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Title: happy birthday papaw!
Post by: fflintstone on December 19, 2012, 08:20:25 AM: happy birthday papaw!
I hope its a good one!

From now on every day your feet hit the floor in the morning is a good one.
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Post by: lbgradwell on December 19, 2012, 11:46:04 AM: Happy Birthday!!!

Congrats!
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Post by: gibsontool on December 19, 2012, 12:02:51 PM: Happy birthday and best wishes for holiday season.
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Post by: HeelSpur on December 19, 2012, 12:05:59 PM: Happy B-Day, have plenty of cake & ice cream.
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Post by: johnsironsanctuary on December 19, 2012, 12:49:42 PM: HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAPAW!!

I have a birthday present for you, or I will have in a few weeks when I get it from the foundry. The Crescent wrench in the photo is a 10 inch.

(http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb373/johnsironsanctuary/DSCN2383a.jpg)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAPAW!!
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Post by: Branson on December 19, 2012, 02:16:07 PM: Just another Happy Birthday! After johnsironsanctuary's present ... Well, nothing can match that!
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Post by: Batz on December 19, 2012, 02:21:50 PM: Happy Birthday mate, I hope you have a nice day.

Batz
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Post by: Neals on December 19, 2012, 05:38:24 PM: Happy B day and many more!
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Post by: john k on December 19, 2012, 05:50:33 PM: Happy Birthday ,,,,,
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Post by: RedVise on December 19, 2012, 06:59:01 PM: Deep in the heart of Alvin, Texas... Happy Birthday !!

Brian L.
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Post by: Lewill2 on December 19, 2012, 07:02:25 PM: Ditto all the Birthday wishes!
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Post by: OilyRascal on December 19, 2012, 07:16:25 PM: Hoping you enjoyed your day. Happy Birthday!
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Post by: EVILDR235 on December 19, 2012, 07:45:55 PM: I also wish you a happy birthday and good holliday days ahead.
EvilDr235
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Post by: Papaw on December 19, 2012, 07:46:32 PM: Thanks guys! If JIS is serious. I'll have a very happy new year!
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Post by: rudeawakening55 on December 19, 2012, 08:15:45 PM: Happy Birthday & best wishes
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Post by: rusty on December 19, 2012, 08:20:10 PM: Happy (almost belated) birthday Papaw :))))

Say...what is that orange glow I see looking south?
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Post by: jimwrench on December 19, 2012, 08:33:12 PM: Happy birthday Papaw
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Post by: oldtools on December 19, 2012, 09:02:24 PM: Have a Very Happy Birthday, and many more to come... Thanks for the great forum.. ;)
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Post by: Papaw on December 19, 2012, 09:07:04 PM: No glow from here! I am at work on my birthday for the first time in 7 or 8 years. When I get off at 0600 Thursday, I'll be off until Sunday night.
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Post by: Bus on December 19, 2012, 11:36:42 PM: Have a very happy birthday and holidays. WHAT A GREAT BIRTHDAY GIFT!!!!
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Post by: bunger on December 20, 2012, 05:46:51 AM: Happy B-Day Papaw
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Post by: Brophy on December 20, 2012, 05:53:01 AM: Happy Birthday Papaw!!
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Post by: junkfisher on December 20, 2012, 10:20:32 PM: Happy Birthday! Same day as my brother's. I wanted to let you know that I really enjoy the quote of the day column. whole site, really.
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Post by: DM11 on December 21, 2012, 12:21:05 AM: Happy Birthday!
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Post by: Branson on December 21, 2012, 09:39:30 AM: Quote from: junkfisher on December 20, 2012, 10:20:32 PM
. I wanted to let you know that I really enjoy the quote of the day column.

It's the first thing I read every day. What a store of quotes!
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Post by: johnsironsanctuary on March 14, 2013, 05:36:50 PM: FINALLY!! I picked up Papaw's birthday present today. It looks pretty good, but I want to work on it a little and then I'll ship it.

(http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb373/johnsironsanctuary/DSCN2544_zps33af581c.jpg)
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Post by: HeelSpur on March 14, 2013, 06:12:51 PM: They are sweet.
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Post by: Nolatoolguy on March 14, 2013, 08:16:05 PM: What kind of finishes are those?
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Post by: johnsironsanctuary on March 14, 2013, 08:20:13 PM: The top one is a wood pattern. Stain and poly u varnish. The bottom one is 12 1/2 lbs of raw aluminum sand casting.
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Post by: Papaw on March 14, 2013, 08:39:02 PM: WOW!!!

I'm blown away!
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Post by: Plyerman on March 14, 2013, 09:20:06 PM: Well happy extra-belated birthday to you Pawpaw, and OMG, check out that wrench!!

Any chance you could write up a little how-to on how that wrench was made John?
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Post by: rudeawakening55 on March 14, 2013, 10:18:29 PM: Happy Birthday & many more !!
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Post by: fflintstone on March 14, 2013, 10:23:41 PM: Quote from: johnsironsanctuary on March 14, 2013, 08:20:13 PM
The top one is a wood pattern. Stain and poly u varnish. The bottom one is 12 1/2 lbs of raw aluminum sand casting.

I assume the top one is a wood mold for the bottom one?
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Post by: JeremyManning on March 14, 2013, 11:56:48 PM: Happy Birthday
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Post by: bonneyman on March 15, 2013, 12:21:14 AM: The B-man sends his congrats and best wishes!
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Post by: anglesmith on March 15, 2013, 01:32:08 AM: Happy Birthday. Hope you have picked a spot to hang that very "rare and unique" wrench on the wall! Thanks to JIS for going to such a great effort of making that marvelous wrench, you're well worthy of such a gesture. What you do for us on this forum is much appreciated.
Graeme
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Post by: Branson on March 15, 2013, 07:19:55 AM: Both cool and heart-warming. Congratulations all around.
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Post by: johnsironsanctuary on March 15, 2013, 10:45:45 AM: OK Plyerman, here goes.

A friend gave me a 36 inch long chunk of 4X6 inch basswood. Basswood is incredibly easy to carve. It is one step up from balsa wood. I found a photo of an IRON AGE cutout wrench and printed it out as big as I could and drew a gridwork of squares on the printout. By dividing the number of squares on the printout into 36 inches, I got the size to draw the squares on a 36 inch sheet of paper. I never throw away big desk calenders. I drew each square out full size on paper. Next step was to cut out a paper pattern and mark it on the wood after I ripped the board down from 4 to 2 inches. Next was cutting the outline with a fret saw. A bandsaw would have been lots faster. Wood rasps were used to clean up the rough shape. I used my tabletop mill to shape the web. The letters were just sketched. Over and over until I liked it. End mills, carving chisels and forstner bits cut out the letters. Wood rasps and rifflers to shape the letters, all the while trying for 5 degrees of draft on everything so that it could be pulled from the sand mold. A small Stanley block plane helped radius the edges.Sanding took a long time. Basswood is stringy and the end grain does not sand easily. Got mad at it one night and stained it. A day later I gave it one coat of varnish. After that it was easier to sand the end grain. Varnish and sand, varnish and sand then varnish and sand again. The last coat of poly urethane was from a spray can. It was a better finish than the brush.
I googled aluminum foundries in my neighborhood and found the one that eventually did the casting. Seven weeks later, here we are.

(http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb373/johnsironsanctuary/DSCN2372_zpsb239f323.jpg)

(http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb373/johnsironsanctuary/DSCN2369_zpsb864727e.jpg)
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Post by: Plyerman on March 17, 2013, 10:05:13 PM: Awesome! Very impressive work John, I'm glad you thought to take those "in-process" photos!
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Post by: johnsironsanctuary on March 28, 2013, 10:39:42 AM: Many thanks to everyone that bought one. The 'master' went to the foundry yesterday with an order for 6 pieces. They again promised about two weeks. We'll see how that works. I ordered one for myself. That means I can make more later. I talked to the foundry manager and he said that he was fearful of what might happen to the wood pattern if he used it repeatedly. His words," My staff is not made up of rocket scientists".

Thanks for your patience Papaw. This is dragging out way beyond what I had expected.
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Post by: fflintstone on December 19, 2013, 07:31:35 PM: happy birthday again!
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Post by: RedVise on December 19, 2013, 07:59:38 PM: Happy Birthday Papaw !!

Hmmm... is that a piece of birthday cake I spy in your profile ???

Congrats !! Brian
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Post by: HeelSpur on December 19, 2013, 08:10:52 PM: Happy B-Day Papaw
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Post by: Papaw on December 19, 2013, 08:22:14 PM: Yep. Made it another year!
I have been on vacation the last few days, I almost never work on my birthday if I can help it.
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Post by: rudeawakening55 on December 19, 2013, 09:10:55 PM: Happy Birthday from Oklahoma..........have a good one.
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Post by: chopper1 on December 19, 2013, 09:12:35 PM: Many happy returns of the day!
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Post by: mikeswrenches on December 19, 2013, 09:28:01 PM: Happy Birthday and a Merry Christmas!!

Mike
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Post by: Lewill2 on December 19, 2013, 10:36:01 PM: Happy Birthday Papaw, a little late but best wishes anyway.
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Post by: Bus on December 20, 2013, 12:04:40 AM: Happy Birthday Papaw. Hope you had a Good One.
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Post by: Batz on December 20, 2013, 12:22:05 AM: Happy Birthday cobber!
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Post by: oldtools on December 20, 2013, 01:27:57 AM: Happy Birthday Papaw, and many more to come...
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Post by: Chillylulu on December 20, 2013, 01:32:24 AM: Happy Birthday Papaw!
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Post by: oldgoaly on December 20, 2013, 11:15:55 AM: Happy Birthday!
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Post by: Branson on December 20, 2013, 11:49:46 AM: Gotta wish a Happy Birthday to a fellow Sagittarius! Which day? Mine was on Thanksgiving this year.
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Post by: Papaw on December 20, 2013, 01:36:22 PM: I was 71 yesterday, December 19th.
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Post by: mrchuck on December 20, 2013, 02:00:36 PM: What tool are you going to get for your Birthday?
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Post by: Papaw on December 20, 2013, 02:31:55 PM: I took a few days off and was quite happy doing nothing I didn't want to do!
No tools crossed my path outside the house.
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Post by: leach on December 20, 2013, 08:22:29 PM: hope you had a birthday papaw
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Post by: DM11 on December 31, 2013, 01:07:43 AM: I'm way late. Hope you had a great birthday Papaw!
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Post by: Papaw on December 31, 2013, 01:19:55 AM: Thanks David. And all the rest of you also.