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Great work, alexandr, as always. 

Having lost all my knuckle hair to the dragon’s breath, I decided to make a pair of pick-up tongs: 

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The bosses came out a little undersized, but not excessively for the light duty they’ll be doing. May need to tweak the curves of the jaws a bit more, but this is what I could get done before the forge ran out of gas.

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After I salvaged my treadmills, I tried my hand at a few things. My first bottle opener (was and eye opener), broke the bedrail tings working the too cold. Welded them and will try again tomorrow. Made a handle for my brushes and a couple candle holders. Das inspired me to try making one like his. For a newb, it turned out pretty good. A couple different textures on it. Ball peen on the base and wood grain on the handle. That really tested me but was super fun!

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Well I broke my 1/4 punch... Which made me set the brackets to the side for now. But I had a few other things needing my attention.  I assembled a set of box jaw tongs and a set of knife tongs that I had bought from Ken's custom iron quite a while ago. Then I started forging a couple of hunting knifes. The plain skinner is for my son, the one with the gut hook is for the rancher that let my son bag his first antelope on his property last fall.

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Sorry for the picture being a little graphic, but I love the smile on my boys face in this picture!

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Banged out two new knife-shaped objects and got them in the anneal for hand filing - I don't have a belt grinder yet. 

Nothing fancy, but forged from 1084. Both will be hidden tang, but I may leave the tang exposed on the spine side, so the tangs do need some cleaning up, and maybe straightening on the chef knife to bring it in line with the spine. Is there a term for that - Partial-hidden-tang?

These are my 6th and 7th forged blades, respectively. 

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