Guess I'll show y'all my student...

jawilder said:
Tell me about the whompin stick. I don't yet have any wooden mallets for my forge. Do I need them? What are their purpose?
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He could tell you but then he'd have to kill me. Or something like that.

Maybe it doesn't leave hammer marks???
Maybe as an apprentice he must "earn" the right to use a REAL hammer???
Maybe it's just a cruel joke Will is playing on his "Grasshopper" apprentice???
Maybe it's just a cruel joke Will is playing on everyone on this forum???

- Paul Meske, Wisconsin
 
You use a wooden mallet or a baseball bat to straighten a blade by whompin it on the spine or edge to get the curve out. It won't deform the steel like a hammer, it just corrects the curve.
 
Well how about that. All this time I've been messing up my edges for nothing. I LEARNED SOMETHING TODAY :)
 
Yeppers, using a wooden stick or mallet allows you to correct bends. It moves the metal without deforming the metal.

James, all these years and you've never seen golf ball file handles? I'm too cheap to buy the fancy ones and too lazy to change it from file to file. I usually have 3 or 4 mill bastards ready when I'm filing on a knife.
 
Will Leavitt said:
James, all these years and you've never seen golf ball file handles?
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I'm a little embarassed, but no I never knew about that before now. I'm cheap an lazy, too and just use wads of dollar-store electrical tape :o
 
I like you more and more the more I get to know you fella.
 
Aww shucks, Lorien, yer makin' me blush :o

Wait... you were talking to me, right? :D:foot:
 
Will Leavitt said:
Cliff, leatherneck huh? I figured you for one of the lesser services ;) Just read a great essay in "The Legion" magazine titled "The Definition of A Marine" by LTG John Kelly. It's a piece about 2 young Marines that reported to St Peter after spending the last 6 seconds of their lives defending their gate and brothers against a car bomber while everyone slept.... 2000 pounds of explosives and they stopped it at the gate. The whole scene was captured on security camera, they start firing, IPF pop off rounds and flee, they do mag changes and lean into the fire........Navy Crosses for both. God bless the Marine Corps.
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Lesser services huh..........46th Combat Engineer Battalion.................We build the roads in country for you Marine's to ride in on!:eek::D:D:D:D

I will tell you a quick true story Will, years ago I was in a local watering hole in Pensacola, Fl. on a Saturday night called Trader John's. Since Pensacola is a local Navy base the establishement was full of "Swabbys" and as my already too drunk buddy so aptly called them "Jar Heads".

You see the building is built like a shotgun style building and we were clear in the back of the building and my buddy who was about 120 pounds dripping wet. Yells out at the top of drunk @ss voice for no good reason that I could figure, " I hate a damn Jar Head".
I took one look around as it got very quiet in there and I could not lay my eyes on a back door and I figured it was going to take at least 30 minutes to fight my way to the front door again. If I made it that far.
I looked at my drunk buddy and told him to shut the H up, cause if I have to fight my way to the front door I am going to whip your @ss if I make it. Luckily everyone just looked at him for a minute and went back to drinking, Oh those were the days. Young and dumb!!!!!!!!!!:D:D:D:D

Lesser services!:rolleyes::D:D:D Hang in there ole man we are all in this $hit together and together will get out of it again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Like I said glad to see you back in the saddle again, and hey that student of yours looks like he doing real good!:thumbup:
 
I'm a Soldier... not a f'n Morine....

Engineer.... "First we dig them, then we die in them."

I'm very familar with P'cola, I used to call a lot of college baseball down there especially during the Fall. UWF has a major Fall tourney and we hold our pre-tourney crew meetings at Kooter Browns. My last tourney I had a $270 bar tab (it WAS an 8 hour meeting after all) and had a 9 am plate. It was a very fast game, if you didn't swing the bat you were out. Our end of tourney dinner was at Flounders, we'd always warn people about the portions but they rarely listened.

One of my best umpiring friends lives in Pace, we were roommates at camp together.

Back on topic... I finished the charcoal forge that I'm giving Faulkner, used it for several hours on a project I can't work in my gas forge. It was fun but I really need to make a few more fire tools, hell I may not give it to him. :D I forgot how flexible solid fuel forges are and how precise you can get with the heat.
 
I like you too James : )
 
Very cool !! What a great skill to be learning!!! Most kids are tied to their video games, this ones out learning a trade.:cool:
 
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