winter projects

Rudy · Post by **Rudy** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 3:18 am

Here's a photo of the spoon end getting ready to have the final hammering into the swage.

Rudy · Post by **Rudy** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 3:22 am

At this point, I have used the hand grinder to shape the spoon edge.

Rudy · Post by **Rudy** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 3:27 am

Now on to heating the tail. Here I will use the hammer to taper the tail so that I can make a scroll hook.

Rudy · Post by **Rudy** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 3:30 am

Hammering the tail end to a taper.

Rudy · Post by **Rudy** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 3:32 am

The tail end is now tapered and ready for the scrolled hooks.

Rudy · Post by **Rudy** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 3:38 am

The scroll hook has been bent. Now to the final grinding and the polishing with the wire wheel.

Rudy · Post by **Rudy** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 3:42 am

Pictures of the finished product.

Metal forging is HARD work. I have seven hours in this project. Those hammers are heavy. Doing this work every day would surely build up muscles.

Granny · Post by **Granny** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 3:47 am

Rudy, the spoon turned out very nice. Thank you for sharing it with us.

dburt · Post by **dburt** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 4:52 am

Rudy, it looks like you are having fun!!

Jones'n4chrome · Post by **Jones'n4chrome** » Sat Mar 20, 2010 8:56 am

Hey Rudy,

Nice job! could you make one for each of your bus family members?

Chuck

Jones'n4chrome · Post by **Jones'n4chrome** » Sat Mar 20, 2010 9:00 am

Here is a pic that granny asked me to post.
She wrote: "I built my racks on my little trailer, made them the day before Christmas."

Rudy · Post by **Rudy** » Sat Mar 20, 2010 2:35 pm

Those racks look way cool. That looks like it was a Chevy truck at one time.

Rudy · Post by **Rudy** » Sat Mar 20, 2010 11:56 pm

I don't know if Splummer makes these in the winter time, but here are some chairs that he makes.

GoodClue · Post by **GoodClue** » Sun Mar 21, 2010 7:13 am

Hello Rudy, Ginger, Steve ...
Great projects, from spoons to racks to chairs ...
Ginger, is it inappropriate to say I like your rack ... ?
Ooooh, to have a shop ... am coming up with ideas for my small trailer ... you guys are inspiring, thanks.

Doug

Granny · Post by **Granny** » Sun Mar 21, 2010 8:12 am

Doug, in this instance, I guess I'll make an acception to you "liking my rack", and not offer to slap your face for such a comment. haha You should see the new racks I am trying to build - for my big pickup. Rudy, thank you also for the compliment. Yes, it once was a Chevy truck.

Gentlemen, I just fell in love. I went "scrapping" today, at a steel scrap yard - 30 acres of stuff to sort through. I spent way too much money. I bought heavy flat steel to build a wood stove out of, heavy tubing for extending my frame on my bus - to accommodate my back porch, and all kinds of other little goodies. I found an old metal tractor seat, a heavy spring (can you guess what those will become?). I found a cute woodstove door all "ready" made. I went to this place looking for some steel square tubing but didn't find any of that to get.

NOMADICISTA

winter projects

Winter projects ...

Who is online