February 23, 20224 yr Hey be fair! Look how shiny it is and the corners are so nice and crisp. Bunch of perfectionists always trying to keep an "honest" merchant from harvesting some of that free capitol. <SHEESH!> Frosty The Lucky.
February 23, 20224 yr My thought was that for just the cost of the finishing shown in that picture you could buy a better anvil at the scrapyard!
February 23, 20224 yr If it was me I’d make a bunch of them an sell em as a set! I’d call it giant heavy duty jenga! Lol
February 23, 20224 yr Please do Billy! Remember to video games. Play them on concrete to elicit the full range and tone of a falling stack. We didn't play it often, a couple of my friends were REALLY good at it so it wasn't much fun for the rest of us. There WERE times we'd play for a nickel a point winner takes all. Your version the loser would pay in blood and bone. I'll bet it'd be a real money maker on Youtube. Frosty The Lucky.
February 23, 20224 yr Are we talking about old Dodges rusting on blocks in the yard now? Well, I suppose they'd "fit" the topic if it fell off the blocks. I dunno though. Frosty The Lucky.
February 23, 20224 yr Lol don’t worry Thomas! My wife doesn’t let me get (to) carried away building contraptions out here in the shop! an the mid county fire chief lives right across the field! And the peavine fire station is only half a mile away! Lol
February 23, 20224 yr I had one of Frosty‘s “lawn darts”. It was a ‘67 and was more of a barn dart. I’ve got some actual lawn darts around here somewhere…
February 23, 20224 yr I know a smith who proved he could hit the broad side of a barn using an atlatl! Unfortunately it was too high up to retrieve the shaft...
February 23, 20224 yr Lol, when I was a kid I was shooting a bow in the yard and wasn’t paying attention and shot an arrow through the yard light, I missed the bulb but the arrow was stuck in the lens for weeks till a thunderstorm roared through an blew it out again
February 23, 20224 yr Another of my new neighbors stopped in to see about us and say hi. We chewed the fat for a while and I showed him what I do. He said "I'll be back" and ambled off. Pretty soon he moseyed his way back again, struggeling with a bucket. He is a very old gent. He brought me this. And said he had more "things" and would I care to look. It was a bucket of bird beaks he brought me! I think I'll make him a special bird sculpture. His grandsons in the military. How to make a militaristic bird.... Hmmmmm........
February 23, 20224 yr The sickles look like toucan bird beaks! as far as a militaristic bird I’d think more eagle or hawk
February 23, 20224 yr The rice cutter, on the right of the picture, is called a Kama in martial arts. They sell for a lot of money as an original.
February 23, 20224 yr Keep your eye open for corn knives; I've seen several that were made from cut down civil war swords.
February 23, 20224 yr My dad’s got a corn knife that came out of my great great great grandpa’s house no telling how old it is Orr what it’s made of
February 23, 20224 yr Irondragon, how do I tell if it's a rice cutter or a Kama or are they one and the same? It doesn't really look like a good design for cutting anything to me.
February 23, 20224 yr They are one in the same, when weapons were banned in occupied oriental countries, the peasants (farmers) resorted to using their farming implements as weapons for protection. Like a flail used to separate chaff became nunchucks and wagon king pins became a sai plus many others.
February 23, 20224 yr I thank you for the information. It will become the beak for my bird for his grandson and will have some history behind it. It would be great to make it all out of parts like that. A story behind it.... I have some tools I was gifted when I was in the Navy I may be able to work into it.
February 23, 20224 yr Yes Randy thank you for the information, I didn’t know that was the origin of those weapons either! Very cool!
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