Here in East Central Kansas we are suffering a heat wave.  Not a record one but miserable none the less.  On top of that the AC in my shop ...

Recently, I received an email from a friend pointing me to an article about a blacksmith in Ballston Spa, New York.  I wasn’t familiar wit...

        Today I attended a members meeting at the Prairie PastTimes Gallery in Cottonwood Falls, KS.  I was looking over some of the displa...

Recently, I received an image from: Lonnie Baker and he asked if I knew what it might be.  It was found in a tree that was cut down he wa...

Thursday, July 16, 2015 I turned on the tumbler as I left at 1600.  About a minute later a heard a thump and the tumbler stopped t...

On 7/28/11 I wrote a piece about vise handle bumpers.   http://persimmonforge.blogspot.com/2011/07/vise-handle-bumpers.html S...

My friend Wayne and I exchanged email for about three months trying to work out a date to make a trip to the coal mine.  Fortunately it ...