As some know I am working on my blower and post drill ... Also fired up the forge to season some steak turners that my wife had made for her at the conference.... Took apart some weight lifting racks a guy was throwing away used 2x2 angle that he was throwing away so thats apart now..... I don't know what he had in mind when he built it but it was solid......

Anyone else working on any projects???

Three row Anglo concertina here. Biggest piece of steel involved is 1/8 X 1/16, 1" long



Hopefully something like this :?

This is my 4" forging vice. I made that stand for it some time ago. It looks pretty solid but it actually flexes quite badly when bending or pulling metal in the vice.





I recently got a nice 6" vice on ebay, so thought now was the ideal time to upgrade the stand as well.

I have spent the day sorting through my scrap pile and think I have found everything I need to make a proper, solid stand.

Welding it all together will keep me busy for an hour or two.



one_rod.

Weld plates to the sides of the I beam making it a twin box construction.

I am heavy into hooks. Been turning out S hooks of different sizes, material, and style the past while.....will keep on keeping on with them too! they are a great seller and even more important good practice!

Peyton

Strine. :shock: Did you build that from scratch? Brad

One Rod
If you look at iforgeiron.com under [ TOOLS ] then under Vises , you will see three vises that I have in the shop / The photo on the far left is an I beam with plates welded down each side as SWAMPFOX described.
This way of mounting a vise is very solid.

Currently I've been doing these little roses.




need to make a die to do the veins in one shot, rather than with a chisel.

Wife and daughter love them, and want me to do a while screen door full.

Michael

Currently I've been doing these little roses.
need to make a die to do the veins in one shot, rather than with a chisel.
Wife and daughter love them, and want me to do a while screen door full.
Michael

one question: when you did the rose ( whith is wery nice ) did you do it frome one picepart?

SWE_Karl

I am scrambling like heck to finish up alot of things , a couple of xmas blades , making bunches of leaf keychains, Rune pendants, and roses and all sorts of other things for relatives, tonight I am gonna try to finish up the wine rack I am making for the mother in-law, and still make it to the Tue. night live Blueprint. Never seems to be enough time to get everything done. :wink:

I have been working on leaf keyfobs, kitchen utinsels, tongs and such for practice. In true "I been meaning to do that" fashion, since we got our first good snow I am sidelined making a snowblade for the dixie chopper.

A fella I work with just gave me 2 buckets of RR spikes. When I get the blade done it,s my intention to experiment with those.

JWB

It has been a pretty hectic time around here.
One pair of spurs to a feed lot cowboy in Spearman Tx. Done
one pair of spurs to a real good kid in Goodwell. Ok.--Done
Six Conchos in progress for the local saddle-maker. 50 % done
Buckles for the same with a total of six. 50% done
Knife to San Angelo Tx. --Done
Knife to Ft. Worth. Tx. ---Done
Knife to Camargo, Chi. Mex.---Done
Half-a -dozen each of nutcrackers and steakflippers.(Kinfolks gifts) 30% Done

I am always glad when XMAS is OVER. I just wish the folks would order some of the stuff in July.BOG.

Chuck

LOL Gobbler,

That's one of the inspirational pieces. But yes I'm making something similar from scratch. If the learning curve gets any steeper I'll be on my back :shock:

Already gave this one away:



This is a full-tang integral bolster from the front coil spring of a

My youngest daughter wanted one of these.

Nice work irnsrgn. I don't have any horseshoes but if you don't mind :?: I'll give one of those a go with a diffferent base. My wife likes the looks of it.

JWB

Hillary hatched out today in the hot fire of my forge mini volcano.
She is a Christmas Present for my new step grandaughter.
Hillary is about 12 inches tall.

irnsrgn

That is impressive 8)


JWB

What I made for presents this year, some bottle openers, and bookshelf brackets with sliding bookends.




Edit: photo code adjusted to show image

mike-hr All I see are red X' s

When using "www.yourimg.com" as a place to store your photos on the internet:

Use the 4th set of coding down called "Your Image in BBCode" and just copy and paste it directly into the forum and the image will show up with no additional coding needed.


If you wish to use the "img" button on the forum to place your photo into the text, click on "img"- use the last line of code provided by "www.yourimg.com" - and click "img" a second time to close the code.

All this can be done manually using before and after the URL for the image.

No matter how it is done, using the preview button at the bottom of the input page where you make your post, will show your post exactly as it will be seen on the forum.

If you have problems, PM or an email to Glenn or the site admin will get their attention and they can usually fix things.

Nice work! I love the bookends -- great idea there, wish I'd thought of it. I'll have to make some. :)

Nice work! I love the bookends -- great idea there, wish I'd thought of it. I'll have to make some.

I had the same thought myself. :wink: Good ideer Mike-HR!

these were the gifts i made this year,







Ron

Metal master,
I would really like to see a blue print on how you do your roses. They are beautiful. :lol: