Recent content by SHC286

Bird feeders. More specifically, bird feeder hangers. That’s what’s going on in my shop. I am taking time to heat and beat a large piece of tool steel into what will hopefully become a nice Bowie knife in between the heating and beating on these hangers. The pace is a little frantic but is...

I ain’t gonna grow nothing. Don’t need to, I’ve got a source for that stuff that’ll make ya crap your pants if ya ain’t careful! It’s an extremely rare thing for me though, it’d be just my luck I’ll start blazing up on the regular and get one of those random drug tests at work. As for the loud...

Oh my smithy is already pretty full. My actual work area is clean, but I’ve got scrap and material taking up space. I guess that’s a job for the big shop? It’s pretty remote, that’s one thing I love about it. The shop doesn’t smell like ganja, it had been cleared out for quite a while before we...

Apparently there are six exposed poles total. The place doesn’t seem as big when you’re inside it and moving around! I’ve set up in the building on the right, the one on the left was the bud farm. The original owner worked on farm equipment, did tool sharpening and I heard a little...

My wife got me some Don Juan rose bushes for Valentine’s Day. I plan on wrapping the front two poles of my pole barn smithy in 2X4 wire or maybe chicken or Turkey wire to give them something to climb. May get two more and do the same with the other two exposed poles. I already have several other...

Soap weakens the surface tension of water. That’s why the dirty stuff sinks, the oil appears to emulsify, and it actually drowns many bugs/larvae. Causes bugs to sink when they light on the surface to lay eggs, causes the larvae to not absorb oxygen as well. Mosquitoes are ridiculously...

I used to work pipelines and also got into it when the Mexicans played their music. It makes me want to dance. My crew were all from south of the border. Being their supervisor and only guy with a valid DL, I’m the one who took them shopping on our day off and to the more authentic Mexican...

I listen to heavy metal in the shop. That’s not meant to be a pun. I have bad hearing, I listen to mostly instrumental, the sound track for Doom mostly. I’m not a blade smith, I’m here because I have, and will make some blades on occasion. Between the earplugs to help save what little hearing I...

Hey man, OSHA is a four letter word.

You talk about the LN sublimating too fast for that feller’s fingers and it reminded me of this video. I still hate watching it.

Well considering Zuckerberg is one of those lizard people, just stands to reason there’s little green folk amongst us. Nah, ain’t got a clue. Heard the same rumor though. It’s probably either just a joke or whoever’s in charge maybe thinks there really are some little green folk out there...

I was driving along at work one day and this random spring, seemingly coming from nowhere, rolled out in front of me. Out in the boonies, no other vehicles or work trucks around for it to fall off of, so I jumped out and grabbed it. It looked brand new before I started cutting on it with a...

Looking up pics, this was an “old” crescent wrench, but not early twentieth century high carbon old. The reinforced ring on the end is the tell. I found an approximate date when that was introduced but I’ve already forgotten it. But it was well after they switched to a steel type other than...

That’s in line with some of what I’ve read. That’s also why I was surprised with the sparks. The shower was pretty brilliant compared to what I expected. Do you think age would have anything to do with it? Maybe they used higher carbon steel in the past? Because this wrench was pretty old and...

It was actually hard to hone because it was hard. Spark testing was similar to 1085, which was unexpected. I’m reading that wrenches are normally a medium carbon steel, just a little better than RR spikes. I normalized it then quenched it in cold ATF. Cold being about 45 degrees, from a dull...