BillyBones Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 Got the assembly part done on my coffee table base. Everything all welded up. Of course there is tweaking to be done to get it all nice level and square and a coat of paint. I also need to put collars where the legs meet the braces. She's a coming along nicely. Here is the top. Hickory oiled then a coat of polyurethane. Still needs a coat or 2. Almost looks like a hand print on the one end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 Nice coffee table! Remember to tell folks to take their spurs off before putting their boots on it! Nothing done in the shop today; but I did vote at the county courthouse, (I work in the town that's the county seat), and got the fitting needed to install the new dishwasher tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyBones Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 Thanks Thomas. Not to many folk around these parts where spurs anymore so no worries there, screws in the boots for ice though thats a different story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 When I lived in Ohio I once pulled all the studs out of a set of studded snow tires so I could use them all year around. (Bought a pickup truck where the previous owner had tricked it out with wide rear wheels, big whip antenna, roll bar held in place with hardware store carriage bolts, it had a 4 cylinder engine and an automatic transmission...First time I put a load in it the wheel wells rubbed on the tires. I had a mounted set of studded snow tires I never used so...made it to the campout with my smithing gear! Sore hands though.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted October 15, 2020 Share Posted October 15, 2020 Complaint department desk sign. Had a couple fake grenades I wanted to do something with. Redid the lettering on this 3 times. It's still not great but good enough for me. I'm certainly no sign painter. Might buy or make a stencil eventually but for now.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted October 15, 2020 Share Posted October 15, 2020 I’ve seen military stencil machines go through the industrial surplus place occasionally. As for me, I cut up some heavy C-channel for a couple of projects to be revealed later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted October 15, 2020 Share Posted October 15, 2020 I discovered a long time ago that stencils are your friend. I've always liked hand grenade complaint department signs. A surplus store I used to visit had several on the counter, #2 - 4 there was a red splash mark where #1 was supposed to be. I suggested to Tom it'd be more realistic if we gouged up the counter to simulate shrapnel but he didn't even think about before saying no. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted October 15, 2020 Share Posted October 15, 2020 Please take number and yell "Fire in the hole!" would be more appropriate IMNSHO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Posted October 15, 2020 Share Posted October 15, 2020 Went through all the tongs on the rack (and the pile under the rack) and sorted out almost a dozen to be gifted to a good friend who opened their blacksmith shop about 6 months ago. A lot of those were bigger than what I normally used day to day, but she's doing gates, railing and running a 25 ton press with just a couple small pair of bolt tongs The gifted pile, most from an estate sale 3+ years ago, $5/pair (couldn't just leave them there!) Top down view of the now roomy tong rack, 30 sets or so should be plenty! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted October 15, 2020 Share Posted October 15, 2020 That is a most generous and I am sure welcome gift! US$5 is my "buy point" too; I have one rack that is for rectangular cross sections, one rack for round cross sections and one rack for "weird stuff". Generally I keep a couple of pair around for reforging for projects I am working on if they are a shape I don't have a pair of tongs for. (I did break my "limit" at Quad-State where I decided I was willing to pay $10 for a set of Titanium tongs...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Posted October 15, 2020 Share Posted October 15, 2020 titanium! those must be wonderfully light! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wirerabbit Posted October 15, 2020 Share Posted October 15, 2020 Needed a v-swage for my next set of tongs (v-bit) and decided to do some modern a.k.a. stick welding. Three pieces of 3/4 mild steel square bar, some grinding, some welding, and then A LOT more grinding later... The tongs will help me forge my first set of punches as well as my first hardy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted October 15, 2020 Share Posted October 15, 2020 Light and even nicer they don't transmit heat well and so great for using with gassers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted October 15, 2020 Share Posted October 15, 2020 4 hours ago, Michael said: be gifted to a good friend I always try to pay it forward too. Rewards will always follow deeds such as that. What a good friend you are indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexandr Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 I finished one more job. It remains to finish the stairs from the first floor to the second. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 Beautifully fluid look to it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexandr Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 11 minutes ago, ThomasPowers said: Beautifully fluid look to it! Thomas ,Thanks! From past works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted October 17, 2020 Share Posted October 17, 2020 More beautiful work Alexandr. It has a very attractive fluid flow, like rushing water. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Welshj Posted October 17, 2020 Share Posted October 17, 2020 Holy cow.... Alexander, those last pics are simply stunning work. The question I have to ask- how in the heck did you get all that scroll work to follow the flow of the curves and bends like that? Is it done in process, or after the panels are completed- rolled/bent as one piece on a large machine? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyBones Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 Finished my coffee table. Tweeked nice and level, all the collars on, coated with poly, and a nice paint job on the iron work. added a lower shelf also. Just a quick piece of pine, sanded and stained. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
671jungle Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 very inspiring work, Alexandr. I want to do what you do, make rails and gates. I would love to see your jigs and other setups. Sweet table Billy. Tweeking for level can be a pain for me at times. "It's level but out of plumb", "it's plumb but not level", It's plumb and level but short/long. Which brings me to the door jam for the shop that took me half a day to install. I have never installed one before. I am proud to say it is level and plumb. The shop...not so much. But it is coming along. 8'Wx16'L, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexandr Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 17 hours ago, Welshj said: The question I have to ask- how in the heck did you get all that scroll work to follow the flow of the curves and bends like that? Is it done in process, or after the panels are completed- rolled/bent as one piece on a large machine? I make a template from plywood. Sorry my english, can't describe. I hope you can understand from the photos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 I understand you fine Alexandr, I've done quite a bit of scroll work by matching it to soap stone sketches on a table. You take it to a much higher level of craft than I did. Everything you do is. Thanks again. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexandr Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 5 hours ago, Frosty said: I understand you fine Alexandr. You take it to a much higher level of craft than I did. Thanks Frosty! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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