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Good Manners Go a Long Way

Posted by stewartthesmith, 07 August 2011 · 0 views

I have been selling tools that I manufacture for the last 34 years. Along the way, I have learned a few things about customer service. These principles that I have learned have helped me to satisfy and retain customers that remain loyal to me after many years of intercourse with them.
First of all, I have the philosophy that when someone...

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vise mounted bending forks part 2

Posted by stewartthesmith, 31 October 2010 · 0 views

Previously, I wrote an article, with drawings, showing how to bend both tight and wide curves using vise mounted bending forks with a narrow gap between them. This allows folks to either bend tight or sweeping bends, contingent upon how much hot length you feed between the forks between bends. Although trained as an industrial smith, I now...

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BABBITING A HAMMER PART II

Posted by stewartthesmith, 14 October 2010 · 0 views

BABBITING A HAMMER PART II
REPAIRING THE BEARING CAPS

In the first installment, I described how to pour babbit bushings in the main bearings intrinsic to the hammer, front and back. Those bottoms of the bearings, now babbited, need similar babbiting in the tops of the two bearings, in the cap pieces.
Both of the bearing caps that you...

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BABBITING A HAMMER PART I

Posted by stewartthesmith, 12 October 2010 · 0 views

BABBITING A HAMMER
PART I OF A 2-PART ARTICLE

About two years into my apprenticeship, I knew that I wanted to eventually establish my own shop. I found the opportunity to buy some equipment, and bought several anvils and two triphammers. One of them, a Williams and White 150 pounder, which is similar in design to a Champion actuated by...

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TO LIGHT A FIRE

Posted by stewartthesmith, 20 July 2010 · 0 views

links to scrolls, from shackles to basketball rims. Happy Forging!
TO LIGHT A FIRE

BY JACK LONDON PATTERN(STUARTTHESMITH)

The first impediment that the novice faces is starting and maintaining a coal fire in a forge. In order to forge anything with any level of efficiency and competency, a suitable fire for the project to be...

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VICE-MOUNTED BENDING FORKS

Posted by stewartthesmith, 22 June 2010 · 0 views

VICE-MOUNTED BENDING FORKS USED TO BEND A VARIETY OF CURVES

There are many good ways to bend curves in steel and iron. Many blacksmiths bend curves over the horn of the anvil, whether the curve is ½ inch in diameter, or five feet in diameter. When striking hot steel over the horn of the anvil, one by necessity has to leave hammer marks on the...

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EUROPEAN APPRENTICESHIP SYSTEM

Posted by stewartthesmith, 11 June 2010 · 0 views

EUROPEAN APPRENTICESHIP SYSTEM

Hello, my name is Stuart Geisler. I am an industrial blacksmith. The path that I followed in becoming a blacksmith may be interesting to the members of IFORGEIRON . From a modern American perspective, I became a practitioner of this craft in a highly unusual manner. I thank my lucky stars for the fortuitous...

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