CrazyGoatLady

I don't know how it is for anyone else, but around here, track rail like that is easy to source. Two scrapyards located next to the train depot in town. All the rail and spikes you could want. Nice stand JHCC and good work on your punches Les

Mark, I like the table. Is it for you or for a customer? Real nice.

Winter hasn't hit us yet. A few cold snaps, but that's about it. Used to get cold a lot earlier, but it seems to be becoming a norm for late winter and barely any spring befor it gets hot. Yeah the wind was high today.

Been in the upper 60s last few days. Then hovering around freezing at night. I've been forging starting in the late evening. By time I'm done, I don't realize how cold it is. Then I get in the house and discover my feet are frozen. I forge a lot in the summer and I've had days where it was 100° + and it felt cooler standing in the sun than it did in the shop.

He'd probably try to help you out if he could. He's very supportive of what I do, as is my whole family

Thanks Chris, he is

I like the sound of the rain on the metal roof of my shop. Except when the wind is blowing hard. Which it does a lot here. Evidently, there's a loose panel somewhere and it makes an awful, flapping noise. We need to fix it and that would be that.

This followed my son home and he left it sitting out for me to find this morning. What a great way to start the day

I really dig the horse head. I think if I worked at it, I could do one like that. Might take a long time and a lot of practice to make one look as good as yours. Reason why I was talking about a dremel is, I thought I could forge out the shape of the head then use that like a pencil and put in fine details. Not just eyes, nose, mouth etc., but the veins and more defined bone and muscle, eyes and mane. Would probably take a month of Sunday's to do. Late night in the shop where everything went wrong. Either forged something too thin or was way off the mark. Or something fun like a big ole crack running down the length of the only stock you have in that size. Not one successful thing except the practice. I'll be thankful for that because it was highly frustrating.

Thank you Das. And thank you for the pointers Mark. I've made horse heads before, but not like that one, so I figured I ought to. What I really want to do is make a 3D head and use a dremel probably and "carve" out the features.

Real nice Mark. You get a lot done and done very well. That piece you're holding in the tongs looks like the handles on a collection of old branding irons I have. Only a couple things for me. Made my first horse head. Never even tried before. I don't have nose or eye punches or anything like that. Used a pin punch for the eye. Should have set it more forward of the cheek bone and he looks surprised... I'll do different on the ear from now on as well.

Thank you Mr. SLAG

Clever! I like it

Ooo very nice! I particularly like the work bench. Awesome acquisitions

Ok thank you. I told Tommie to ask the guy that wants some if he wants them shiny or darker or...? I'm just leery of leaving forge scale on them with the food safety aspect. Not sure what to do. But I think your right on these. Thank you

Do I heat them first, or just oil them?

Thanks for the how- to. I can get a pretty decent twist on larger things, but this smaller stuff proved a bit dodgy. I thought they would looked brass brushed in the pic. They are actually very bright shiny silver.

BillyBones, hmm you're right. I like that you can hang your clapper on it there. I made mine to slide on the bottom bar and hang from there. Excuse my malfunction! And Das, that's a nice shape on yours. Like it a lot

Marcus, nice work. I especially like the leaf on the left in the second picture. Nice design and elegant curve. Billy, I'm happy I inspired you to make some cutlery. Man, you're way better at twists than I am! The tines aren't easy for me. It'll be a nice set when your done. I used some 3/8" round bar that I had lying around for mine. We trimmed rabbit nails and treated some for ear mites... My actual shop time was grinding my first set of cutlery. I don't have a belt sander or anything like that so I thought I was going to to try to do it with files and sandpaper and would take forever. But, I had a rare stroke of brilliance and thought why couldn't I use my Worksharp knife sharpener? It worked. It's all shiny now which I'm not sure I like, but got it smoothed out with still a touch of forge character. Will they darken back up when I season them? Not a great picture because they look yellow from the lighting

Nice conrad!

Haha yeah, it's funny how much easier it looks to do now than it did when I watched it the first time. After I get my order done, I think I'll give it a go. May be a good addition to the cutlery as well

I noticed the burn on the back of your finger. Take care of that for sure. You got a lot accomplished. But I understand what your saying. I don't ever think I've done enough.

LBS, you didn't get as much done as you wanted AND you got a late start!? I need to speed up haha Nice tooling as you always do. Table legs look intriguing.

Thanks for the video link. I watched that a long time ago and I didn't think I could make the herb chopper. Of course, Thunderbear makes everything look easy. But I'm really sure I could now. Thanks again

Ah MacLeod my friend! I apologize for not getting back to you with that. But I'm glad you have found your way. P.S. I hadn't come up with anything yet so it's a good thing you didn't need me anyway!