Are there many members here who live in Florida? I am not involved in metalwork but it has always been of interest to me. I stumbled onto your forum while searching for fish gigs on google. I came across this post by the member cooter:
What is AR wear plate
It looks like he has not posted in quite awhile. The gigs he shows are far superior to the ones I buy from BM spears and I wanted to ask him if he would be willing to sell me one. I was not aware that blacksmithing still had such a following and I have only seen an operating smith once in my life. That was years ago at a boy scouts event in southern Florida. The smith there made all kinds of tools and traps knives etc on order. Unfortunately I have never been able to remember the name of the the town where this smith was and I'm not sure they would still be there after all these years anyway.