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Crashresq

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    Okmulgee, Ok
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    My wife, my daughters, black smithing, wood turning, motorcycles, sports cars, travel, BEER, good coffee, good food, good friends.
  1. Dave, look over in the Dremel accessory section, there are a variety of bits that will do what you are describing. I'm assuming you want to use this for wood and other types of handle materials. Bill
  2. The steel icicle tree ornaments are cool, quick and easy... Have some lengths of red ribbon available and you can do the Christmas nails, telling the story as you make them (videos on YouTube). Have some square stock pre-cut (or hot cut) and do some Frederick's crosses...
  3. We do one local craft show every year because my wife is one of the organizers... I've done wood turning for 15 years, so had been setting up with a lot of bowls, kitchen and sewing gadgets which did well... a few years ago after starting blacksmithing, I added the "pigtail" steak turners (with turned wooden handles) and leaf key fobs, leaf ceiling fan pulls, leaf necklaces.... I made a lot of leafs (really good practice). This year I included all the previous, and added some RR spike knives and some blacksmith knives made from truck springs.... one of the best sellers this year was the duplex head nail swords that Reitenger mentioned... a box here cost $3.00 and I was selling them at a buck a piece, I think by the end of the day I had sold over 100 of them! Odd what people go nuts over... btw, one of my other best sellers is a "Spurtle" - it is a Scottish stirring stick. I turn them from various woods, soak 'em in mineral oil and can not make enough to get through a one day show - at $10 each! Bill
  4. I used a 12"x12"x2" piece of plate an old blacksmith gave me for two years... It was his first anvil, set in a stump, it works great! About a year ago, found a 107# Trenton... I'll pass the hunk 'o plate to the son in law... Matt, how big are these hunks of axle you found? Bill
  5. Thanx guys, I'm really enjoying it.... and yes sir, Thomas, I do keep the door to the left open when the forge is running... which, other than suffocating from CO, I find that it's also a bit of relief from the amount of heat this little sucker puts out... and it's currently around 10 degrees in our parts! I still have to get the post vise anchored to the wall and I have a couple of small tables I may bring in for "stuff" - one is all steel and I use it for welding chores. Also going to rig up a curtain of some sort to hide the wing and keep the grime off of it... she's put away for the winter.
  6. Evenin' all. I recently received my early Christmas present, a Diamondback two burner blacksmith model propane forge. In order to use my new forge, I needed a different setup than my outdoor one for my coal forges. After moving some things around, I now have a small, but functional, indoor area to work. Made some loops to attach to my anvil stump for my hammers And a couple quick projects to get a feel for the new forge. Blacksmith knife is made from a piece of leaf spring steel and the other knife is, obviously, a railroad spike... my daughter found it, it's smaller than most of the spikes you see, so she thought it would make a good "girl" RR spike knife. After a couple of years of playing with coal forges, I have to say I'm loving the propane forge. Starts up fast, heats fast and no fire "tending". I'm glad I started with coal, as I think a lot of basic skills are learned with coal forges, but I'm not sure how much I'll be using it in the future. Thanks for lookin' Bill
  7. Megiddoblades - wanted to hop back on and let you know I received my Diamondback 2 burner blacksmith forge today... some observations: packaging = awesome, fit and finish = awesome, simplicity = awesome, ease of setup = awesome. To wrap up my initial impressions - Awesome. I unpacked the forge, bolted on the burners, connected all the fittings and pressure gauge, followed included instructions for lighting and had a beautiful blue flame roaring in approximately fifteen minutes from unboxing to flame. It heated up in just a few minutes and I was getting 3/8 round stock to orange/yellow heat in just a couple minutes... Lit at 5lbs pressure and dropped to a hair over 3lbs while heating 3/8 stock I have to finish my stand and rearrange a little to set up for gas forge work, but should be beating on glowing steel tomorrow sometime. John McPherson - I am going to send Dennis another email to let him know I'm happy, but should you see him, please let him know that I'm very pleased and impressed with his craftsmanship (and that I apologize for being a "little" impatient). Happy Diamondback Forge Owner Bill
  8. Don't wait! Go get some "real" lump charcoal (not briquettes), and fire that puppy up! I ran my brake drum/blow dryer rig like that for two weeks before I got my first batch of coal. Warning, charcoal sparks a LOT. BTW, nice setup.
  9. John, you might want to go check on Dennis. I have been researching propane forges for quite a while, and for my needs, I decided that the Diamondback 2 burner blacksmith model would work best for me. I ordered it over a week ago, and I understand about the Thanksgiving holiday week and such, but an email confirming receipt of the order and maybe a projected ship date would be nice.... Not a peep so far. I hope I made the right choice. Bill
  10. Bosox sums it up perfectly!!! That has to be one of the coolest "upcycles" I've seen in a long time. Very artistic and quite beautiful.
  11. Neil... that's interesting. I'm guessing there aren't a lot of companies that make RR spikes any more and to think that the ones in Okmulgee Oklahoma came from Vancouver... kind of cool :) These come off of a little industrial feeder line that was reworked about a year ago. I spoke with some of the BNSF guys that work the line and they said to take all I can pick up... as long as they are not in a tie! Also have access now to tie plates and track...
  12. Crashresq

    my new anvils

    Nice!!! good find... I've got my little Trenton and always looking for another one (a bigger one)... I found out a couple weeks ago that I missed out on a very large bridge anvil that was in a barn on some property that some friends of ours were auctioning off. They went out the morning the of the auction and saw it in the barn (they had leased it out for a couple of years). The auction staff and other people were around so they couldn't sneak it out (he said it would have taken a couple "big 'ole boys" to even pick it up anyhow)
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