Irons in the Fire

Ok, you've forged, ground, hardened and tempered the blade. Now, especially for a big one for heavy chopping, it needs testing. You do t...

I picked up a poster at a bike show years ago. I can't find the damn thing right now, this is some of what I remember about it: MURPHY...

Steve had a piece on motorcycles and the riding thereof on his original site, and he just posted it here ! Read, and learn. And I do not ...

One of the places I like to go to find information is Babalu Blog . Lots of stuff, with an emphasis on happenings in and to Cuba. One of t...

That's what's coming out of the Senate hearings on Roberts. My God, it's hard to believe that any human being with enough worki...

Over at Geek with a .45, posted here is the situation as it currently seems to be. In short, apparently enough people remembered their oath...

Oddly enough, this thing has been one of the more useful tools I've ever gotten hold of. It's a 2oz. ball-peen hammer: You can find...

I thought about this yesterday. A lot. That was a day off, I was making tea and listening to a local rock station when they came on and sai...

Geek with a .45 has numerous links to video of the actions of these clowns. Including an old lady being body-slammed into a wall. She wasn...

Now up at Gullyborg . Lots of disaster related stuff. And updates on the gun seizure BS in New Orleans.

The New Orleans PD, that is. I first read about this on some news site earlier, and now Publicola has more on it, including links to other ...

Go to Mr. Completely, here , and read it. Then write.

With all the disaster preparedness posts going around, one thing that's almost always mentioned is flashlights. A standard-type can be ...

I posted some pictures in the past of a fighting axe I made. I've used it off & on for trimming branches cut down in the yard, but ...

A comment on my last post on this brought up shotguns, which for some reason I neglected to mention. Happily, others did not forget this(Am...

If you haven't already heard about this, Sean Penn decided to heroically rescue people from New Orleans. In a small boat. Including ...

The posts I linked to earlier ( here ) had a number of good suggestions, both in the articles and in the comments. I thought I'd add tw...

And for a change, I was able to go. I almost hate going to these things at times, because at a good show there's so much stuff you'd...

Mr. Completely linked to an article at Confederate Yankee here , on the subject. Nice piece of work, that also ties in with something Kim ...

I think I'll go here . I've seen this method used to make knife guards and pommels, but never seen it in rings before. Absolutely ...