Wesley Chambers

Good idea of the week~

what about something like this?

This has worked for myself and many others, Ive seen it used on anvils with clean corners that people just didnt want to accidentally mar

Few things come to mind, for me I like as wide a face as possible so any loss would be unfortunate for me. Also if you do decide to repair it at a later point you have a larger job ahead of you. If your looking to get to work on it asap and this is the only way to make that happen I say go for it~

Thanks, getting ready to start on the file work, normally I'll cheat and use a grinder or belt but not today!

How much will Model #2 cost me and when can I order it? lol good work man.

Had a leaf spring looking at me funny, tired of the sword and dagger "thing" so I thought I would have a go at my first spearhead. The quillon like protrusions still need a bit of shaping and finish work, I'll get that done tomorrow before I start work on the blade grind, think Im going to file this one by hand. Can't wait to get back to coke, the gas is nice for shoeing but meh such a waste of heat.

I noticed no one has mentioned their beards! Maybe its just my imagination but for me on a hot day when I got the sweat pouring off me, my wet beard acts like a radiator for my face. I notice this a lot more the first few days after I shave/trim the sweat start dripping into my work and not going to use in my beard!

see this a lot with people thinking a stake tool is a hardy tool...

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Yea there was a "Working H13" clinic last year that a friend of mine attended where among the 15 fullers he made they did a quick demo of the hardy tongs, they work great but he had plenty of striking help for the 1.5" they were using lol I have seen a few sets being sold that are mostly aluminum, but I've yet to play with any. The Kentucky Horseshoeing School uses Doug Butler's Principles of Horseshoeing (P3) book/bible for the course, slow read but the knowledge is unbeatable. Mitch Taylor the schools director/head instructor has done a lot of talks and clinics with Doug in the past. Owners... the farriers bane.

Well as far as the nipping hes not hurting anything yet but there is still the rasping we dont get to see so heh who knows~ I very much support the UK system, Paddy here on the forums did two years at Hereford School of Farriery before he moved to the states for more training. I wish that we had something in place in the states like you guys but we don't at all, grab the tools and find a horse and you can call yourself a farrier. We do have different forms of certification; I'm a farrier classification through the AFA ( American Farrier Association ) but none of them are required to do the work, other than at the track where you need a track license but not a farrier license heh go figure.

I have seen a ton of different versions for farriers, the type I like the best are just a basic spring action, step on the lever to open the vise and the coil spring does the rest. The hardy vise/leg vice are great for quick work, I use a visegrip with a hardy stem and old rasps for a wide mouth but it takes longer because of the adjustments. farriers and hot rasping is almost becoming a lost art... these days nine out of ten will just take there cold shoe to the grinder, more and more don't even use a forge and that makes me sad. speaking of hydraulic.. If I offend anyone here that uses this product Im sorry but at the last shoeing convention someone was selling their new product hydraulic hoof nippers! maybe Im just old school and like to use these muscle things I was born with but I just dont understand these products. Sure it works, it could probably cut your car door open like the jaws of life! but I could nip a horse in the time they take to do one foot!

I have used a bodged up one of these as a hot rasping vice for horseshoes and because of the simple design and leverage just a little bit of foot force holds very well better than I had expected anyway very handy to have a quick release/reset much less two free hands

great price even in USD

very nice bolt vice good shape and decent die

hahah great CL post Ugly sale

Found this on CL Tn never seen such a fisher My link

Careful what you wish for, through school I think Paddy was the only one with a camera out more than myself!

Thats a whole lot of hammer! and a whole lot of hammers!

I needed one quick and dirty, had 8' of rr track so this fatty was born heheh took all of 15 min to toss together, lopping off sides with the bandsaw and such prolly weighs about 2# but it gets the job done in a hurry, was "borrowed" a number of times to run some draft shoes flat but I use it on just about everything

If I was near enough the beer would do it for me hahah I managed to grunt my 341# trent solo a few feet, then up onto the stump so 300 would be doable!

I miss smithing at the shows, with a new home I dont think any trips are an option this season but next year Ill have to bring the lady up and check things out!

That poor anvil heheheh I love it, btw is your water wheel off a pump or do you have a wonderfully amazing setup out there? Sadly I've yet to make it to Penn Ren

Nice work! I was designing something similar when I was smithing at the Ohio renaissance festival, I love the idea of the sword/spring I was looking at doing a coiled rope design in a sort of catapult fashion heheh maybe one day...