New Tools!

[Armourkris]

Sometimes I like it when it's slow at work, particularly the days where i get paid to tinker with my own projects all day rather than clean the shop I cleaned an hour earlier.
Today I made myself a new T stake, an offset ball stake and a dishing doughnut, I guess tomorrow I'll need to make myself a new stake socket that will fit 1" shanks instead of the 3/4" ones on the rest of my stakes

[Sean Powell]

What's the dishing donut made out of?

Sean

[Paul the Small]

Those will never work. You should ship them to me for immediate disposal. I'll PM you my address.

[Cap'n Atli]

Ignore Paul; they are too pretty to use!

They should be shipped to my soon-to-be-founded Museum of Fine Tools where they will be properly honored and preserved in our temperate tidewater environment!

I will, of course, be forced to demonstrate their use, from time to time, even if there are no visitors present. (A "practice demonstration" if you will. Of course. If you don't use them a little, they'll go bad...)

[Marco-borromei]

Those stakes will never work for you, they were built sideways. I'm further south where the earth is at a different angle, so ship them to me and I'll test them. For a long time.

Nice work.

[Halberds]

Good job. Jolly well done.
May you pound long and prosper.

Hal

PS:
I finished up this kit for overseas shipping today.
http://home.armourarchive.org/members/h ... nTools.jpg
Too bad they are 2 pounds overweight for the flat rate box.

[Hrolfr]

Nice job!

[Armourkris]

I'll get the new socket bolted to my bench today and I think by tomorrow I'll get to try them out.

Sean, the doughnut started out as a giant eye bolt a buddy gave me a few years ago, I chopped off the threads, ground the shoulder off smooth and polished it up, Then it's welded to a 1 1/4" piece of 4x4" steel tube on the base plate. I'd still like to go into it a bit with a die grinder, there are some forming marks on it that i think could gouge up my steel if i dish something to deep enough in it.