April 30, 20179 yr My Grandmother used to do a bit of pyrography...I gather it can be quite addictive, be warned...Alan (not by my Grandmother)
May 1, 20179 yr Author so this is over the course of a few weeknights and a weekend. I heat treated a small bearded hatchet, began forging bolt tongs for Tubalcain2, and forged some hooks that are meant to hang on chain that is hanging on my rafters. I really like the hooks, they were forged from 3/16" round. Also got the doors up, time to start forging some hardware for that. I figured while I was at it I would take some pictures of the rest of my shop for ya'll, hope you don't mind. It's 10'x10'. Then today I made some brackets for the outside of my door. they will be mounted so that a 5/8" bar can slide through it and be staked into the ground so the doors don't blow back and forth. I haven't forged the stakes, because I wasn't sure what I would do with them. I don't just want to have a boring straight bar, but I want it to be forged, and something to look at. Obviously though I don't want it to take more than a couple hours to make them, but want them to look nice. What do ya'll think? Oh and we got a new dog! yesterday the name was Winnie, but today it is Daisy, which I think we will stick with. the dog on the right, the one on the left is my brothers girlfriend's.
May 1, 20179 yr 1/4" bolt tongs. First and last time I use a store bought rivet for tongs, for some reason I don't like it.
May 1, 20179 yr Author Forgot to mention, the bottom hinges are the ones I made, and the top ones were from a 1920's barn. Littleblacksmith
May 1, 20179 yr Author The crescent moon is a funny idea! not sure about the sun though..... Littleblacksmith
May 1, 20179 yr LBS, I like yours better! I replace the old ones and save them for use on a cedar chest or something like that.
May 1, 20179 yr Author 6 minutes ago, Ranchmanben said: LBS, I like yours better! I replace the old ones and save them for use on a cedar chest or something like that. yeah, I like mine better, thanks! I think though if I was going to go through the trouble of making a cedar chest I would also make the hinges for it. I didn't feel like making 2 more, and had these, so figured why not. Thanks though! Littleblacksmith
May 1, 20179 yr 14 minutes ago, littleblacksmith said: yeah, I like mine better, thanks! I think though if I was going to go through the trouble of making a cedar chest I would also make the hinges for it. I didn't feel like making 2 more, and had these, so figured why not. Thanks though! Littleblacksmith After I said that I thought about it and figured you'd make your own.
May 1, 20179 yr Hi Mark, Cool shop and nice works again! I really like that axe - did you make it from scratch? What was the starting stock? Some things I've been working on recently: Don't know the name of these big nail-like things, I use them for candlesticks. The half round flats are going to be the bottom parts. Finally got the haft for this sheperd's axe. With the 10" long head it's quite a giant, still pretty well balanced and not overweighted though: And the parang advances even if slowly. Epoxy has cured, the handle waits for final shaping: Bests: Gergely
May 1, 20179 yr Traditionally the ladies outhouse had the crescent moon and the men's outhouse had the sun; but most folks don't know that anymore. (and yes I have read a book on outhouses...)
May 1, 20179 yr 7 minutes ago, ThomasPowers said: Traditionally the ladies outhouse had the crescent moon and the men's outhouse had the sun; but most folks don't know that anymore. (and yes I have read a book on outhouses...) You HAVE? No . . . . fooling? Frosty The Lucky.
May 1, 20179 yr 27 minutes ago, ThomasPowers said: Traditionally the ladies outhouse had the crescent moon and the men's outhouse had the sun; but most folks don't know that anymore. (and yes I have read a book on outhouses...) There's something new for me! I've seen a few outhouses still standing with a circle cut out or a door that didn't go all the way up. You generally see a moon done nowaday on bathroom doors made to look like an outhouse. Never knew there was a men's and women's differentiation.
May 1, 20179 yr No Fooling, Yes I have. I believe our copy is at the northern house and I will try to get the cite for you on it. Two story outhouses brick outhouses; shoot I have even seen pictures of a viking era wooden toilet seat from York IIRC (I once was thinking of duplicating it for an SCA Arts & Sciences event...)
May 1, 20179 yr Reminds me of the kids book "Everybody Poops" Man, this thread has really gone down the toilet.
May 1, 20179 yr 7 hours ago, Frosty said: You HAVE? No . . . . fooling? Frosty The Lucky. Come on, Frosty. This is ThomasPowers we're talking about, IFI's principal researcher of obscure historical subjects. (That said, I was also familiar with the sun/moon door symbols.)
May 1, 20179 yr 7 hours ago, ThomasPowers said: Traditionally the ladies outhouse had the crescent moon and the men's outhouse had the sun; but most folks don't know that anymore. (and yes I have read a book on outhouses...) Are you referring to The Specialist by any chance?...there is copy beside the throne in most of my dwellings over the years. Alan
May 1, 20179 yr 9 hours ago, ThomasPowers said: Traditionally the ladies outhouse had the crescent moon and the men's outhouse had the sun; but most folks don't know that anymore. (and yes I have read a book on outhouses...) But have you ever read a book IN an outhouse? Sears catalogs were popular.
May 1, 20179 yr If you read in the outhouse, dont forget to tear the pages out from the back to the front. Can keep reading longer that way.
May 1, 20179 yr Just now, Farmall said: If you read in the outhouse, dont forget to tear the pages out from the back to the front. Can keep reading longer that way. From the front to the back; that way you're using what you've already read (and, one presumes, already digested). Back to front means you never find out how the book ends.
May 1, 20179 yr Reading the 1897 and 1908 Sears Roebuck catalog corset pages sure brings back the Memories...(and no I don't believe it was the Specialist; I'll check when I make a visit to our big house this weekend; but no guarantee I can find it in the limited time we will be there. At our previous house we once were given *2* 8' x 8' bookshelves and that didn't even get rid of all the piles of books on the floor!) Frosty; while I have read the old Mother Earth News about dealing with outhouses in sub zero temperatures I have not read this one: "Outhouses of Alaska" by Walker, Harry M.
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