Ridgeway Forge Studio Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 Finished up a little chef's knife today! Cheers! Ridgewayforge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 Made some blade guides for the vertical bandsaw, mounted the drive pulley on the motor (which required a long fruitless search for a piece of 1/4” key stock that I swear I saw over the weekend and eventually giving up and making one from some 1/4” square bar, which took two minutes), mounted the blade, and tensioned and tracked it. Test cut on 1” square, and we are good to go! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chimaera Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 Looking good! I’m still spending my hours slowly getting through my steel with an angle grinder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twigg Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 My landlord has projects everywhere in the shop, so I'm stuck with a hacksaw cuz I can't throw sparks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 Cleaned up my forge today. Have an idea to build some forges or atleast forge pots. Trying out my latest forge pot, it worked perfectly. Forged a bottle opener with only a forge pot full of fuel. New forge pot worked great. Bottom photo is my forge pot after 7years. Glad I made the table from stainless and replaced the grate once in that time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 13 hours ago, Ridgeway Forge Studio said: Finished up a little chef's knife today! Is that a little knife for a chef, or a knife for a little chef? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chimaera Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 Twigg, that sucks. Would a chopsaw be allowed? You can get them for ~$300 and as long as its a cold saw it shouldn't do too many sparks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul TIKI Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 Yay, backordered angle grinder is on it's way from Harbor freight and will be here tomorrow. OTOH, the wind kicked up and managed to pretty much rip my back storm door off of it's hinges. Not a great start to today. Got it removed so it can't do any damage to the house or shatter the glass. Since I work from home it's less of a big deal than it could have been, but now I'm all wrong footed. I even forgot to make coffee.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 A start that made you forget to make coffee! Holy moly call out the guard! Glad there's no serious damage, nowhere to go but up from here. Eh? Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chimaera Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 I'm more of a tea guy... until I have my days when I just break down and will down several pots of espresso as fast as the coffee maker can pump them out... often with spoonfuls of tabasco sauce. When I have bad days I have bad days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 Espresso laced with spoonfuls Tobasco? I don't know what to say and that's saying something! I mean sure, I'm getting mental images of habanero demitasse cups and ghost pepper tea. You still got me with that one, I don't think I've ever had a bad morning! Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul TIKI Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 I'm concerned. I get the espresso, but with tabasco?!?! That sounds like what causes bad days, not a method of coping with them. Espresso and then eggs with tabasco on them, that I get. I have now had coffee. The chances of nearby idiots surviving the day has increased dramatically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 Drinking my first mug of strong tea. Expresso with Tabasco, (to hide the taste?) Do we need to plan a socially distanced intervention? One of my friends offered to stop by the Mom&Pop store that stocks the teas I like, loose leaf! Well he bought me 300 teabags so I'm going through them, 4 a day. At least we didn't have to do the 80 mile each way trip and cut our contacts down just to him and he's trying to keep us safe. We were sort of local support when he was in college down here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twigg Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 Chimaera, I'm not bothered by the restriction. I'm just lucky I get to borrow space for what I pay to live here. I was just complaining to mess with you The chopsaw also throws sparks. Eventually the projects will move along and I'll get to throw sparks. Also, spoonfuls of tabasco? Yikes! I've got my first grad classes of the semester today so I'm breaking out the good tea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul TIKI Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 Speaking of Tabasco, I now have a desire to cook some buffalo wings tonight (Alton Brown Recipe and method). That would make it a better day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyBones Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 Thomas, do you use a tea ball? My daughter picked mine out of the drawer one day and had no clue as to what its use was. Espresso and Tabasco? I have had tequila with tobasco, that made for a painful morning and it was the morning i met the VPOTUS (Gore). I was looking and feeling my best that is for sure. I got woke up about 1/2 before we were to leave, in a latrine between the two stalls. Interesting note, the city of Baton Rouge, the name translates to red stick. A baton rouge is a red stick that is used in the tobasco fields to judge when a pepper is ripe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 Some clouds cirrusly impacting our thermonuclear heat source today, gotta throw another log in the backup system. No tea ball, I do strain the last bit out of the pot though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pnut Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 12 hours ago, Daswulf said: Glad I made the table from stainless and replaced the grate once in that time. What's the grate made from? Pnut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul TIKI Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 Tequila and Tabasco was a fun one to serve when I was bartending. It was called a West Texas Prairie Fire We could light it on fire by carefully heating a spoonful of the booze with a lighter. then serve to a bunch of cowboys ready for a night on the town. I confess I took a small amount of amusement when one guy singed his glorious moustache. He was a horrible tipper. The other fun part was a sort of russian roulette for them. One guy in the group would get extra tabasco. Hard to spot in the poor light of the bar. Watch 4 cowboys take shots, and one of them ends up spluttering. then they would ask for another round. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 Memo to self: accept NO food or drink from Paul if we ever meet up at a smithing conference... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 35 minutes ago, BillyBones said: Interesting note, the city of Baton Rouge, the name translates to red stick. A baton rouge is a red stick that is used in the tobasco fields to judge when a pepper is ripe. Although in this case, the place name derived from a Native American boundary marker, as described by André-Joseph Pénicaut in 1723: “From there [Manchacq] we went five leagues higher and found very high banks called écorts in that region, and in savage called Istrouma which means red stick [bâton rouge], as at this place there is a post painted red that the savages (sic) have sunk there to mark the land line between the two nations, namely: the land of the Bayagoulas which they were leaving and the land of another nation—thirty leagues upstream from the baton rouge—named the Oumas.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul TIKI Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 I was only giving them what they ordered. The Russian Roulette was their idea. Also, due to some unfortunate times in Juarez, I avoid tequila as much as humanly possible. And I make some darn good hot wings, thank you very much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 48 minutes ago, ThomasPowers said: Memo to self: accept NO food or drink from Paul if we ever meet up at a smithing conference... Only if somebody needs their forge lit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyBones Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 JHCC, interesting. When i lived in BR i was told it was becuase of the red stick they used in the fields. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 I would say this is one of those cases where a later (and quite plausible) explanation is substituted when the original derivation is essentially forgotten. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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