Thank you.

Yea, we're very much about keeping our history alive, so people can learn from it. Once we forget about all of that, it goes down hill very quickly.

antique tool venders, why do you think I got there so early, I had cleaned them all out, lol. 😛 It was alot of fun for sure, and I did find the saw sets, Ill toss pics up here in a few on discord.

lol, which one, pretty much everything is belt driven saws :P

That sounds like a good time also, lol. I was just getting ready to fix some of that for dinner tonight, pork, sauerkraut, and mashed potatoes, lol. It was very busy on saturday and after a while, I just went to the carving building and sat down and BS'd with everyone there to avoid the craziness, lol. It was alot of fun tho and there was alot of new stuff there this year as usual. I also may or may not have cleaned out all of the goodies from the swap meet guy too. :P

yea, it was defenitely alot of fun.

Yea, it gave me some trouble because of trying to hold it. The patterns/parts are all tapered in all directions, so it doesnt want to be held in a milling vise, and when turned upside down, the top of where the wing nut/bolt go through stick down and get in the way, and the other arm sticks down also, so the 4 jaw was the only option I really had tbh. If I were making more than one of them, it would be easier to make a fixture to hold it, but as I was only doing one, it was easier to hold it the way I did in the 4 jaw. Thanks for stopping in and watching!

no idea?

Thank you.

"thumbs up" 😋 Im not sure they're that long really, but ok, lol.

Thanks man, and yes, it was defenitely a challenge at every step. I kept having to stop to see how to actually hold the stuff so I could get access to the stuff, lol.

Thank you, there was a whole lot more problems than what was in the video, lol.

Thanks man, and yes, it is alot of fun to use too actually, lol. I defenitely plan on using that thing like crazy coming up. Thanks for stopping in and watching man.

Thanks emma, and thanks for stopping in and watching.

thanks, and my hair's fine, it sticks out perfectly fine for me, lol. I seem to be losing it as fast as it grows out, so I think it'll be fine for now, lol.

yea, it slices down into both sides of the groove, then the other side of the cutter comes in and scoops what's in between out.

lol, thanks man, and yea, that plane is a massive box of tricks in and of itself, so Ill defenitely be putting it to use alot coming up. Also it cuts so fast that it really doesnt take long to blow through the board, which is why I cut half way, so I didnt run it into the workbench underneath when it sliced through by accident, lol.

Thanks man, it's been a long time coming, but it is finally done, lol.

@@ChirpysTinkerings so, what's next? :)

@@tobhomott Im really not sure yet, I do want to get the vertical milling head done, but that will come in due time. Right now, Im working on sorting and rearranging everything since I was kinda forced to move instantly, lol.

thanks.

Hey mike, yea, long time. Ive been ok, just beyond busy, hope youre doing well also.

Thanks man, and grab your stuff and come on out, we'll grab everything back out, lol.

Yea, just a quickie one, but something is better than nothing, lol.

Hey man, no problem. I had those patterns done up since early this year and they've been on the list pretty high for what I wanted to cast, so since it's getting cooler and cooler faster than we can believe, I figured now was a better time than any, lol.

lol, thanks, and yea, Im not sure when I'll ever get back to that thing, but might as well keep making parts for it to have them ready.

commercial product, a friend used to buy up large barrels of the stuff from foundries that were shutting down and sell it out to the home foundry guys, so I had gotten some from him. I know paul from paul's garage just got some not too long ago, so he might be one to ask where to get it from.

lol, thankfully the tong rack was just across the room and I didnt have to worry about running out to grab the other ones, lol. :P

lol, probably not. I imagine that stuff would be pretty spicy and cause serious "heart burn", lol. 😛

lol, Im good with my accent, I rather not get too much of an aussie accent, going around calling everyone a c*%t, lol.

@@ChirpysTinkerings Ha, it depends. It can range from a term of endearment to a punch in the face. It's the inflection that matters, not the word.

@@jmone3559 lol, I know, I hang around with those guys far too much it seems, lol.

lol, it'll grow back. 😛

Thanks.

A type of hand planes, of my own design. Ive released part 2 of this which finishes them up already, lol.

Thanks, lol. Yea, it's a completely different beast after the blade was sharpened, just glides through the wood effortlessly, but I was wanting to show the result of the forge weld on camera before I sharpened it, but it got cut out due to video length.

Thanks man, and yea, after sharpening that thing, its amazing how little effort it takes to remove alot of material, but I was wanting to show how the forge weld looked before grinding it, so skipped it thinking it was sharp enough for the video. Then ended up cutting it out due to the video being so long, along with alot of other stuff, lol.

@@ChirpysTinkerings Its length is the reason it took me so long to watch, but I am glad it I did. You did a great job!

@@valsforge4318 Thanks man. Yea, I tried to cut it down as much as possible, and trying to split it into two parts would be virtually impossible, so it's as short as it could be and still make sense, lol.

Thanks man.

lol, I didnt think I was really gloating, but I do agree that they turned out better than my expectations, lol.

@@ChirpysTinkerings I know the feeling, going to have to make something.

@@quirty864 lol, have fun.

lol, yea, I wish I could have a larger one, I probably would never use the mill then, lol. In all honesty, for most of what I do, the 7" shaper works perfectly fine and you cant beat it.

yes it definetely is, lol. I couldnt express how much I appreciated it on video.

nah, it's mostly due to gating, the metal goes flying into the mold after going through the tapered sprue, which the head pressure plus the choke point there tends to act almost like a garden hose spray nozzle, after that, it's wide open and can flow into the mold pretty quickly, so as the metal hits the damp sand, the metal flows in faster than the sand can vent that moisture and it causes the metal to lift off of the sand and chill, which creates a rough texture. As the sand is choked at the part rather than wide open, the metal comes down the sprue and through the gating, then has to flow up into that choke point, which also slows the metal down considerably before it gets to that point, then the choke point lets it gently flow into the mold, and lets it have the time needed to let everything vent how it needs to. The sand has the same moisture level and everything on both gating styles, so only thing different between the two as the gating to show the difference.

Thank you.

lol, well, the lazy part, I can honestly say that Ive got that covered, but due to allergies to wood dust, power tools are a bit of a no-no for me most of the time, so hand planes, I can work faster, longer, and get more done while being more precise using them than with power tools usually.

Thanks man, now I just need to go out and finish them and get them ready to go, lol.

yea, it makes pretty neat hand planes, and like Ive said before, they're pretty comfortable to use.. Also, use what youve got, lol.

@@ChirpysTinkerings Made parallelism pretty easy. Had that tank been patched up?

@@quirty864 Yea, kinda, it was shot holes all throughout it when I got it, and it had been sitting out for quite a while, so I figured it was safe to cut it up. I welded the holes in that part up as much as I could expecting to use it as a crucible for casting aluminum, but it was just a bit too large to fit into the furnace after I rebuilt it, lol. After I got into blacksmithing, I kept using the dished bottom as a form to make ladles and such, so I just keep cutting the rings off of it to use for other stuff and keep the bottom to use for the smithing stuff.

yea, I only had my cell phone for recording there, so the audio was a bit off.