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This is my new 275.5 lb kid. Hopefully I don't get turned in for repeatedly hitting her with a 3 lb hammer. Will post more pics after I get it into the shop and on stand. Also got a hot cut from firey furnace forge from Dick. Was a great time talking with Dick. Was there a couple of hour. Hope to get back and pick his brain more. This is tided with the post going to get my new anvil.

Could be itailian, it has the pig shape of the nimba centurian. I beleive that the designer of niba anvils studied under a well nown Itainian smith.

Either a 165 56 or the 275 57, leening to the 275. Don't need one that big but didn't think i would need a bigger shop either. I know it will last me a life time. Any thoughts. I also like the upsetting block on the 57. I have a 150lb kolshaw with the side shelf set up at another forging station so i wanted one without a side shelf. I like the double horn anvils. so many i think more options than a london.

I am waiting to here back from Dick at shadygrove blacksmith shop to see if i can come pick up my new Refflinghaus today. will post pics when done.

It is a French pig style. Bout all I can say. Good looking anvil. Have fun with it.

You can fab one out of mild.

It was a good day. Have most of it cleaned up and on display. Thinking on what to use and what to keep on display. Get pics soon.

Like it!!

make a plate to fit the base of your vise and then weild a hardy shank to that.

It is a small trough about 3 to 4 inches high that you carry on your wagon to put hot oil in when the wood wheels start to get or look dry. You jack up your wagon put the trough with oil in it under the wheel lower it into the oil so you can turn it.

Notownkid I hear ya, ausfire as smooth bore stated sure is!!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OieV55-MoPc&feature=youtu.be this is what my wife does, better music similar moves and size.

You don't need to know how to sew. Just get a box of the brass rivets that you punch a hole then hammer the two pieces together. Pouch done. Can post a pic of them.

Would like to see the jig

Put it this way there ends up being a lot more watching than hammer swinging. I think I might be the only blacksmith shop with full length mirrors on my big door. In the other side of the shop she wants to build a small ninja warriors obstacle course. Must want to be a hula ninja.

If you blow this up alittle the chisel holders are folded over a rod and the tie to tie the tool role up holds the role on the wall rod. When I go to demos they come off and hammers go on the side you can't see now on one and tongs on the other. Fold in half and roll and tie. Tools packed for what ever. Then done the hammers get put back on rack, anvil and the tongs hanging on the forge. The roles then get put back onto the rod. Ready for shop work. All tool rolls made out of tent canvas. Panday I can get some closer pics of the rolls if you want. They are maybe 2'x3' with eyelets in the center and a tie string.

That is the original chuck.

Ianinsa, just did pre winter cleaning just got done with 5 174" display racks. I do the sewing in the family. The tool holders just got washed. Cleaned up so she will come down and start hoop dancing again.

no it is her ipad and she will ground me from the shop. it was a dinner with her boss. plus the ipad was in the house and i was down at the shop. ok here is the pic of the shear, i think that the handle bracket might be upside down??

you are going to drill and tap them so you can bolt them to your helmet and on the shoulders of your leather coat.

i will get pics today!! yes i was and i did not have the ipad to take pics. i was 3 minutes from being late to my wifes dinner party.

i sealed mine with stove sealent. but you don't need anything inless you have a big gap. some guys use clay or refractory cement.

to turn this all around again, I GOT THE SHEAR BACK TOGETHER!!!! it took setting by a friends. but it is back together

WL Smith don't forget BSers and some of the most caring and willing to help people.

i was alot like everyone else. was a jock gearhead. straight A's in auto took the ASE auto test as a sophmore and was an ASE Mechanic (sorry auto technision). did alot of custom cabinets in high school and wood framing. across the parking lot in "the school" was good in science, physics, art, chemistry, band and music not much else. Smooth Bore you got to at least go to "72" my auto project was a 1972 442 that 455 that we ran off propane. we would take it to the strip on the weekends in the summer or in the spring when there was not a track meet. favorite car i grew up in though is still our 1956 chey nomad. only problem with it is dad loved fire engine red I still don't like red.