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I had to make a hinge of roughly a 0,25m2 as a "master" project in my blacksmith lessons. We could make one to an excisting example we found on the internet or make our own design or reshape an example, ... so lots of freedoms, only a few limitations : had to be a working hinge. had to be blacksmithing interesting had to have several blacksmithing techniques like forgewelding, rivetting, ... So I was looking on the internet for examples of one that I like. But the idea came when my son was asking if I could draw him some seacreatures. So I was making several drawings of sharks, fishes, octupusses, jellyfishes, ... And than it hit me, i li…

Viking ship candle holder. I am very pleased with it.

Made a small rake for the forge. I wouldn't go so far as calling it blacksmithing or even really forging. Until I get better at it, I'm calling it "getting metal really hot and banging on it until it changes shape." This was before I started working. It's my back patio. First thing I did was move the coffee. I am, however, pleased with the arrangement of forge, anvil etc., as well as the stand for the anvil. It is sturdier than it looks like it should be. It didn't budge under the hammer - not. one. bit. Then again, this is 3/8-inch mild steel - hardly a "test to failure" medium for the anvil but it's not meant for boiler fittings or locomoti…

I'm in the process of designing a coffeetable for my house. The tabletop will be wood (oak) with thickness of 20mm. (I have bought an prefabed piece of tabletop that i already cut up for some other projects also in the house, so the wood will match). My wife wants an oval shape. Max length will be 110 to 120 cm. The shorter length is not yet fixed but between 50 and 80 cm. Overall height is max 45cm but between 40 and 45cm is good. The legs must be made from metal (but it is not required there are only made from metal). The legs cannot stick out the oval. The legs cannot have a flat bar on the floor (we have robovacuum and the thing gets stuck on it) …

The pedestal, stem, and postal were forged from 1 1/4” bar stock. The 2” base is plug welded from the bottom.

Built exactly what the customer wanted and he didn’t like it. The “horns are forged down from 3/4” bar stock 8” long. The piece is 28x 19

On request and not to polute the "what I did in the workshop today" topic. I made a bird sculpture, the idea is planted in my head by my teacher as " I have seen this technique could be nice to try out" I made from 5 pieces of flat 40x6 with an length of 500mm that are forge welded together one end. Than I put fullers on the side starting from the middle. Make a loop, still with one end forge welded and the other end loose, so you end up with an e (in handwriting). Better is to go a bit further, it makes your live easier and prietier. Cut the loose end, so all 5 pieces are the same length and …

hello, sorry to bother you, in an agricultural land they have to trace a path, for economic and time reasons they would like to make a revolving bar like a level crossing. obviously using recycled material on the cheap. how do you advise us to make it?

Made a towel rack for my use in the kitchen. Unfortunatly the plaster on the wall was very thick and the nylon plugs and srews came loose. So I had use threaded rod I chemically bonded in the wall. otherwise the wallconnection was almost invisible. made from strip 30 x 6 mild steel. All are connected using square tenons, that are rivetted over. the edges are chamfered by hamer so it doesn't look like a hot rolled strip and it doesn't damage the towels. after everything is connected, I sandblasted and heated again before waxing everything.

On the face of it, not much; just another chunk of firewood off FB Marketplace. However, I’ve been playing with an idea for a while of carving a small chest from a single log and adding forged hardware. The baulk has been rough hewn to a more reasonable size and has its ends painted to minimize cracking as it dries. More to come….

A contractor buddy of mine was repairing an old warehouse damaged by Hurricane Sally. It was built in the 1950s. He asked me if I was interested some old 8"x8" x 12' beams that he presumed were old growth pine. I dropped what I was doing and picked them up. I got eight good ones. They do appear to be old growth heart pine, but I'm not an expert on that. I loved the end grain and the look of all the old nail holes, and knew something great was going to happen to this wood, eventually. My son wanted me to make him a coffee table for his apartment, so it became a father-son project. We both participated in the wood working and smittying, but I did the epoxy s…

A recent visit to Florence proved to be a wellspring of inspiration- their ironwork is exemplary of a style of medieval ironwork that I find to be some of the most beautiful- so I have faithfully incorporated it into my work!

Hello I just built a forge for charcoal/ wood the refractory is a mix of bentonite clay kitty litter and sand moistened then rammed into the baking pan to form a sort of u shaped trench I chose bottom blast because of a tutorial I saw on YouTube and the guy just used wood and it worked U shape because I've heard to forge with wood the fire has to be deep so there is time to charcoalize The second picture is of a large sledge hammer head I will use as an anvil it is either 12 or 16 pounds and will probably end up mounted into a 4 by 4 or maybe a stand of 2 by 4s if the head is too big I plan to make carving tools for woodworking I know wood…

I've made a sign hanger for my shop and sign. The sign is temporary till I come up with something better, just wanted something to hang. Please post your signs and hangers also.

I got the new anvil set up a couple days ago. I haven't done anything with the edges yet. Taking crazy goat ladies advise to use it and see where I want to work on it. Then yesterday I made a couple tools. First one is a hold fast for the anvil. I used 3/4" round. The round hole in this anvil is big. The tool is real big for this little anvil, but it works great and I can angle it to have the piece right over the hardy hole when I need to. The second tool is a bending wrench made with 1/2" rebar. One end has a 1" gap and the other is 1/2".

The other day my significant other asked me if I had a hook or something to hang the hummingbird feeder that she just got. I said I can make one. Oh boy a project! I had a piece of railroad spike that I had drawn out and used for some other stuff. I took that piece and made a hummingbird feeder holder. When finished I coated it with beeswax. That's the first time I have done that. I think it turned out nice.

Good morning from SW Michigan everyone! I've been making and selling miscellaneous things here-and-there from spikes, these barn door handles have been a well received item. I use my Mr. Volcano forge to heat the spikes, put a rubix-cube twist on the railroad spikes, flux core weld those to small sections of rebar. I then take sections of plate (3/16" here, could use 11 ga. Instead), get those nice and hot in the forge, hammer those out by use of the flat face on a ball-pein to add a texture. Drill out four mounting holes, countersink as well. I drill two large holes in the plate that match up with the rebar, and plug-weld the plate to the rebar/spike assembly. …

So over the past few weeks I have been getting ready to go out to take a summer class, and I wanted to make my mess kit for this trip. I made two spoons and a knife, and made both my bowl and my mug out of ceramic. i thought I would share! The knife is my very first one. It is lopsided and silly, but functional.

It's just a leaf, but I'm brand new to smithing so it's an accomplishment to me. It was made from some 1/4" square from a little shelf thing I got for a buck at the thrift store.

First three are the meat grinder and base after latest rebuild and paint.. I'm telling you that thing will grind frozen meat without hesitation. Geared down to a brisk 85 RPM and grinder input wheel. Last two are the belt grinder in progress. I just ordered the wheel set today. I know things are backwards right now. Platen is on wrong side for the wheels. It won't end up in this exact form after the tweeking is completed. A work in progress.

Hi, sorry to bother you, we would like to build a suspended monorail to accommodate the trolley of a chain hoist the portal structure would be anchored and fixed via bolt plates and pins vertically to a 25cm hollow brick wall, to the concrete floor on the ground. the upright columns and the cross beam must be sized. the measures would be: height 3.60 length 4.80 metres capacity 1000 kg. What material do you recommend using to make the structure? tubulars all beams rails, profiles? what elements to add as reinforcement gusset plates arrows counters or other Thank you, we look forward to suggestions and advice. Best regards.

Well I don't know how it's called, but close enough.

This will be a several post type deal.. I was invited to do a video for the EAIA " Early American Industrial Association". This would be filmed at the " Moses Wilder blacksmithing shop in Bolton, MA". I am a little tired of seeing the same thing in videos and with the plethora of newer smiths everyone has a yt channel and it seems they copy others' content.. Again, and again, and again.. Anyhow I said this to the EAIA rep.. That I wanted to do something different.. An auger or a double wing divider or a round draw knife.. Some;thing not seen nor shown.. It was agreed it would be a double-wing compass (aka Round head, Double Joint compass) co…

Having a bit of fun before I have to go to work.