I purchased a 3 lb. engineers hammer from HF. I have a very large vise i purchased about 35 years ago. I placed one face of the hammer in the vise and attacked it with my HF angle grinder. when i got the center of the face pretty round I used my belt sander with a 120 grit belt to polish it.It resembles a rounding hammer, and best of all I payed $7.99 for it. The same price for my cross peen. They are both 3 pounders, and if they prove too heavy I will again attack them with my angle grinder by putting what I call a waist behind the heads. I am on a fixed income and have to spend my money wisely. Thank goodness for HF.
  9. Bud in PA

    post vise

    Well I did it, I finally found a post vise that I could afford. For whatever reason no one else placed a bid on it. the seller said that all he could find on it is a star of David and Iron City. Anybody have any ideas on the make? It should be here on Tuesday. When I can get my son to stop over I'll have him take some pictures of it and post them. Now if the honey do list leaves me alone I may actually get some time to try this blacksmithing.
  10. Just a suggestion but if you are not electrically challenged like me, I would suggest that you take a few pictures, top, left side, right side, front, back etc. Post them on the anvil section of the forum and I'm sure that you will get plenty of knowledgeable replies regarding the condition of the piece. I am pretty new here myself, my first experience with this forum saved me making an expensive mistake. After obtaining a little bit of knowledge by reading on the web and youtube videos, I realize what a debt I owe to this forum. I'm glad you are thick skinned, there aint too many of us left. forever politically incorrect Bud
  11. I definitely would put the pipe through the wall with a slight downward angle to keep the rain from flowing back into the forge. If your roof doesn't leak don't give it a reason to leak.
  12. I wish I would have seen that before I bought my anvil.
  13. Thanks Thomas I have some .
  14. I have a piece of 1/4" mild steel that I intend to use for my tuyere. I will drill a series of 1/4" hole in it. From what I gather from reading the forum it will not last long. Any suggestions on what material I can use to give me some longevity. The only thing that I can think of would be a piece of cast iron.
  15. I am just starting out and if I am lucky I may actually get time to fire up my brake drum forge. I do have experience burning coal, living in PA. I have burned coal for almost 30 years. There is a size between rice and nut, it is called pea coal. I don't know if it is available every where. I burn nut coal and the last time I bought it it cost $237 a ton. In order to start a coal fire I have to get a real good wood fire going, and then add about 2 inches of coal at a time. I add about 3 to 4 layers and then I am set for most of the winter. I've got a furnace blower on my forge and will report back as soon as I make my first burn.
  16. Thank you for the replys. I am hoping to buy one soon, if I can find an auction or classified where people haven't lost their minds with prices. I think that some of them must be made out of gold.
  17. I have noticed that some post vises have a simple U bolt attached to the mounting plate, while others have a U shaped piece of steel with sliding wedges in it attached to the mounting plate. What is the purpose of the one with the sliding wedges, and is one system better then the other?
  18. Bud in PA

    TITT &C

    I just put an offer of $25 on a ratty looking vise.With shipping it will cost me a little bit over $50. I am putting a lean to on the back of the garage until I can clean out the garage. My hopes are to put a shop in it. I have a Smithy machine which I have never had the ability to set up and use, if I remember how. So I have the possibility of of repairing things like old vises.
  19. At my age I tend to scoff suggestions from the EPA. I feel as long as you use common sense and have an idea about what you are doing. As I said to the lady in the deli who was putting on her plastic glove to make my sandwich, how did I survive all of these years eating sandwiches made in delis before the invention of plastic gloves.
  20. Bud in PA

    TITT &C

    I am just looking on Eb and the local list. That was the first one I saw with a brass screw box. Being new to this I like to ask questions to those with more experience. The chat room on the list saved me from making a mistake purchasing an anvil. I am not ready to buy a post vise especially at the prices I see on the web. Either I'm poorer then I think I am, or there are a lot of crazy people selling on the web.
  21. Bud in PA

    TITT &C

    Came across a post vise with this marking on it . The screw Box is brass. To me brass is softer than iron. Any ideas why they would make this out of brass?
  22. Thanks for the photos John. Looks like all you need is some imagination and patience.
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