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Post by woodyz on Aug 19, 2018 13:55:09 GMT -7
Blacksmithing 101: How to Make a Forge and Start Hammering Metal Order an anvil and let the sparks fly. If you want to work with metal, there's one thing you have to confront: You need heat. With it, you can make the toughest metal submit to your will. Without it, you'll never gain full mastery over this stubborn material. www.popularmechanics.com/home/how-to-plans/how-to/a4087/how-to-make-a-forge/
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Post by thywar on Aug 23, 2018 17:03:07 GMT -7
There are simpler and easier ways to begin. Priced an anvil lately? I’ve got a short piece of railroad rail that will be my beginning anvil. Probably enough for things I want to do. But you can shape them too. A little searching. Will lead you to many different small types of forges. A four pound hammer will let you know soon enough what kind of arm strength you have, or don’t have. Lol
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Post by fireoflife on Sept 1, 2018 6:14:25 GMT -7
Something I've always been interested in...let the sparks fly :-)
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Post by woodyz on Sept 2, 2018 17:24:08 GMT -7
We have had a nice piece of rail road track bolted to a heavy oak stump for a long time.
Never really intended to be an anvil, but used to beat unwanted bends or nicks out of things like lawnmower blades and other metal tools. We have a very big and heavy vice when we want to bend something.
And very rarely we will heat something up with a torch then beat it to submission.
We have a wire welder and a small arc welder we rarely use any more, but when its needed am glad to have them, their "loaned" out more often then used by us.
But like most everything else we know a guy with the tools we can go to if we need something requiring a "blacksmith", although like me all of them good old boys are getting older faster and faster
Then like the other day I went to use the cut off saw and couldn't find it. Nether my Son or I could remember loaning it out, so we went digging and found it buried under stuff that had to be moved when we needed to get to some other stuff.
I swear when we built the work room and storage building I never would have thought we would ever fill them up, but we have and its too late to build another.
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Post by blacksmith on Sept 4, 2018 14:20:25 GMT -7
I have a forge and three anvils used them a lot till I got sick I am still learning buy can do most things now with it
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Post by blacksmith on Sept 14, 2018 23:04:50 GMT -7
Hoods woods woodmaster vol.9 is a real good dvd on blade making but also give a lot about blacksmithing
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