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<blockquote data-quote="Tassie Daz" data-source="post: 237452" data-attributes="member: 334"><p><img src="https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/334/1458544218_20160321_173258.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />This isn't much of a DIY Project but the result I think was pretty good. I decided to make a pick for my son so I trotted off to the local scrap metal yard and purchased an old leaf spring. I shaped one end as the "pick" end with the 4" angle grinder using the offcuts to expand the spring width into a flare, welded a 3/4" pipe to the spring where the bolt bolted the springs together and then added a piece of plastic pipe to the steel pipe for some padding to the steel handle. Its turned out great. I'll include a photo when I take one. Cost? $5 for the spring a bit a pipe from the shed and a bit of plastic pipe also from the shed [And I should get at least 5 picks from the 5 leaf spring].</p><p></p><p>It was so good I decided to make myself one too.<img src="https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/334/1458544258_20160321_173432.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tassie Daz, post: 237452, member: 334"] [img]https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/334/1458544218_20160321_173258.jpg[/img]This isn't much of a DIY Project but the result I think was pretty good. I decided to make a pick for my son so I trotted off to the local scrap metal yard and purchased an old leaf spring. I shaped one end as the "pick" end with the 4" angle grinder using the offcuts to expand the spring width into a flare, welded a 3/4" pipe to the spring where the bolt bolted the springs together and then added a piece of plastic pipe to the steel pipe for some padding to the steel handle. Its turned out great. I'll include a photo when I take one. Cost? $5 for the spring a bit a pipe from the shed and a bit of plastic pipe also from the shed [And I should get at least 5 picks from the 5 leaf spring]. It was so good I decided to make myself one too.[img]https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/334/1458544258_20160321_173432.jpg[/img] [/QUOTE]
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