Frank S

I am a retired industrial engineer who started out when I was 11 as a blacksmith's apprentice

Hi Frank - welcome to HomemadeTools.net :welcome:

Sounds like you have a lifetime of experience :) What's next up on your projects list?

Jon I never know one day to the next what I may come up with to assist me in what ever I am doing.
So many thousands of simple special tools that I have made over the years get used just once then remade into something else.
Right now I am repairing and strengthening a compromised frame on a flip tail step deck trailer. no need for any special homemade tools for a project like that just a lot of way out of position welding. The trailer project would probably not be of much interest here
I may post some of my previous helpful homemade things later though as soon as I learn my way around these forums and blogs
thanks for the welcome

Hi Frank,

Welcome - glad to have you here! :welcome:

If you've got pics of your blacksmithing setup/tools, we'd love to see them!

Ken

Wow, a lifelong passion for building things. I'd be interested in seeing some stuff you've done too. Welcome to the forums. :)

I'm afraid that we are going to have to wait on my posting most of my previous projects. I am currently running on the wife's laptop as mine has gobbled up the second hard drive in 3 months I will have to buy a couple of doner drives that match the dead ones to recover my data from them my back up ext drive doesn't have a lot of my older stuff on it and even if it did her computer is not powerf0ul enough for me to install my programs on to run the de-encryption sub routines or any of my cad programs
I will have a look at some of my flash drives to see what they have in them