TWISTEDWILLOW

Awesome glad to see you join! Cant wait to see what you come up with! Justor, I love it just they way it is! id be proud to use that letter opener any time!

Just got back from tired iron of the ozarks, BOA held a meeting in conjunction there today, we had a pretty decent turnout for the meeting, it was my first time goin to that shop, it was pretty cool and well stocked, we had three forges running today I did a little bit of demoing for some festival goers on a split cross, I also won a 30” buzzsaw blade at the silent auction, Randy an Debi made it out too! arkie, I know you wasn’t able to make it so I took some pictures for ya!

Very nice Justor! That’s an awesome twist you put in there!

That’s awesome! the way you used the rivets to look like eyes!

Awesome!!! I’m glad you decided to join the challenge! i can’t wait to see what you come up with!

If you can get it hot enough to bend then 2” stock is big enough that I think it should retain heat really well, moving between the forge and the bending fixture, are these gonna be load bearing?

Thomas, I don’t think Jerry would handle the heat down there to well… he turns his air conditioner on during weather above 50 degrees F glad to see Debi up an moving around! hope to see y’all at tired iron this weekend!

Ive worked on several of those little bufco Buffalo blowers an brought em back to life, an I still got a couple hanging around the smithy, a word of caution on the sheet metal stamped Buffalo blowers, they have fiber washers/spacers in them, be very careful as they can and will crumble an disintegrate on ya!!! And when it happens the blower gears won’t be at the right spacing and the blower can lock up on ya mid use! It’s very aggravating ask me how I know! Lol Those blowers are awesome but I have had to fix a few small issues with them, I’ve come up with some fixes though for those models that hold up really well so if ya ever run into problems lemme know

What about mouse holes??? Thomas, id give ya $100k ZWD for your big Trenton!

It looks like it says fisher Norris to me, that’s a odd step down from the face to the horn, I haven’t seen that style on a fisher, so I googled it an another one like it popped up in online images, I’ll have to flip through AinA to see if there’s a fisher like that in there,

Come on by Thomas! Bring some junk an swap me outta some of my junk!

Congratulations!

Thanks arkie! Lol I thought this avatar looked cool so thought I’d try it out! Legs still pretty sore but it’s sealed up now,

That’s pretty slick! I’ve never seen a fire pot like that forge has, that thing looks huge!

Ive seen a lot of neat things made from files and rasps! I’d definitely go for em if the price is right! ive got a few saved aside myself that I plan on making tomahawks outta this fall, The only thing I can think of off the top of my head is keep ‘em away from water or your project can crack,

Ain’t nobody nowhere’s got one?

I don’t make money of blacksmithing it’s just a hobby but I could see turning steel into money!

Looks nice what kinda log did you use?

There used to be a lot of commercial charcoal kilns here in Adair county, I’ve thought it’d be cool to buy a couple acres and rebuild one for a living history type thing

I hope it works for multiples i plan on making a boat load of sleigh bells on it soon!

It’s been a year since I had a litter of shop kittens, i got on female fixed that lives In here and the wild one disappeared 6 months ago, but I always loved having those mangey little xxxxx climbing around the shop it made for some hilarious times!

Wow that’s pretty slick! Now I want one! Lol ive got both steel and cast forges, and I’ve lined my smaller steel ones to keep them from burning out but I use clay for my stuff,

Oh wow!!! Jennifer that looks like it’d open up everything from a letter to an envelope to a box to a shipping crate! it’s awesome! what are ya thinking about doin for the rest of it? Or is that a surprise?

Well come on back! Y’all are welcome here anytime! Falls comin on an it’s slowly starting to cool off so I’ll be in the smithy! Or cookin out! One or the other! Lol either way y’all come on by anytime you feel like takin a drive!