What did you do in your shop today?

[Brian Dougherty 1,307]

6 hours ago, Gerhard Gerber said:

.....Suspect I got some stonking hamons 

All you guys in the southern hemisphere have some great words...

... I'm so working stonking into my vocabulary.

Edited February 26, 2020 by Brian Dougherty

[Jeremy Blohm 561]

I have a buddy (or brother!) that has an uncle that isn't doing well and there putting on a benefit auction. So we decided to make a couple hatchets and were planning on an axe. This is one of them. The other is an integral handle hatchet.

[Jeremy Blohm 561]

Made a new coal forge also. Here is the new and the old. I think the new will be much better. I'm working on a hood and the piping I need to run it inside.

[Garry Keown 1,264]

A busy day with these blades all pre ground and heat treated so there is the finish grind and handsanding to go now.

[John N 319]

This landed today...... Im a bit in love already. Bit of a mission to unload it from the wagon this morning.

 

Not due to the weight, as we have sufficient cranage, but it was loaded with a fork truck, and we needed to top lift it, so had to partially strip it on the back of a snow covered trailer to get a good lift on it without damaging! took an hour and a half. Safely on the deck now

 

[Chris Christenberry 362]

Man, that thing ought to roll some hefty rings!

[Jerrod Miller 561]

John, I think it is worth mentioning that with great power comes great responsibility; and also that absolute power corrupts absolutely.  I would fear to own such a machine, for the mischief I would get myself into.  

[Pieter-Paul Derks 300]

Wow! that is an absolute monster of a rolling mill

If I owned something like that I'd spend a week just flattening everything in my shop

[Jeremy Blohm 561]

14 hours ago, John N said:

 

 

  

What is the huge hammer in the back right of this picture?

[Alan Longmire 3,386]

15 minutes ago, Jeremy Blohm said:

What is the huge hammer in the back right of this picture?

 

That little double-frame?  

[John N 319]

The hammer is a 2 ton arch frame, I started rebuilding it years ago as a stock job, and kind of forgot about it! Its possibly an Erie (american metal!)

[Garry Keown 1,264]

A day of handsanding with this lot all ready for handles now.

[Brian Dougherty 1,307]

I finally got back to some forging over the weekend.  I need to make some more mosaic bar for a few folding knife projects I have in mind.  To get started, I turned this:

 

 

Into this:

 

Along the way I crushed the first stack into Ws, and cut it into 6 pieces to restack.  Hopefully I'll have time tomorrow evening to do the first 4-way weld.

[Gerald Boggs 271]

On 2/16/2020 at 10:01 PM, Conner Michaux said:

Once you get out of the realm of basic hooks and leafs

The taper is everything.  If you get good at tapers, then everything else will become easier to do.  So if hooks and leafs are all you can make, than work at making the hook and leaf how you want it, not how it turns out.  Get Mark Aspery's first book.

[Mike Ward 99]

Put the final coats of tung oil on the two handles. They’re all set for my mark and sharpening. And forged the first full tang knives in awhile.

[Garry Keown 1,264]

I got the bolsters on a number of the blades (either 8 or 9, not sure now). One SS, a couple of brass, some buff horn and some micarta. Also got a couple of handles glued up with liners and one with the liner,spacer and bolster in one. 

[Garry Keown 1,264]

After getting some of the bolsters done yesterday, today it was time to get the handles fitted and ready for glueing up. They are all in the clamps for the night as is the set in the bottom of the pic which has the blaze liner and spacer with black bolster and OD handle set. I have started to lay out the parts for the rest of the handles and bolsters but it will be a couple of days till I can get back to the shed.

[Chris Christenberry 362]

You're a regular knife-makin'-machine, Garry.

[Garry Keown 1,264]

2 hours ago, Chris Christenberry said:

You're a regular knife-makin'-machine, Garry.

There is a hunt competition coming up in a couple of months and I have some prizes to donate and will have to have a few on hand for sale so wanted to get some ready for that along with recent orders. I love being retired!!

[Chris Christenberry 362]

3 hours ago, Garry Keown said:

I love being retired!!

 

Know what you mean, Garry.  Since retiring I've been so busy I don't know how I ever worked a 10 hour day and still get everything I wanted/needed to do done!

[Cody Killgore 43]

Been real busy with not much shop time lately. Finally was able to spend some time in the shop today and just been working on finishing up this knife that had been sitting in the shop close to finished for about 6 months.

 

Mostly happy with it. Cruforge V and ringed gidgee handle.

Still some residues on the blade 

Edited March 5, 2020 by Cody Killgore

[Joël Mercier 623]

Fine work Cody 

[Joshua States 2,280]

Yeah Cody. That looks dang nice. Some things about it are not to my taste, but there's nothing I would say needs "fixing".

[Cody Killgore 43]

Much appreciated. There are certainly things I would change about it in hindsight but, overall, I'm pretty happy.

[Zeb Camper 784]

Yeah, looks great Cody! The pin seems a bit high for my taste, but also looks like it belongs there.