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Seamus

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  1. Well thanks for the link That's sort of what I was thinking of doing
  2. Can anyone identify the machine this fellow used to grind his blades? The accompanying article says he was a stock removal man. Looks like the machine is set up to grind two sides at once and presumably create a hollow grind. Is this something he fabricated or something he modified, or...? The article proper https://clarksonhistory.wordpress.com/2013/05/06/secrets-of-the-dead-the-richtig-knife/
  3. Okey, obviously got the right guys to talk to here. Thanks for the image link G.O.G. What I see looks like a choker chain with a hand made grab hook on one end and a large link on the other. I'll show her that and see what she says Googling about a bit after I posted here, I did find http://store.chainsawr.com/products/keyhole-chain-hook-loggergrab and http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_479598_479598 No way I can make them that cheaply, but I'll see if that's what she wants. Maybe we can trade something. She's got an industrial Singer sewing machine and I have canvas I'd like to mend. Nobody, I followed the link, but my Google Book skills aren't that good. All I can see is an excerpt from pages 141 and 148 How do I get it to show me the pictures on pages 55 & 60 ? Notownkid, got your email. You're on the right track. She does wood turning, and uses the ponys to haul logs now and again. Nothing big/heavy she said. I expressed my concerns about liability, and that she'd be better off with genuine logging hardware, but she's a fairly small woman and on the north side of 50, so she's not about to get involved with anything over 200 lbs or so she says. Anywho, it's an interesting project for me, nothing ventured nothing gained. Go ahead and send the pictures to my email if you can. I had thought I had set up things so I'd get emails telling me when someone answered my question, but it doesn't seem to be working. Maybe I did it wrong or maybe Yahoo dropped the ball. More anon
  4. Woman with Haflingers wants a "bitch hook" No, that's what she said, honest. Looked it up, and found bitch hook n. a curved metal device used with a chain to hold or secure lumber or other things, or to brake a sled on descents. Also bitch link. Editorial Note: The unpublished manuscript for the Lexicon of Trade Jargon (circa 1938-39, now at the Library of Congress) includes in its section on “Lumber Workers’ Slang and Jargon” an entry for bitch chain and defines it as a “Heavy, short chain with hook and ring, used to fasten the lower end of a ‘gin pole’ (q.v.) to a sled or car when loading logs. bitch link, “In logging: a pear-shaped link on the end of a chain, larger and heavier than other links. When the chain is run through an opening a choker can be looped through this link to secure it Okey. Anyone have one, or can direct me to a picture of same?
  5. Don't find a technique forum, so posting here. Apologies if this isn't the right forum. How do you upset to one side of a square rod? I've wanted to make a pair of holdfasts for a joiners workbench since I first read about a guy named Rob Tarule using them in an article in Fine Woodworking. They're very fast and flexible compared to a vise. Since I read that article, Chris Schwarz has gone on a tear and popularized the Roubo workbench, so much so that you can't hardly swing a dead possum without hitting one on the Interwebs. Peter Ross recently made a close if not exact replica of the holdfast illustrated in André Jacob Roubo's L'Art du Menuisier, the book that started the whole thing, for Schwarz and you can see the original illustration here and Ross' results here http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/workbenches/that%E2%80%99s-not-a-holdfast and some "work in progress" shots here: http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/workbenches/straight-from-the-frenchmans-mouth In the first illustration of Ross working on the bar it looks to me like he has upset on one side midway down the bar. The upset is to make the mass for the shoulder of the head. I've upset on end, but not midway and not to one side like that. What's the technique? I know you can make a holdfast by bending but that's not what I'm interested in. Thanks for any suggestions
  6. Seamus

    forge & blower

    2x4's, angle iron, firebrick and a Centaur forge firepot-tuyere combination.
  7. Had to straighten the tommy bar and re-curve the spring and weld a crack in the bracket near the eye
  8. Seamus

    yardsale vise - $6.50

    Guy had been doing auto body work in his shop and welded a length of rebar onto the leg to make it taller. I've got the bracket but have to make a spring and wedges
  9. portable vise bracket for demonstrations
  10. Seamus

    Anvil & vise stand

    Neat rig for a small Peter Wright and vise stand
  11. Seamus

    Monitor

    Anvil after a bit of cleaning up with a belt sander and painting Stand is 2x12 and Monitor badge was found on the property when we moved in
  12. Seamus

    How to move an anvil

    Ask Bubba!
  13. Seamus

    My anvil

    167.2 lbs - marked as 172 no name clearly English "jumped up" style - seams of individual welds are evident except on the face
  14. There's a few pics here Groups -> projects -> forge but click on the preview image in the right hand column first because the full size ones are quite large and bound to tie up your machine if you have a slow connection
  15. Either not too many have a favorite, or there are a lot of us using power/air hammers? Or just a lot of Strong-Silent types... I just got a Farriers rounding hammer no name, weighs 2 lbs at a junque shoppe for $5.00 or so last month. Haven't tried it yet, but am looking forward to it. The Japanese hammers strike me (hyuk hyuk hyuk) as interesting, but they're pricey. Also got a 40 oz. Plumb with an 18" handle at the aforementioned junque shoppe. It has an uncommonly sharp peen, to my eye. I splurged on a Sears/Craftsman Cross Peen because I was amazed how good the handle felt and thought I would use it as a pattern/reference for sanding the rest of them. It is simailar in profile to the Plumb, but not as sharp. The handle more than anything will I think decide for me what my favorite is. What I don't understand is why the cross peen is so common and a diagonal or straight peen is not. Standing at the anvil, I can immediately see the advantage to the diagonal and straight over the cross. They would line up better, or more naturally, for me anyway. The Hofi and the Ozarks one are just waaaaaaaaay outta my league.
  16. Outside, covered, 55 gallon drum(s) under an open shed roof.
  17. Yeah, they've been around awhile Have not taken a class there, but hope to. Wish there were more like them - i.e. not just blacksmith classes but traditional farming methods, wheel wrighting, dry & wet cooperage, etc. etc.
  18. My buddy in Maine who posts on an old tools group made himself a framing slick for an upcoming T.F. class/project. I asked him if I could post the story here and he agreed. FWIW Galoot is an honorif meaning someone who eschews the use of electron burning tools when assaying woodworking projects, preferring instead to hew to the line of our forebears and use old or antique tools. Saint Roy is Roy Underhill of the Woodwrights Shop on PBS. I believe that's all the decoding necessary Gentle Galoots, Short version: got more gifts, finished a slick Long version: I received two more packages from Galootaclaus yesterday, one a very fine old machete that fits my hand perfectly and actually swishes when you swing it, the other a very cool Millers Falls carving set in a nifty plastic box that opens as a stand. It includes a tiny slipstone. Here's a picture: Galoot Image Central The puddytat didn't want to move out of the studio so I made him smile, meet Bo, everyone :> Thank you Galootaclaus, thanks very much! In the same mail I received the St. Roy DVD that Michael made for a bunch of us Royless Galoots. I spent a happy afternoon watching Roy FOR THE FIRST TIME, he sure is something. Thanks so much Michael, you're a king! I finally finished the slick I made, it's about 3 feet long with a 2 1/2" blade that's about 8" long. The blade is a piece of leaf spring with about a 20 degree edge. The ferrule is a 1 1/4" piece of copper water pipe and there's a piece of hammered brass followed by a piece of leather between the shoulders of the blade and the wood. The handle is brown ash and I know how tough it is because I whacked it quite hard to get the blade seated and it was totally unaffected. The whole thing weighs about 4 pounds. Here's a picture: Galoot Image Central and a closer look here: Galoot Image Central The picture make the shoulders look slightly off, but they're not, it's just the angle of the camera and the fact that the blade is bent at the tang (5") in the traditional fashion. Sharpening this baby has been a huge job since the steel is super hard and I'm doing it by hand. I still have a bit to go and then I need to make a blade guard. Happy 2007 everyone! Adriaan "This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body." - Preface to Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
  19. You can see what I'm dealing with by flipping through my snapshots here: Flickr: Photos from coalandice
  20. Forgot to add the link to this one: Gibbins Aprons Darned expensive but nice pattern and weight
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