"What's in the truck Bub?"  "A ton of rusty old barbwire..." "OK; I'm writing you up for the importation of WMD's into our state..."

There was a nice coil---upper right hand of the picture on the culvert...

  Anythings worth a load of barb wire in my book.  I'd even pay the fine.  But it better be rusty, by jingo!

Never say NO to a tetanus shot!

  I've had my tetanus shot.  Can't eat beef jerkey with lock jaw.  I have dentures but I still try from time to time.  I see that coil sitting up there.....

Anybody else wonder where the Jingo is? 

Frosty The Lucky.

Nodept; want me to snag it and try to get it to Quad-State  where you or a designated flunky could pick it up?  How rusty does it need to be?  Falling apart, pretty rusty, brown?

JHCC, yeah, I know. 

But I keep running into tools that don’t have any rust. Some craftsman, some proto and of coarse all the cheapos. I guess somebody took good care of there tools.

   I would feel pretty bad if you got hurt trying to untangle it from that mess.  Plus, I plan on going to Quad State this year, but I planned on going last year, my plans tend to go flooyey in my face.  I'd hate to have you stuck with that roll on your hands.  Tempting to say yes!  Pretty Rusty!  

  

I come from the land of rusty barb wire! half the fences in Peavine ain’t been replaced In lord knows how many decades Lol

infact I’ve probably got a miles worth around my own property that needs cleaned up 

 

On 3/3/2022 at 11:23 PM, ThomasPowers said:

Funny I picked up 4 breakers at the ReStore today, I'm going to run a 220 VAC, 10 AWG line to run my Bader grinder. 

I actually used to work for a nonprofit that ran, amoung other programs, one of the largest and oldest materials reuse stores on the Wes Coast. Think your typical ReStore times 4 or 5. I used to bring home stuff like palettes and pallets of cinder blocks, roofing tiles, bulk nuts and bolts, floor tiles for the house, random old tools like hammer heads, a little old bench grinder, and old neck-sizing only reloading press, a hand crank grinding wheel... So much cool stuff/junk. 

Never got any electric supplies, though I'm sure we carried them. I'm in no way qualified to run wiring or install breakers. I'm just barely qualifies to do things like wire on new plugs on cords or change jumpers in a VFD box with very clear instructions. I did get the 27D wired up to 110v at 1.5 HP and found that my unit has the jumpers for GFCI and sensitive GFCI, so I can run it now before getting the 220 circuit wired up. That makes me happy.

  I see your avatar on here.  Did you visit the scrapyard?  Now I say a positive yes.  I bet it all went into the baler....

On the way home for lunch, I spotted a pair of railings someone was throwing away:

I love free bar stock. 

(And no, I did not take the toilet.)

Toilets make interesting planters for moonbeam coreopsis.

Helped a fellow yesterday bend the tabs out on some HEAVY square tubing,  5" ID and 1/4" thick.  Used the coal forge and the 6.5" Postvise.  He left me 3 useful pairs of tongs and a set of pulloffs to be made useful.

My buddy, Ofaye (some of you met him at last year's Quad State) just gave me a sword blade that he found in the trash. I can't find any maker's marks or stamps, but it doesn't seem to be a decorative or ceremonial sword. It has a decent edge and heat treat seems good. I can bend it and it snaps back to original shape. It had a shiny plating but has rust spots. Seems to be just surface rust. The only mark I can find is a small area that seemed to be marked with a vibrating etcher. Might be "Jim" but I can't really make it out. Any experts know what this is?

I can't make out a thing. Have you tried derusting it with naval jelly or evaporust? That might reveal some details.

(And say Hi to Ofaye for me!)

PB, Good find, looking forward to seeing you this weekend at the conference 

John - I'd just hit it with a wire wheel in the areas I thought I might find something. 

Les - I expect to be there, Ofaye too. There are two things that might stop me. I was offered a surface grinder - 2HP - weighs 1225 pounds, from a machine shop that is remodeling. I'm waiting on word for when I can pick it up. If it's Saturday, it will have priority even though I'm already registered. The other thing is my ankle injury from falling off a roof after Katrina. Later this month they are taking the hardware out, but its been bothering lately. I'm asking them for the plate they remove. I figure it would make a good guard on my next knife.

Sounds like a boot knife is on the way. 
hope to see you Saturday 

What are the dimensions of the blade?  It doesn't look like any of the users, (military) that I am familiar with.  Also how is the tang terminated?  A flat center on a double edged blade is often a sign of a recent or ceremonial blade---even the Patton Cavalry sabre has a fuller.   

PB. there are a couple sword fora around where you could post a query and pics.  I was able to identify a Sudanese blade I have which is engraved with a double headed eagle as a probable Napoleonic Austrian hussar sword blade that was exported to Africa in the 19th century by posting pics and a description on a sword forum.

"By hammer and hand all arts do stand."

 

Overall L-39”. Blade 29” to Ricasso. 3” ricasso . Tapered tang 6 1/4”. Threaded end 3/4”. Width 1 3/8” at ricasso. 3/16” thick at ricasso that tapers to 1/8” for most of blade.

George - Will do, but IFI has always got me answers before! Even to questions I never (but should have) asked. <grin>

Something about that says "modern rapier blade" to me.

Could be. I'm still puzzled by no makers marks, country of origin stamps or anything. After watching that guy at Quad State make props for movies I wonder if it may be one of those. They would need well tempered blades to flex for the camera, but I doubt they would sharpen and nickel plate them. I'm guessing its nickel. Chrome has a tendency to flake. This kind of smears when hit with wire wheel or 400 grit polish wheel (one of the few things worth buying at Harbor Freight).

My initial thought was a blade for schlager fencing, but those are usually oval in cross section and have blunt tips.