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  1. GruffaloGriff
    Nice one ant. Very satisfying turning a piece of scrap into something useful. Keep em coming.
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    Right up my street that, seeing a pattern and using it to build a piece of art around. I like it!
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    Never used reindeer. Is it fresh antler or well seasoned?The red and fallow deer antler i use has color only on the surface and once you cut through that it is white underneath. You can bleach it with an oxygen based bleach peroxide or the like. Soak it for a couple days then leave it in the sun until it goes white. Don't use household bleach as it weakens the antler.
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    Nice one ant
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    Progressing nicely, look forward to seeing the finished article ATB Griff
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    Looking good Jok
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    I,me sure you will handle it ant with your welding skills. Best to do your research before you starting in to it. You can get away with something pretty small if you are just making knife blades. A small gas cylinder should be way big enough and will be more efficient. I started researching making one a while back and have a word document with a load of different burner designs etc i copied from various places on the web pm me your email address and i will send it to you. If you don't want to make a burner a lot of the forums seem to reckon Amal make a good off the shelf variable injector
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    A lot depends on what you are making. Best to plan a few bits and you can work them together, have one heating while you are working on the other etc. Probably get a couple hours of forging out of a bucket of coal. I am by no means an expert i just play about with it...i'me sure the old lads were pretty efficient with their coal! Damascus is a whole other ball game. My lad has made a couple small pieces by hand and it takes best part of a day of hammering and folding. I made up a blank with bike chain forge welded to a spring steel core and it took half a day of hammering....must get that
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    I made a coal forge for serious stuff also a makeshift gas one with fire bricks & a blow torch for annealing & hardening when i can't be bothered to fire up the coal forge. I started gathering bits to build a proper gas forge as i would say it would be far less hassle and mess. There are loads of designs on the net for making them. If you use an old gas cylinder or the like you will need to line it with fire brick or ceramic quilt or it will burn out pretty quick. If you want to forge weld the flux eats the quilt so better with bricks although they take longer to heat up. Griff
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    A bit of both. Make most of mine out of landy spring so forge them flat then all grinder work. Have done some with mainly forged shape and finished with the grinder, nothing hard & fast. Griff
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    Top bloke Sussex, sent me some nice antlers last year
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    Nice job! I'm sickened by the Photobucket stunt too not got round to sorting out another host for my pics. What you using now, decent looking pics? Griff
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    Top class, love those curves
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    Best recommendation...straight from a customers mouth. Keep them coming Rio.
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    I have a flickr account......not used it since opening photobucket to use on here as it flickr wouldn't work at the time.....will shift some pics across there and try again....if i can remember my user name & password
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    Nice one ant. Good to use what is lying about to make something useful. Handy height that for loading heavy thing on to. Griff
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    Likewise mate. Got a couple of ongoing threads in the craft section....been adding to them for years and built up a worthwhile read.....all knackered now as no pics, thanks to photobucket.
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    Kanny & Quantum.......looks like they got your accounts too.
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    Yes a bit confusing indeed....done a bit more digging and it seems you get a certain quota free....to get you hooked....then once you have pics you depending on posted on various threads etc they pull the carpet from under you and block all your photo's and hold you to ransom to get access back......very underhanded to say the least. My account says 54 percent of quota used....so don't be fooled......have nothing to do with them if you want to avoid getting stung!
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    of its way down to buckinghamshire griff the guy has had one or two knives from me ,and more i hope ..lol Best way to have a few regulars that keep coming back for more. ATB Griff
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    carnt send any pics, when i press the url it used to send the pic to what page i wanted it to go to , but now if you try to press the url it wont work , something happened on photo bucket anybody got any ideas what it might be , or how i can send my pics from photobucket now Yep, changed their policy....free before....now you have to subscribe......will cost you $400 a year to use your own pictures.... Blackmail!!!!!
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    Nice tidy job as always.
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    Been doing my house for the last 20 years a room at a time.......just did the kitchen...last room in the house......time to start all over again.
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    What KW is it? Yeh you are going to bloody love it. I have fires even when it's not really cold....any excuse lol any excuse.....had mine lit lastnight
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    Email from Photobucket today......changed their policy on photo hosting for 3rd party.......will block all photo's unless i subscribe......$400 a year which won't be happening :thumbdown: :thumbdown: All my pics on this site and other's are blocked. Anyone else having a problem? Who do you use for photo host for your pics on THL etc? Speak a about ransom scam....will be a lot of unhappy people :angry2: .....everyone.....bombard their emails with spam Griff
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