horseshoer1983

1/2x1/4 1 1/2 3/4x 3/8 3/4x 5/16 3/4x 7/16 5/8x 3/8 5/8x 5/16 7/8x 3/8 7/8x 7/16 i usualy keep 50ft of each.

i think the problme entails the fact that you came on here sounding like a collector.

i can talk that talk then my friend. past 7 allmost 8 years a anvil has been a part of what pays my bills. hobbyist or fulltime iron beater i see no difference my self.

body forms and what not need to have a bit of wood working skill as well.the tail block and neck blocks are wood. as is the rock maple "broomstick" that connects the 2 tails and supports the sound well. . then you have to work out where your biscuit will set so the intonation is right. it would be a ton of work tooling u for this with a high failure rate.

urgh reading this reminds me that i need to relign my gas forge soon.

i wear mine on the right hand. being a farrier and being right handed its never near a nail when im ringing nails off. when im forgeing its on my hammer handle and not the tongs.

my big double bick is on a 100+yr old red elm stump burried 4ft in the floor. 4 steel horseshoes are drove in on the feet. the other 4 are on angle iron stands that i built. and the 77# emerson on my rig is on a swingout and i have stump on aluminium legs that is laminiated marine grade plywood 15in thick.

matthew. i cant go nowhere with out running into someone from one of the other fourms lol i stole dans idea of using rasps for stock to turn shoes out of after talking to him on wcb one nite when i was out of stock lol . i made a couple push gouges out of the tangs that work great when i bother to use them. j.m shrader aka "halfmiler"

there is alot more to building a resophonic guitar than that.

the sides back and top are soldered together.as well as the sound well. i had my 40's nati tricone apart last nite and put new cones in. the edges are rolled and hammerd flat then the seams are soldered. keep in mind that the raised portion on the back is not merly for looks. that raised section is what help keep it from folding in half.

ive got boxes and boxes of old rasps. they go thru three cycles for me. foot clinching and hot rasping. heck i had adds up on craigs list trying to give them away with no takers. some rasps are better steel than others. belotas for example are total crap. save edge is a close second on the crap list along with diamond and nicholson. they go dull fast and are brittle as all get up. ive switched to a german brand called mecury and so far they last the longest and the steel forges out nice too. i have been wanting to rip on down on the band saw and forge out a couple loop knives and sole knives. im fairly sure i can get the blade forged out but the tempering and what not is not my area. ive got a few 17in rasps that ive considered heating bending fluxing and repete and fold up a block and forge a hammer head from. somone made a cross pein from a rasp on the world championship blacksmiths board for a contest prize.

block heater from a 1960's oliver farm tractor keeps my tub icefree.

anyone make anything out of old used rasps? i make some clinch blocks for seating nails and ive made a few snaked for my little brothers from rasps. ive even split a few in half cut the tangs off and forged shoes out of them. clinch block is the only thing i have a pic of.

irontwister. i built this thing back when i was a aprentice. ive got another that im using now but i wanna pass this one on to my aprentice. ive got family up that way and we come in a couple times a year. after the holidays we are comming in. ill drop you a line. ofcourse your not gonna do it for free lol

irontwister. my wife told me if i bring one more anvil home ill be living in the shop. i told her thats fine its got a loft with kitchen bathroom satilite tv and a double bed lol