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 ...

In my late teen years I became reasonably accomplished at playing pool and snooker.  One summer some of my parents friends were visiting an...

Ten years ago I attended the CanIron V meeting in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia.  We drove to Chicago and picked up our older son and enjoye...

Today, I read a book review in our local paper and then went online to skim some others.  This sentence caught my attention. “Ford offers ...

I have been in a clean-up and throw out mood for a while now and the studio is slowly gaining more work space.  One of the primary strat...