- Recently finished knives
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Owl
We have a pair of Barred owls aka Hoot owls that hang around the farm. Very cool to listen to and watch at night.
- Owl
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Trimontasaurus.
Man that is pretty slick well done.
- chain damascus drawknife in progress
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My Brake Drum Forge
On a secondary note, i had my first burning metal happen while heating multiple pieces. Was yelling at our pitbull puppy for eating pecans in the back yard (im in the back pasture outside the barn) and check my rr spikes i was working in tomahawks and melted the dang heads off of them. So the new setup gets hotter much faster!!!
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Greetings from east Texas
Hello from another Texan.
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My Brake Drum Forge
Good tips, i like the fence idea, will be my next project. I was actually using the leaf spring to melt wax to make a few dozen egg carton fire starters, kept my melt can from tipping over or melting.
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My Brake Drum Forge
Version 1.1-moved up the forced air supply, and added a ball valve to control air flow (using a shop vac for air supply-on blower mode) Still need to work on the ashgate idea. Definetly gets alot hotter quicker with the air supply 18" closer.
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Spike Hawk
Very nice. The copper looks great the way you used it.
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snap on wrench knife
Dang sure the fanciest wrench knife I have seen. Awesome job.
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Is a $140 hammer really that much better than a $40 hammer?
If anyone works in the automotive field, or has access to a Mac distributor these hammer definitely keep the hand fatigue down, they have a dampening system in the hndle: (about $60 each) http://www.mactools.com/en-us/Striking-and-Struck/Hammers/SH2AV/AntiVibe-Blacksmith-Hammer-2-lbs- http://www.mactools.com/en-us/Striking-and-Struck/Hammers/947e7bb5-9f7e-44a5-a209-a30a014f0fe5/AntiVibe-Drilling-Hammer http://www.mactools.com/en-us/Striking-and-Struck/Hammers/99f40cb5-da83-4a65-89c6-a30a014f137f/AntiVibe-Sledge-Hammer
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hooks using a penny ends, and Fullered RR spikes.
Very cool.
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Favorite item to forge? Axe/hawks for me.
Just curious what everyone likes to forge the most? I am a big axe/hawk fan, I have several in process. Making a sign for the farm as well but with all the bending for the letters that going to be a lengthy project. I also like knives but have not forged one full, i cut a few out from leaf springs and forged in the bevels but have not finished anything yet.
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I had to put a WREACH in the works.
Very cool.