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Up first is the bowling ball vise I finished a bit ago. I used a 10# weight for the top plate, which added some inertia, and was tapped for the vise mounting bolts. Ill be fitting a better vise to it whenever. It works well, and is sitting on a ring gear from my 4Runner for a base. The leather adds grip.
Heres the bandsaw. Ive dredged up my thread about it and added more pics of what I did to it, if you look in the first page right now.
My sword quench tube. It holds 4 gallons and is 38 tall inside, made of 6 steel tube. Leaning on it is a jian blade waiting for HT.
The power hack. Ive been tinkering with it, it cuts pretty OK now with new blades. A cool beast for sure. Traded two scrap cars for it.
A couple pix of the metal lathe. Ive gathered all the parts for variable speed conversion, its my next non-knife project, making the walk around remote box that can clip to any of the VFD controlled machines. Im upping the horsepower to 3 from 1.5, with a Baldor TEFC.
A larger coal forge Im building outside. This has a kickass blower and a railroad style firepot, which will be good for welding hawks and stuff.
A little tube flaring fixture I built a while ago- it works quite well and is very simple. The dies are hardened and hand ground coil spring sections that were straightened hot.
The steel wheel attachment for grinding radiused lock faces for folders. Its actually a scrap tracking wheel from a Square Wheel grinder, the old 4 belt model.
An old postal scale. Rarely do I make a knife over 1 pound. I like to be able to tell kitchen knife customers especially what a knife weighs finished- just finished an 8 was chef Saturday that clocked in at 7.25 oz. I like the solidity and analog nature of this scale.
Heres the bandsaw. Ive dredged up my thread about it and added more pics of what I did to it, if you look in the first page right now.
My sword quench tube. It holds 4 gallons and is 38 tall inside, made of 6 steel tube. Leaning on it is a jian blade waiting for HT.
The power hack. Ive been tinkering with it, it cuts pretty OK now with new blades. A cool beast for sure. Traded two scrap cars for it.
A couple pix of the metal lathe. Ive gathered all the parts for variable speed conversion, its my next non-knife project, making the walk around remote box that can clip to any of the VFD controlled machines. Im upping the horsepower to 3 from 1.5, with a Baldor TEFC.
A larger coal forge Im building outside. This has a kickass blower and a railroad style firepot, which will be good for welding hawks and stuff.
A little tube flaring fixture I built a while ago- it works quite well and is very simple. The dies are hardened and hand ground coil spring sections that were straightened hot.
The steel wheel attachment for grinding radiused lock faces for folders. Its actually a scrap tracking wheel from a Square Wheel grinder, the old 4 belt model.
An old postal scale. Rarely do I make a knife over 1 pound. I like to be able to tell kitchen knife customers especially what a knife weighs finished- just finished an 8 was chef Saturday that clocked in at 7.25 oz. I like the solidity and analog nature of this scale.
