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<img src="<a href="https://flic.kr/p/2cYnfWq" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">P1030106 2 by Gordon Hazel, on Flickr" />
<img src=" <a href="https://flic.kr/p/2aherkb" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">P1030101 by Gordon Hazel, on Flickr" />
Gents, my mate Gary who is both a farrier and blacksmith of many years ( second generation blacksmith) dropped over and we spent a few hours over a couple of days in my smithy. I made my second herb knife out of a small file, with Gary giving me a few of the finer points of smithing. I am largely self taught so getting a tune up saves me reinventing the wheel as they say. Handle is a bit of apricot branch and the cross pin is a piece of no 8 soft fencing wire. Blade was hardened in canola oil.
Just yesterday dropped into a place owed by a chap who haunts farm clearing sales and buys and sells old mac
hinery and tools. I picked up the remains of a Buffalo post drill mod 611, it had still had the auto metic feed which I have now fitted to my own Buffalo mo 615. It works a treat and they are like rocking horse poop to find, have been looking for years. I did have to pay for it though, but there you are. <img src=" <img src="<a href=" alt="Herb Knife and other Musings <a href=" /> <a href="https://flic.kr/p/2cYnfWq" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">P1030106 2 by Gordon Hazel, on Flickr" />
P1030105 by Gordon Hazel, on Flickr" />
<img src=" <a href="https://flic.kr/p/2aherkb" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">P1030101 by Gordon Hazel, on Flickr" />
Gents, my mate Gary who is both a farrier and blacksmith of many years ( second generation blacksmith) dropped over and we spent a few hours over a couple of days in my smithy. I made my second herb knife out of a small file, with Gary giving me a few of the finer points of smithing. I am largely self taught so getting a tune up saves me reinventing the wheel as they say. Handle is a bit of apricot branch and the cross pin is a piece of no 8 soft fencing wire. Blade was hardened in canola oil.
Just yesterday dropped into a place owed by a chap who haunts farm clearing sales and buys and sells old mac
hinery and tools. I picked up the remains of a Buffalo post drill mod 611, it had still had the auto metic feed which I have now fitted to my own Buffalo mo 615. It works a treat and they are like rocking horse poop to find, have been looking for years. I did have to pay for it though, but there you are. <img src=" <img src="<a href=" alt="Herb Knife and other Musings <a href=" /> <a href="https://flic.kr/p/2cYnfWq" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">P1030106 2 by Gordon Hazel, on Flickr" />
P1030105 by Gordon Hazel, on Flickr" />