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Just beautiful ! Thats some of the tightest curl I've seen on maple, excellent stuff. How do you bind the carbon steel, is it welded in before forging ? Thanks! The maple is part of a big slab I got years ago. It's much cheaper if you get it as a big hunk of tree, it's the letting it dry thing that...

18th century style spike axe or scalping axe. Mild steel head with high carbon steel edge, all hand forged, with fancy curly maple handle. About the size of a long-handled roofing hammer. http://m1059.sgded.com/~dfoggkni/uploads/monthly_09_2012/post-510-13483455775899.jpg http://m1059.sgded.com/~dfo...

As another Tennessean born and bred (225 years worth), I can tell you some of us are not hillbillies. Those of us who have higher degrees become HillWilliams. Basically just means your overalls are usually free of extra holes and you drink your 'shine with your pinky stuck out.

Heck, you could run a shopfull of air tools off that thing! :shock: Add me to the jealousy brigade. :lol: Too little too late, but next time you get a piece of equipment that's too big to get out of your truck, call a towing company. They often moonlight as machinery movers and riggers. Be sure to t...

The VFD is a phase convertor in itself, and will need 220v on a 30 amp (minimum) breaker. The VFD converts that to fully reversible three-phase, so you will need a 3-phase 220v motor to use it.

i just wish there were a way to modify the mask for a beard, instead of having to modify my beard for the mask. http://www.airwareamerica.com/trendairshieldpro.aspx or http://www.envirosafetyproducts.com/3m-powerflow-respirator-3m-papr.html or similar models. A friend of mine has one with the filte...

Narrower belts cut faster for some reason, making it MUCH more difficult to get a uniform surface. I use split belts on my 2x72 grinder for some things, such as getting inside a tight curve. A 1/2" wide 400 grit j-weight belt will cut briar almost like a high-speed chainsaw file, so be careful!

Thanks for those pics, David! I frequently smoke a reed-stemmed clay myself. Those early mouthpiece-ends actually clench better than most would suspect. Not as well as a modern fishtail, but better than an all-clay cutty. One of these days I hope to find a 19th century Meerschaum with an amber stem ...

See, you can even recognize one without the characteristic assless chaps or oil-lubed lederhosen by looking at the low, criminal forehead, occipital bun, and beetling brow ridge suggestive of neanderthal ancestry. Ostrogoths (from the Latin, eastern goths, not to be confused with the Visigoths) sack...

I run my 2x72" slack belt at around 900 SFPM for wood. Faster and it'll burn. The belts will still flay your fingers to the bone if you catch an edge, so you've been warned.

And how does it respond to bending? CA tends to let go when heated... I just line it up in a vise and use a hand drill. Can't guarantee a length, but I can usually get 8 or ten inches without enough runout to make it unusable. Here's a 12-incher. Forgive the horrible bend, please. :roll: http://m105...

I have a few white tailed deer antlers that are collecting dust, guess thats not horn but its similar Not similar in any way except for the growing on top of some critter's head bit, actually. :wink: Antler is bone, horn is keratin, same stuff as most folks' fingernails are made of. I say most, bec...

If you want to go with maple for a pipe, be sure it's sugar maple, aka rock maple. Bigleaf/Ambrosia maple is almost as soft as pine and will burn out just as quickly.

The one "dress black" I've made was a bit of a pain. I used a leatherworker's trick and did the base coat of stain in Fiebing's navy blue, then did a couple coats of black oil dye on top of that. Shellac is your friend for these, after all that you could still see grain if you held it in t...

Generally speaking, if it's not food safe and heat resistant it doesn't belong on a pipe. And yes, you can eat shellac if that's your thing...

I don't care for petroleum distillates or plastics in my smoke, either, and both of those are in the poly/oil.

Back idler wheel with tracking adjustment: http://www.knifemaking.com/product-p/id580.htm Drive wheels and contact wheels: http://www.sunray-inc.com/ You're on your own for step pulleys to drive it, or you can go all-out king-hell and get a VFD infinitely variable speed unit: http://www.waynecoearti...

Gershom wrote:Do they make the belts in higher grits? 400, 600?

http://www.trugrit.com/belts1.htm these guys have them up to 1000 grit, if it's a 1x42. They have pretty much every grit made for every belt made.

That's one of the ubiquitous Chinese mini-lathes, in the US sold as a 7"x12." The 170mm is max swing over the bed, the 75mm is max swing over the saddle. So, while you may be able to physicall put something up to 170mm in the chuck, you couldn't work it close to the toolpost. In other word...

I'm diggin' that bolster, Kurt.

Ever smoke a Kirsten? http://www.kirstenpipe.com/ Same concept. They do get wet, but you just run a wad of tissue paper through it every few smokes and it's good as new and gurgle-free, unlike a Peterson or Savinelli "system" pipe, which is what it seems like you're replicating here, kind ...