Everything posted by pete46
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Lost My Creative Drive
I get a new b.s book or DVD and that usually fires me right up.
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Loss of my son
Blacksmiths are fixers and I wish I could fix your pain. Broken hearts have to heal, and that takes time. Please give yourself that time. sincerely, Pete
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File Knife WIP
Is your friend MOBing through CSJFTC?[he will know what this means.] If so I would like to check out your blade. Please pm me if you can;Thanks!
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My 1st Anvil (A Mankel)
Yea Karama! How about ETOH & vague promises?[i have gotten lotsa dates w/this method] Though not recently . OK it almost worked one time! Anyway very good score!
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My 1st Anvil (A Mankel)
Is there more to this story? Like you saved that guy & his family from cannibal alien space ninjas? Man that's a great deal!
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Kitchen pot holder ideas?
The Backyard Blacksmith by Loreli Sims might have just what you need ;check it out.
- 4 Mosaic Patterns (Can You Help Me Name One of Them?)
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Blacksmith shop
where are you located?
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Hello!
Check out Gulf Coast Blacksmith Assoc. they meet in Covington La. Hope this helps, & good luck!
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Starting a community forge????
I think Ian Lowe did something like this in England. Check out his world tour post.
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Starting a community forge????
Ask yourself; do I really want to do this? If the answer is yes,then don't let reasons not to stop you! I know this reads like a bumper sticker,but it's true. Many people see a job and start listing excuses not to do it. IT'S A GOOD THING : MAKE IT HAPPEN! p.s. Sermons over please drive carefull & wear your seatbelt. :D
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Forging a Snake
The backyard blacksmith shows step by step how to do that. The book is by Lorelei Sims and she knows her stuff.
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reasons to smith
The self sufficiency, if I need a tool or whatever I can make it. Not that I would, but I could if Iwanted to.
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Question on heating metal
The color of your fire ie red, orange, yellow,up to white; will be as hot as your metal gets . I hope this helps!
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Forge welding - how to
I guess the Britts are like bumblebees;they don't know that ain't gonna fly without flux! :D
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A small dagger
Tone down the edge ? Friendship festivale? WHY, would you give a friend a dull knife? Please don't mess that knife up!! :(
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hand cramps
Eating a pickle is an almost instant cramp cure. I think it's the sodium, but I do know it works.
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Thoughts on an anvil
A PRETTY GOOD DEAL! More like financial molestation YOU should be ASHAMED! ps good score :P
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Walkabout Bowie dressed in Texas ebony
Thanks Stormcrow,and you do great work!
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Walkabout Bowie dressed in Texas ebony
Very nice! What is the purpose of hardening 3 times?
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Anvil Found
Thomas ;that happened when I was in high school[a long timeago ,but the beat'n seems like only yesterday!] Yea that day I was Momma's anvil. Heck,I didn't even shoot it, my friend did. :(
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My name is Kevin and I'm a blacksmith addict.
You might be a blacksmith, if you skin out a mattress for the steel. ;)
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Anvil Found
HA! that's good stuff I also threw a deer across my shoulders to get it home. Momma almost killed me for destroying [A GOOD SHIRT!],I would have rather taken a bullet when she was done w/me ! So safety first drag it out.
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Anvil Found
Can I take your son hunting? :D
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traveling blacksmith
If you can talk and work at the same time you are ready to go. No really try it some time. ;)