Monthly Archive:: December 2015

Setting up a blacksmithing area out back. Is it weird that I adore this sort of hillbilly landscape?

Setting up a blacksmithing area out back. Is it weird that I adore this sort of hillbilly landscape?

Vintage Homemade Welder – Part 3: Sparks and Smoke

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I found this welder on Craigslist for a hundred dollars. It’s made with a World War II surplus aircraft generator and the engine from a 1946 Austin Dorset. It’s a 200 Amp DC welder with a four-cylinder pushrod engine. I’ve gotten it running and I tried welding some steel

I’m pretty impressed with the brew kits from these guys! http://boomchugalug.com

I'm pretty impressed with the brew kits from these guys! http://boomchugalug.com

I think the front of this old furnace will make a good black smithing forge.

I think the front of this old furnace will make a good black smithing forge.

Ancient Steampunk?

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I have been hearing a lot of interviews with author Graham Hancock lately and I think his line of inquiry will be of interest to Steampunks everywhere and of particular interest to those interested in writing about non-fantastical Steampunk worlds. In 1996 Hancock published Fingerprints of the Gods . The TL;DR