RogerrogerD Posted May 9, 2020 Share Posted May 9, 2020 Not a shop, but a key part of a shop. Decided I was fed up with chasing down rivets, nuts, bolts and washers spread across various drawers, boxes, bags, jars and too many of those fiddly small plastic draw things. So I picked up a bunch of industrial “pigeon hole” shelving as salvage and giving them a spruce up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenskpr Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 Shop build update: 90% there. Moving in. Nothing bolted down yet. Yet to screw on steel panels for interior. Gas forge area will be concrete board with a parged finish. Laying out a built-in workbench atm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 You must've gotten a good deal on that steel pipe! The shops looking good. I'm sure you're tired of hearing me say this but you might want to work in it a while before you start bolting things down. This I KNOW I've told you before, that is a world class view! A shop on a hill side in Heaven is my impression. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenskpr Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 Thanks, Man. And I will. Pipe was free..left over well casing from a job years as go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 Free pipe, the best kind. I've often wished I'd lived where I could've stored the drill casing we bent on the job. I was an exploration driller for bridges & foundations doing soil sampling and in field tests. All our casing was threaded DOM mechanical tubing in 5' joints. Counting blows per foot was the major part of the data we collected. Nothing bends a string like glancing off a boulder. It all went to the scrapper, well what we could retrieve that is, we left a LOT of steel in the ground. Criminy just the mention of drilling brings back my 19 years in vivid NOISE. Counting blows all day every day is probably why I count everything: our stairs are 15 steps, it's 34 paces to the shop, 37 to the barn, 26 to the wood shed, etc. How's the fishing in Finger Lake? There's no telling if I'll get down that way one of these days. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 I do the same thing on counting, part of a minor case of OCD according to my wife. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenskpr Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 On 7/5/2020 at 2:13 PM, Frosty said: How's the fishing in Finger Lake? There's no telling if I'll get down that way one of these days. Slow over the last couple weeks. It's been hot with no rain and the fish have gone deep and aren't moving for much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 More weight on the dynamite? 1 hour ago, Irondragon Forge & Clay said: I do the same thing on counting, part of a minor case of OCD according to my wife. I suppose saying something like. . . Nah honey, I've just been counting to ten so often since getting married it's a habit. . . might be ill-advised? Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 Only if you are slow at ducking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 Huh; I'm a counter too. Finger lakes can be deep; but can't you just cut the fuses longer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted July 6, 2020 Share Posted July 6, 2020 A little longer sure but fuse is expensive, rocks and duct tape aren't. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DennisCA Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 Here's my future shop for smithing, all I got so far! Now I have a garage shop, but it's full already. Once inside the garage port, woodworking section: Behind the plastic drape, metalworking: Not finding any good images of my shop, but I guess here you can see there's another room, keep my welder there, and other stuff. There's a lathe hidden behind the mill. Vew from the lathe: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlpservicesinc Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 Dang you work quick. Well done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DennisCA Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 I think I forgot a comma! I meant "Now, I have a garage shop, but it's full already." Hence building a 2nd shop (just gonna be an uninsulated shed). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 On 8/18/2020 at 3:11 AM, DennisCA said: I meant "Now, I have a garage shop, but it's full already." Heh, heh, heh, Mine was getting crowded before I got the roof on. That's a nice looking shop, you have some nice machine tools, they deserve a shop of their own. The smoke and such from a blacksmith's shop is hard on machine tools. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dabbsterinn Posted November 19, 2020 Share Posted November 19, 2020 https://imgur.com/a/TVm4Dej here's a quick walkaround from the small corner of the stables that was allocated for forging Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenskpr Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 Done and back in debt! Who needs two kidneys anyway! Good times and I got lucky and picked up a gingery furnace on craigslist. Woo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlpservicesinc Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 Looks great. Love the funace too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOd Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Just cleaned it up to start a new project. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Good looking shop; you thinking of screening it in? My neighbors have horses so we see a lot of flies; generally they make the mistake of jumping up into the dragon's breath when they land on my arm to bite... I had to put chickenwire in my open gables to keep the blasted collared doves from trying to nest in the shop and making a mess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOd Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Thank you. I haven't but it would be nice for the mosquitos, wouldn't be too hard to do either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 I was thinking it reminded a lot of several "old" smithies built in hot weather locals; basically a roof to shed the rain and the rest as open as possible. Out here we would have adobe walls and a shade structure of loose poles supported on a post and beam structure. Of course we get cold winters due to altitude in many places. I'm down in the Rio Grande valley and we're at about 4600'. I can see 10K' from my front door as the valley is bordered by mountains. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOd Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 Yeah I’m located in north Louisiana so heat and humidity are just about a constant with 2-3 nice cold months out of the year. It’s also located on a downward slope and catches a nice breeze pretty well. I modeled it after a picture in The Blacksmiths Craft by Charles McRaven. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 I've seen his post&beam smithy when we were visiting the town it's in. Actually we were going down an alley and I recognized it from "Country Blacksmithing". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOd Posted January 6, 2021 Share Posted January 6, 2021 Id love to take a trip and see all the old forges. Maybe ill get some vacation time one day haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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