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Well, I actually had time to do some work. I burnt the heck out of my hair though, I wasn't wearing a hat and an ember drifted down and caught my hair on fire. Nothing serious, but it smelled like I...

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Nice tools, What steel did you use? if it was wrought iron that could explain the "broken sapling" look, use more heat with wrought. if its steel then you probably got a "birds beak" effect when...

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I never thought about using the piece as a hammer and beating it on the anvil. That's a good idea. After the screwdrivers were quenched in water, it came out just hard enough to file. I guess I just...

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There's more than one way to skin a cat... but I dont advise skinnin' cats. Randy

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OK, lets see if I can get this to work (new version of CAD)Just like Randy said, when your first objective is to draw it out and you go straight in on it, the outside edges will out-run the center and...

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Thanks Don! you just proved the old saying about a picture being worth a thousand words! Randy

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If a water quench gives you something you can still file it's probably A36 steel, an old 1018 or 1020 would be pretty soft agter quenching and something with a bit more carbon would be glass hard if...

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The stuff that I made the forks out of came from the local political campane. Free metal everywhere in November. The larger stuff was from a poker used to measure water depth in a tank on an old farm....

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I make all my musket tools and turn-screws out of old 1/4" allen wrenches. I'm about out, but I got a whole fist-full, along with a big 'ole ball pien head, at a pawn shop for $5.00. I made my money...

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This is actually something I had to stop and think about several years ago when trying to show rank beginners how to not get cold shuts when drawing out. As has been said, what is happening is that...

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