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Funny how that works isn't it? A little show of appreciation is always good PR. Frosty The Lucky.

Thanks Tim. I've had an intuitive grasp as a rule of thumb but tune the things by ear and eye. Before the accident I was going to play around making a naturally aspirated chip forge and now my urge to tinker is fixing on a ribbon burner. I just don't mess with stuff like I did before the tree got me. I still like knowing what's going on. I don't necessarily need to know the math just what factors are at work. Frosty The Lucky.

Good show for sure though I have to admit it took me a little while to remember ox have cloven hooves. Till then I was wondering what heck they were making. Frosty The Lucky.

I wonder if Alton Brown carries a Kramer knife. for some odd reason I noticed he was using a beautiful pattern welded sheath knife on his series, "Feasting on Asphalt". Maybe Bob Kramer didn't make such a bad career move when he decided to give bladesmithing a go. I've been saving my posts, then exiting before posting. I come back after checking another thread, click in the text box and hit submit quickly. It works more often than not. If it posts I copy my signature and move on. Frosty The Lucky.

If you're building log structures it's hard to beat rebar for pinning logs. Rebar won't pull or loosen like steel spikes or wood pegs will. Frosty The Lucky.

Welcome aboard Hambone, glad to have you. Don't let the other guys fool ya a lot of use appreciate a good spastic post, then again some of us are pretty easy to amuse. We love pics, projects, tools, equipment, pets, scenery, etc. Most anything you'd let an 8 yr old look at is good. Frosty The Lucky.

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Oh I don't know. I can't think of a much more positive way to close a gate than with artillery. Charles: I'm pretty ignorant of things military so had to search the web but found no reference for a 901. What am I missing? Frosty The Lucky.

I just hunted the episode up and watched it. That is surely a level of craft to aspire to. Frosty The Lucky.

Joke? Frosty The Lucky.

And I thought it was because I was listening to other people's children. Learn something every day. Frosty The Lucky.

Nope you have it backwards. The hardy hole was introduced into anvils to hold the already existing Hardy which is a cut off chisel used edge up. There may be various shapes of hardy, hot, cold, curved, butcher but all are cut off chisels. Probably the closest modern cut off to the original "hardy" is an "anvil devil." Basically a cut off chisel with a base wide enough to lay on the anvil face and be stable enough to do the job. I imagine the modern anvil devil is changed significantly from the olden day's hardy. The oldest reference I've seen to bottom tools for the hardy hole are as "shank" bottom tools. Calling anything with a square shank a "hardy" is a modern corruption of the terminology. Frosty The Lucky.

A flat round plate W/ bolt flanges for the vertical if you need to break it down for flat storage makes about as good a non permanent vise stand as I know of. Frosty The Lucky.

You don't talk to knife makers who use 440 series stainless steels? Frosty The Lucky.

He may love the sound of children whooping it up in the yard. I know hearing a child laugh makes me feel younger and fitter. Frosty The Lucky.

Do you have a torch? You can simply torch bolt holes OR heat the spots you wish to drill to black heat and let them air cool. Using a carbide drill bit might do it but any chatter will kill expensive bits. Your idea to use washers on screws outside the flange will work just fine. If you were to drill a couple holes in a couple pieces of say 1/4"x1 1/2" strap to act like you envision for the washer it'll be more secure. Frosty The Lucky.

If you want to do production and etch then check out a stamp making kit for applying the resist. The problem with etching is how it WILL be undercut by the etchant and eventually flake off or just blear the results. Frosty The Lucky.

Charles, Ian: come on guys pint, pound, litre, meter, who cares. I mean really, who drinks French beer? Frosty The Lucky.

Ditto the convex edge for a number of reasons. Next hardy try not drawing the blade out quite that thin. All in all a good serviceable tool. Well done. Frosty The Lucky.

Let me see if I have this straight. Double the area of the hole halves the flow velocity and quarters the pressure. Yes? Does the volume of gas delivered not double? OR is that a constant? Frosty The Lucky.

I used carb and brake cleaner to get the 100 years of oil and grease off mine, then freaked out the employees by taking it to the car wash to use the power sprayer to strip the sludge and old paint off. I'd be pretty nervous using a sand blaster on it for contaminating the babbit bearings with sand. I understand the principle of pouring babbit and could probably pull it off but would rather not. Solvents won't hurt anything important on an old mechanical power hammer but blowing sand into the works? Frosty The Lucky.

My go to anvil is a 125lb. Soderfors and it's but one step from my 206lb Trenton. I've never noticed the extra 81lbs. making much difference other than using bending forks. Frosty The Lucky.

I'm not familiar with the term, "tankers bar." I've used old axles as field expedient axles a number of times and most any with a lug bolt flange work pretty well. I did find one that was off something heavy duty that was a super anvil. I wish I brought it home rather than leaving it stuck in the sand bar on the Resurrection River. Oh well. Frosty The Lucky.

Beautiful work Asma, you DO have the gift. I really like the "Star Saw" it put a smile on my old face. I am so happy you're posting pictures of you work on the forum, they're a nicer size and the white background makes them easier to see. And believe me yours are well worth seeing. Thank you for the look. Frosty The Lucky.

Welcome aboard John, glad to have you. If you'll put your general location in the header you might be surprised how many of the IFI gang live within visiting distance. Nobody is going to remember you told us in this post once we open another. That looks like a cast iron Chinese knock off anvil we call them ASOs for Anvil Shaped Object. However, it's hard to tell looking at a pic. Have you done a rebound test? Drop a ball bearing on the face and estimate how close to that high it bounces. You CAN use a scale and measure the rebound but eyeballing is good enough for an estimate. 50% is mediocre, 70% is okay, 80-90% is pretty darned good. A hard anvil face is pretty necessary to efficient forging. Is it available? Are you interested in learning the craft? Frosty The Lucky.