Junior Samples
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- 4982
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- Jan 6, 2018
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- Location
- Richmond Ky
This is my worst but it's better than nothing .It's at my house,the better ones are in my shop which is 22 miles away .I'm going to burn the spokes out of the John -Deere A 38" rim and use it for a fire ring .The center hub is broken and for all intents not worth saving .--unless I can find another 38" bare rim from a burn down or something .Perhaps a big combine rim ? I'm about 15 miles from Anderson tractor,a salvage yard .One of the largest in the midwest ,
I'll trade ya any two of mine for one of yours. I'm a good trader.
I just got back from delivering my last tool box to the shop,number 15 .Got a few pics but only found one anvil which I never did finish .Along with it a big vise that was my grandfathers and a leg vise that I think might have belonged to my great grandfather .When you get a chance I'd like to see the one's from your shopa
Those are great. Did you make the pattern?Might as well post this. These are the hinges that I made for my blacksmith shop. I figured if it was going to be a smithy that I should probably make the door hinges, plus you can't buy any hinges like this at Lowe's!
All done by hand on the anvil, this was actually one of the first things that I made. It was a real pain. I have around 40 hours or so in the 6 sets of hinges (3 sets per door). The hinges opened up are 4 ft long.
My shop was built with old barn beams from a barn that me and @Scotty Overkill torn down. I had to make all new wooden pegs, mortise and tenons and put it back together as such. It was fun to build but don't know if I ever want to do that again. Very time consuming!
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I just got back from delivering my last tool box to the shop,number 15 .Got a few pics but only found one anvil which I never did finish .Along with it a big vise that was my grandfathers and a leg vise that I think might have belonged to my great grandfather .
An old blacksmith in Pa once told me they used horse piss to quench steel back in the day if they had no oil. mmm smells good.I've got a big brake drum I had thought about making a forge out of .Weather I ever do or not remains to be seen .I'd need a better anvil though .About the last I've done any of that stuff was hardening a hob for a worm gear wheel I made on an engine lathe ,old trick I learned from an 85 year old man .That's another story though .For that job I just used a rose bud torch tip and a bucket of oil --another old trick .
An old blacksmith in Pa once told me they used horse piss to quench steel back in the day if they had no oil. mmm smells good.
I've got a big brake drum I had thought about making a forge out of .Weather I ever do or not remains to be seen .I'd need a better anvil though .About the last I've done any of that stuff was hardening a hob for a worm gear wheel I made on an engine lathe ,old trick I learned from an 85 year old man .That's another story though .For that job I just used a rose bud torch tip and a bucket of oil --another old trick .
Hey. that was what I was told. I didn't ask for details. "True story" lolI sit here before the cock crows at o dark thirty in the morning trying to visualize how a person could collect horse piss to use as a salt water quench .