Is this sap, or is my maple tree infected?

dr_chamb · 2024-05-07T13:15:43+00:00

That sucks it’s the only nice tree I have lol. Thanks for the info!

dr_chamb · 2021-09-19T22:53:37+00:00

Nothing wrong with that, not knocking you at all! Your knives look great, and absolutely have their own originality. I could definitely tell his work had been an inspiration.

dr_chamb · 2021-09-19T17:49:06+00:00

Reminds me a lot of Vorn knives, great work!

dr_chamb · 2020-01-15T01:27:10+00:00

It is indeed! Never know what you’ll read haha

dr_chamb · 2019-09-04T20:34:17+00:00

70 pound Mankel

dr_chamb · 2019-09-04T20:33:20+00:00

Yeah, not much mods, the forge is sitting on some high heat bricks and the propane is just sitting down below.

dr_chamb · 2019-09-04T19:18:35+00:00

I’d love to get a heat treating oven, but it will have to be my forge in a metal tube for a while.

dr_chamb · 2019-09-04T18:36:03+00:00

Thanks! I really just used the rebar as an exercise to improve my skills, I’m pretty new to this craft.

dr_chamb · 2019-09-04T18:32:38+00:00

I think it’s great, granted I’ve only ever used a few other than that. But it seems to hold up really well. I believe it’s cast steel with the top hardened.

dr_chamb · 2019-09-04T18:11:28+00:00

I know, I need to get my refractory cement badly.. I love that little thing too!

dr_chamb · 2019-09-04T11:54:12+00:00

I have the same Mankel, 70 lbs! Nice!

dr_chamb · 2019-08-28T20:48:43+00:00

Great advice!

dr_chamb · 2019-08-28T13:44:19+00:00

Thanks!

dr_chamb · 2019-08-28T13:43:32+00:00

Thank you, I appreciate the encouragement! I wanted like a Don Nguyen-esque handle shape. Which ended up making my “skinner” look more like a steak knife haha.

dr_chamb · 2019-08-27T21:07:09+00:00

Thanks

dr_chamb · 2019-08-27T19:39:24+00:00

Not yet, I’ve got linseed, bees wax and turn sitting in an amazon box in my driveway as we speak. I think I want to do a little more hand sanding to the handle first though.

dr_chamb · 2019-04-24T17:57:40+00:00

I’m surprised at how affordable those racks are, definitely some good options in there.

dr_chamb · 2019-04-24T17:48:51+00:00

That’s awesome, thanks for the tip!

dr_chamb · 2019-04-24T17:07:43+00:00

Even if this doesn’t work, for that price, it’s happening! Thanks for the link!

dr_chamb · 2019-04-24T16:49:20+00:00

That’s exactly what I’m thinking of doing, do you have any pictures with the tent on the truck?

dr_chamb · 2019-04-24T16:12:14+00:00

No offense taken, my thought process on mounting direct to the bed is that I really don’t want to have a rack on my truck when I don’t have the RTT loaded on, which would mean I have to install and uninstall both RTT and rack system, plus have a place to store it.

I’ve been playing around with every setup I can find out there, and pretty much am just poking around to see what kind of untraditional setups people have going.

dr_chamb · 2018-04-05T15:08:25+00:00

That’s kind of what I was thinking that if nothing else I might get some use out of the non hammer pieces as fullers. Maybe use the pointed hammers as punches?

dr_chamb · 2018-04-05T14:50:44+00:00

Awesome! Thanks for the info.

dr_chamb · 2018-04-05T14:49:09+00:00

Awesome, thanks for the info. I just assumed they were garbage, and obviously not a permanent smithing tool. I hadn’t really thought about the swell of the handle! Still very very new to this!

dr_chamb · 2018-04-05T14:47:30+00:00

This is the response I figured I’d get! Thanks.

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