What the hell am I going to do with myself?
Yeah, this was pretty much my last day at the forge, since tomorrow is a little scatterbrained and Monday will consist of cleanup and installation. So what did I do with myself you ask? Well, I figured out a MUCH better way of making tongs, making them out of flat instead of out of square. The metal tapers SOOOO much faster and it’s much easier to get the two reins looking about the same. The final product is highly functional too, and holds small pieces of square stock like a vice.
Then, I put a collar around my hot cut hardy tool so as to save me anvil from wear and improve its cutting ability. Unfortunately, this took about two hours to accomplish, since the collar was made out of very small pieces of square stock and to clamp them so that I could weld accurately was certainly a meticulous task. Ultimately, it came out great, and am looking forward to using it in my own shop.
Now I know I haven’t been very good about putting pictures up (which I attribute to exhaustion after a long day), so I’ll try to get a bunch up in a last salvo. Got some interesting ones too.
And now I ask myself…what am I going to do with myself when this is over?
