Chad and Brit hit the road to bring HBI to another new venue!

Come visit Hunchback Ironworks at our newest venue at Bay Days on the gorgeous north shore of Lake Superior.  The event looks to be a lot of fun for the whole family.

Chad and Brit will be manning our booth, which will be located in the Silver Bay Shopping Center parking lot.  Hours are:

Friday, July 8 from noon to 6pm 

Saturday, July 9 from 9am to 6pm

Sunday, July 10 from 9am to 2pm

We hope to see you there!

Half of the HBI crew is in Silver Bay this weekend and the other half is slaving over a hot forge to bring you more product

Hi everyone,
  HBI won't be at Moose Lake or Mahtowa this weekend (July 9-10 2016) because we need to make more stuff.  The 2 weeks I was in the burning wastelands has messed with production and I need to get caught up.  We'll be back to our regular venues on the 16-17 of July.  I hope to see everyone then!  Thanks for buying enough stuff I have to make more!!!

The new maker's mark being used for the first time.

Dirty dogs, old trailers and trip hammers......oh my!!!

Bad ass grinder of doom

So I had a 25 lb Little Giant trip hammer in storage in the burning waste lands and I needed it to come home with me.  By the way, thanks to all my customers who've made me so busy that I now need my trip hammer to keep up with orders!!!!!  Anyways, I needed a trailer to get it home to the great white north and being poor I cannot afford a shiny new trailer so I had to scour craigslist to find a suitable candidate that was cheap enough and stout enough for my needs.  I drove out to BF nowhere and brought one home.  The dirty SOB didn't tell me it had a broken leaf spring.  It was broken up the mounting bolt and the broken part couldn't be seen until the trailer was jacked up and the tire off.  The SOB had to see it when he changed out the wheels and tires.  I hate crooked bastards like that.  

Because the trailer is old the parts on the undercarriage are obsolete and I had to have a the springs rebuilt in a custom shop.  It is still cheaper than a new trailer or a uhaul rental.

There is hope that late next week I'll be headed back to the Northlands with dogs and trailers in tow. 

25 lb trip hammer

Raggedy ass trailer in need of TLC

An at one time white German Shepard 

Far West Fest!

A new venue has hit the HBI calendar!

My business partners Chad and Brit will be taking Hunchback Ironworks to Far West Fest in Gary/New Duluth on June 25th.  We hope to meet some new folks and introduce our products to a new market.

Please check us out:

Far West Fest

Saturday, June 25 from 10am-6pm
1300 block of Commonwealth Ave  – Gary

I'm in the burning wastelands.....be back soon I hope

I had to journey to the southlands where the temp yesterday was 102 F.  A far cry from the lovely 54 F it was when I left.  My poor dogs......13 hours in the truck and they get out and were knocked over by the heat.   Pictures will be forthcoming later

Show Updates

Thank you to all my friends and customers who have supported HBI over the last two years.  It has been a great summer season so far, unfortunately, due to illness in my family I've had to head south for a few weeks.

My most excellent business partners Chad and Brit will sometimes be filling in for me while I am out of town.  A hearty thanks to Chad and Brit!!  But,in general the HBI presence at the Saturday Moose Lake Arena flea market and Sunday T.J's street market in Mahtowa might be hit or miss until I return.

Hopefully I will return with my Trip Hammer that has been in storage down south.  Being able to bring that monster back would make a sad trip a little less sad, and make my time in the shop rock 'n roll.

So, please feel free to drop me an email or call with questions about my products.  I will still be checking on the business while I am away.  And check back to my site for updates on my return to regular business.

Thanks again to everyone for a great year so far at Hunchback Ironworks!

Still alive but there is a lot of non-shop drama happening.

I have a new bench shear that is in need of a little TLC and that should make cutting bar stock less of a work out.

I think there was a hundred years worth of  gunk stuck in all the nooks and crannies. I needed to touch up the blades and I might make a new set in the future.  It's so heavy that I needed to dismantle it to move it to the work bench.  It is missing the proper sized screws to hold the blade in place and those arrived yesterday but I haven't tried them out yet. It's bloody hot here right now, the special heat where the humidity is the same as the temp where you sweat with out moving.  It's supposed to be better tomorrow.

The next big decision is where to put the beast when not in use.  I'm thinking a wheeled cart might be the answer.   A bigger shop would be the best answer.