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  1. southernforge
    Are the rings adjustable or did you choose a set of specific ring sizes?
  2. southernforge
    Wood forge lined with bricks, plywood bellows about 37 years ago.
  3. southernforge
    It opens and closes the vise and thus allows it to clamp stuff. Not an essential part... as long as you don't plan on using it as a vise.
  4. southernforge
    Of course you removed the plating before heating the lag bolts?
  5. southernforge
    I recommend Fastenal.com. Simple just have them ship unplated fasteners of your choice to your location.
  6. southernforge
    My apologies, from your post I concluded that you already knew the answer.
  7. southernforge
    There is a line of thought that there is two ways of having experience, 1,000 years of experience or one year of experience 1,000 times. So the question is: If it is no longer possible to improve upon hammers and hammer techniques, after how many years of experience did improving the process of hammering end? Inquiring minds wonder. ;-)
  8. southernforge
    Happy birthday Hofi and many more! I didn't know they knew about or studied ergonomics and vectored physics three thousand years ago.
  9. southernforge
    I don't get the cartoon.
  10. southernforge
    Sounds like the making of a gruesome UTube video. .... Bang, ouch, ouch, ouch!
  11. southernforge
    Someone in your local blacksmith guild might be willing to fix it. Personally I would use nickel rod to fix the crack, if the crack was not too wide, then donate it to the local guild as a fundraiser item.
  12. southernforge
    It does not look like any official Masonic symbol that I have ever seen.
  13. southernforge
    Postman's book explains those markings on that make of anvil.
  14. southernforge
    You could try "Superquench" see: http://www.anvilfire.com/FAQs/quenchants.htm
  15. southernforge
    Try the book "Early American Wrought Iron" by Sonn. However, you will not find anything "rustic" ie banged up, in the book.
  16. southernforge
    Rubber tool dip, in spray or can. Result similar to "bellows cloth" for musical instruments.
  17. southernforge
    Or forge the end of a rod into a cup and then impress that rod into the end of another rod.
  18. southernforge
    Third decade of Cthulhu..... or 1860s ;-)
  19. southernforge
    ~mid 1970s
  20. southernforge
    Looks to me like she is simply hiding her face from the camera.
  21. southernforge
    No! The slag/strands/globs of glass *stops* the corrosion which causes the *pattern* of pitting. The slag doesn't cause the corrosion, I said that it stops it and creates the pattern of pitting.
  22. southernforge
    Well.. anything corrosive to iron. Horse manure smells a lot better than pig poop.
  23. southernforge
    The slag contains glass. The iron rusts away until glass is revealed. The glass stops the rusting at that spot. The glass is uneven, thus resulting in the pattern of pitting you are talking about. Wrought iron was readily available until the 1970s as bar stock. To reproduce your item, simply forge a tomahawk from old wrought iron barn hinges and bury in a pile of horse manure until it develops the pitting like the one you have.
  24. southernforge
    Slather on some car wax such as soft Turtlewax. It does not smell bad and is not as messy/gooey as other stuff that has been recommended. It also does not need to be removed when you are ready to use it, as it will wear off with use.
  25. southernforge
    Oxidation.
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