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Dug out a motor-less 5 hp air compressor this morning early and by 8:00 or so I had it cleaned up and painted. The plan is to put on the motor gotten Monday and get it running.

Worked on the 100's pneumatics all day. Did go shopping for paint and whatnot. Details of the plumbing work are tooooooooo boring to relate.

Grant just told me my...

Today i decided to upgrade my forge from a fire brick nightmare, i used all scrap bits of steel that were just lying round the yard and some not so scrap bits, (sorry dad).
I used some 5mm x 100mm plate for the base and 50mm x 50mm angle for the sides, i also managed to liberate an old compressor from a skip cut one end off end welded it the base...

'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...

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...

hey everybody im new to the site and dont really know what all can be done on here yet, im an aprentice level black/bladesmith and i joined because i seem to have hit a rock wall in my work, ive been unable to get any quality tools and have had to make almost all of the ones i have but you can only do so much as far as that goes and i was...

I have a friend that has a junk yard, and he just gave me some angle iron for a trip hammer.

Well found a suitable stump to mount my new anvil on. This piece of what ever has a 5 1/2" X 5 1/2" x 9 1/2" socket in the underside so I cut a 5" tall post out of the top of my stump to fit in the socket. This solved the issue of how to keep this thing from walking on top of the stump. I mounted it yesterday afternoon it took...

On a dark and stormy night....really, it was! My mother hands me a book, "Back to Basics". Bored out of my mind, I start flipping through the pages. I soon come across a brake drum forge....and the fever set in. Then it's a mad dash to get all these parts with as little money as possible.

One week later I have everything I...

A few weeks ago I was at the NEB open forge and more than one of the guys was wearing gloves the entire day. Some wore the standard leather work gloves with the cotton backing and one fellow wore "fireplace" gloves made for high heat applications. I don't wear gloves and the one time I did I nearly burnt myself good because of a...

So another week and another Swap meet and that means more items for the Smithy (I hope). So on the shopping list today we have a Break Drum (for the forge I want to build), A hammer or two (a nice 2lb cross peen would be great), a set of tongs , a hand crank blower, an Anvil around 100 lbs and maybe some coil springs or leaf springs that are...

Carbon is such a common and complex element. Its properties influence the extension of sphere of its usage.
One of characteristic features of this chemical element is the state with unregulated structure –
amorphous carbon (smut coal, charred coal, wood coal). Under the common conditions it is inert. Under the high temperatures it combines with...

Hello all,
I have never posted a blog before, but I decided to give it a try. I am taking a cross country trip this June to soak in what this country has to offer and also the hopes of meeting some great new friends.
I am traveling from Georgia towards Tennessee and then on to the west coast. I am looking for some work along the way to make the...

would like an help with knife handles.info on how to use deer horns.ben using wood want somthing different.also would like to know how to build a burner for gas forge.

Can any one point me in the right direction for pneumatic cylinders switches controls etc

During the holiday season, I spent several weeks converting I Forge Iron over to a more tightly woven system. The system was originally built in pieces and bridged together, but now each section is in the same land mass. A few weeks after the conversion, we upgraded the blog, gallery, and content management system. And with the generous donations...

I've clicked on "Blogs" before and I don't remember there being anything here, but apparently today there is! So I made one. I am not exactly sure what I will end up putting up here.

Right now I am not forging anything, I am out of town and because of that I am not near my equipment (not that it stopped me before).

I am...

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