September 30, 20214 yr TW, I'm sure that the cats "snoopervised" you to make sure you did it right. "By hammer and hand all arts do stand."
September 30, 20214 yr Cats must be the foreman type. Nice shop yeah I imagine I would rather sweat then shiver doing that.
September 30, 20214 yr Lol, George you can bet your last dollar they did! in fact before nap time they even crawled through the pipes to do internal inspections before I started putting everything together, they preheat my anvils by sleeping on them, they guard my forges by piling up on them, and they even let me know when the slack tub is low on water as well as the food bowl lol, but for some reason when there’s work to do they have better things to do lol, Gandalfgreen, thank you for the compliment but my shop is a total disaster area right now, I’m waiting for the government to step in and declare it a super fund sight! normally it gets a through cleanup once a week but I’m so backlogged on customer repairs that I’ve let it go… trying to keep up I’m glad the weather is cooling down because business will slow down an if I’m lucky I’ll catch up before spring lol
September 30, 20214 yr Finished up 8 of these mugs. Now I can finally move on to something else. Each brass plate was hand cut and engraved then bent to fit the contour of the mug, then carved the mug to epoxy the plate in. Totally out of my element and if I did 20 more I might get good at it but I don't want to lol.
September 30, 20214 yr 10 hours ago, Goods said: TW, I thought it was cat litter that one could use to line a forge… Awww… that explains a lot! I was wondering why my liner wouldn’t mix with water or even stay in the forge for that matter lol
September 30, 20214 yr 13 hours ago, TWISTEDWILLOW said: my shop is a total disaster area right now, I’m waiting for the government to step in and declare it a super fund sight! I can see the floor. What's the problem?
September 30, 20214 yr JHCC, you gotta point there lol, Thomas, that sounds purrfect! I’ll make sure to watch lol
September 30, 20214 yr The office is fairly littered with their applications! What a tail they tell. Of course some folks don't hanker to letting Furriners on the show...
September 30, 20214 yr I just hope that they have all their safety measures in place to prevent any pawful accidents!
September 30, 20214 yr Gandalfgreen, I’ll bet you have been saving that one for the right moment! that was the cats meow!
September 30, 20214 yr Especially if they were cataclysmic! I snuck out into the shop yesterday and unclamped 3 more of the planks and glued up another 3. I'll be using them for a low cost anvil stand. I'm not looking forward to drill the holes to bolt them together with a brace and bit; but the extension cords I used the last time have been sun blasted and scrapped. I should have enough prepped to do the assembly this weekend, depending on if I go to the NMABA meeting Saturday, it's about 100 miles each way and not much info about it has been provided.
September 30, 20214 yr Pounced on it ..somehow I always land on my feet but that's 9 lives worth of catales with no time right meow......
September 30, 20214 yr I’m still working on my stove pipe today, although I did have a guy stop by just a little bit ago who had been told I buy old tools by a friend of mine, he had a Buffalo post drill he wanted to sell but He wanted $250 for it an I politely told him I’d have to pass… the last one I saw was only a few months ago and they only wanted $75 for that one,
October 1, 20214 yr Gandalfgreen, I don’t know anything about gas forges but it looks like yours is gonna work out nice!
October 1, 20214 yr Too rainy and dark to go out to the shop last night after work, I think I'm going to have to miss the NMABA meeting on Saturday too.
October 1, 20214 yr Made me a hose hanger. Tired of picking it up off the ground when i mow. Yes it is a bit crooked to the right. My first time working plate, what a pain.
October 1, 20214 yr It works! Also that looks like sheet; plate is a bit heavier. Sheet is notoriously hard to work---arc welds blow through, dishing and raising it crumples, doesn't stay hot long when working, etc.
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