Hey, I just was looking for advice on a soon to be made purchase. I am trying to find a good oxy/ propane cutting torch outfit for under $400 (I need to cut at 3in plate and lots of other smaller stuff.

Ok i just made two cable billets from wire rope. It was only my second and third forge welds, but was SOOO easy. The pattern is eye popping and the welds were almost perfect (the end didn't take though).

I finnaly got a handle put on these two. the left is a carpenters hatchet and the right is supposed to be a viking style hatchet based on the viking two lugged axe, but scaled down to suit my needs.

i made these two axes yesterday. the botom one is supposed to be a viking axe and the top one is supposed to be a carpenters axe. i know the gum is an odd choice, but i wanted soemthing for scale. the eyes need to be bigger, but they are pretty good, i think.

i just joined here beacause i finally read an email i got from Mr. Waugh. this is a great site just from digging about. i am an amatuer smith/ student and probably half the age of the next youngest person on here (i am only 16, but pedophiles be ware! i am about 6 foot 3 and weigh about 245lbs, hence going by bigfoot!).