irontwister

if you get sore from blacksmithing, or your wife "grounds" you from the forge you can always make abig sling shot... I got in trouble because I had some time, 4 foot 4x4's, bungees,leather, and the oaks beside the house prouduced good big acorns. I aimed at the cat and sang " another one bites the dust"...

there are atleast 3 hammer-ins that i know ofround here.arthurdale , morgantown, and one in fairmont.what do you exactly do at them?where do you fellars get your steel from? i get mine from quality machine and tool in bridgeport. i would like to keep in touch with ya'll. can i have your guys e mail? just message it to me please.

yeah i know the feeling.i just got the smaller post vice. i have 2 now. im running out of rooom to putthem.how big ist it. it usually says on the front jaw.

workin on it. its hard for me to work with computers. im not too good with them.

Yes this is a serious medical condition that we have on our hands. its a good thing that we have group therapy on i forge iron.;)

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO. visit ebay's poor boy blacksmith shop to buy them, or the best way is to go to a flea market, old farm auction, and borrow one from another smithy while you look for some.

everyone in my computer class(in high school) thinks im just a little bit strange because they all stare at me when i bust out laughing at the you might be a blacksmith if... jokes and they just looked at me and laughed at me cause i was laughing hysterically at that picture.!

my grandpa gave me a different forge. this one weighs about 500 pounds. me and my uncle had to man handle it out of the barn and into the truck by ourselves. there is 4 inches of concretein it and it is about 4 feet wide and 4 feet back ...filled with concrete . it wasnt a fun project.it is made of a brake drum and it is the best brake drum forge i have ever seen. full range with walls all made of 1/4 inch steel and a little bit of 1/8 inch steel.6 feet tall. like i said me and my uncle had to manhandle it in to the truck at 9:00 o clock at night . in west virginia it gets dark at 7:45 now. not fun.

ive been wondering about this for some time. im wondering how many i forge iron users are in west virginia or near also. im a member my self thanks.

id tell ya if i had one.lol workin on gettin one.

i often say that to myself, but the truth is that i should always do it better. i need to make money and a name for myself. if i say that im not doing the best i can do. i want to make it perfect which is not possible but it is what i strive for. i want people to start showing the product that i made for them to their relatives as their pride and joy of their living room. every time i say that its "good Enough" i take a step farther away.

thanks i think that i'll do that.just to play around with it. that or buy it. im so cheap that it is not funny, it would kill me to buy an object that im supposed to be able to make!

what about getting a piece of 1/8 inch steel and getting it really hot so that i can pound a spoon into it so that itmakes a swage.

oh really. that sounds like a neat project. that gives me an idea that i have had for a while that i might put into action.i will tell later when i have more time

the round sswages on the side might be handy as i could forge weld a handful of 1/4 inch round stock together? could i do that? again i would Never sell it, but itwould be nice to know how much it is worth. it has a few chips in the sides and a little wear on the insides but other than that it is in tip top shape.its at least 200 lbs how much would it sell for? my grand pa likes for me to research stuff like that.

what i want to make is bowls and spoons,but it doesnt have swages for them.what should i do?

if it would'nt of been for the fat ground hog that lives in the side shop at g-pa's farm i never would have found my swage block.it had a hole in the old shop right in below a pallet(the pallet beside i had placed an anvil of his that i had found in the rubbish and pulled out for him which had gotten stolen last week!!! verrrry angry!)i was lookin at the hole when i moved an old tool box to see the hole better when i then realized what it was setting on.A SWAGE BLOCK! i had been really wanting one. i decided i needed a propane forge more but this one i dont know how to use. its a regular one without spoon shovel or bowl swages which is the ones that i needed the most. how and what do i use them for. its 200 - 225pounds. thought id get a hernia carrying it to the truck.lolany info will be appreciated. how do i find the maker too.thx willie

mine is a #208 H.B! i love it I love I LOVE IT!!! its my main anvil it starts with a 1 ithink on the serial number i need to learn how the logos are setup because i can see the name and the weight and the serial number and i know that there is more but i dont know what the say. i need to know what to look for.

my HB's got it on the left (serial number) on the left side also on the front foot.either way it looks like a great anvil and i envy the user. just jokin but its a good lookin one thats for sure.

what if you cant decide about the numbers? exmp. 3 or 8?

i found my serial and weight on my hay-Budden. how do you see it better ive donethe oil and wirebrush. any others

grizzly.com has anvils for low costs. i seriously doubt that they are any good but they looked like a mousehole. bout 25 dollars for a small one. take the gamble if you want.

they are also on thefront foot on H.B's. but that dont mean it is.

might be a trenton( definetly not arguing with you Mr.powers!) butit still might be a hay budden, or a arm and hammer, but im not familiar with arm and hammers. a little familiar with trenton but ive only used it once and looked at lots. they look like hb's if you ask me. im pretty familiar with hb's though.