July 17, 200817 yr CWB, there is a company that makes a "leather looking" synthetic belt. Jim Carothers, member here and Pres. of Saltfork Craftsmen & Artist Blacksmith Assoc. told me about it last year....I can't remember the name of the company tho...old age thing.... You can contact him through the above web site tho to find out. The stuff is supposed to look like leather but holds up better, doesn't crack etc like real leather. IIRC. anyway good luck. Edited July 17, 200817 yr by Thomas Dean
July 17, 200817 yr It hasn't got a thing to do with smithing but she sure is sweet. Some idiot gave me a 18 month old Basset hound female. They thought she bayed a bit much for the townhouse but compared to my other dogs she's very quiet.:D
July 17, 200817 yr It could have alot to do with blacksmithing. SHOP DOG I've got 2 dachshunds for shop dogs and one keeps digging holes in it.
July 17, 200817 yr Dogs rule! Shop dogs are absolutely blacksmithing related. How else are you going to keep the squirrels and baby turtles from drinking the slack tub dry? Frosty
July 18, 200817 yr I had won a nice lacer on E-bay but the seller disappeared and never accepted the money. So I finally got the money back.
July 18, 200817 yr Stopped by the fleamarket today and picked up 7 of the 1 liter? medical O2 bottles cheap. Anybody know if they have a deposit on them? I planned to cut off the tops and use one of the bodies for a punch quencher for my travel set up and use the others to store stuff in, may trade in the tops as they are Al and so don't ring well but the AL and the cromed brass fittings will sell well at the recycler. Also picked up an old acetylene regulator that should work for a propane forge; yes I'll get it tested first; but for US$2 it's worth the risk. Didn't take back a *large* domed trailer hitch and a large turnbuckle as he wanted to keep them more than I wanted to buy them.
July 18, 200817 yr Well Roxy don't seem to care much for anything but sleeping, eating and pooping. Nice quiet dog. Don't show much interest in rabbits but is interested in lizards. I don't need another dog taking hammers and chewing the handles off, got one of them already.:(
July 18, 200817 yr Thomas Powers.... We lived in Albuquerque in the late 70's. Our favorite part of the country. There are lots of things I miss about the desert Southwest, one of which is the flea markets. I bought tools there for a couple bucks that I still use today. Raleigh, NC had a good one too in the early 80's (don't know about today).
July 19, 200817 yr cwblacksmith, there is a lacer on ebay right now for $288. Didn't seem to be gold plated or anything....
July 19, 200817 yr cwblacksmith... Check out item # 280247392397 on eBay. It's a little more reasonable.
July 19, 200817 yr This followed me home from a yard sale a couple weeks ago. I knew it was a good deal for $20, especially with the other stuff Deb got thrown in. Then this afternoon I stopped in to the local hardware store looking for something they don't carry anymore. . . namely hardware! :mad: I took a look in their welding section as I walked past and discovered a new TurboTorch goes for $280 locally. Frosty
July 19, 200817 yr Frosty, A Turbo for 20 bucks!? Tell me you didn't get the tank with it too. Great score bud!
July 19, 200817 yr No, that's my 40lber. He wanted too much for the 20 he had there. I knew I had a good deal but no idea how good till this afternoon. I actually did a double take. It worked great when I tried it out but it's even better now I know what it's worth. Frosty
July 28, 200817 yr Hey gang! Great site. It took me several days of reading to catch up with all 107 pages of this thread alone. The other day I spotted an aging section of railroad rail nearly 3-feet long sitting neglected among the weeds near a local line. I stopped, threw on my work gloves, picked it up and carried it back to the truck. On the way back I thought I might have gotten sliced with a sharp blade of grass or something in the calf. Driving my prize home, I noticed a sharp pain that was quickly building into nearly electric shock proportions on my calf. I stopped, looked, rubbed, scratched. Couldn't find anything, but started suspecting maybe something "zapped me" - ground bee or something. To make a long story short, when I got home and went to unload my prize, it had rolled a little in the truck so I could see the golfball sized wasp nest attached to what was the underside of the rail. I guess there was a price to be paid for my free ASO, eh? Bill :cool:
July 28, 200817 yr Ouch! :mad: Luckily the guys at work took care of hauling and cutting mine for me. Let us know if you put it to use! Rob.
July 28, 200817 yr Bill: You're going at this wrong. Finding a piece of rail is supposed to take the sting OUT of finding your first anvil. Geeze . . . New guys! Welcome aboard, Frosty
July 28, 200817 yr Could have been snake bite or arrest so you got off easy and can call yourself the Wasp Nest Forge and have a story to tell...
July 29, 200817 yr Could have been snake bite or arrest so you got off easy and can call yourself the Wasp Nest Forge and have a story to tell... You know, Tom, I've been wracking my brain for months trying to come up with a catchy forge name... it just might stick. Now to make a touchmark in the shape of a wasp... I had the day off today and went to the doctors. It seems as I'm cleaning out my "gee-rage" and turning more of it into "the shop", I've come across some poison ivy or something like it lately. Two weeks ago, it was on my face and in my eyes. Medicated for a week and it went away. This time, it's all over my torso and hammer arm and driving me UP THE WALL!!! If I didn't have bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all, right. So on the way to the Doc's, I spot the shovel half. I figure to go back for it on my way home. When I get there, I drive on and see the "leaf" just past it, and BACK UP ON THE EXPRESSWAY to get it. Salvage will surely be the end of me. I'm going to re-handle the shovel for my coal bin. Not sure what the 1" pin is for. The leaf originally looked like one from a semi or something big. Now that I have it in my hands (pic) its almost an inch thick... I think it's a fork from a forklift. Comments? What should I do with it (don't go looking for it in Iron-in-the-Hat, either!) Bill As for the ASO, I've already got a 125LB London pattern (not sure of brand), so I'll likely make a small "anvil" with horn for use close to my forge for very small work.
July 29, 200817 yr I welded a hunk of broken spring like that on top of the little RR anvil I gave to Woodsmith's son. Works great! Finnr
July 29, 200817 yr well today out lookin round for round stock at my dads work i found a 20 foot section of RR track against the cliff wall! now all i gotta do is use the cutter and cut it into pieces
July 29, 200817 yr Author Why cut a good piece rail road track. Bury that thing 17 feet deep into the ground and you will have a decent anvil with all the mass of the track directly under where the hammer hits. Oh, I better mention you should really do some planning on where to dig the hole as you may not want to move it very often. (grin)
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