Jo_Bai

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I hope your pets got through the fireworks just fine. Freki didn't care and slept and was interested in cheese, nothing more.

Looks great JHCC Is this your normal everyday chaos or did you clean up for the photos?

It is a new post and was truly only 5 hours old when you posted I mostly forge alone, so a striker completely escaped my mind. That's the perfect reason to build a treadle hammer or get the wife in the shop I searched some more and found this, that is also a great way, thanks The last thing could be forge welding. As you said, it seems like a fun project

Thanks for all the ideas. I will try to build V.1 in the following days.

As I have started to look into the ABANA LVL 2 course, I found this picture in the reference material: Now I am wondering how to forge the middle one. So far I looked at the single wench from Mark Aspery ind this video: I thought about upsetting the top and split it but can't wrap my head around it, how to make the bottom two legs without collapsing one of them. Please help me out.

I don't know how the light is in your shop, so it's difficult to tell. Here is a video where you can see at around 4:20 what it should look like and what to look out for.

You can twist it now if you want, then its more like regular twist Damascus. I just wanted to show you how the twist before welding should look like. Grind it for fun, nothing to lose. Take the good pieces and make something out of it.

The channel will be almost close. I still think that it's a lost chase. Here as a reference. You should twist it more.

I second that! In my old shelf, I bent the boards.

That's great, do it. Please report how the smoke situation was this time with all the tips! I hope you have a great day at the forge.

From my knowledge, flux is there to help fight oxidation in the first place. But with heavy scale in the cracks, I don't think flux is enough.

Ohh yeah, that bark goes straight through your bones. The story with the breeder is something that is also happening here in Germany. That's why I chose an association with strict rules. Before you get a puppy there you have to jump to several hoops (A walk with a breeder to get to know you and a questionnaire, then waiting around 1-1.5 years until it's your turn, meet the breeder somewhere in Germany a few times and get to know them and only then you get a dog). In the associations' magazine was a story, this time about a mishandled puppy and the reaction from the association about it (got taken away and has a new home). Horrible stuff They both look like angels, I would take Libby in a heartbeat with that look. I remember when I got the papers for Miki, he slept in my arm that night. It was a one time thing and I think he was too happy to have a new home. They are stubborn as they can be. My breeder told me to get to know other dogs as soon as possible, otherwise Eurasier get racist and only play with other dogs who are fluffy and have a curled tail. I went with him everywhere, so today I got a dog, that is relaxed everywhere we go. Samoyed's are great too. I always loved to pet them, when the owner was looking through my stuff.

Jer, I have always been a nerd. It helped me a lot to get out of my comfort zone and talk much. I think this is why I have a good standing for my forging demos because I can talk the whole day and be entertaining. For my character: 90% human mage and always in person. I don't find playing in front of the pc, without seeing the other, fun. So far I have been playing on and off for around 20 years (AD&D, D&D 3.0+3.5 and nowadays 5.0) That thing looks great and surly will be a great time saver for you.

The chance is, that there is a lot of scale in it. You would need to clean every unwelded piece up to try again. In my opinion, try again instead of fixing it.