So it's been awhile!

I'm still an unemployed loser. However I have made a bunch of new blacksmithing stuff!

1st My forge is nearly complete all I need to do is drill one hole and put together the burner assembly. I brought it into the college's shop several weeks ago and completed all the welding and got some K wool for it. I have firebrick all I need now is to set up the burner assembly and I am ready to rock!

2nd I made two pair of Tongs one for 3/8-1/2 bar stock and another for 3/4X1/4 flat bar which is what I used to make both pairs of tongs.

3rd I got into a Pay it forward art thing on facebook and so now I have a bunch of knives which I have made to give away. The coll thing though is I will get stuff in return I have already received an Orc Knobb for warhammer 40K.

4th awhile back my hammer handle on my 3 1/2lb hammer broke. I got it replaced by one of my fellow students I need to flatten the handle out though. I can't stand a round handle. XP

I hope to have the forge running fairly soon but we will see I still need to get a regulator set up and I am not going to skimp on it.

Anyhow hope to have pictures soon!

I finished up the BBQ set good to be done with it. You can see the posts in my gallery please look them over and tell me what you think.

So now on to the next project this one is a beast of a project it's going to take me awhile to finish it. Those leafs that I posted up are just the first of a crap-ton I have to make for the next project. The next project is a 6 1/2 foot tall by 6 foot wide iron worked double gate. I am not sure how long this will take me but I am gonna be working my ass off at the shop in weekends to come!

All for now!

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All righty let's see....

So I have some projects going I am currently making a set of grilling tools for my high school's fundraiser thing that they do every year. Yes I know I am a graduate but I felt like being nice to them. I have been working on those and finishing about one a weekend right now I am working on the last one which is a burger flipper. All of them are coming out pretty cool and I am happy with them.

In other news my 3 1/2lb hammer is starting to fall apart the handle was never that well put together and now every 6 or so whacks the head starts sliding up the handle. The wedge sucks and because of the construction of the hammer there is not really enough wood for the head to grab onto so eventually I may have to either replace the handle or do some work to refit the handle. For now I just whack the handle on the anvil and it works. Also for a 7 dollar hammer I don't think it's done to bad.

Other hammer news! Last class I was working my burger flipper taking it from 5/8ths round down to about 1/2 and smaller for a tale part I am doing. So my 3 1/2 was not doing it so I busted out the 6lb sledge from the tool kit and that was just for the front part. Anyhow after getting my arm sore and dreading the next part Bert my teacher said "well why don't you use the power hammer." So I said hell yes and proceeded to get instruction on using the power hammer! What would have taken me probably an hour or two I did in about 20 minutes on the power hammer. Anyhow it was sweeeeet and now I can use it when I need it which will be so awesome for future projects.

Also My brother and I have a workshop website go visit it, it's cool and don't forget to visit the Zombie page: [link]

All for now Look for new things to come up soon!

So I don't have a job anymore down economy and such with it being the slow time of year and tax season blah blah blah nuf said.

I am also taking black smithing again! I went to the first class of the term last night and made a leaf and a standard drive in wall hook. I can still pound out something that looks good! In other news the college is missing most of it's tools because of a disgruntled employee who was fired for crap reasons. That also brought the cost of the class down to $204.00 and it used to be near $300.00 . Alliance Oregon event is coming up and me and Jesse have lot's to build for it. So hopefully more projects will start coming up on my page soon and I intend to try and get my forge done soon as well. All for now!

Well I have been back out on the road for more than a week now. They actually ran me so hard that on Friday I was out of my 70 hour clock. For those of you who have no idea what I am talking about. I have so many legal hours I can drive 11 hours a day driving not more than 14 hours a day working. After that I have to do a ten hour reset where I take ten hours off. Now I also have the 70 hour 8 day rule where I cannot work more than 70 hours in 8 days. Well I started on a Friday and a week later last Friday I had run through all but four of my hours.

So they had me do a 34 hour reset where I take 34 hours off and then my 70 hour clock is reset. Well the place they had me reset at was pretty boring just some yard out in the industrial area's of N Kansas City, MO. I was right next to Frog heaven an empty lot loaded with millions of crickets and grasshoppers. The yard itself was boring accept for the outhouse which has "The Lot lizard has aids Oh no!!!!" Written on the inside just a bit of comedy.

The exciting part about this yard and why it's now my favorite drop yard EVAR! Is the theme park Worlds of Fun that's a mile walk away!!!!! Yeah I went and had loads of fun riding the crazy roller coasters and such. They also had one of the most awesome haunted houses EVAR! It was truly awesome I only wish I had stayed till midnight.

Anyhow new chapter of The Hunter is up hope to write the next one soon. I also will probably submit this new thing I have been working on to it's a detective story but that's all I am going to say.

Anyhow see ya later.