Our first big commissioned project is going to end up being a gift, so I can’t give away too many details.  We’re looking at a piece that incorporates both Mokume Gane and some kind of sparkly jewel type thing to set into it, along with some other stuff.  Vague enough for ya? Last night, we…

Fact: there is no metal shop if there aren’t enough BTUs.  We’ve tried and failed repeatedly to heat metal to melting with propane torches and mapp gas, and we weren’t close enough to finishing the forge or the furnace we’ll eventually make out of Barry, so we needed another solution.  And it had to be a…

You’ve already met Barry, the giant tank filled with mystery flammable gas.  We filled him with water, drained him, tried to light fires near his miscellaneous holes, Googled how to safely cut into a propane tank about a three dozen times, and finally decided it was time for the angle grinder.  Here’s the brave one who…

Meet Barry, the discarded mystery tank with flammable gas inside that we found on the side of the road.  Our first job once this tank was back in the area behind our shop was to get rid of that flammable mystery gas that was inside.  Because seriously, who needs flammable mystery gas floating around and leaking…