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OK thanks I saw the ones in question at grainger site they are some cheaper and I wanted to insure cheaper in price did not mean cheaper in quailty. they have drive type wheels w/pvc "tire" and roller bearing hub just wanted to make sure and not have something fly all to pieces why under power...

I have been looking at wheels both contact and idler have found some at a site the surface is radius not flat the wheels have roller bearings what makes a wheel ok/not ok for this app thanks buck not yelling caps locked on at work

thanks for the reply it is to be a gift for a neice in culinary school, try as i might i don't want to put a pink handle on a blade but she is fru fru (girlie) and i saw this substance in like cracked "stone" look pink and black and that bridges the gap so to speak. So I thought I would give it...

I am making a kitchen shantoku knife for a niece and have found this substance "Rhodonite"on a site but I don't know the porperties of it. what can I work it with sander,grinders,diamond?? I am new to the blog and my experience is in blacksmithing and can forge the steel but I have no exper...

I am proud to see people who are still happy making _______(anything really). a uli was because it's cold, and the task it was to be used for. When bowie (jim not david) cut his hand in a fight w/ butcher knife, coffin handles. forging a meteor bybrammies lol. The thrill in watching a man work a...

thanks still reading over plans just wanted to make sure i wouldn't run into trouble later hope to get frame cut out this week when i get it started i post pics

I've been eyeing a 3/4 boxed in knife I have seen or a rail spike,coil/leaf spring what time frame

still the poise and position of samurai was at once very beautyful and terrorfying. he was a man in service, his honor demanded that in a fair battle if his lord lost. His life was forfeit a ronin a warrior with no master was a shame even more so if the master had been killed in battle. In all...

when the samurai were guards of the lords he enforced the law as he saw fit if his honor was insulted i.e. talking back to him by a commoner he held every right to behead the commoner by his leave. ref shogun, book of 13 rings, seven samurai, code of bushido. as with any story there were some...

Hello All, I have just joined your blog and hope to learn alot form you all. I am reading over my NWKG plans just recieved (thanks) it calls for a 4x4 square pipe i am thinking this will be the base, however i saw a pic on you tube of a grinder that used what appears to be a 4-6" piece of...