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criminalhate

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  1. Here's a site about making wood core scabbards for swords but the process should be similar. http://www.yeoldegaffers.com/project_scabbard.asp
  2. The problem is not with you or your replies, the problem lies with the people who do not follow forum etiquette. As you can see from my post count and my join date I follow the philosophy of only asking a question if i can not find the answer or I have something important to contribute. What I see alot of times are questions that have been answered dozens of times already being asked as if the information from 6 months ago is invalid. Sometimes opinions and techniques change (anybody bothering to normalize a blade magnetic north anymore?) But that usually changes over a few years and not months. Another problem is the race for a higher post count I've seen it many times on forums (not so much here) a newb feels inadaquate until he/she has a post count of several hundred useless posts. Those people don't realize that it should be quality over quantity. But I degress and my whole rambling post really means one thing. Rich and Steve you did a wonderful job with the knife classes and it means alot to us long term lurking newbs. Thanks for an invaluable resource to everyone on iforgeiron.
  3. Don't mind at all. My screen name, I feel that hatred is a criminal act against humanity. People who are like; I hate this, I hate that, I hate them; drive me insane. So I started with criminal2hate but on a few different web pages I couldn't use the 2 so I dropped it for just criminalhate and have been using it as my online persona for about 10 years. And recently there's a really bad music group out called criminalhate =/ Anyways that's the short history of my screen name and what it means. Back on topic The edges of the anvil are definitely beat up some but all in all it has 100 times better rebound then my chunk of steel I've been using. I went at it with a wire brush and a few slap type sanding disc for about an hour last night once I get everything usable I'll post some better pic's. Now I need to go figure out the best type of anvil stand to build.
  4. Long time lurker finally going to post some =) So I'm finally going to get an anvil after work today. Vulcan ~ 100 lb a little beat up but the price is right (under a $100). I know it's a small picture but I'll get some better ones later.
  5. Hello I would say although you could make your own refractory and cast a fire brick I doubt you would be able to get a home made refractory that could hold up as well as a purchased fire brick. If your looking to make it because you can't source any locally then that's another story. A good source of extremely expensive refractory cement is in the heating and cooling section of home depot/lowes/ probably anywhere with some hardware repair type things. Is furnace cement I built a tin can forge (like a one brick forge) out of it and it seems to be holding up quite well. It's expensive though I paid $16 for a half gallon but it is rated to 3000 degrees. My 2 cents at least.
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