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Post by scrub-buster on Jul 3, 2020 8:14:21 GMT -5
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Post by deadeer on Jul 3, 2020 8:52:41 GMT -5
Awesome! Your handy work and ingenuity speak for themselves. Swinging a hammer is not for sissies. Will either make a man out of you or give you tendonitis. Lol
My wifes uncle in WV uses charcoal and a shop vac for airflow. Knives are his money maker at flea markets. Wrenches, files, and leaf springs are his go to metals.
Have fun.
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Post by scrub-buster on Jul 3, 2020 9:28:58 GMT -5
Awesome! Your handy work and ingenuity speak for themselves. Swinging a hammer is not for sissies. Will either make a man out of you or give you tendonitis. Lol My wifes uncle in WV uses charcoal and a shop vac for airflow. Knives are his money maker at flea markets. Wrenches, files, and leaf springs are his go to metals. Have fun. I've made some knives from files and other salvaged steel by the stock removal. My goal is to start forging knives once I get some more experience. I've got some big coil and leaf springs to use. |
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Post by genesis273 on Jul 3, 2020 10:47:53 GMT -5
I have no doubt that you'll be turning out top quality knives before you know it.
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Post by Russ Koon on Jul 3, 2020 10:49:04 GMT -5
Reminds me of memories of our visits to the grandparents farm when I was a kid. Grandpa Parks was a blacksmith most of his adult life, and had a shop out by the road, hundred yards or so from the house. It was kind of a mark that you were old enough to behave and not hurt yourself or get in his way to get invited to come to the shop with him and watch him work. And sometimes, after watching him a while without getting into trouble, you might get to crank the blower for the forge.
That thing was sure geared up! Didn't take many turns to completely wear out an enthusiastic eight-year old.
I remember watching with awe as he took various pieces of "junk" he had collected in a pile outside the shop, and turned them into grubbing hoes, pick mattocks, and plow points, hammering glowing metal into shape and quenching it in one of the barrels of liquid sitting near the forge. Pure magic for a kid who only got the chance to watch it a few times a year.
Not sure if those memories had any part in my eventually becoming a toolmaker. I thought I was just moving up on the available ladder at the best-paying factory within driving distance, but I do recall having some flashbacks to the memories of Grandpa's shop at times during the apprenticeship.
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Post by parson on Jul 3, 2020 12:30:42 GMT -5
Looks like a great winter time hobby.
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Post by scrub-buster on Jul 3, 2020 13:01:54 GMT -5
Looks like a great winter time hobby. Absolutely. Not as much fun in July |
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Post by parson on Jul 3, 2020 16:43:44 GMT -5
I keep waiting for you to get your own TV show. You got quite a way with primitive crafting.
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Post by scrub-buster on Jul 3, 2020 20:25:15 GMT -5
I keep waiting for you to get your own TV show. You got quite a way with primitive crafting. Nobody would want to see me on TV. |
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Post by duff on Jul 4, 2020 10:12:28 GMT -5
I keep waiting for you to get your own TV show. You got quite a way with primitive crafting. Nobody would want to see me on TV. Have you watched any youtube....anyone can be a star. Definitely take a right personality for repeat viewers. I cut cable this year and with a smart TV YouTube took over from cable. There are some very nerdy folks doing well for themselves. My guess is the folks doing well like to edit and produce as much as they like doing what they do. If you could do decent on editing I bet you would have a decent following |
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Post by scrub-buster on Jul 4, 2020 20:33:10 GMT -5
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