Josh.Sampson Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 I’ll try to make a post in the general discussion with progress pics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BsnNFrnt Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 A good friend who takes us hunting every year wanted a knife to use in between the field and the kitchen. The son and I made sheaths most of the morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHC Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 Josh, I’m not even gonna lie man, I know a little about the Golden Ratio phenomenon and it kinda freaks me out. Not in a bad way, but like you said, it’s found EVERYWHERE. It amazes me, it’s awe inspiring once you see it. The Golden Ratio applies to our own bodies, other animals, plants, and heavily subconsciously influences human design as you demonstrate with your cards there. Look at the shape of most nations’ flags. Playing cards, many drawers and cabinets, windows, even kitchen chairs. Doorways, the shapes of cars and trucks, the bends in a river, the threads in a spider’s web. A fella could start a religion based on the Golden Ratio. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 Uh. . . D. I don't know what you're thinking showing photos of the frog in your crotch on a public forum! S/He looks to be snoozing comfortably. Have you heard folks in the S.E. have to be careful of the cold dormant iguanas falling out of trees. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 Makes it easier to turn them into Door mat iguanas! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 Truthfully, the Golden Ratio isn’t as prevalent as people think. For one thing, the so-called “Golden Spiral” is simply one of an infinite variety of logarithmic spirals found in nature. Flags are almost always in whole number ratios, such as 2:3, 1:2, or 3:5. Indeed, almost all classical architecture is based on whole-number ratios rather than on the Golden Radio. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 I find it hard to believe ANYBODY uses them as door mats, they're kind of squishy don't you think? However, acknowledging the truth I'm often wrong I'll tentatively believe the concept but Iguana see pictures FIRST! Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 Lol, I’ll be honest I don’t have much experience with them, we ain’t go no iguanas here! something or someone would end up eating them, I’ve read the stories about people in Florida dealing with them though, apparently it’s open Season on them lizards down there, so I just figured they’d have to figure out what to with all the surplus iguanas and door mats came to mind! Along with boots, purses and chili lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 You forgot automatic hats. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George N. M. Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 I suggest striking or etching "molon labe" in Greek letters (ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ) into the final blade. This format is Classical Greek grammar and letters and you might want to research the more archaic form of the letters and the Doric dialect Leonidas would have used. "By hammer and hand all arts do stand." TW, the higher C content for dinner triangles will give you more of a "ring" and less of a "clank." Unwound coil springs are good material. GNM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 34 minutes ago, Frosty said: You forgot automatic hats. When life gives you hats make socks out of em! George, I don’t know the carbon content of sucker rod but it rings pretty loud and the rings hangs on awhile, didn’t get no clank sound with it, but thanks for the heads up I won’t bother making any bells from mild Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goods Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 Josh, that looks great. You going to bring it to Kenny’s? I’ll have your nail header, it’s still sitting in my tool bucket. For the first time in two weeks, I spent a couple hours at the forge. Took the whole time to weld up some 1” cable. It’s now 3/4” x 1/4” x 19”. Going to try to make gomia with cable on the outside, the some heavy (3/32” thick) bandsaw blade, and maybe 1095 or an old file as the core. (I’m replacing the cable knife I made my wife that was stolen from her van…) Keep it fun, David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad J. Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 1 hour ago, George N. M. said: I suggest striking or etching "molon labe" in Greek letters (ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ) into the final blade. This format is Classical Greek grammar and letters and you might want to research the more archaic form of the letters and the Doric dialect Leonidas would have used. Maybe I'll get a rifle or 2 with that etched in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 After church I was going to get a load of composted horse manure for my wife's raised bed garden. Well when I told her where I would be she got the "totally lost" look so I asked her if she wanted to go with me. She said yes; so 20 buckets, two shovels and one wife were loaded in the truck. We went down past our next door neighbor's place, turned south on the first irrigation canal dirt road, went to where the arroyo cuts it, then up the arroyo about 40' and turn left and follow the tracks of the ATV they use to haul manure. She actually wanted to help shovel the not shinola; not rough as it's been months since we had a good rain and dried it's very light. Got home and unloaded and then I told her to go stand where she wanted the first raised bed. Then I brought a 2x12"x8'+ there and asked her how it should be aligned. Got that one staked in place and got another one and asked how far apart she wanted it. So *finally* I got the location and dimensions of her raised bed. I'd have fastened the first one together; but we had a cord of wood on the way and I went and cleaned up the stacking area. My wife was offered and accepted 1.5 cords of seasoned cedar and pinon that was stacked for us. I'll have to split a lot of it but cedar splits *beautifully*. Weather was trending bad, cloudy cold and breezy, snow on the way; so I went inside and had hot coco in front of the woodstove window. (The wood seller also offered us as much of the "detritus" from working wood at his woodyard as we wanted for free; just bring a truck to be loaded! So the bottom layer and the mulch layer of the raised beds are probably taken care of.) Cost so far is under US$10 for wood, livestock panels, metal for L brackets, composted manure. I'll have to add in a gallon of gas to that after we get the detritus... No shop work today! (But happy happy and warm wife!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyBones Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 The Ohio flag and the Tibetan flag are the only 2 state level flags that are not rectangle. Chad, I have "Praise be to the Lord my rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle" etched into my 1911. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gandalfgreen Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 wow those calipers are impreasice the eye punch las well. John you look like you have been very busy tiols look fantastix. thats a good idea for a charm piece. keep u9 the excellent work every ody its hreat motivarion for me when i fk ally get time and this bitter cold goes away so i can light my forge. love the ttee frog pet and pics too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 1 hour ago, BillyBones said: Ohio flag A triangular swallowtail, to be precise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHC Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 Unladen swallow? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 African or European? (And yes I know the capital of Assyria.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh.Sampson Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 (edited) 17 hours ago, Goods said: Josh, that looks great. David That looks great! Did you get your power hammer yet? I’ll probably bring them to Kenny's. I’ll have to keep them off the iron in the hat table. Edited January 31, 2022 by Mod30 Trim quote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goods Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 Josh, no still a few weeks out on the power hammer, assuming no issues at the port. It’s funny how show and tell items make there way to the iron-in-a-hat table… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 We had the Feb NMABA meeting cancelled out here and the Craft Show in April I was going to sell at. Gives me too much free time that my wife is happy to fill with non-smithing endeavors! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goods Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 We’ve got two meetings coming up in February (local IBA chapter and the state meeting, back to back weekends at the same place.) So, far both still happening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.J.Lampert Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 On 1/28/2022 at 3:49 PM, ThomasPowers said: Like the old Goon Show line: "I talk to the trees; that's why they put me away...." haha. I'm here, cause I'm not all there worked on some knifes finished shaping a 1095 hunting knife and started a few 3-3.5in belt knifes out of leaf springs pics in the future Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 Found my pass-through tooling in the move into the new smithy. Made couple 1/2" round holes in 1/2" round stock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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