Hello from Washington

hello everyone.

me:
south Puget sound
very hands on
loves to build things
welder/fabricator (for fun, then professionally, now for fun again)
designs using manual drafting, 2d CAD, and 3d CAD (solidworks and inventor)
builds custom cars
I now work as an engineering spec. for one of the local electric utilities

currently my projects are:

-restoring a WWII rifle
-building a forge
-restoring/customizing a 78 ford bronco
-restoring/customizing a 78 ford f250
-restoring a 52 ford f1
-v8 motor swap in an 83 jeep Comanche

next projects:

-English wheel
-motorizing my manual tubing bender
-building a tomahawk out of a railroad spike
-learning to blacksmith

I know not all of my projects are directly related to homemade tools. but I keep myself busy :)

I look forward to absorbing any knowledge I can squeeze out of this site.

Thanks for reading!

Hi baggedjeep - welcome to HomemadeTools.net :welcome:

You sound very busy! How are your builds going? Post some pics if you have them, we'd love to take a look. :)

Hi baggedjeep,

Welcome! :welcome:

Wow. Definitely post those pics! :cool: Tell me more about your rifle restoration...

Ken

Thanks for the welcome!

I just started the forge, no pics yet...

the rifle was in pretty decent shape when I got it, so perhaps saying I'm restoring it is an overstatement - but it's a mosin nagant carbine. refinished the stock and replaced some internals. nothing major... it was my entry level project as my brother and I are starting to get into gunsmithing.

I will dig up some pics of the trucks I'm working on, hopefully tonight. here is at least one pic of the bronco...
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I'm not the best about taking pictures but I am trying to get better at it :-)