Danz409

how did you put the heardy and pitral holes in that? i got a peace of metal i would like to put those in to be a more effective anvil

few new things added to my outdoor workshop. im realy getting the thought i need to get a small shed or leanto to put this stuff under. peaces of steal i got yesterday and today. unforitly its getting to late to do much of anything, so ill play around with it tommarow. still seem to be haveing a hard time trying to find some coal around here... home depo: nobody konws where to find any tractor supply: people konw where you use to get some long list of stove stores: eather didnt sell or was closed as being one of the leading steel producers in the US id figure finding some good ole forgeing fule would be easy... i couldnt imagen for people in remote areas. anyway here is a look at my small stash

thanks for the tip! i was useing reguler BBQ-etts you get at the store. i also just recently put the clay on the forge and planed on putting something else around it to get a nice mound going

yea. thats what i was useing. further reserch shows that rebar can be realy iffy. i thank the peace i had was possably a high carbon peace. and found that rebar dosnt like to mold naturaly so i guss ill use it for basic things like hooks an such

for my forge this is it, (tried to put on some clay today to make the surface even with the drum to make it easier to add flue. but i might take that back off. its cracking a lot more then expected) as for the surface of the anvil i just finished cleaning that up. here is that

im using a home made break drum forge and with wood i can barely get it red even. with charcoal i can get it as hot as a mid orange

WOW... that looks more realistic then those rubber snakes that are ment to trick people! nice job!

new to the whole forging metal process. forgive the newbie question. so far my experience is hammering a peace of hot rebar over a track.. not even a railroad track at that. one for a overhead crane deal found in a lot of warehouses. i thought any metal that would bend easily would forge easy. so.. i guss that didnt work out as well as planed. so i was told get start with softer metal. not exactly sure how i can tell. my best guess would be harder metal has a higher *ping* when you hit it with a hammer. most tool metals would be hard. and so i decided to make another trip to the scrap yard. i picked up a 40 pound chunk of steel. im hoping this will help. also picked up some peaces of scrap that was flexible ish and im hoping to be softer then rebar. cant realy tell by the metals appearance. at least not that im aware of. any suggestions or tips would be much appreciated. would the new peace of metal be better then that peace of track. or is the curved part of it make it not so well? the guy at the junkyard sed it was tool steel. assuming that is steel that is used for making tools/chisles an such so assuming its up to take a beating

could pass it off as a paperweight dont you thank?

oooh that actually sounds realty nice. as you can see by my equipment. i have a low budget. if its this troy just north of Dayton. distance isnt a problem. that is about a quarter tank of gas if that. how much is membership? looking forward to this if i can afford it! PS. nvm found there site. only 10$ a year. i thank i can do that. the price of coal alone may be worth every penny. also the quad state event mentioned costs an additional $60 for the weekend $30 a day on top of the $10 membership fee. unfortunately that is outside my budget. id probably wind up going to the renaissance fair and watch that blacksmith in action i am cool with the membership fee. but i do not thank ill make the quad state event

ok. questoins that you all are probably sick of seeing... sorry. i did as much reserch in the forms as i could but a few questsoins i just couldnt find answers to. yet at least. Forge: i built my first time forge. its a break rotor forge with a hair dryer as the blower. fuel is charcoal (yet to find a vendor that sells coal in cincinnati area) Anvil: well probably not the easyest things to get for cheap. i went to the scrap yard and missed getting a avnil for 25 cents a pund just by a few hours. someone beat me to it... so i had to get a substitute. i found a peace of track sistem for a overhead crane system. it fit the bill metal: im trying to work 1/2 inch rebar. project: im attpempting to make a hatchet out of it. by folding it to a lolypop type design and flatening one side to make the blade problem: did just fine curleing it up to 360 degree after that it realy dosnt want to curle anymore this was thu 2 sessions im not familure with how steel works at all. does it become harder to work with over heat cycles? and when i try to flatten it to make a edge it just refuses. i hit the thing as hard as i can to bearly do anything. and i find myself haveing to recurl it becuse it for whatever reason keeps trying to uncirl. i was hopeing by doing this and hammering it togeather would weld or combine the layers to make it a solid chunk. if this is a bad idea what metal should i start forgeing with to get more experace? the fire isnt realy supper. i was lucky to get it to a orage color. i also recorded a short video showing the peace if you want to see the sloppyest ... "thing" ever made looks like ^^; Youtube link = YouTube - first forgeing project still in the works