CrazyGoatLady

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!

Thanks tanglediver

I bet your right Irondragon. Nice one Billy. I like how you put the loop on the bottom corner. Maybe just the stock size on not being as loud. I use 1/2".

Woo-hoo nice!

Agreed Randy. We have an '83 Dodge pickup and a 2013 Ford F150. The Dodge, you can get in anywhere you need to work on it. The Ford, I can't even see into unless I get a step stool

Geez, you just described me to a tee in the beginning! I'm thankful I've learned so much from so many good and generous people. It would not have been possible without it.

Good. I just didn't want to sound dismissive in any way of any of the things in this discussion. It has been enjoyable and throughly informative. It seems the more I do this, I'm learning to discern what I personally want to do. I used to think there was an absolute right or wrong way. That is not the case. Definitely easier and much harder ways to get to the result you want. We all can learn from each other and that makes us a great community. And I like the freedom of knowing I can make anything I want and I'm only limited by my self

Sounds successful to me

I didn't mean to sound as if I'm knocking one way over another if it came off that way. It took me awhile to figure out something that works for me and it just happens to be closer to Aspery and I didn't even know that! I'm just happy that I don't struggle with it like I used to and enjoy working more now that it has become comfortable and I don't have to really think about what I'm doing. But my mind is always open to exploring and maybe coming to an even better technique.

I've read about making the arms different lengths for different tones. I bent mine at equal lengths. It'll wake up the dead and that was what was wanted. I've seen them shaped into ovals, round and even heart shaped. The triangle just seems traditional to me, because that's what I always picture hanging up at a farmstead or ranch. But I think they can be made however you want to. I think the only limit should be your imagination as long at it does what it's intended for and that's to ring. As far as quenching, I couldn't tell any difference.

That sounds like this Honda Prelude my son bought. Got it home ok, then it started doing what your describing with your jeep. Replaced several things, lots of study of manuals and even you tube. Good bit of swearing. Even had a Honda guy look at it. It's still sitting and he bought another car... hope you can get yours fixed. GFH, that's nice work. The twist and that tight scroll are really nice on the far right one. Good job

It looks really cool whatever you decide to call it