Found Dreaming

Thank you Jerry.

Richard

One problem is that people up there have sealed their houses up so tight there is no exchange of air. My house in Virginia had no insulation. The wind just kind of blew right through it. I would just throw more wood in the wood heater. I made a wood heater from a 55 gallon barrel. That thing could m...

Just plain beautiful work. Keep posting.

Richard

Jerry,

One of the guys back on Alloy Avenue used to say, "If there are no photos, it didn't happen."

I am happy to hear that you melted some metal.

Richard

Fascinating work. Keep posting. I have not posted much as I have not been in the shop or the foundry very much recently. I have been writing a novel.

Richard

Thank you sir.

Spring is a different thing entirely down here. April and May are our hottest months. You sweat twenty-four hours a day, until the rains begin in June. Then the earth cools off.

Richard

I've been wondering what you are doing, Mite. I miss seeing you. Most of us here have passed through the painful phase of learning to cast metal so we don't ask many questions now. Now, when I go out to my foundry and fire up the furnace, I can be pretty sure the bronze casting will be just fine. I ...

Saying that tho, this will probably by my last plane for the toolboxes

Why am I suspicious? Seems to me I've heard that before. I know an unreformed toolmaker when I see one; I see one in the mirror every morning.

Richard

I've never poured brass. I have mostly scrap copper wire, and some copper pipe and tubing, which I use to make Everdur. Most of my other scrap is either red brass plumbing fittings or lathe chips from heavy machinery bearings. Have you ever carved basswood? I had a friend back in Virginia who carved...

Keep posting. You posts are fascinating.

Richard