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An Unexpected Journey: A Newbie's Walk In Wet Shaving

uacowboy said:
That is a pretty sweet shop setup. Sounds like you will be swinging the hammer on the regular again very soon!
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I've been forging some, but taking care of my new property and getting ready for the cabin move at the end of this month has taken up most of my time so I haven't been forging much. It's also been rainy up here so with me having to roll my forge outside it prevents bad weather forging. I'm definitely going to figure out a roof system for the forge are with the left over metal roofing after I put it on the cabin.
 
My dad always did say "son, never let your quench barrel sit all winter". I guess he was right.
 
NurseDave said:
My dad always did say "son, never let your quench barrel sit all winter". I guess he was right.
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:LOL:

Yesterday I had a great shave. I took my time using MW Bay Rum and used the SR for longer than normal. Took my par BBS and started the day. My little girls don't let me get away with 2 pass shaves anymore. When they kiss me good night before bed they'll say "Daddy, will you shave tomorrow?" That's with the 2 pass shave. They don't remember that when I used a cart I felt that rough at noon. It's funny, they raised the price of my wife's Venus carts and she was upset because they are getting duller faster now. I pulled out one of my PIF'd DE's and said she should really try it. She's amazed and now she'll never be using a cart again! The gospel of a good shave speaks for its self.

Warmed up the old quench barrel yesterday. What's more American than forging hot steel? I got out early in the morning before the heat got real bad. I'm the master at finding garbage picks and restoring them to useful things. I found this wooden screen door last fall and refinished it, then aged it, then forged a new handle / decorative brackets to reinforce it. It needed a closer spring so I bought one at the hardware store......yup it came with these tiny screw-in eye hooks. Well with little ones and many slams these will come out of the wood eventually so I set out yesterday to forging heavy duty hooks. I love it! I could bend the hooks to just the right angle - nothing like available at any hardware store! I also did some long hooks to hang this little antique chalkboard that will be on an arm in my blacksmith shop so I can look at the drawings of the thing I'm making. A good morning of forging and then some burgers on the grill with family.
 
I'll have to take pictures when I have the spring mounted on the door and the chalk board arm mounted otherwise people might scratch their heads wondering what they are looking at. I'm cellphoneless so I have to dig out the digital camera.

Majorrich said:
I had to read your post twice to soak up some extra testosterone! :ROFLMAO:
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It will make you grow hair on the back of your knees! It's why mammoth chest hair grows :LOL:

dangerousdon said:
And another post to make me feel less of a man! 🤪
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Don, you just need a hobby...........like blacksmithing. Shawn and I could enable that :cool:
 
Majorrich said:
You need to find a spreading chestnut tree to be a village smithy.
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Very true! Through my historical research, there hasn't been a blacksmith in my town since about 1908. I do have a chestnut tree spreading over my flintknapping shop and near where I was going to build my smithy.

So here's some not so great pictures of my screen door project that some of you have been asking for. The screen door was a garbage pick that I needed to rescreen, take apart the joints and glue them back together, and forge brackets to hold those weak joints. The the joints are re-glued, it is a poor design so the brackets ensure it won't come apart again with all the slamming that will occur. I plan on extending the decorative brackets on each side of the door with other connecting pieces someday to form a design that encompasses the bottom portion of the door. I could have sanded the entire thing, but it had some age to it so I wanted to preserve that so that it looked like it had been hanging on my house for 50 years. I replaced the cheap handle with a forged one bolted through the door so it won't pull out or loosen. The spring slammer works super great. My pictures aren't that great but the hooks look much better than the pictures show, especially the smaller hook. I like to call the hooks for the spring "farm house functional" meaning I didn't really try to make them too fancy but they just needed to function correctly which they do.

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Had a great shave this morning but had to primarily shave with just the DE with a Feather in it. I had some irritation from chasing that dang dolphin yesterday morning. With a 2 day growth yesterday morning I really wanted that perfect shave and got it with some very minor irritation on the cheeks. It's funny, what bothers me today as irritation used to be a great shave when I first started out :D

TESTOSTERONE ALERT!!! On Saturday I got out to the new cabin location and cut down 3 more trees. It was a family affair and my two little ones really helped clear brush. My wife helped me move the logs and I was really grateful to have the help being it was super hot and humid. I misread one tree and got my chainsaw pinched. When I looked up I really thought that side's branch was not as heavy as the one on the side of the tree that I cut my wedge out of. I tried wedging it and pulling it with straps to get that chainsaw out. I had no choice but to whip out my tomahawk and notch the tree above the stuck bar & chain. I was smart and too the chainsaw apart to take the motor body off the guide so at least if the tree destroyed those parts it'd be cheaper than replacing the whole chainsaw. I honestly didn't know how it would all turn out, but without a second chainsaw and no other way really to solve the problem I just chopped away with my tomahawk until it fell. I should have had my trusty axe with me, but I really thought I'd not need it. Luckily the bar and chain slid loose as the tree fell and there was no damage to them at all - lucky day!!! So far that's 6 trees I've had to drop. I have a newfound respect for the pioneers of old who had to clear acres of land to farm and build a home out of the logs. They would have loved to borrow my chainsaw for just a few days. Just 2 weeks before the cabin move!
 
Sounds like a productive weekend for sure. I haven't had a need to clear standing trees but i have helped clear many fallen ones and it is a lot of work for sure, even with the modern tools we have. at least you will have a solid stock of firewood for the cabin!
 
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