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be excellent in a shop just walk to the toolbox pull out a rusty wrench and bite a piece out of it. Of course, this is all to be done in front of the new guy before asking for his ID10-T form and a pipe stretcher.

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there is nothing more permanent than a temporary fix

i find that a stump of 20in with a 100# anvil will still wiggle around and i must move it back after a few heats that I really start to move the metal, if im doing light work there is no major problem otherwise

one question... with all the different designs and levels of experience how will TW choose a winner, I say we all head down to visit and have a major gathering/ create a new blacksmithing event as well as to unveil next year's challenge (there is going to be one right?) 

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lee very nice

Everything is a masterpiece in my head... just doesn't usually translate to the real world quite as well...   -   Wandering_Rogue

JB weld has worked well here, and it's always good to have some for other fix it jobs.

following this thread i have learned plenty. i am looking to make a new forge and saw the vaulted design discussed a few pages back wondering what the recommended height would be with a 3/4 frosty t-burner I am thinking maybe a 3" inside radius thus a 6" floor and 8" to 12" deep.

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blueroostser I must second Les L's comment much mor refined than mine (they actually look even side to side)

so many apples do you know someone with chickens or pigs to use the bad ones?

some more updates framing up plywood on the roof and starting to close it up tin should be here in a week or two

my entry scrap leafspring piece from the shop a little scrap of oak i traded for and some brass pins tempered with a butane torch for pattern. sending to grandparents in Germany for Christmas.

blade is 4" OAL is 7 7/8"

thanks for the challenge or i wouldn't have made it 

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On 10/4/2022 at 3:34 PM, ThomasPowers said:

Did you mix the cement by hand?

uggg..... no thanks we had 13 and a half yards. But... we didn't do that we paid someone else to do it. My workplace from the summer

haven't been to Barkerville for 7ish years. last I was there, on a school trip the smithy was inactive and couldn't have cared at the time now I would love to go again

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So, my family recently started another project... a woodworking shop. this is three days of progress next will come walls and a roof outer dimension 10'x24' inner will be 9'6"x 23'x8' at the low side other than original grass removal, a wacker packer, and a power trawl the project was done with old hand tools only all leveled with tape, transit, and shovel.

before

19 hours ago, Cleave said:

Our young boys are really into Lego gears right now, and this will be a great homeschool project too!

I love homeschooling you can turn everyday life projects as school or have losses and call it educational expenses (then it doesn't feel as bad when you destroy blade after blade)

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5 hours ago, TWISTEDWILLOW said:

We like to space our holidays out, so our turkeys have time to grow bigger

just start your turkeys earlier...

Goods do you have a holder for your stamps or how do you keep them all aligned so neat?

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On 9/25/2022 at 3:01 PM, Daswulf said:

But Glenn, don't skip halloween or thanksgiving. 

 

you mean thanksgiving and halloween 

thanksgiving is on the tenth of October but like everything Yankee doddle had to be different and set it back a month and a half

might see about geting a gift or two done i started 2 years ago...

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Three new batches of hot sauce made with home grown serrano hot peppers, a mango with one bottle tamed down for my little brother, one with herbs and spices, and one with fermented peppers

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yes i know some places here pasteurize their honey will others leave it raw. Raw honey is much better for one and helps the immune system. Here the cheapest supplier for honey is now at 4.50 CAD a lb (translate to roughly 600 ruble a liter) of raw honey with many between 5.00 and 6.00 CAD

My mother buys 2 20 liter buckets a year for baking, and canning as we react to white sugar

alexandre do you leave your honey raw or pasteurize it

Mikey could it be their looking back at the answer they were given?

well i took a break over the summer and now i have caught up on post ive missed (some 30-40ish pages in this thread alone) as always amazing work all. T.P sorry to hear about your grand father.

once i get ahead on my school enough im gonna get in the shop and spend a day heat treating knives as ive got about half a dozen almost ready to go will post when that happens

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i have had less than optimal performance (hot enough to forge with bit not to weld) over the last while i have noticed a decrease in max temp and after some investigation have discovered considerable slop in the joint between the flair fitting and the t what should i do to fix this or is it best to get a new T

(pic for reference)

TIA

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night switch is what we call a simple high amperage on-off switch mounted on machines or vehicles that you turn off when you shut the machine off for the day thus preventing draws overnight from radios etc.