TWISTEDWILLOW Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 Scott, Those are for making swords! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 Lol! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 For slapping yourself silly for buying that rare, unique, blacksmith "anvil". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 My thought was that for just the cost of the finishing shown in that picture you could buy a better anvil at the scrapyard! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 Lol, Steel toed boots and hard hat not included! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 Something to take the place of Lawn Darts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 Careful Frosty, don't give TW any ideas---he has a family you know! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHC Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 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… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 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... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 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........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 The sickles look like toucan bird beaks! as far as a militaristic bird I’d think more eagle or hawk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 Keep your eye open for corn knives; I've seen several that were made from cut down civil war swords. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWISTEDWILLOW Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 Yes Randy thank you for the information, I didn’t know that was the origin of those weapons either! Very cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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