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:jawdrop: .... :shock: .... That is quite possibly one of the coolest things I've ever seen. :notworthy: It wouldn't help me much, since I rarely keep notes or sketches, but by all that pretends to be holy the concept is so freaking amazingly futuristicool that I'm just gobsmacked such a thing truly...

Since I've got both a KMG and a Dodge pickup with hemi, am I officially the lamborghini of rednecks?

1792 in a circa-1840-ish clay stubstem I put an acrylic stem on... :mrgreen: You know you can't post that without pictures, Longmire. :D I am sucking mightily on a giant egg stuffed with 1792 while icing the bejeezuz out of my shoulder and considering a stiff drink. I'd post pictures if you hosted ...

DMI wrote:At the price this stuff sells for you could buy a lot of briar.

Are there no peat bogs in the US of A?

Damn few, and they're mostly under legal protection. Those Canadians have lots of 'em, but I don't think there's any oak in those.

1792 in a circa-1840-ish clay stubstem I put an acrylic stem on...

Whoa, I missed that somehow... That's a beauty in a difficult style to capture.

I feel your pain on the polishing, I usually stop at 400 grit myself. Last week I had to put a mirror finish on a jeweler's bench block, so it was hand rubbing up past 1500 and then buffing for hours...

The folks at my local Ace have learned not to bother me when I'm wandering around letting ideas ferment in my pointy little head, but it did take 'em a couple of years. :roll: A firm "Nah, I got it, just need to think about stuff" sends them on their way. Oh, and for the record Ace and Tru...

Yep, Rob at KMG/Beaumont is the guy to talk to. I use my KMG with the slack belt attachment (the platen mount with the platen removed) for pipemaking as well as knives/swords/everything else that needs grinding/sanding. I don't have the variable speed motor (too pricy!) but I use the step pulleys wi...

I made my 12" taper by brazing a 5" taper onto a piece of drill rod, but then I'm also a smith...

D'oh! I thought you sounded familiar...

There's still a lot of swords and saxes, etc., but there are quite a few hunters as well.

Looks more like a Big Black Mariah to me...but then I'm all likkered up on that roadhouse corn, left Waukegan at the slamming of the door. Nothing 16 shells from a thirty-ought-six wouldn't cure. Or even a Sweet Little Bullet from a Pretty Blue Gun. Just about anything Tom inspires one to do is usua...

Come on over to the dark side at the Bladesmith's Forums, we don't do stainless over there. Stainless is for people who don't know any better.

http://forums.dfoggknives.com/

Nice knives, by the way!

Exactly what I suspected you were up to, and it came out great!

That's probably the coolest thing I've seen in a long time.

I bet it'll smoke like an absolute dream.

That second design looks a lot stronger. Make sure your machinist uses an alloy like 4140 that can be hardened and tempered. Plain old mild steel will eventually bend at the corners. Speaking of corners, be sure to leave a rounded fillet on the inside corners. A sharp inside corner in steel is a str...

That's such a great quote I'm gonna steal it and put it on a site I moderate. It'll do those guys as much good as it does those here. Thanks!

HI, I don't know how much of this is true. Apparently tobacco is slightly poisonous to the earth and after planting that you can't plant anything else in the same spot for a while. Whoever told you that is obviously under the influence of the anti-tobacco nazis. :lol: No, none of that is true. It I...

so now that we know how to install a band is there any way to replace a band that has fallen off without using a new band or glue? Option 1: epoxy (not technically glue!). Option 2: pin it on with tiny little pins, which you'll have to make yourself. Option 3: cut the band and resolder it using har...

The quote that gets me is this one:

Grammaton wrote:Prepared briar is a really good material for the task of pipemaking. It's very dense, but easily worked because it's soft,

Have you ever worked briar? I have yet to find a piece that's easily worked OR soft...

Whoa!!! :shock: I like it, but the last time I saw anything like that there were a few micrograms of d-lysergic acid diethylamide involved... :mrgreen: OVER 20 years ago, I hasten to add. I think... Oh, hey, is that Jefferson Airplane I hear? Duuuuuuuuuuuude, I think I can feel the colors! mmmmm, co...