Frosty

It's beautiful all round but it's a wall hanger. S'okay, wall hangers sell, it'd look wonderful on an executive desk or the mantel.

It really is a beautiful piece of work, well done Dunstan.

Frosty The Lucky.

She's a cutie Bryan, any relation to YOU?

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Very cool! Well done.

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I guess I wasn't clear enough in my plans, you aren't the first person to thread the wrong end of the 1/8" MPT x 1/4" flare fitting and have to mickey mouse a way to mount it up. Kudos for making a working burner that way.

If you're hooking the 1/4 turn ball valve and a rubber hose directly to the top of the burner then follow the directions for using a 1/8" scd. 80 pipe nipple. The ID of 1/8" scd 80 pipe is nearly perfect to take a 1/4"x28 tap to match the threads on a mom-metric mig contact tip.

The 1/8"x1/4" flare is for connecting to 1/4" COPPER tubing, NOT rubber hose. I use copper tubing on mine as a heat shield for the propane. I have a 4 burner forge and it's not uncommon for one of the burners to chimney enough heat up it to burn rubber hose. The movable partition walls in my forge sometimes get bumped out of position or just don't seal against the lid so flame can get blown from one chamber to one that's not being used.

You can correct yours now if you'd like the 1/8" pipe tap uses a larger pilot drill than the threads on the flare fitting. However, you have that one working fine, it ain't broke no real need to fix it.

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Offering the aquarium patina finish on your blades now? Looks awful clean to be a quick patina though.

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Das: Did you intend to post each pic individually to the forum? Are you aware that your entire gallery downloads too? It's not like posting pics from a file on your comp it's like posting a photo album a dozen times. Evidently you can't load JUST one pic without the whole gallery going with. I can check out this whole series from the bottom of any post. So, I've already seen the next pic and the next, etc. etc. I have to individually open them so they don't show up as unseen.

I gotta see what Glenn has to say about this "feature". It's mostly a hassle for me and is a REAL bandwidth hog.

Jer

I don't know and I've almost given up on the Iforge platform behaving itself in a reasonable manner. I don't think they're dupes, I think selecting a pic from your gallery just highlights that pic but uploads your whole gallery with it every time. Uploading someone's gallery pics is not sweat we can look at the highlighted one and then go through the rest at the bottom seeing the post is a link to the gallery.

I don't think anybody is trying to be a pest I just think the way the gallery works isn't clear, even the owner and mods link individual pics in their gallery and the whole thing uploads repeatedly.

If I had an idea about how to make it work better I'd have said so a long time ago.

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CJ: When you upload each picture in your gallery repeatedly it makes everybody download your entire gallery over and over when we can skim through your entire gallery from ONE post. Once I've looked through your gallery I then have to go back to the forum and one by one download and delete every single post and I've looked at every single one already.

I'm sure you don't realize how aggravating it is but please how about a break?

Nice work by the way.

Frosty The Lucky.

That kind of misunderstanding would get my nose out of joint too.

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You'll certainly lose interest if you do everything in such half donkey manner. If doing it right is too much trouble for you then you need to find another hobby. Making blades ain't easy doing it do right. If you don't care don't bother.

Best of luck @ whatever.

Frosty The Lucky.

Only needs some setting up is all. Mount the rail on end you only need a little wider anvil than the hammer face. The rest of the rail can be ground into most of your bottom tools.

Not a thing wrong with small, have you seen the Mastermyr box? That was not only a complete blacksmith shop in a box it had stock and product as well.

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With talent like that there's no limit to how far he'll go. Well at least as far as the driver goes before stopping to see what the thumping and screaming is all about.

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I don't think it matters what you want, the machine's just going to take your money and not give you anything. But maybe an irritation or worse.

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Just what I was thinking. I wonder how far my .338 Win mag would make it jump.

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Ayup, that's a fine anvil stand. If it's a little tippy, remove the anvil, flip it over and nail a piece of ply wood to the bottom. It'll steady it up and you won't trip over the edges of a wide base.

Well done.

Frosty The Lucky.

Sounds like a good practice session I may adopt it. Where does the furniture come in, or was it just something on the site?

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I may have just missed it when you said so. Keep em anyway you can look back on them for a good feeling when you get shut out at an auction or beat to a dream sale.

One of our guys just got a 250lb Fisher in near pristine condition and a swage block for $50.00!!!! He told us the story at the meeting Saturday but I was so overcome by envious . . . Nevermind!! I don't recall the story.

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That's some nice work, I really like the dining set.

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Ayup, thems tongs alright. Keep them to look back on in the future.

Well done.

Frosty The Lucky.

Folk ought to get a kick out of that one.

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I LIKE it a LOT. I was thinking a team along a wall rather than a chess set. Wouldn't matter I'd be pleased as punch to have it on display. Of course Deb would claim it instantly but as long as I got to look at it . . . Okay.

 "Rome" isn't an animal color, the correct term is ROAN. It's an even mixture of white and colored hairs. The redish color is Red Roan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roan_(color)

My Appaloosa Banjo was a "blue roan." There are lots of roan colors but red is most common so most folk thing red roan is IT.

Sorry if I got all pedantic there but I really loved my Banjo and got sick of people telling me there's no such thing as blue roan. Oh darn, there I go again.

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I don't know about coincidences she MIGHT have been sweet on you but I'd put my money on the fork doing the magic. 

Nice piece, well done . . . all round.

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Nice gig & jig. Be honest, you've done this stuff before haven't you?

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Uh you don't just wave your credit card? See the way that Cape Buff is looking at us? We both may be wrong!

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They're not intended to hold beer till it goes flat and a good purgative is a generally good thing for the . . . retentive.

Speaking for myself I prefer to drink from clean containers. It's probably one of my least blacksmitherly traits.

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