I knew after the first couple of videos that Cora was in, that she would never leave. She chose you, and it’s obvious to anyone who ‘knows’ dogs, that you two already have a very special bond. She’s a beautiful dog. Oh yes, and the sharpening content was interesting too! 😂 Thanks, Steve.
Steve you're setting the bar so high in your approach to everything you do. Whether it's learning a new skill or sharpening something, everything has to be done just so. If I could be more like you just 5 minutes of the day, I'd be such a better person.
Hedge Apple is Osage Orange. It is one of the hardest North American hardwoods with a Janka rating of 2620. Janka rating is the amount of force it takes to imbed a 7/16ths steel ball halfway into the material. I have made a number of wood mallets from it. My brother in law has a stash that came from a National Guard base. It was cut when they trimmed the training area and then tried to run it through a wood chipper. The chipper said NO!!! Osage has the highest BTU value when it comes to burning,
I call that wood Osage Orange. It's what I make my handcrafted primative bows out of. I carved a recurve bow out of that wood back when I was 23. I'm now 53 and I STILL use it to hunt with. Great wood!!!
Whatever you do, I appreciate waking up at 5am Saturday morning, making my coffee and having something interesting to watch. Today I only got halfway through before kiddos stuff took over, but just finished it and want you to know it doesn't go unnoticed
It’s great that Cora is staying with you she’s a lovely dog 👍. And a great sharpening video as well. Saturday mornings aren’t the same without one of your videos.
Cora is a keeper for sure😁. I definitely try hard to get a video out every week. Sometimes I just can't find time with my work and family schedule . Thanks for watching.
I started watching your channel during the shop remodel. My dad was a contractor, so growing up, I was around construction a lot. I continued to watch because you showed things that I hadn't and probably won't experience in my life. Because of my time in the army. I have some issues that make most of what you do impossible for me to experience personally, so I guess when it comes to your RU-vid channel, I live vicariously through you and your experiences. Buildings, trucks do all machines, etc. It's different from what I normally see in life. Thank you for sharing with me.
Your kindling looks a lot like the Osage Orange trees that we have for wind breaks around here. So happy the you’re keeping Cora! She clearly loves you and you can never have too much of that. I always watch how people treat their animals; you learn a lot about a person by that.
I agree on Osage Orange. In some parts of the country, it has a French name, Bois D'arc (or some such spelling). They are not common in eastern VA but were sometimes used in The Valley for hedges. I have been told that they have a large thorn which will penetrate a tractor tire.
This is Bill using my wife's phone. I enjoy watching you so much. I love what you do from machining to rebuilding your truck. I love it all! Keep up the good work and I will watch whatever you have time to post. Also love the new pup.
I LOVE your little dog Cora she looks like a real sweetheart, im 63 on disability and live alone and would absolutely LOVE to have such a great little girl like her for company. Unfortunately im not in a good enough situation to properly keep a dog like I used to, I dont have a big enough yard or a safe enough area to do her justice and I wont have a pet unless I can properly care for it and be sure its safe and happy. I once had a beautiful husky collie mix I named Lady and had her some 17 years and I bawled like a baby when she became very ill and had to be put down. Just love Cora though I watch for her in every video, she looks like such a good natured little girl. Im glad youre keeping her because I know she will always be well cared for loved and happy as long as you have her. Great video too.
Finally glad to hear you admit that Cora is staying with you Steve. Yippee!! The cutter grinder show and tell is exactly how I like it too. Too many words in a book without diagrams and my brain fries! Any video you post, whenever you can is ok with me Steve, if work and family life get in the way then so be it. That's Life! Cheers from the UK mate and stay safe as that bloody Covid is still around, well it is in the UK anyway.
i really liked your shop rebuild. the machine shop stuff is so much better. you never see this anywhere else. so much knowledge on the really interesting and great stuff. no more truck crap. any moron can fix a truck.
Hi Steve, Another great video! Hedge Apple, sometimes just Hedge, aka Osage Orange, aka Bois d'Arc (French meaning wood for bows, as in bow and arrow). Native Americans prized this wood for making bows. It has a very high heating content (BTUs / pound or Joules / Kg), higher even than oak. It is extremely rot resistant (I know of hedge fence posts that must be close to a hundred years old and are still solid in the ground. When silver soldering/brazing, I often like to cut off a small piece of silver solder and place it in the flux. I get much better control of the amount of solder applied. It is very malleable and sometimes it makes sense to pound a small piece flat rather than use it as is in the round.
Love your content mate. Doesn't matter what it is, I like watching it. It's always interesting. Great that Cora is now a permanent addition to the family. Great shop dog.
These are very expensive tooling and being able to recover them is a real blessing for sure. Little Cora is a real blessing in your life. She was drawn there for good reason. Like you I learn best with hands on. You will make a great teacher though. Always a good thing these Saturdays when we see a new post from you my friend. Take care and GOOD JOB ! ! ! Especially with any type stainless. It can be difficult at the best of times. Magnetic or not.
Steve: Thank you a million times for deciding to make Cora a permanent employee! I watch you every week from Thailand. I can force myself to watch your portion of the content, but I mostly come here just to check on Cora. 😊
Always love your content. And we got a 4sec look at you Bride that wish she would be hang out more like in the past. Give her my best. The cutter regrind and showing the set up was very well filmed. on the little torch, I bought in 2005 a Henrob torch kit. Was very expensive then, but the flame control at the tip is pin point like a Tig. Great content again this Saturday, see you next week, Bear.
Great video Steve! My father planted a few of those “hedge apple” which we call Osage Orange trees on our property. Throughout the years, he has used this extremely durable hardwood to make some beautiful cedar chests, knife handles, and even longbows from these amazing trees! Huge frickin thorns! And they will make a wound darn sore after you get poked by em! They are fast growing, and provide some good shade, but those hedge apples will be everywhere when the season is right, and they start to drop from the branches. Great trees, and an even better woodworking medium. Loving all the new shop pup content too! She is a sweetheart haha!
I must admit that I covet your tool grinder. It is a very useful too for any shop. Putting a good sharp edge on any cutting tool always makes a job go better and faster. I'm Looking forward to your next project. KOKO!
Steve, Osage Orange. We used to farm along a hedge of them and was always having flat tires because of their thorns. If use for a post, nail fence while still green. Once they dry out they a hard as iron. Keep up the great vids.😊
Seeing you sharpen up that cutter (we call 'em a 'side & face' here in the UK) brought back memories of my apprentice days back in the late sixties, good to see the old K&T using it to good effect. I could see a few weeks ago Cora was gonna be a 'keeper'. All The Best from a frosty, foggy Somerset, England.
I can't believe I forgot you had that horizontal boring mill. Heck, you had a whole series on building that years ago. Now I know where all those cutting wheels are going to be used. Thanks Steve for all you do.
Very interesting, especially for me as I have gotten interested in grinding of all types. I had never seen a cutter grinder before. Thanks for letting us watch and for the excellent explanations. Greetings to you and to Cora from Bruce, Karin, Halgrim (4 year-old GSD) and Bella (9 month old rescue from Romania) in Germany.
Hedge apple is the Osage Orange tree. Its the hardest hardwood in North America. Very hard but easly bent and not brittle. Native Americans used it to make their bows. Just an FYI. 😄
I have one of these tiny torches and love it for my silver work. I use oxy/propane. Works great. Thanks again for another post from you. I can watch these all day eh.
Cora is a great pup she is lucky to have found you and Elizabeth. I'm just now getting ready to learn to grind on my Cincinnati #2 tool and cutter grinder, thank you for the great video. Whether it's a mill, shaper or grinder too many You Tubers skip the setup; Steve you are a great teacher. Keep 'em coming
Osage Orange, is the name we use. It burns extremely hot. It used to be used in fence posts all over up north. The last I did research on it, the animal that used to eat the seeds is no longer around so there are no new trees being replanted. The seeds had to go through the digestive system of that animal to become viable.
From my many years of experience, both learning and teaching others, you are more common than strange. Pictures really helps for understanding. Often because the text that should explain the matter is not so good. 😂
Sweating is my tool maker teacher call the process of silver solder. Make sure the blank is nicely polish and clean both carbide and blank with bottle alcohol.and rest is practicing the art.
The shop looks wonderful Steve!! Thanks for taking time to make these videos, they're a high point of my day! Great video on that cutter - loved the graphics too. Also, love your closeup work - puts me RIGHT THERE. Cheers!
When I was very young it was the morning cartoons on the weekends. Just turned eighty and can't wait until Saturday mornings to see if a new video is waiting for me from your hard efforts. Now what does that tell you? Our two Jack Russels, Happi and Joy, welcome your addition of Cora to the ranks as well.
I've got an Osage Orange (hedge, bō'd arch, bow wood) mallet I turned many years ago. Tuff, hard, heavy works great. My go to wood for tool handles of all sorts. Miles of wind breaks were planted with it in the 30's. Mostly gone now. Nearly rot proof. Thanks for the video. Nice mini torch. I could use one for brazing/silver soldering carbides.
I would love to have a hedge apple tree near me. However, the cold of Minnesota prevents the tree from thriving well enough to grow. Love the color and the hardness. It is technically the hardest wood in North America.
As usual, awesome content from one of my favorite creators. On that kindling, I agree with others that it looks like Osage Orange or mock orange, as it's known in WPA. Native Americans valued the wood for bows and bartered/traded for it at great distances. Would like to see more of the cutter grinder: setups, grinding versatility, stone choices, etc. Great work, Steve! Thanks!
Great informative content. I had a chance to buy one of those torches for $25 cdn at Princess Auto, in a damaged box. I hesitated and another guy scooped it up . Glad Cora is part of the family, you all deserve each other. Cheers
Good morning Steve, great to see Cora is officially a Summers family member ❤ I think you were a shop teacher in your past life. Great explanation of tool resharp. "A picture tells a thousand words".
I love my jewelers torch but fyi treat the hoses with care they are delicate. Using them for refrigeration work it takes little to nothing damage them causing a great big surprise!
In northern Ohio we call that wood Hedge Apple also, I think a proper name is Osage Orange. It grows mainly along creek or streams probably because the fruit (?) falls and floats down stream and grows where they lay. I don’t see many in the woods that I used to hunt besides along the banks, maybe because the farmers cut them down for fence posts like you said. I think farmers also knew it was a really hard wood, stringy, hard to split so it wasn’t the greatest for firewood, may as well use it for posts, it wasn’t good for much else. Lol They say those green balls (the fruit) repels spiders, if you put them in your basement you won’t get any spiders. An old wife’s tale I believe, I’ve tried it and still had spiders, maybe not as many as I would have without but who knows. Thanks for sharing
Had one of that copy smiths' torches for years and run it on Oxygen and butane does the same but takes a little longer worth every penny thanks for the video and I've fallen in love with the dog thanks for looking after it; fletch from the UK
Thank you for another great video. I got a Jones and Shipman tool and utter grinder last year and really appreciate you covering cutter grinding as there is not much out there
Why don't you drill some large holes in the gully at the sides of your Bridgeport vice inline with the 'T' slots so the cutting oil evacuates out instead of using rags to stop it running off the table
The name of the “hedge apple” is Osage Orange it is a very tough hedge row tree/bush. Glad to here the mandatory position of shop dog has been filled by Cora.
