#PhotoOfTheDay is a before-and-after of my current post vise. I bought it when it was "farm fresh" and then restored it to good working condition, including fabricating a new spring for it. This is my
#PhotoOfTheDay is a before-and-after of my current post vise. I bought it when it was "farm fresh" and then restored it to good working condition, including fabricating a new spring for it. This is my
#PhotoOfTheDay is a before-and-after of my current post vise. I bought it when it was "farm fresh" and then restored it to good working condition, including fabricating a new spring for it. This is my 2nd post vise and 2nd restoration.
As with my first post vise, this one is likely a hundred or more years old. They are really wonderful, important tools for blacksmithing.
#photo #photography #blacksmithing
@croyle@wandering.shop
Back in my early teens I had this fantasy that I would live in a cottage somewhere and be absolutely jacked with a wild beard and a smithy out back, wearing welding goggles and blasting NIN. Because of tools like these.
I guess it's not too late but I have way too many hobbies.
@Geojoek@mastodon.hams.social I also have far too many hobbies but this one is fun and sometimes very useful!
"Specialization is for insects." - Heinlein
@Geojoek @croyle That would be some honest work
@Geojoek @croyle When you say you had to fabricate a spring, what was involved in that? Did you have to forge or draw (I have no idea what the right term would be) your own spring steel? Or just cutting an existing spring to the correct shape/size?
Coil springs, at a minimum, are fascinating things, I watched a vid once of them being made commercially, and it's an amazing process.
@scott
I could use some honest work. Few things are more dishonest than GIS.
@croyle