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Graduation!

Posted by Toreus, in Technique, General, Completed Work 23 September 2010 · 0 views

On the weekend of Sept 11-12 I took a class at Cloverdale Forge (http://cloverdalefarm.ca/forge), run by Matt Jenkins.

I had only used my homemade propane forge before, so after using a coal forge for a few hours, there were 2 main thoughts going through my head: "Man, this fire sure gets the metal hot quick and localized!" followed...

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Hot hot hot!

Posted by Toreus, 22 August 2010 · 0 views

'ello again!

Yesterday I fired up my forge for the first time after adding another inch of insulation and upgrading the blower to a shopvac.

After about an hour of practising some basics for hammer control (drawing out, tapers and curves mostly), I decided to put the regulator up to 10 PSI. I had two workpieces, one in the fire and one...

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First Real Entry!

Posted by Toreus, in Equipment 17 August 2010 · 0 views

Hello everyone!

Since all I had as tools were a piece of rail track and some random hammers, I got lazy and haven't done much since finishing my blown propane forge (build pics and description to come). But Saturday, I got a breakthrough!

I went to a farm auction on Saturday morning, and although the two anvils' prices...

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Blacksmith's Log, Stardate 24.03.2010

Posted by Toreus, in General 24 March 2010 · 0 views

Hello World!

I just read tomcellwheel’s thread <http://www.iforgeiron.com/topic/16041-a-hopeful-future-blacksmith/> and I realized keeping a journal would be an EXTREMELY useful thing to do. So here it is!

I’ll be documenting the builds of my propane forge, my anvil and stand, my tool rack and eventually my projects.

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