nice one nick - for your forging habit and for Building Trains - how groovy - and for the record, i think dale is pretty cool too .... lucky you, enjoy get hammered too show us all the photos.....

Nick, well done. Nice go on the tool collection as well. I know, stuff is hard to find but you take it when it is there, period. I'm sure Dale will give you all the help you need.

Ok, a week later here's the GH @ Moony's Report:

Arrived midnight thursday, went to bed 12:45 am friday.
Woke up around 7 friday morning, by 8 i had proceeded to cook the poffertjes (see above post if you don't know) for breakfast. they were a hit. only to have the recipe "altered" by Dale to include Creme' de Month (peppermint alcohol)
Than came the preparations for the weekend, a space was cleared and a little after 10 we went down to the other site to pick up a 10 station forging table and a few other bits and pieces.

I don't know when or in which order but I made a set of tong blanks, during which I used the 9kg power hammer. I finished my first toasting/steak fork. made a spoon. and a set of 10 tong rings. the tong rings were fun, as through sheer dumb luck I designed a 2 position tong ring, so I went into production, and during the process I learned to forge weld, only burning 2 rings.

Than came the trip home, for me this was a detour via sydney, I had to pick up my WW1 AIF uniform, than I got home at midnight on monday.

All in all it was an awesome weekend, and some video's might appear on youtube. I'll post in a bit more detail of the "bigger" projects later on.

Oh and there was much praising of "Master" Dale ;)