Recent content by gaswizard

I had the same screw driver and got not even one use out of it before it broke. Toss it into the metal scrap pile

Forge. Once you get using it you will find other uses for it other than heating up lunch. Here is a link of it: https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=377029

Greens Liquid paint remover shall do the trick for the paint. After soaking it for a day, pull it out of the paint remover and you should see original brass that is ready to polish. Also here are other links of things I have posted on GJ: https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/...d.php?t=376426...

Hate to see this old friend go but needed the floor space for another power hammer. I just picked up a 200 LB Howe power to replace this one. Share your power hammers when you get a chance. Also here are other links of things I have posted on GJ...

I got this Dake in the shop a couple weeks ago. I plan to use it with hot molten metal straight from the forge

Here is a picture of my forge. I was the lucky person my fellow blacksmith friend gave me the best deal ever on it. The story behind this one is during the 1989 Loma Prieta earth quake in the the SF Bay Area my blacksmith buddy Eric C lived across the Cypress structure over pass in Oakland that...

Here is an old Columbia 4" vise that was owned by my late grandpa Roy Lindquist. This vise was the last and only thing left of his stuff bolted to a table in the garage that know one wanted after he passed away so I took it. Grandpa was a tinkerer of all tinkerer's. In 1939 on Addison Ave in...

Hello fellow tool lovers, Just got this in the shop a couple weeks ago. I am looking for a mandrel catcher for my #4 Dake Press. I know I can buy a new one but it is so expensive. I am trying to find an old one that has a nice rusty patina and a lot less in price. Here are a few images of that...

Hello fellow tool lovers, I am looking for a mandrel catcher for my #4 Dake Press. I know I can buy a new one but it is so expensive. I am trying to find an old one that has a nice rusty patina and a lot less in price. Here are a few images of that I am searching for. Any help out there will be...

Here are a few pictures of a gas lighting project I did a few years back in NYC. All of the fixtures I designed and built from scratch. Carved the waxes made the molds and the end result is pretty spectacular. Cheers Paul

Ambenz, WOW, Someone knows gas lighting. You and I need to chat directly. I can share what I know with you. Lots of good info gonna head you way soon. Cheers Paul

When I can pour 600 lbs I will make an anvil for myself and the end result will be a 450 lb anvil. no custom pour at this time. All the time I have goes to lighting work here in the shop right now.

What I found with insurance companies is they will pay a claim if you can validate the price paid for that item with receipts or cancelled checks. A key witness or pictures of inventory does not help if you have no receipts or cancelled checks, I know this personally since I was a key witness at...

I have it insured through Hartford for $2,000,000.00 since I carry property of clients.

My truck made it to a couple magazines. Peterson's 4-Wheeler, and The Power Wagon Advertiser. Also here is a link of my truck in the lower field while a couple of my guys were trying to get this massive log up the hill. It my not look steep but it is very steep. It is posted on youtube...