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thankyou all, for your words of encouragement it was kinda fun now back to same old stupid paying jobs lol

i wanted to play today making an anvil like i really need to do this!!!!!!!!!!! i act as if i have nothing to do but play well here it goes bored out a hole to press fit a socket in with 3/4 square drive machined a cone from 3 inch stainless , cut at angle welded to front machined the top off nice and flat and smooth drill four 5/8 diameter mounting holes oh well 50 going on 13 years old

those who can ,do those who can't, teach

Sorry For The Misspelling My Eyes Are Still Shut

a welser i knew had a busines card that read "I CAN WELD ANYTHING BUT THE CRACK OF DAWN AND A BROKEN HEART" MY MECHNAIC FRIEND HAD A QUOTE ON HIS BUSINESS CARD " IF I CAN'T FIX IT IT AIN'T BROKE"

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. Theophrastus

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin

better to be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt

i am interested , can you provide a "napkin " sketch chuck

i have no idea about the process on how to do it , i do not think it is real complicated though i am however really delighted that you are considering this prospect . i LOVE the united states of america , i have reservation however on how other "americans" feel about this great land of ours , including some of our government officials . where do you intend to live if you are successful in your venture chuck

hey james , i have been wanting to have a posting like this for a long time if i get a chance i need to post the pics of my drill press i devised doesn't work for a "durn" don't know why i did it i have three store bought ones already but thats what i do i make tools i am always devising stuff even if i know it is an exersize in futility glad you posted that becuse that is exactly what i would have done not satisfied just bith an inoperative grinder i would have to know why and how can i salvage the remnants hats off my friend

i think you are right around the block from blacksmith guild of central maryland they will sell coal to you and it is really good coal , i use it ask the president ted mcnett , tell him chuck dover sent you Blacksmith Guild of Central Maryland

hello Thomas , can't put my finger on it why i find it fasinating but you may have just tickled the reason why. our forfathers which i hold in high regard are a great sourse of spiritual uplifting and sense of what sacrifice and duty means and when i find out tid bits of what they did in thier private lives to sustain a living it just adds to my admiration of great men . thanks for that george washington info. i will take the risk of sounding likea patronzing idiot but many that are in blacksmithing probally posess the same qualities as our for fathers . my thoughts are duty to self and family then to a higher cause such as hand forged utilities or art doesn't get any closer that that in my book i will leave it at that and you draw your own conclusions

i think this subject is facinating anyone care to share thier thoughts chuck

where in pa are you? i have a peter wright and a mousehole i am not using

24 inches that is long , so if you divide 24 by pie {3.1416} it is a 7and 5/8 circle thats just rudimentary math to give myself an idea how big those hoofs really are thanks for the info

WOW thanks everyone Hey NETT thanks for the info on studabaker for some reason my father is a big studabaker fan and he will get a kick out of the origins of the company he may have already known but i will tell him anyway Again thanks everyone for sharing thier personal experiences with these magnificent animals , what a wealth

i think thats how you spell it anyway came home from work today , and across the way at a wine and liquor store the budweiser team was there with the clydsdales and the carriage my first thought was horse shoes {of course everything relates to metalworking somehow right} i have no idea what i am talking about but i would venture to say those horse require a lot of steel and a lot of coal forging those shoes to fit. those fine animals probally get the best of care , anyone know anything about this subject?

hey larry i have been a fan of rush for 30 plus years and thats the first time i recognized that lyric , heard it a zillion times but never put ti together The blacksmith and the artist Reflect it in their art Forge their creativity Closer to the heart (Rush) nice , what a nice signature

a tenth is what us knucklehead machinists call a tenthousands thanks for the correction everyone is a critic looking to correct someone that misspeaks or miswrites thanyou i will try not to do that again