A day in the shop

Have you ever wondered what my day's in the shop is like....... Well, probably not. LOL, Wheather you have, or haven't, I will tell you what all I did today.

The shop looks a LOT better since I cleaned it up!!!

First things first. Coffe and making a plan of what to make.

Also have to have some good country music.

Time to cut!!! I am using a new bandsaw that we
just bought. I LOVE this little machine!!!

A close up!!!

OK. I have most of it cut, now to mark it and hammer it!!!

And that means working with FIRE!!!! I used to use kerosene to light my fires, but uuhhh some times it didn't work out so well. So now what I do is shave off a hand full of cedar, to do this I use the shaving horse and draw knife

Then I split some white pine in to cigarete size pieces.

Now light the cedar!!!!!

Well... At least it's just a little smoke......

As usual I spoke to soon.

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While the smoke clears I mark out the metal that I have to taper.

Now that's HOT!!!! If you don't beleve me then
 touch a piece of metal that looks like this.

The metal I was working with was pretty short, but thankfully
I have these kevlar gloves that my good friend Dave Custer gave me!!! Thanks Dave

OK. That looks about right

Later on I put a twist in this angle brace.

It took me about an hour and a half to do all of this, I know it might seem a little slow, but hammering 1/2" steel to a point, and twisting it is no little project.
 After lunch I started on a hanging pot rack (yesssss I will post photo's soon) all four sides will be hammer textured, and will be rivited together....I think
Well it's 10:00 pm and I am tired, so as they said on the "Walton's" "Good night Johnboy"

Stuff I have made this last week!!!!

Hey yall, here are some stuff that I have made in the shop last week. Let me know what you think.


This cross is made of one piece of metal.



This is a flower pot/glass ball hanger.
It took me a little over 2 days to make.

The scrolls were the hardest thing to make, I made about 12
of them before I made one that looked any good

This is called a basket twist, I wouldn't have been able to make it with out the instructions that my good friend Dave Custer showed me a few months ago

So as Bugs Bunny says, That's all folks!!!!

iPod.....HELP!!!!!

Hey folks, I know that it has been quite a while since my last blog Post,but I have been REALY busy!!!!!! I just traded a TV for an IPod Touch, and I don't know how to change the music on it. Does any one know how I can delete a few of the songs that came with it???
I will try to get some photos of my shop on my blog as soon as I can.

New blog name

As the title reads I want my blog to have a new name, and I am asking all my follower for ideas. So get on your thinking caps.

Sorry!!!!!!

OK, so I haven't been the best "blog host" for the past month or so, but I have good reasons..... I am guessing that you won't want to read my list of excuses, so I will forgo that.
"What have you been doing???" you ask. Well mostly I have been working in my blacksmith shop (Yes I did finally get it finished), and doing all kinds of work around the farm.
Let me bring you up to date of whats been going on since my last post. First off I turned 18!!!!! Its about time LOL. Also our cow (Daisy) had twin calves, one is a bull and the other is a heifer. Not to mention that I got my drivers permit!!!Also we have sold the Kawasaki Mule, and have bought a 2000 Nissan Frontier 4X4!!! Yes I will be driving it mostly. Last, but not least I have stared a website for my blacksmith shop, here is a link to it http://www.blacksmithofthebluegrass.com/ .
So as you can see, I have several good reason's (not excuses :-D) for not posting any thing on my blog, but I am sorry for not keeping up with it.

A battery a day....

Well we have had some battery issues lately. Yesterday the battery in the Durango went out as we were leaving to go to thanksgiving dinner. Thankfully Junebug call just as it happened, so he was able to give us a ride.
Tuen today the battery qent out on the Mule... So we had to charge the Durango battery to get to Bg. When we got there I was amazed at how many people were still shoping for Black Friday deals, but then again this was the first time I have ever been to town on Black Friday. Let me ask one question... Why, I REPEAT, why would anyone whant to shop in such chaos???? I know I wouldn't.

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More work on the barn!!!!!

Well since I didn't feel like enjoying myself shopping on black friday, Dad and I worked on the barn.
It was pretty cold this morning (28!!!) so hadleing metal siding was not very fun.

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More work on the shop

I just finished working on the shop. I worked on the last work bench for the shop, I didn't finish it, but I got a got a good start on it.
Also I worked on the forge. I had to do some grinding on the forge so that my forge hood (that I haven' built yet) will fit in it.

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All we lack is finishing!!!

That is what Dad said today when we finished putting siding on the front of the barn today, and I gues that is true. Then again we could have said that 3 months ago!!!!LOL
Here are some photo of the barn that I took today.

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Creek View Blacksmith Shop

Well I have to admit that I am not the most "Loyal" blogger out there, but at time's I can force myself to sit down and have a small battle with this crazy computer. Not to mention how busy I am working on the barn and blacksmith shop!!!
Here are some photo's of how the blacksmith shop is coming. Right now I am building some work benches. I love having a shop to build stuff in, because with the lights I can work after it is dark. Dad and I stayed up there until 7:00 the other night, I wanted to keep working but Dad was getting so cold that his hands were going numb... I didn't think that is was THAT cold... I wasn't even wearing a sweat shirt.... It was only 38 out side.
The next project on the shop will be building a side draft hood for my forge.... I have NO idea how that is going to turn out.

So here are some photo's of the shop in it current state of disaster.... LOL
This was the hardest bench to build, because we had to build around that post.
I am starting to get some tools out!!!

Here is the bench that I was working on yesterday and last night.

Well that's all I have to show right now, when I get more done I will try (key word there "try.. LOL) to post some more photo's.