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Originally Posted by cliffrod
Here's the pic I mentioned of Peter Tommasini's traveling tool kit, taken at RockHillWill's during one of Peter's EW Classes
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That's very gratifying to see! The various hammers and such I've accumulated over the last few weeks looks a lot like that.
Got my stump loaded up and carved a dish in the top. Haven't tried using it yet, but we'll see how it goes.
Picked up my stack of practice aluminum yesterday. Got a whole bunch of 3003 (1/16" thick) cut into 1'x1' and 1'x2' sections. Played around a bit with beating it on the sandbag, and played around a bit with annealing it. Satisfying to finally get started with some practice. I don't know how hard my aluminum was to start, but it was striking how much softer it got after the annealing.
For the annealing, I used my little propane soldering torch (plumbing work type). It worked well enough, but I can see that it would take forever to do any sort of substantial sized piece. I think I need to get a propane weed burner to cover more area in a reasonable amount of time.