Nice work, everyone!

I spent some time reconfiguring my hammer rack, both expanding its capacity and improving access to the tools.

Still more to be done, but a good step forward

Daswulf, yes you could call that a broom loom. To be honest, I do not know the proper name. I have been calling it a broom tying spindle or a kick winder. I built it without any plans after watching a few broom making youtube videos.

Les, those handles on your hatchets are stunning. Tiger maple?

Where did you obtain the broom straw?

How do you manage with so few hammers? 

 

Mothman that broom is stellar!!!

JHCC, I like your hammer rack, I need to build something similar for my smithy

  I love that broom too.  Looks very high quality to me.

  Billy, maybe you could make a heavey duty hammer rack out of leftover sucker rod?    

7 hours ago, Dax Hewitt said:

How do you manage with so few hammers? 

That’s why I’m building a larger capacity rack: one’s hammer supply will expand to fill the space available. 

11 hours ago, Mothman_c3w said:

Tiger maple

Mothman, That is the best looking broom I have ever seen. The tomahawk handles are curly maple.

Das, thanks for the compliment, your work and advise, along with many others on this site, has given me the ability to be able to learn this craft and to be able to complete my projects.

12 hours ago, George N. M. said:

Where did you obtain the broom straw?

George, I purchased from Caddy Supply Company online. They sell twine as well.

Thanks everyone for the positive feedback.

3 hours ago, Nodebt said:

Billy, maybe you could make a heavey duty hammer rack out of leftover sucker rod?    

Hmmm I think you might be onto something there Scott! 

I’d save the sucker rod for projects needing a higher carbon steel and use hot rolled mild steel, or other low carbon, for the rack 

I can get sucker rod buy the truck load around here pretty cheap or free, it’s all over the place,

That’s the opposite for me, in that case I’d use it as needed 

A lot of people use it for fencing and working corals around here

so all I gotta do is call up all the local mobile welders an ask around for leftovers after a job get completed,

and if I needed a full stick they usually have various sizes of sucker rod at the feed stores,

Ain’t worked in the shop in a week, but it looks like I’m getting famous at work. 

Just finished up a poker, half inch square stock, forge welded end

I wanted to try out this new mystery coal I drug home a few weeks ago forge welding and it did pretty good,

It got it hot enough I shot molten metal and flux everywhere, burned my hand, shouted language the clergy don’t know and dropped the hammer in the middle of welding it…so I guess it will work out good! lol

it is taking me some getting used to it doesn’t burn like my other stuff, produces ash and more clinker, and it’s not sticky when it starts to coke, it won’t make a volcano/cave, but it gets hot an will weld! 

5 minutes ago, TWISTEDWILLOW said:

shouted language the clergy don’t know

Oh, they know it — they just don’t use it (or they don’t use it in public).

5 minutes ago, TWISTEDWILLOW said:

dropped the hammer in the middle of welding

It’s called a “drop the tongs” weld!

Looks good. The challenge on a poker like this is not over-thinning the unwelded section just above the weld, and it looks like you did a decent job with that. Very nice twist, too

Lol, but what if ya ain’t using tongs? 

Fair point.

My student Eva came over and finished the forging on her first knife.

And I made a spatula from some 1/2” round stainless:

Apart from a little touch-up of the edges, this is as-forged.

You must be a pretty good teacher JHCC! That spatula looks pretty slick to me!

Thank you all for the positive feedback.

We got started fairly early for Sunday.  

Then we moved to some San Mia. But we used a cutoff from a box of junk from (Vegas Forge) 5 lb. box for our core. We need to fold next weekend and stack with 15N20 in the middle for a little pop. (left the cutoff - right at San Mia 1095 mix)

And tongs and fat shop dogs.

Wow that's an Awesome spatula.  

Fat shop dog?!?! That looks like a killer ferocious bear hunting dog!!! Lol

Knife looks good to me!

Beware of the man with 47 hammers, cause he probably knows how to use them.

Or in my case can’t turn down a bargain lol

Oh, also finished redoing the hammer rack: