Nice hanger, keep them coming. The tape cutter isn't bad either. 

Frosty The Lucky.

Lary I use them as practice for just about any blade design I'm going to do.  Nothing wrong with it,  people just need to understand it's not going to keep an edge no matter what they saw on TV and YouTube.  Anyway that's a great design I'm gonna borrow it for a couple myself if ya don't mind. 

On 5/7/2021 at 10:46 AM, ThomasPowers said:

PTree Forge used to buy spikes by the keg and sell loose ones at Quad-State,  You might search him out as he's just over the border from OH in KY.  Persimmon Tree Forge

If it's the Persimmon Tree Forge that I'm thinking of it's across the river from Louisville on the Indiana side in a little town called Floyd's Knob. 

Pnut

Yup, that's the one; haven't seen him in a couple of years now so I can't say if he's still doing it; though I did see an add for his RR spike trowels recently.

I posted this back in 2015 on another RR spike thread

With proper credit to the Kootenay Blacksmiths Association.  I keep a print of this out in the smithy for inspiration

Wow! That is some spread!  Inspiration, Indeed!

Robert Taylor

Some very cool and imaginative items but what is the thing on the far left?  It looks like some sort of bowl shape on a base, possibly made of RR spikes.

"By hammer and hand all arts do stand."

That's what it looks like to me. A ring to hold the bowl and spike feet.

Nice. I'd love to see more and better pictures of the vise on the right. 

 

George, methinks it would make a nice birdbath. Or perhaps a large fruit bowl/centerpiece for an eccentric retiree from the railroad. Regardless of what it was intended to be.. I like it.

Here you go Daswulf. A cut and paste from the original.

Pretty cool!

On 5/10/2021 at 9:06 PM, Frosty said:

Nice hanger, keep them coming. The tape cutter isn't bad either. 

Frosty The Lucky.

Thanks Frosty.

On 5/12/2021 at 5:24 AM, Chad J. said:

Lary I use them as practice for just about any blade design I'm going to do.  Nothing wrong with it,  people just need to understand it's not going to keep an edge no matter what they saw on TV and YouTube.  Anyway that's a great design I'm gonna borrow it for a couple myself if ya don't mind. 

Thanks Chad. I didn't see your post until yesterday? No problem as far as borrowing the design, I'm probably not the first. And as George N.M. has stated in another thread it's more the wow factor, it's a conversation peace, it's "Hey, that use to be a rail road spike".  

4 hours ago, lary said:

"Hey, that use to be a rail road spike".

There you go, you've discovered the secret of the success of RR spike knives and other products. Almost everybody on the planet knows what a RR spike is and being able to see it's transformation into something else recognizable is intriguing, making them an attractive product. 

Frosty The Lucky.

Michael, thanks for the close ups. That is pretty awesome. 

Neither unique or impressive, but it’s the first time I played with a RR spike so I’m very happy with it 

 

(Got two fairly similar on the office side of my office door right now!  I'm planning to replace them with dragon headed hooks though.)

Added for posterity? I've already posted these on here in another thread but I didn't see them here. 

Nice.

On 3/18/2017 at 12:09 PM, Irondragon ForgeClay Works said:

Rifle rack out of rough sawn cedar and RR spikes.

close up of hooks made out of very old wrought iron spikes.

On 3/18/2017 at 12:09 PM, Irondragon ForgeClay Works said:

Walking stick used as a self defense weapon in the Balkans, called a Fokosh.

I noticed tinypic deleted the pictures so here they are.

A different twist on forging a cross.  It was a bit clumsy to make. 

A friend (same one who sold me the lovely anvil) just gave me a box of spikes.

The only one which matches the size I've seen talked about as a RR spike is shown here for scale. Otherwise the box is a fairly even mix of the other three types, two of which have the same 'dog head' and many of them have a letter B on the top.

Any thoughts on what these are? I'm in Sweden, in case that makes a difference. Also grateful for ideas on what to make from them to get in my practice time!

IrondragonFCW,  which model Rolling block is that? 6.5 or 7.7 Arisaka? The Trapdoors are a fun one to shoot.

 

Norrlander  - here in the States the HC marked spikes are used in the curves as they are stronger. Over where you are that may be the use for the longer dog's head one. The rest may be Logom spikes, not too little, not too much

It's a #1 Remington in 43 Spanish Refromado. I got it off of Gunbroker in 2009 from a seller named The Gun Doctor.

Norlander - That is a good looking batch of spikes. I can imagine a lot of things could be made from them.