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Me and my dad spent all day yesterday working in the forge, after setting up the rendezvous camp site. We made two horseshoe knives, one for a customer here, the other for a family friend. We also made me a large camp bowie. The bowie is 15" overall. 5" handle, 10" inch blade. Seasoned oak handle with a through tang. Hand guard and butt plate are made from horseshoes, knife itself started as a large chunk of 5160 leaf spring steel off a truck. I'll be making more horseshoe knives to sell and trade. Without further ado, the pictures.....

How did you convince them on this? Im sick of gingerbread and really want the intuition phablet. Gingerbread on a phone built for ics sucks. What was your argument and did you have to pay for the razr.

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Ill type a new one tonight. Price, knife type, and dates will be made very plain. Sorry I didnt get on the ball sooner

We used this to slab the tops and bottoms. We were working with some very large poplar logs, up to 50" wide. We ran that on a Husky 3120 with a 72" bar. Its not bad if there are two men. One person will just have to go slow to keep from being winded. Of course a smaller mill and saw setup would go alot easier also. We did a cure and dry time on aloy of our stuff, that way it doesnt draw and crack as bad after its set.

Passionfruit is TN's state wildflower, yes thats a passion fruit

Unless you need true black powder, walmart carries Pyrodex FFg substitute. Its fairly reasonable. I know Oak Ridge walmart had it last night

I use Fox Fi on my Bionic constantly. I just wish they would hurry up with Ice cream sandwich.

YEs and it was some of the best pork I've ever eaten

Does that mean we will have wild boar bacon for the rendezvous?

$1250 for a used, lightly modified Glock? Jesus.....

If your ever in East TN your welcime to use my land. I can shoot up to 500 yds

Awesome I'd love to work beside you in our forge. Hoping to learn something from ya

Id love to have the .45

I already did. They said they would look into it and could fine for littering and improperly secured load.

No it was definetly trash. I still got half of it on the front of my damn car. If it had been an animal there would have been words said. I'll only tolerate so much, and that would have been worth a confration

I wouldn't put up with it. I'd document everything then take the SOB to court lol

I really wanted to follow him and give him a piece of my mind, but most roadside conflicts do not have good endings so I thought better of it. I did call the cops and make a compliant with plate number.

I know we see stupid stuff almost everyday. If you see something that catches your eye post it up so we all get a laugh. I followed this genius to work today. I got behind him on clinton highway, and his kitchen garabage was hung from the rear wiper. I understand not wanting trash in a car, but this is just dumb. About 5 min after this picture the bag popped loose..... at 60 mph and me behind him, in traffic, in the rain. It instantly busted, and I had to slam the brakes and cut to try and avoid the majority of it. I think this guy deserves a darwin award, since he never stopped or even slowed down. Idiot....

I'm down. I'd probably be doing more shopping than selling, but I might make up some blacksmith stuff to sell

Cedar and redwood are both termite resistant. I don't know about anything else. I'm sure there is a way to patch a wall together, I haven't seen it done, but my Dad probably knows how. If you want to pm me a list of questions I can give him a call and get them answered for ya. Mixed species logs are fine, some of our sheds are mixed species. Date for the rendezvous is Oct. 19th, 20th, and 21st. Heres the thread

Ok guys, its just a couple of weekends away now. For those of you coming in at different times, the address is 386 Duncan Flats Lane Briceville, Tn 37710. Mapquest it and print the directions, as you will go in and out of cell service on the way in. For anyone who would like to meet, and drive up with me friday evening, we can do that also. Meeting place and time for the drive up is: Where: Food City parking lot 508 East Tri County Boulevard Oliver Springs, TN 37840 When 5:00 pm Eastern Time, Friday Oct. 19th, 2012 What: Meet up and follow the leader to the TGO rendezvous. If you are coming for sure, please PM me and let me know. Also bring some food with ya. Coffee will be provided, but bring some water, gatorade, and some sandwiches or stuff to cook on the campfire for you and those with you.Thanks guys

It took 6 years to build my sisters, but your talking a modern home with all conveniences. A liveable 2-3 room cabin would be a 2 month project if you worked on it most weekends, and had a decent idea what your doing. If you want the logs flat on both sides, the old way would be to take a foot aze and hew the logs out. The modern way is to take a big chainsaw like our 3120 Husky and one of those portable chainsaw, saw mills and saw them flat. Thats what we did with my sisters house, and there are some very large logs in that one. This is our blacksmith shop, but I wouldn't hesitate to turn it into a one room trappers cabin in a pinch. It could be built quickly, with smaller logs, and very little financial input. This is a storage cabin Most cabins in east wood have been done with wooden pegs, but a lot interior stuff did use hand forged nails. With a nail bar, good steel rod, and a smith who has a lot of practice you can make and head a nail in one heat, so about 3 minutes per nail. Also Ive seen some leather hinges, but I've seen plenty of hand forged hinges. I've also made a lot of period correct hand forged hinges and door latches, like the ones in my sisters house. Like I said earlier, if you can make it up this fall to the TGO rendezvous you'll see this stuff first hand, and my dad is a wealth of knowledge.

This thread has some pictures of our cabins....

My dad built the log house I grew up in. 1500 sq feet, all done by hand. We built my sisters house, its all done by hand with materials from our land. Including doors and cabinets. $18k for a 2000+ sq foot house with central heat and air, etc etc. We've built several smaller ones for storage, etc. You can see them and siscuss the finer points at the get together this fall at my parents place. The thread is in the events section. Will post pics of the smaller, more primtive ones tommorow.