Bill wrote:
Larry Jaques wrote:
On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 23:38:48 -0400, wrote:

Larry Jaques wrote:
On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 18:36:50 -0400, wrote:

Father Haskell wrote:
On Apr 5, 12:25 am, wrote:
I just happen to have this 32" torsion spring with a 2" i.d. left
over
from an obvious home repair. I placed it in the garbage, at
first, but
I retrieved it--in case it may be valuable! ; )

Seriously, is it material suitable for making any sort of wood
cutter?
If it is, I think I can get a lot of 'em out of the spring!

Bill

Heat it with a torch and stretch it out. Make it into
small scribes, detail knives, etc. The only difference
between spring steel and tool steel is the temper
(purple vs. straw).

That's the kind of encouragement (and information) I was after!
Thank you.

Hell, Bill, stretch it out, make it thinner, then make your own nails!

You say that like you think I wouldn't ever do something like that... I
Can make my own fishing flies (much better than the imported ones)..I
expect my nails would be better too! They would be forged--and
formaldehyde free! ; )

I want to see the video of you extruding your own monofilament fishing
line next. OK?

How about raising/growing my own fish?

BTW, I have a fish I stuffed on my old bedroom wall (my first effort at
taxidermy done when I was 13). I might have guessed I was older, except
I dated it. I hesitate to use the term "mounted" as some folks here
are easily excitable... Yep, I learned how by reading a few pages of a
book. I made an wooden oval panel to glue it to using a coping saw, a
rasp and sandpaper, and some blue paint I found in the garage. A few
streaks of paint across the fish, a few coats of varnish, a
suitably-sized lightbulb in his eye socket, and he/she still looks like
a fairly healthy (big) bluegill some thirty-some years later... I
didn't stop at the fish, but this is a good place to wind this up. If
anything made an impression on me, and it still does, it's that the
instructions to do stuff like that is sitting on the shelf of the
library. Pretty cool (the library, now known as Google books, et. al.)

Bill