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This just proves your human. Irondragon you might have couple years on me, but I cut way back on carbohydrates several months ago and am amazed at how the brain fog and aches and pains have subsided.

I agree, rivet looks good to me.

Got at an auction. $180.00 was the final price, it was 30 miles away. Maybe that's a little high in some places. There is no side to side or up an down movement in the gears, bearings were well greased when I took it part way apart and cleaned it up. Put a wood handle on the crank. I oiled it down after the motorized brush treatment. I'm assuming these had a black paint job from the factory? Les, small world you working on the same thing.

Managed to find a Champion 400. Freewheels about a 1 and 1/2 turns.

Used it a little yesterday. Handle might be a little to fat. I find myself reaching for hammers in the 2lbs/1gram or less range.

Thanks George. Mild steel for the handle. I'll experiment with that method you mention. My thought was, to use a ball bearing the same size as the marble to form most of the forming.

Thanks guy's. The tricky part is heating bending/tapping the material around the marble before the steel gets to cold or the glass fractures/shatters. I've got idea's on how to get around some of this on my to do list.

I use a stationary band saw to cut Hyster forks. 1 1/2 inches thick. What I would call a small saw, 64 1/2 inch blade, it takes (with a cheap brand new blade) 28 minutes to cut the tine. Just comparing, fwiw.

Still working on it. Shooting for an Old Norse blacksmithing hammer.

Trying to come up with something different amongst all this stiff competition is definitely a challenge. The blade is spring steel. Glass,steel,fire,hammer don't mix well. Speaking of John Switzer, wear your safety glasses.

First post vise I got was shipped from Kansas, definite improvement over a bench vise. Thanks for sharing your progress with the class.

Congratulations Frazer! For the rest us still searching you give us hope.

Thanks for sharing. Amazing work.

Looking closer I see now that it is hammered, your wright.

Thanks for coming back and posting that step by step process. Looks like the third tong down, first bend gets upset.

I will be doing that. I have it hanging on a hook left of the vise but, angle grinder cords will probably get tangle up on it.

I had to look up "piton". It deffinately looks like one.

I'm to the point if I can't preview an anvil in person I probably won't bid on it. I know that doesn't help with your question but a couple of months ago I looked at an anvil that appeared to be in about the same condition as the one that's not broken. When I saw it in person it looked a lot worse. When I dropped a half inch ball bearing on it I found a spot with practically no rebound, so the face was starting to de-laminate? This so called 250 lbs anvils final bid was $1100.00. Couldn't help but feel bad for ever won it.

Jennifer I sure do admire the forge welding high carbon to wrought that you do. Made this adjutable vise spacer. Surprised how well it works, doesn't fall when making adjustments.

Finished this anvil stand a couple days ago. Making the hold down straps was the final step,

Sorry to hear about the worm can opening. Got the interlocking floating floor in the living room, it looks like real wood but your not supposed get it to wet. This house I'm in was remodeled 30 years ago, an even back then the contractor said the grey water had to be plumbed into the septic.

Hey Tim, That anvil is similar to this one I was watching in an Oregon online auction last month. The day the bidding started I visited the auction yard to view some things I was interested in. Maybe 3 hours after the auction started (think it was a 7 day auction) I was kinda shocked that this anvil was already up to $1000.00.

I've got about 8 acres of field that I either just mow with a rotary or cut for hay with a sickle mower. For some reason, maybe it's the vibration of the machinery, pocket gophers will come to the surface an run around like mice. Ounce in a while they get hit by the mower or a tire. About a minute latter a raven will come along and grab it.

Alexander, I think if I saw pictures of your work posted somewhere else I would still recognize it. You have what some, maybe most of us want and that's style. Cleaning up this post vise, I uncovered an Iron City stamp.

I know The Grapes of Wrath was a work of fiction, but it's so much about what my grandparents went through. The great depression wasn't enough, they had to deal with the 7 year drought on top of it. That triggered there move from Nebraska to Oregon. Don't know how many times I heard "better save it, somebody might need it some day".