Long thread on another forum about home made tools, wortha read through.

[demographic]

Its mostly car related stuff like bead rollers, english Wheels, car rotisseries, bead blasting cabinets, sheet metal benders whatever but there's also a few vice stands, and several decent sanding machines, belt grinders which might be useful for the blademakers.

Its a long thread at eighty odd pages right now but its well worth a read for the metalworkers.
I'm not a member there, just spotted the thread whilst looking for something else, spent ages reading through the brilliant ideas there.

The Home Made Tools and Equipment thread

 

[The Edge]

Lots of good stuff can also be found here if this is your kind of thing.

Make sure to check out ''Building a forge from a car wheel and other junk'' .

 

[demographic]

Lots of good stuff can also be found here if this is your kind of thing.

Make sure to check out ''Building a forge from a car wheel and other junk'' .

I've been on that Backyardmetalcasting page some time ago when i was looking for waste oil burner info for a mate. There's a hell of a lot of casting info on there and its a great site.