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carpenter374:
i dont have a broom handle quite that big either. the cap has an inside diameter right at 1 3/4 in. besides i dont think chinese aluminum broom handles could quite handle the stress:-> i used a peice of maple from a tree in my yard. filled the cap half full of no. 8 shot. took 4 1/2 oz. epoxied the cap to a 6 in peice of maple. then ran a couple screws into it to be sure. the epoxy had a 1 hour cure time. i took some flakes off with it it works superbly. i took a good flake off one cobble that had a hole in it that looked like a worm had eaten into it. some kinda gas pocket. the resulting flake had a lil hole right thru the middle of it. should make a nifty arrowhead.
Otoe Bow:
Come on Carpenter, it's time to show and tell. ;D. We need pictures. Where'd you get the rock? It sounds cool.
Mike
carpenter374:
mike, pics pending. cowboy, how did you make your copper hammer?
cowboy:
Carpenter: Kinda hard to describe, maybe I can find a picture. I took a peice of copper rod about 1 1/4" in diameter X about 2 1/2" long. I cut a groove around the center of it the size of a 1/8" welding rod. I then brazed a 1/8" welding rod into the metal sheet iron that wraps around the copper rod, which is brazed to the tubing handle.
All that just so the copper can be turned or can spin around inside it's housing - you can use both ends of it all the way around. Reason for that is the copper rolls over around the edge and you want to be able to use it 360 degrees to keep the roll consistant all around - in other words, as the copper wears a little you can keep turning it around and use all sides of it :-\, make sense?
See that hammer in the background? - that's the one I just described.
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carpenter374:
yeah i get it. where do you get copper rod?
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