Fun shop stuff. Non-knife projects. What about you?

[AntCaps]

A few of these little collectables may be on the way...

[Salem Straub]

Wow, good stuff. Josh, your grinder build is looking sick! Like the tooling rack too. Clean work.

Nick, yeah boo hoo about having to dream up a solution for what to do with all that space. Please tell me the power hammers are inside and running now? I'd like to own that rebuild vid- I had R. Kern's book, which while helpful, was impractical in areas and could have been more visually clear. I can't wait to see and steal your ideas on the shoulder filing jigs. I've been thinking about integral specific tooling of late, as well.

Yes this is a "post your non knife project thread" and damascus golf clubs definitely count. I give it a 10.

Terrio, if I was a real knifemaker, I'd be building knives not machines. Some days just end up being shop building days, just can't have too many of those.

[Bill DeShivs]

All joints are hard-soldered.

[crazyengineer]

All joints are hard-soldered.

awesome, that is what I was looking for, I didn't know if they were machined out of a solid piece or welded/soldered on like they are

Now I really want to try, though I am wondering if there is a way to make it out of a solid piece of metal, with the pieces bent with heat or something. If I tried it, I would either solder it or I would cut them out out of a solid piece and bend the hook and loops down.

[Bill DeShivs]

There are lots of ways to make them.

[sharpeknives]

I'm getting a new shop. The price my wife must pay for gettinga new house that doesn;t have a shop. I am going back in again for back surgery and I can't do squat so i get to tell other people where to put my stuff. Been pointing allot. "put it there, that goes over there.

[Don Nguyen]

Today I got a bunch of free flourescent bulbs

Also, went to go check out a local electric motor business that sells and repairs motors, as well as specializes in making phase converters. Biiig warehouse, lots of equipment, lots of motors. I went in expecting not so much, but I was reacquainted with an old band member who actually owned the whole business! He gave me a free 3ph 1hp motor and made me a small static converter for it, and also offered to lend his shop for whenever I needed to get some machining done!


Noooot a baaad deal

[Patrice Lemée]

Good thread indeed. You guys are busy buddies!

Latest projects:
Built a buffing attachment for my KMG to take advantage of the VFD and so I could make some room for that surface grinder I don't have the money to buy.

Following Josh's advice I've built a simple clamping jig to make it easier to cut shoulders on the mill. Not working perfectly yet but it's a start. (Gotta build a tree like that Josh, thanks for giving me even more work.

On the side, I am restoring a old pneumatic bus driver seat that my Dad got where he worked. He used it for 30 years in his garage where he made all kinds of metal sculptures. I remember spending a lot of time sitting on this chair watching him work when I was little. For now I am only taking it apart and derusting/degreasing the parts using the almost magical electrolytic process. Just have a smallish bucket so it is a slow process but is the best way to preserve as much as possible. I am hoping to do a nice enough job that it might go inside the house instead of the shop. We'll see.

[cbr900son]

So far this is what I got on my shop rearranging/rebuilding project.... SOOO much work to do lol

[zaph1]

Every friend and colleague I've known that purported to like golfing, would be excited as can be on Friday, and mad as a wet hen on Monday.



I do like fishing. I rarely catch anything but a beer-buzz, but it's always good to get near the water. I wonder how stainless damascus spoons would sell...

I've made some titanium spinners, but I think that is a reason to contact Delbert Ealy! Thankfully, it wouldn't take too much to forge a spoon.

[cbr900son]

Well got most of my shop done! Clean area and more shelves. Also everything has its own little work area. The shower curtain is to help keep dust out of that area since I couldn't do a full clean room with my mill taking up so much room. Also have the shop vac plugged into the router table but can easily roll out and be used else where.

[Salem Straub]

Nice, CBR. I had pegboard in my old shop, it's handy and I miss it.

Patrice, cool chair. I have not yet tried the electrolytic de-rust method, it looks pretty amazing. I remember Nick's thread about it. You have me thinking about shoulder milling fixtures now, too... care to share?

[Bill DeShivs]

Salem-
I would really like to see your blacksmith's interpretation of a belt buckle!
Hammer finish, maybe some overlaid designs or initials....

[Patrice Lemée]

Salem, you have to try the derusting. For people like us who like to restore old things, it's addictive. You'll be looking for things to derust believe me.

The fixture is simply a shoulder filling fixture clamped in the mill vise. I can still get a pic this week if you want.

[Salem Straub]

Patrice, I won't have to look very far to find things to derust. The problem might be finding a large enough bucket... as for the milling fixture I was thinking in a different direction. I'll try to realize it soon.

Bill, I have no doubt I'd have fun making buckles. It's something to try for sure. Maybe square stock or sections with some twisting? It would have to incorporate some design element or finish or both that emphasized the forging method. Or little scrolls would be cool. Hell, the great Edgar Brandt made some beautiful iron and silver costume jewelery early in his career.

[Hengelo_77]

Bought an old house with an old barn that I'm setting up shop in.
And lots of other projects going on. Working on a gate out of recycled old oak at hte moment.

I hope you can see trough the mess

[Bill DeShivs]

Hengelo-
That has the makings of a great shop!

[Mark Behnke]

Hengelo
More pics

[Patrice Lemée]

I agree with Bill, lost of potential for a shop with some "character" you have there Hengelo.
Of course, some major cleaning necessary before I can look at the pics without twitching.

[Salem Straub]

That new barn shop could be very cool- it has that sort of old wooden-beam type character of Joel Sanderson's shop. I like to picture a 19th century shop with a brick coal forge and a big old double horned German anvil, bellows and such. And water driven line shafting for the grindstones.

OK maybe I got carried away there but it's gonna be nice, I can tell. Congrats.