It will come together but the shop has been unco-operative over the last week.

I'm besting it into submission - better known as "hammering it into a commerative coin".

I have parts up to my ear lobes. Some are even ear rings!

I had hoped to have an extra knife. And the laminated wood - as mounted and ground - turned out to be butt ugly. Soooooo. The knife will have (does have) brass bolsters now ... And who knows what handle material will be there.

Another order knife has bolsters too now.

Sal's knife is coming along.

I made a new die plate for a special project we've been working on. The rolling mill uses a gas engine. In Md., I had it vented up the chimney. Here - nothing yet. Have not used it in years. Sure the engine would need therapy. But - I should just convert it to electric. Might. I could use it for a number of things. I tried the new die with the 50 ton press. No deal. Won't print. I need the mill.

Got barrels to finish. The days are too short bi know you'd enjoy pics. Let me sort it some please. Just a tangle right now. I'm beat. Need a shower and food.

Thanks for reading. Sorry the tease took so long. I thought a few things might cooperate.

I'm ok. Hope you are all well, and your families!

Gary

So Gary,

Is the roll press one of those that keeps rotating all the time, where you feed the work through from one side while trying not to let it snatch your fingers or your shirtsleeve?

I've seen a couple videos of guys making garden-type tools with rotary forges, working with tongs and red-hot billets while the "jaws" counter-rotate from above and below. Looks dangerous as heck, those rollers look like they could suck in a telephone pole and spit it out as matchsticks.

Hopefully yours isn't quite as... "exciting" to work with.

Hi Sean.

I design things a bit different. I'm not into man eating tools. It's designed to move - start and stop at will. Variable speed.



Gary

Sounds much more reasonable, the ones I saw making shovels and garden forks were the size of minivans. Of course, you're not pumping out a hundred copies an hour, and presumably your artwork doesn't need to be quite as hefty as a shovel.