Cold rolled steel, bed frames

You're right Chris, when I made he comment about absolute power I thought I was implying that our institutions are relatively free of corruption simply because they don't get to wield absoulute power. Our government does have a pretty good system of checks and balances to power. That's not to say that I don't believe there are any number of shady dealings going on!

A "wad" stock taco? That sounds like a likely recipe for a nice patern!

Guy Thomas

Dag-nab-it!! I was reading the post when I saw the Pink guy, and spit beans all over my keyboard.

Now hold on there, some of us here in the states take exception to being called Yanks. We're Southerners,thankyou very much!

Y'all just leave my grits alone :cool:


I looked at some bed rail, last nite it appears to be hot roll to me. It has a lot more texture than I'm used to seeing in cold roll. Hmmm, maybe I can beat out a shank tonite.

Well i went out and rummagged in my stash and pulled out a piece of bed rail, the angle iron looking thingy.

I save em for building stuff , drawer slides etc.
Anyway heated a piece and quenched it in water and smacked it with a hammer it broke.

SO we have hardenable steel. I took a length of it and hammered out a push dagger. Kinda fun forging the point on each side of the angle then flattening it for the blade the back of the angle makes a nice center ridge.
I left it in the forge to cool overnite.

Hammer on! Forge Out, Man :cool:

(fruits and nuts), Guy ,say thanks to your wife for me

Oh yeah, I wanna visit foreign countries too, New Mexico is first on the list.

(in my best Mr. Burns voice)

Eeeeeexceellent.

How many bowies could a bedframe make if a bedframe could make bowies?

Hey, I'll bet that would make a great taco blade Mike. The fold is already there. All you would have to do is burn the paint off and clean it up with a wire brush and fold it together over a piece of D2 or O1 or what have you. Then fold and flatten the tang and either forge weld it together or twist it and flatten it for the handle. Hmmmm....... Gets the cobwebs fluttering between my ears.

Hey Max, yep that might be fun.

Kewl Mike. That is the one thing I don't see alot of on my bush trips hunting for scrap is bed rails/frames. Truck loads of the coil spring innards, so many of them I quit bringinging them home until I get a few used up. One of these candle stick holders I make uses 2-4 feet depending how big I wrap the coil.



ghostdog

I hope y'all don't mind me tossing in a comment here, but a couple of observations come to mind. I'm mostly a lurker but had a comment or two:

To all those who serve and have served in the armed forces, or a dangerous public service job, thanks. It's said more often lately, but there are too many who didn't get that thanks when they needed it the most.

The CIA protects Americans in ways we never know about, and are probably best off not knowing. We are very fortunate not to have a despotic secret police.

The problem with education stems not from a dysfunctional school system but from a population who has forsaken the personal responsibility of assuring their childrens' education. The information is there, and teaching methods are better than ever. Printed material abounds to educate, or self-educate, but reading has taken a back seat to television frivolities and game boxes. Too many parents complain of a school closure not because their child misses a day of education but because it inconveniences their use of school as day care. They blame the schools for their child not reading when they have never sat down with the child and a book, nor encouraged his self-education with frequent trips to the libraries. Schools present information, but it is the parents' responsibility to see that the child is interested and absorbs what is being taught. In the final analysis, education is a personal responsibility; no one can force you to learn effectively, they can just present the information and hope you have the willingness to absorb it.

Well, I've had my rant and suppose I'll catch some flak but I needed to respond after reading here. It's a good thread and raises good questions. Artifex, keep that desire to learn; one's honor and desire to learn are the two most potent personal possessions in this life. There's nothing wrong with rattling a few cages occasionally. It makes us old farts stay sharp.

mikefitz

Sammedge knives, sounds goood? Mixing food termanology and blade stuff is a good way to get me addicted to forging. I'm half way there and I haven't even begun.

And in response to Fitze, yes it is a person's own responsibility to learn the information presentesd to them in school and in life. It is also the parents job to motivate and inspire their children to want to learn. It is most definitely the school's job to offer the information in an environment that is safe and comfortable. I also feel that it is a school's responsibility to teach said information to all children as best they can. :I

Hey Mike, welcome to the forum. Glad you decided to speak up. Don't get me wrong, lurking is cool, I do it myself sometimes, but we're glad to have you join in on the topic with us. And don't worry about catching flack--we're pretty good about giving flack AND TAKING it back too. At the end of the day, we all shake hands and go home friends--maybe disagreeing friends, but friends nonetheless. Feel free to join in whenever you like. Don't be a stranger.

Yeah Mike, thanks for stopping in and saying what's on yer mind. It's good to hear from lurkers and we hope you'll be more prone to post from now on. Don't wait till this really important stuff comes up. Just jump in whenever you feel like it. The more the marrier. And I really appreciated your comments too. Thank you for your thoughts Mike. I look forward to hearing more from you.

Hey Mike, welcome. It is very kewl when lurkers speak up...sometimes it gets lonely in here. This has been a good thread, it even made the pink guy appear .

Differences of opinion are good. iron sharpens iron.



ghostdog

Iron sharpeneth iron, so a man doth sharpen the countenance of freinds. Proverbs
I think I quoted that right. Not really certain, need to go check the good book, now if only I can remember where in Proverbs it is. Great quote, applies well to this forum, if I do say so myself.

Dana; good one! At the end of the day a lot of us have hands *NOBODY* would want to shake---until they get cleaned and disenfected!

Bog Iron