>>106760
>Nice stand!
It's not that impressive when you get a good look at it. I had a few pine 4x4s but not enough to construct all of it so I got some pressure treated ones. Turns out the ones at LOWES are actually 3.75" or some shit. But it is sturdy as fuck and that's all that matters
>Jelly of your anvil.
It's quite nice, it's also slightly magnetic near the pritchel hole. I noticed it when I was forging some curtain tiebacks for a friend. It also came with a hot-cut tool, pic related
>your anvil and safety equipment
I can see that you favor more Romanesque anvils. I also personally eschew wearing gloves and an apron, the gloves are more of a hindrance in my opinion.

>>106780
I agree about the gloves. The picture is old and I've since ditched them. The apron is nice though because more than once I've glanced myself with a hot piece and best case I'd have ruined my shirt (worst case burned myself). Also it keeps my pants from becoming a filthy mess.

If you don't know already, holy shit don't wear synthetics. Shit will melt to your skin from stray embers.

P.S. watch Secrets of the Viking Sword. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/secrets-viking-sword.html

  Do any of you amateur smiths or wannabe smiths (like myself) watch the show called "Forged in Fire"?

Its hosted by a bunch of cool dudes, two of which are two of my favorite dudes, Will Willis (Ranger, PJ, etc), and Doug Marcaida (knife fightan dude). The other guys are cool. And watching some random smiths turning pieces of scrap metal into cool weapons in a time crunch is fun.

If you are bored and wanna watch knife making shit. Check it out. Season 3 just started recently.

>>106780
All dimensional lumber is smaller than it's nominal size. A 2x4 is not 2" by 4" either. The nominal dimensions is what the lumber was cut to at the mill, BEFORE it was seasoned and planed. At least, that was how it was done back in the day. But the naming scheme survives.

>>106783
I don't like gloves either. Some mechanix gloves I tried, but they're also synthetic, and I *like* having my hands so I can jack off. So there's that.

Jeans and a cotton T shirt are what I wear when smithing, because, fuck synthetics, and it keeps you really cool if you're wet.

>>106702
These people right here are the definition of "hayseed."

>>106706
Calm down Jaylen, maybe learn to defend yourself before whining about how you need more gun control.

>>106706
Did you see the part where the guy really wasn't harassing them at all and Jaelyn was so very intimidated he stuck his head out of their Subway sandwich shop refuge to confront a homeless guy for some reason? And said homeless guy not only punched him but clung to the "fake uber" as they drove off?

And then--then!--this encounter with a homeless guy and a "fake uber" was so traumatic that they could not possibly stay in their apartment. Which is why they have to explain to their youtube channel why they are back in Phoenix so fast.

I mean this story is about as solid as Ryan Lochte's.

>>106708
>learn to defend yourself
What, with fists? Hahahahahahhahahahahhahahahhahahahahaaaa!

WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?

>>106702
>16 minutes
fuck you, post a summary.

>>106693
https://www.yahoo.com/news/university-chicago-weighs-free-speech-vs-crackdown-hecklers-102120067.html

>After years of tolerating dissenters who shouted down unpopular speakers on campus, the school is now considering a policy of meting out suspensions, expulsions or other punishment for those it sees as violating free speech rights.
>"We're not opposed to protest. We're opposed to disruption," said Randal Picker, a law professor. "These are university campuses; there should be a lot of activity on them."
>Some students blasted the creation of the committee, calling it an attempt to discourage left-leaning causes.
>"It comes from a place of reputation management, of wanting to preserve the university's image to alumni, to parents, and to try to control the issues that are on the university's agenda," said Cosmo Albrecht, a member of student government and a junior from San Antonio, Texas.
Leftist admits that disruption is his only possible response when faced with opposing points of view.

>In August the dean of students, Jay Ellison, sent a letter to incoming students saying that such "trigger warnings" were strictly optional.
The actual text of the letter clearly states that they are not supported.

>"If you disagree with somebody, bring them in and ask them tough questions," Obama told Rutgers University's commencement in May. He said students should not "shut your ears off because you're too fragile."
Even President Obama does not support SJWs.

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>>106755
>nice
Well they did strip out a *few* pipes in the couple weeks before I moved in. Turning the water on in my barn for the first time was a little surprising. They also just cut all the copper out of the barn as well, even ripped the junction box out of the wall

>>106750
>Home inspection only found minor stuff.
Just helped move my mother into a new home last month. The home inspector managed to miss that the A/C unit had no Freon in it at all. We only managed to not burn up the motor because one of the people helping us move noticed the A/C had never turned off in like 12 hours and connected the dots. Anyway, it could pay to get individual things looked at by specialists.

  >>106750
>>106758
Home Inspector can miss a LOT of stuff, the one we had on the first home missed rotting floor board on the back sliding door and house is on septic instead of sewer like it is listed in the listing.

A lot of the stuff you won't find out till you've lived in it and really explore the house.


Congrats on being a home owner

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091541/

>>106756
I spent at least a good month hunting for a shoulder strapped US-made tool bag with individual pockets and maybe or two parts box compartments. Most of the tool bags on the market anywhere close to that description are Chinese imports with thin material and are mostly fold-open doctor-style bags with not nearly enough side pockets, and I hate having to dig around 'em.

The carpenter case by Occidental Leather came close, but I ended up with VetoProPac because while they're made in China, they pretty much satisfied most of the details I was looking for. However, their newer designs include neoprene and their three models that have a laptop compartment are such a high price that I'd only consider for an American made product.

>>106761
I'll make an announcement when/if I get set up

I used to make stuff exactly like that in the Corps. Thick canvas, webbing reinforcements, pull-dot snaps, and such.

Problem with making stuff like that is people don't actually understand how much those materials cost and how much labor can really go into just one well made tool pouch.

That's why I want to do the one off custom stuff. Person is already willing to pay, will treat the product well, and will likely come back to me for any repairs. Plus making new patterns and the whole problem solving involved with prototyping is actually kind of fun.

Needs doggles.

it spreads

>>106691
Criticizing the Russian doping program is transphobia.

>the IOC is angry that Russia and Brazil have damaged their fine reputation.
I'm sure it had nothing to do with treating WELFARE MIGRANTS as a fucking nation.

Or allowing men with two functioning testicles producing testosterone to compete with women, but banning those same women if they use synthetic testosterone.

Or the fact that it's not nation vs nation anymore, the point of olympics being a chance to showcase your culture, instead everyone is simply importing mutants from other countries.

>>106698
>the point of olympics being a chance to showcase your culture
It's not.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-37183703
>Kenyan athletes have expressed anger after being stranded in a Rio shanty town where gunshots could be heard, after the Olympic village closed.

>Officials delayed their return home as they looked for a "cheap flight", complained Wesley Korir, team captain, marathon runner and independent MP.

>After the team finally left for home, he tweeted he had "never felt so much happiness leaving a place".

>>106700
It literally always has been.

>>106658
Thanks! I started doing barbell arm exercises as physical therapy in order to maneuver in crutches better.

>>106653
You're getting old. Soon you'll need a LifeAlert.

>>106664

Planned obsolescence

>>106653
Not even trolling, get one of these.

Google and learn the PT exercises.

>>106719
Can confirm that pool PT will fuck you the fuck up. I did pool pt a few times in the army when I was in the best shape I had ever been in. Felt like I was dying 2 minutes in.

Jefferson Davis, Senator from Mississippi, was actually Secretary of War in 1853-1857 before he became President of the Confederate States of America in 1861.

Breckinridge, Hon. John C. Senator from Ky. General in CSA, Sec of War Confederate Cabinet.
There were five secretaries of war in the CSA during the Civil War. John C. Breckinridge was the last, in 1865.

Henry Stimson was 45th and 54th War Secretary under Republican and Democratic Presidents.
Henry Lewis Stimson (September 21, 1867 – October 20, 1950) was an American statesman, lawyer and Republican Party politician and spokesman on foreign policy. He served as Secretary of War (1911–1913) under Republican William Howard Taft, and as Governor-General of the Philippines (1927–1929). As Secretary of State (1929–1933) under Republican President Herbert Hoover, he articulated the Stimson Doctrine which announced American opposition to Japanese expansion in Asia. He again served as Secretary of War (1940–1945) under Democrats Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, and was a leading hawk calling for war against Germany. During World War II he took charge of raising and training 13 million soldiers and airmen, supervised the spending of a third of the nation's GDP on the Army and the Air Forces, helped formulate military strategy, and oversaw the building and use of the atomic bomb.

- Henry L. Stimson, former Secretary of War and State, in 1929.

US Secretary of Defense, Robert Strange McNamara.
Recommended to President Lyndon Johnson that the US should pull out of Vietnam (war would become a long, expensive quagmire because of the determination of the North Vietnamese and the incompetence and corruption of the South Vietnamese government not inspiring popular support) and LBJ forced him into retirement.

John C. Calhoun, Secretary of War and Vice President (1782-1850)

Brits out!
Perhaps the lesson to take from Ireland is if you have a colony that mostly resents your rule, you have to either make them equal citizens with equal rights and have non-exploitative policies or free them or crack down on them and endure decades of ruinous guerrilla warfare.

But this is coming from a provincial who would never tolerate colonial rule by foreign monarchs, so I am a bit biased.

Basically the introduction of the potato in Ireland in the late 1500s was a major factor in the decline of living standards, combined with civil unrest and the conquest of the island by the English. The potato is a fairly hearty crop, animals won't eat it and unlike cereal crops couldn't be easily destroyed by soldiers. Thus it was widely and rapidly adopted by the peasantry, since potatoes were essentially the cheapest and easiest crop available. IIRC a cotter could support his family on a acre of potatoes, so relatively little needed land meant that landlords could use the rest of their land for pasture or cereal crops for export.

So this went on for about 300 years. The Irish lived in mud huts and ate nothing but potatoes and buttermilk while having less rights than a medieval serf (or a Russian serf of the same period) while laboring for protestant land owners (typically absent from their holdings) and Parliament passed various laws that subjected Irish exports to heavy tariffs while English goods could be sold in Ireland without them. There were general reforms and emancipation in the early 1800s fueled by British fear of the American and French revolutions, however this did little to quell the rising tide of Irish nationalism that continued until the Easter Rising and independence.

Afterwards it's mainly the general "Unbabunga u pray slightly different from me! Catholicism is a religion of peace!" sectarian bullshit we all know about. More recently the Irish managed to fuck up their economy spectacularly thanks to both housing and bank investment bubbles as I recall.

The potato's debasement of living standards also happened in the Scottish highlands but to a lesser extent, the Scots distrusted potatoes ("they aren't in the Bible therefore we shouldn't eat them", the same issue happened with peasants in mainland Europe) and there was less unrest at the time of it's adoption in the 1700s. Scotsmen were forced out of their homes by their landlords and ended up in meager areas on the coast eating potatoes, however cereal crops and meat had greater availability and the Scots were able to fall back onto secondary cash industries such as fishing and collecting kelp ash for the glass industry.

>>106572
The funny thing is that the opposite is true for the begging of the Troubles. The British Army was deployed to protect the Catholic minority.

Even the COIN operations of the Anglo-Irish War were precipitated by the actions of the IRA murdering RIC men.

Hence the need for the Auxiliary troops to be brought in. (here's a bright idea, lets take brutalised ex-service men, who may or may not have PTSD and put them in a insurgency for which they are untrained and unrestrained by the community).

>>106574
"rising tide of Irish nationalism that continued until the Easter Rising and independence"

The nationalist fever was wearing off by 1916 though, which is why they launched the rising. The Home-Rule act was passed and by and large most Irish were happy with it, although not people like Sinn Fein or the IRB.

It was only when the Military governor had the plotters executed for treason (the Uprising was supposed to be more widespread and was being aided by the Kaiser) that the Irish switched their attitudes.

It's like the Irish Civil War. It didn't need to happen, the agreement was signed and would have meant a united and probably independent Ireland by the mid 20th Century but the hardline republicans couldn't take that.

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  >>106574
The potato, imported from the New World (the Americas), solved a major food shortage problem in Europe to the point where Europe had a sharp population increase after the potato's introduction.

The introduction of the potato was responsible for a significant portion of the increase in population and urbanization observed during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. According to our most conservative estimates, the introduction of the potato accounts for approximately one-quarter of the growth in Old World population and urbanization
between 1700 and 1900. http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/nunn/files/nunn_qian_qje_2011.pdf

You may claim that having enough food to feed more children retards the living standards of everyone else who must suffer through a population boom, but I would hazard that frequent population-thinning famines are even worse.

Prince Regent: Well, tell me about these “oppressed masses”, what are they so worked up about?
Blackadder: They are worked up, sir, because they are so poor that they are forced to have children as a cheap alternative to turkey at Christmas. Disease and deprivation stalk our land like... two giant... stalking things. And the working man is poised to overthrow us.
- Black Adder the Third Season 3 Episode 4 - Sense and Senility (1987) http://dai.ly/x4oyep4 or http://dai.ly/x1zz3tw

>>106468
Doubtful. Zika I don't even think has really had any cases in the US cept in Florida.

But people are still shitting themselves over it like a repeat of the Bird Flu so it probably makes for a pretty good way to divert attention from shit like the hundreds dying from gang violence yearly, George Lucas fucking off from Chicago with his billions, rampant corruption, and ctOS allowing trench coat wearing dudes to hack errything.

Pic kinda related but not sure if true. The fact I can wonder if its true shows just how fucked up the place is.

Be careful what you wish for.
They could just as likely be demanding the deliberate importation of millions of zika carrying mosquitoes to increase the diversity of public health and safety.

Chicago worse then Baltimore with gangs and shit?

>>106480
Depends on the neighborhood.
http://heyjackass.com/

seen a few billboards in my area too, even in nearby DC, on various buses