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[glilley]

bsiler, on 17 January 2010 - 07:12 AM, said:

Not much but i kinda like it. IMG_2077.jpg IMG_2078.jpg

bsiler - what anvil is that you are using?

[Bad Creek Blacksmith]

I know I posted these pictures before but must of got lost in the change. Built out of one half of garage.


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[Danger Dillon]

David Browne, on 17 January 2010 - 05:06 PM, said:

Beautiful shop Michael. I also recognize the years of hard work that goes into paying for something like that. Well done. Now how about a shot with all the stuff...
-DB

kevan, on 17 January 2010 - 11:29 PM, said:

Michael,

That is seriously impressive..........

Another photograph of the bike , perhaps? As one motorcycle enthusiast to another.

Kevan

My old shop and my 1948 Pan, My new shop from the business end.

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[David Browne]

bsiler, on 18 January 2010 - 06:16 AM, said:

Jason,
My Great Grandfather built it.
It was originally used as a blacksmith shop. Probably used for reparing tools , farm equipment and shoeing horses.
Making things needed around the farm.
He was a land surveyor and school teacher. My grandfather probably mainly used it for shoeing the work horses.
My father remembers the forge that was in it. My grandfather sold it for scrap durning World War 2. I still have the anvil but it's not in very good shape.
Partly because I beat on it when I was a kid!!
The new stuff you see is some repair work that I have done to it. It still needs some but it's hard to find the time, I'd rather
be working (playing) in it than on it. Now if I can just learn to make something instead of wasting metal and coal !
Thanks for asking,
Billy

Billy,
I love your shop. That is some serious history you have there. Really nice that you are keeping it going. I've always told myself, it is never about the building, or even the tools that you have (or don't have). It is about always doing the best work that you can with the tools that you have at any given time.

[Mainely,Bob]

You are just such a tease.
Now that we saw pics of the left side of that beautiful bike you KNOW we won`t leave you alone till we see the right side.
Likewise we need to see more(and closer) pics of the hammer.That looks to be one BIG helve hammer!

Thanks,and keep `em coming.

[MLMartin]

my humble abode. its pretty ridiculously full of stuff, really need to get the speed boat out of the back to open up some space.

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[Danger Dillon]

Lookin good Mac, now all we have to do is get you a hammer. mmm...

[MLMartin]

i sure am missing the shinler in the shop at ducktown. ive been reading up on your hammer conversation on the other threads, you realy going to pull the big niles 750 up the hill and to the new shop? i sure do need to make it to atlanta and see what yall are doing in your shops

[newbysmith]

This is it. Just outside garage door. Works for now.

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[postleg]

This is my shop. I'am new to this only been smithing for a little over a year. My garage is 30 X 32 with 10ft side walls, with a 12 x 30 heated shop area. Equipment includes a 165lb peter wright anvil mounted on a cherry stump, a 160lb swedge block 70lb indian chief vise, hobart 200amp mig welder, a 1907 champion post drill, a diamond back 3 burner forge, a champion pump action coal forge. lastly a 1935 9in southbend lathe.

I have photos of my great grand father standing in his blacksmith shop in Filley Nebraska around 1920 there is also a photo of his shop. I had them enlarged to 18 x 24 and made frames out of hammered angle iron. The south bend lathe was purchased by my grand father in 1935. Amoung the tooling and stuff I aquired with the lathe I have a book where he recorded all the jobs he did and what he made on each job. First job was in Feb 1935 turned an armiture for 25 cents.

My shop is multifuncional. One of my other hobbies is bowhunting so I shut down the blacksmithing in January to make sausage and deer sticks which is always nice to have a frige full of snack sticks the rest of the year when I am working in the shop.

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[Danger Dillon]

Not as much history as photos from 1920 but, here are the first three.
#1 no picture just a drawing, the peter wright in the door is the same anvil in my shop today. (1991)
#2 two car garage, luckily I didn't burn the house down. (1993-1997)
#3 25' 35' my first commercial shop. (1997-2008)

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[Frosty]

This is as much to see if I've figured out how to attach a pic. Would you believe I HAD to read the instructions?!?

Anyway, this is my shop as seen from the house. I'm hanging the sheathing on the end wall. Maybe I'll get some pics inside once it's cleaned and ordered better.

With fingers crossed I click on "Add Reply"!

Frosty the Lucky.

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[David Browne]

Frosty, on 07 February 2010 - 07:23 PM, said:

This is as much to see if I've figured out how to attach a pic. Would you believe I HAD to read the instructions?!?

Anyway, this is my shop as seen from the house. I'm hanging the sheathing on the end wall. Maybe I'll get some pics inside once it's cleaned and ordered better.

With fingers crossed I click on "Add Reply"!

Frosty the Lucky.

Frosty,
Looks like a luxurious soon-to-be man-cave to me, but I'm a sucker for a metal building...Pretty beautiful scenery in the background as well.
-DB

[Wesley Chambers]

This is our "middle" shop, classes in weeks 9-16, Myself at one of our two instructor stations in that shop

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[HWHII]

Here's mine. 728 sq.ft. I is cozy to say the least. I have to get creative sometimes to build larger projects but the rent price is the best price.

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[Sukellos]

Mine's nothing fancy. I'm just a hobbyist. I have a ramada which is just a roof on poles, sand for a floor. My anvil and vise are on lengths of railroad tie sunk into the ground.

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[Frosty]

David Browne, on 07 February 2010 - 07:31 PM, said:

Frosty,
Looks like a luxurious soon-to-be man-cave to me, but I'm a sucker for a metal building...Pretty beautiful scenery in the background as well.
-DB

Thanks Dave it's close to finished now, needing insulation and proper wiring. She's a sweet little hidey hole all right. This pic shows the house behind and to the left. The other pic shows one of the local tasty critters, about one chest freezer's worth.

As a further bit of shop talk I got to spend a few hours in mine yesterday. That might not sound like a big deal but it's the first time I've set foot in mine since getting hit by a birch kicking back on Sept 28. Yesterday I got my first blacksmithing check ride, an accoumplished local blacksmith, Metalmangler to you guys, came over with his daughter Becka to make sure I could safely work in the shop. After what the Great White Birch did to me I'm lucky I'm not living in a wheel chair drooling, heck I'm lucky to be alive at all. Still I survived serious TBI and have been recovering for months. To get to light a fire in my forge, heat and beat some steel, do a little chasing and then play a little hardball with the power hammer was like coming home.

I'm still not cleared to go at it like I used to but that's reasonable, heck I'm not going to use the power hammer unless someone else is with me just to be sure. I still have some issues, most notable being an equilibrium that isn't steady day to day. Sometimes just looking down quickly can put me into spins. That's a BAD thing standing at a power hammer eh?

Anyway, I got to take another big step back and I'm feeling pretty good. Heck, you guys played a huge part in me making it from the all prayers to the support you sent to Deb, to directly leaning on insurance companies and hospitals for us.

My shop is yours, visit Alaska and drop by, we'll have some fun.

Frosty the Lucky

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[Mainely,Bob]

Cool shoes Frosty!
Did you bag the bear yourself?

That wasn`t you up on the roof in the first photo was it?Don`t make us call Deb,some of us still have her on speed dial!

[Frosty]

Mainely,Bob, on 13 February 2010 - 08:29 AM, said:

Cool shoes Frosty!
Did you bag the bear yourself?

That wasn`t you up on the roof in the first photo was it?Don`t make us call Deb,some of us still have her on speed dial!

I'm bearfooted, you'd think nobody in the lower 48 has ever heard of going bearfoot I get so many comments!

Yeah that's me on the roof but that was 2 years ago and Deb took the pic. Feel free to give her a call, I'm sure she'd like a chance to talk to one of her "hairy faced blacksmiths". She loves you guys you know.
Frosty the Lucky

[David Browne]

Frosty, on 13 February 2010 - 02:21 AM, said:

Thanks Dave it's close to finished now, needing insulation and proper wiring. She's a sweet little hidey hole all right. This pic shows the house behind and to the left. The other pic shows one of the local tasty critters, about one chest freezer's worth.

My shop is yours, visit Alaska and drop by, we'll have some fun.

Frosty the Lucky

Frosty the Lucky,
What a close call you had. It's great to hear you're on the mend and able to get back out into the shop. I'm sure that will be the best medicine for you. Thanks for the additional photos, too. I think you just might live in paradise. I grew up in Boise, Idaho surrounded by mountains and have eaten Elk, Deer, Bear and all manner of fish and fowl, but never got around to moose. Thanks for the invite. If I ever make it up there to God's country, I'll look you up.

PS, I think it's time to trim those toenails...

-DB