I like this one quite a bit John. I'm looking forward to the whole lineup so I can compare them side by side. 

That'll be a good tool Das. I understand having to finish a project for no other reason than I HAD to finish. It's like therapy.

ALEX! Good to see you again давний друг! Lovely work as always.

We haven't heard from you in a while. You must've been REALLY busy. 

Is all well with you and yours? Deb and I are winterizing the place and vehicles for the season. Leaves are yellow and falling leaving a golden carpet everywhere. 

Frosty The Lucky.

53 minutes ago, Frosty said:

We haven't heard from you in a while. You must've been REALLY busy. 

Hi Jer! Thank you! I was out of action for 2 months. I had surgery, they replaced my knee joint. Almost recovered, went back to work.

54 minutes ago, Frosty said:

Is all well with you and yours? Deb and I are winterizing the place and vehicles for the season. Leaves are yellow and falling leaving a golden carpet everywhere

We have wonderful summer weather. A rare occurrence for this time of year in our area. People are swimming and sunbathing. St. Petersburg is packed with tourists.

Need a hose hanger, make a hose hanger I always say. Actually I’ve never said that before today. Super fun and turned out great. And from scraps on hand.

thanks for looking

Love the hose hook Rojo.  

I've been out doing a live demo the last 2 days and selling stuff.  I completed 2 more Russian roses yesterday, and today just made small items as there were more kids interested and asking questions.   As much as I normally lace my daily speech with spicy explatives, I manage not to swear on live demos.  

The real fun was chasing a mouse around my setup.  It had taken cover under my tent overnight.  The GF thought it was a toad.  I was going to move it for it's own safety when chase number 1 started up.  It disappeared and I thought it ran off into the words.  Later when we went to break down my GF  shrieks and throwes an Amazon bag with glass tubes across the tent.  The mouse scampers out and the chase is on.  I'm not a little guy.   I'm not graceful,  I'm not as young as I used to be, but that chase had to have lasted several minutes.  I was trying not to hurt it as I ran or crawled around my display tent chasing around boxes.  It ran up my legs, then down,  my gf tried not to freak out as this is going on.  A could moments later,  It runs up my legs, over my shorts, and I felt little paniced mouse feet runing around on my back and I just laugh my butt off.  It gets off me and the ladies from the next booth come over.   We eventually catch it in some burlap I had and I release the boldly adventurous little fuzzball into the woods.  

Awesome Rojo. 

My holder is sloppy at best but works. I have an event to just forge whatever at this weekend before the group event to forge a skull at the later group meet so I have time to practice. Started a skull in 3/4" square bar to practice. 

 

 

Rojo, that's a nice looking hose hanger. 

Chad, I'd pay to watch a video of that.

G

Alexandr, very cool.  Madelyn said that it was very cute.  Must be for a little girl.

Glad to hear that you are healing up.  It's hard to get parts for older models. ;-)

George

Haven't been in the forge in a while. Debi bought a 5X10 Tear Drop trailer to replace the 4X8 Tiny Tear drop we built back in 2012. It Has a lot more room 50 sq ft verses 32 sq ft 18 sq feet and 12v 110v electric with a kitchen area.

It is used in good shape that was missing the jack and a tool to set the stabilizer feet. The full size spare tire was mounted underneath but the previous owner just threw the spare in his truck as there was no way to put it up in the bracket made to carry the spare and we sure couldn't laying on the ground lift the tire to mount it.

So a couple of days ago I put my red neck engineering to good use and fabricated an adapter to go on an old screw jack, I had laying around that would hold the wheel secure while it was jacked up to mount the spare on it's holding bracket. Works like a charm, set the wheel on the jack, slide it under the trailer, align the studs with the wheel stud holes, jack it up and put the lug nuts on and tighten them then lower the jack & done. Without the adapter the jack will lift the flat tire to change it.

Then I fired up the forge and made a tool to set the stabilizer feet and remove the Baby moon hub caps. Only took a few minutes ounce I found the right stock in the resource pile. I first made it out of 1/4 in round mild steel and it bent when I tried it so I found some 3/8 round hardenable steel which works. 

Need a tool, make a tool!

On 9/6/2024 at 11:56 PM, JHCC said:

Tried out the scrolled C-channel technique. I’m hoping that my brewpub customers will accept this as a tap handle. 

Had a meeting with the brewer last night to review this and the other tap handles I've made so far. This one turned out to be much larger than will work with his tap setup, so I'll unscroll about half of it, tighten up the remaining curl, and make the whole thing a good bit smaller.

One of the other handles needs some similar (if less drastic) modification, and the one that looks like a long tubular flower blossom needs to be remade in a thinner, less heavy sheet. Frankly, I'm happy with that; the initial version wasn't pleasing me anyway.

17 hours ago, George N. M. said:

Glad to hear that you are healing up.  It's hard to get parts for older models. ;-)

Hi George! 

Iron parts, enough for everyone))))) 

Somebody need a hook?

Actually, my wife needs them, so i cleaned the scale off and waxed them.

Finished up this skull in practice of my punches chisel and the holder. Turned out ok. Could always improve. 3/4" square stock. 

Have a cane feeling to it.

With the skull being the knob of the cane.

No idea why.

Cool. I was thinking beer tap

It could be either at this point. About anything really. 

Looking at it after getting some sleep, I'm thinking I could define the bottom jaw with one of my Fullering punches. Plus I think I could make a punch to define where the teeth terminate. 

There was a skull-headed cane in the Gallery at Quad-State 2021:

That's a nice one. Looks like it would be heavy. 

I was wondering if the shaft might be hollow, but there was no way to tell.

Nice bit of skull work Das.

Frosty The Lucky.

28 minutes ago, Daswulf said:

That's a nice one. Looks like it would be heavy. 

It is so your gandalf impression feels more real

 

I'm sure it would double as self defense John. 

Thanks Frosty.

Lol, Newton, "You shall Not Pass!"

I too am visualizing a  great cane handle. Forge the lower part into a socket then fit some outrageous drift wood as the shaft.

I can't control the wind, all I can do is adjust my sail’s.~ Semper Paratus

More work on the tap handles: after consultation with the brewer, reforged the lower part of the spiral one and forged an entirely new trumpet blossom.

I like this trumpet blossom much batter than the last one, I think it's in my top 3.

Frosty The Lucky.

They look nice John.