Wormskull posted:

Don’t pick up anything metal with your bare hands in the shop dude. Steel can be 1000 degrees before you see it’s hot. Trust me lmfao. My fingers are hosed.

HolePisser1982 posted:

wormskull giving me a crazy looking thumbs up with his Johnny Tremain hand as i head off to my first blacksmithing class. and feeling a chill run down my spine

Wormskull posted:

Pungry posted:

May we hear it?

Wormskull posted:

I tried to grab a falling piece of rebar that was bright orange and it like instantly blanched and numbers my fingers and felt kinda like butter sliding through my hand.

HolePisser1982 posted:

lol i keep thinking of this and lolling

HolePisser1982 posted:

Worm's gotten me super into 3d-printed Guns & Explosives since covid hit

Current steez:


Mandatory ambulance ride pic, lol:

Prior attempts:
Yikes
(that one left a mark!!)

And yeah, I've recovered a ton and it taught me some crucial lessons. Trust me, Fungah, once you get a couple builds under your belt you'll feel like a god

e: Awesome, feds fuckin with my site again. Cheers for that!

trying to jack off posted:

if it is, it shouldnt be

Fortaleza posted:

Found myself doing this for woodworking stuff now, Witcher 3 is chock full of sick workshops everywhere and skellige's got a handful of full blown water-powered sawmills cranking out timbers.

There's a worker guy at Corvo Bianco that's going over a plank of wood with a smoothing plane but there's no workholding and the piece is crooked as poo poo with no proper stock prep and I hate how much it pisses me off lol

Spanish Manlove posted:

I tried painting some cotton for the fog door and I quickly realized that cotton looks really dark when it's wet so the first attempt looked like poo poo so I just didn't paint it for the final version



The fog door was made by jamming bamboo skewers into there and then gluing plasticard to make a solid surface then gluing torn up cotton balls inside.

The leaves for the ivy were the most fun of the whole thing. They were all done by watering down paint and then dripping it onto a coffee filter, then once that dried I used a hole punch that I borrowed from my 4yo niece that made little leaf shapes. After making a bunch of confetti it was glued to floral wire on the wall.

Cousin Foomin posted:

My brother brought a machete to the family (bunch of rednecks) white elephant one year for Christmas and it got so rowdy we cancelled white elephant for like 3 years.

Wormskull posted:

It’s about cooking but it’s somewhat crafting related so I’ll tell In Training’s story about the time he started grilling lmfao and he had it going out in the courtyard and when the smoke really started popping off he got embarrassed and went inside and watched from the window. Lmfqo

Daikatana Ritsu posted:

I feel like a huge pussy for buying a telescope now.

Wormskull posted:

My cutoff hardy was a success but I kept hitting it with my hammer so I have to reforge it lol.

Wormskull posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAg04rKNZE
I reforged better shoulders onto this and I think did a much better heat treat but the shank is still kinda hosed so I’m gonna make a better one when I can cut through the 1 1/2 inch axle I have lol, but here’s me cutting off something I was making for my dad’s business card holder. For fungah.

Wormskull posted:

Lol it’s nasty.

Wormskull posted:

Today I went to shear a nearly cut off screw bracket on a triangular brace I straightened and it bounced off the anvil on the last blow and hit me in the side of the face.

Wormskull posted:

Some naked women I seen in wood (side crafting).

Fargield posted:

HolePisser1982 posted:

lol direct consequence of elden ring having so much epic bug and womb poo poo, ftw. similarly there's some pages of sketches of portals of blood and blood waterfalls and stuff. but theres also some bug stuff in stephen king's Revival that's been living in my head friggin nonstop

Wormskull posted:

Man if I could get only once a week in the forge I’d lose my marbles. I don’t think about hardly anything else but orange steel moving between an anvil and hammer lol.

trying to jack off posted:

you can't have it unless you buy me a house as well

Daikatana Ritsu posted:

No but my neighbors used to have a bunch of chickens and they'd give us free eggs every week until the wife cheated with the neighbors husband across the street and blew up my free eggs empire.

Wormskull posted:

Hell yeah. Twists and scrolls are so sick. I got an appendectomy today so idk if I’ll be forging anytime soon unforch.

Lunchmeat Larry posted:

My new next door neighbour quit his engineering job to make traditional Scottish skein dubh daggers and has a forge in the building basement. Whenever I go into the back court to take the dog or bins out and I see the latch on the gate I know that means the blacksmith is in the basement clanking away and I feel like I'm upstairs from Blacksmith Andre in Undead Parish