[TheForge] So, what are you working on? (was: anybody there?)

[Larry Brown]

I like Yak trax, rubber with spring wound around it in places, easy on and 
off.
http://www.campmor.com/outdoor/gear/Product___24093
They have a selection under traction aids
If you insist on making them the spring around a rope concept would work to 
co0py the yaks but I get about two years from them with occasional use and 
probably more if I took care of them(The rubber goes)
Larry Brown


At 12:32 PM 2/14/2011 -0500, you wrote:
>D-ski, What are you working on? I've been out of the shop a couple weeks 
>not because of the snow but because of the Arduino I'm playing 
>with.  (Neat little open-source embedded computer.  www.Arduino.cc, if 
>anyone's interested.) Before that I was out of the shop, XC skiing.  Great 
>snow for that. Hope we get more.  (It's nice not to have to commute....) 
>My next blacksmithing project will be to get my damascus blade blank (from 
>NJBA's workshop this past Dec.) ready to receive a handle.  I also need to 
>find my gas forge burner.  Always helps when firing up a forge.  Vanished, 
>somewhere, but I think I've got a lead on it. Marshall's about ready to 
>put a handle on his blade, and I'll be loaning him a few books on the 
>subject.  After he masters all that, he can teach me! Question for 
>all:  Anyone know a really good design for ice walkers? I don't want 
>crampons like ice climbers use, and I don't want the instep ice walkers 
>I've seen described somewhere.  I'd like something that straps to the boot 
>and has squarish (i.e., edged, not pointed) projections to grab the 
>ice.  Does this ring any bells with anyone? On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:40 
>AM, Albin Drzewianowski <dski1045 at qis.net> wrote: > I think that TheForge 
>is working, Â just nobody has much to say. > > I think it has warmed up 
>enough here in the mid-Atlantic that I can finally > get into the shop and 
>do some forging. > > D-ski > Westminster, MD > The lyf so short, the craft 
>so long to lerne. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: 
>theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:theforge- >> 
>bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Lynn Emrich >> Sent: Monday, 
>February 14, 2011 11:29 AM >> To: Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA >> 
>Subject: [TheForge] anybody there? >> >> Just checking. >> >> > >