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Well winter is coming.

Iron is good for you according my docter. Irjon ish bath forf you according my dentist

You can lift topside open for flat, supported portion of the beld. There is also a non ajustable stoptable (the strait up thing at the top). Most of these you can rotate them so you can ajust the hight and angle. Not on the fly, it is bolded.

Something new. Tasting the tools.

At my last job(shipyard) they took a big leftover pipe. Welded the bottom end closed, filled it with floordust (i think some of it contained sand and concrete dust, rest is grinddust, slag, ...), Put a cap on it and put the anvil on that. The mistake they made was to weld the anvil to the cap. It is heavy and more or less silent. The welding to the cap is what is making the noice. They had better put rubber underneed the anvil and used some angle-iron as clamps. Unfortunatly, the owner likes the anvil, even it is never used and is burried in a corner and used as a support for a "temporary" table (you know the kind, it is like that for now 5 years)

One side will cut, the other will bite.

In my head my tongs finished. They are beautifull. Next week I have some time, i also need them, so I hope my head is right.

Take your time. I'm refining my ideas in my head amd try some bits on wensday (i know i have forgetime then). See what i can and where my limitations are.

frosty it took a while figure it out, but now i get it (also the second story helped). Is a nice way to make sure you have material enough. I will try it. Althou I'm not overly enthousiastic about twists. And forgewelds are still a hit or miss at this moment. Hefty thanks. It will be 8mm stock. I happened to recieve 3x 2m of 8mm round stock. Perfect. With that size i go for forks. Goods nice chisel. I can use one Thomas. You forgewelds the folds together? Or it stays "loose"? Mods, sorry. It will take a while to addapt to the non quoting. (Also to not using the @ in front of the name). Some forums want you to quote so it is easier to follow along.

For forks you split the round stock, I assume. You put it in a vise and split it axial or you flatten it (a bit) and split it radial? Sounds like a stupid question but it is buggin me. I split a piece of 30x6 to make my snowflake bowl but that was always flat. I have to test

No, not hardable. Except if the hardened fase was mild steel hardness. I quenched in in water also, because i didn't want to wait and i need to turn it around. But it never hardened, only gets softer. I used the same bars to tyrap some cables to it and it welded very weird as well.

Thanks, so no extra scrabble points. I think it will be 30 inch, after some googling at least the number was good I have happend to recieve 1 length of 8mm round cut in 3 pieces (roughly 2m each piece) so i think they will be 8mm

Made this in a lost hour between 2 jobs. Is a practice piece for a marshmellowroasterstick (try that on scrabble). A friend get married in december, last year they bought a firepit (a steel bowl more) from me, so as a small weddinggift i would like to make a couple of these. Only instead of a round it needs to be a heart. And it needs to be longer, i underestimate the amounth of steel needed for the eye and wrap. The steel i used is weird. Before very hard to bend, now you can almost get it bend if you wave to fast with it. Weird. I have no idea about a good length to make these. I wad thinking 30cm or 12". Thickness, i like thin, this is 4mm (1/8") but 6mm (1/4") is maybe better? Also for the heart i was thinking of making a round and than kink it in, but after some youtube it is not that simple.

Nice. I know the ir heaters on electric (not the red quartz type but black tiles) and they work fantastic. I've seen factories using them above workstations so working underneed ia really nice. And no need to heat all the air in the complete building to heat where you work (so lot of heatloss and moneyloss). Never see them on gas (propane or natural gas or ...) nice to know.

The look nice tongs.

Looks clean to me. I know the habit of buying new drillbits and after a cleanup having a box full of drillbits only to repeat the process as soon i start seeing the bottom of the box again.

Nice catches everyone.

Now it is waxed.

Next time i'm at their house, i take pictures and take mesurements.

My dad have a cast woodworking vice with a central screw and 2 guides. Works good and pressure is nicely distributed.

Yesterday but still good i guess. I finished the snowflake bowl. (I have burned my first one, when chiseling out the supports in the middle, the cross). Second one. Looks nice. No picture yet of the finished part, no time for waxing last night. Here i play with the acyoxy set (shalomo in flemish, some dutch will understand) to make the bends a nice Y shape.

Thomas can you share some pictures? I can see a baskettwist. I see barb wire. But i have no idea of the outcome if you combine them. I envision something weird.

200A wow. Big cables you all have to install. I have 63A at my house. At 230V x3 (an old system. Yay 3phase, but only at 230V and no neutral). Workshop has 380V, but only 25A. Still plenty of power.

It is wet if you consume more than the inner storage

Not all are celebrated outside the usa. But on topic. No ideas yes. New job is consuming more time than expected. Out of my eveningschool no spare time to see my workshop, let alone to forge. But please share, i like to be inspired.