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Countryboy39067

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  1. Looks great! I'm so happy when folks go out and track down a book to help them too!

    Is the chainsaw for dealing with snide remarks?

    Lol!!! No this was when I fired it up the first time. I used the chainsaw to trim rafter ends and such. I may keep it there if that's the thing people think when they see it....

  2. Never coal forged a cat before?

    Actually found a stray sleeping on the fire brick one morning. Must have held some heat from the day before.


    Excellent! Someone else who thinks that blowers are all built backwards and should be right hand cranked!

    Why not? Turn crank with right, pull out steel using tongs in left hand, release crank and grab hammer. Makes complete sense to me.....but then again I'm odd!!! Lol
  3. Firepot is 21"x10" and is about 4" deep. I got the design idea from The Complete Bladesmith sword forge. I can locate the fire anywhere within the 21" lenght with a piece of plate steel. The flue is 22" dia. 3/16 steel tubing. It's the core that a local sheet metal manufacture receives their metal coiled on. The table has room on each side. I use the right side for tools and tongs. I use the left to keep a heap of coal close by. It gets to welding heat with ease. I'm super stoked with this setup!!

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  4. I found this hammer in a rusted out metal bucket in the middle of my grandfathers scrap pile. My dad says he remembers using it like this. Looks like I get to learn how to heat treat hammer head. I'm thinking I could use the stake (handle) drift hammer eyes.


  5. Beautiful! You're very lucky to have something like that passed down to you; the stories it could probably tell.....

    All I know is that it sharpened many plow points. My grandfather studied under a blacksmith for a short time in his youth. He had a stroke when I was young so I never seen him use the anvil. In short, I've learned most of my blacksmithing from books and this site due to his illness. The origins of this anvil are unknown but I feel so blessed to have it.

  6. Looks good, wish I was in the country- I am right in town population about 250,000 this time of year, but my neighbors are cool, they don't complain about anything.

    I'm blessed in the fact that my closet neighbor is my sister and her family. She says she can hear it if she's outside. She's just tired of my brother-in-law dropping what's he's doing to come turn the crank on my blower!!! I dont ask him. It's like Pavlovs dog. I hit the anvil and he comes a runnin!!!

  7. Thank you for the feed back. I guess I'll just go with a tried and true design. I guess thats what i get for trying to be clever lol.

    How else do we expand our craft without trying new ideas. Don't apologize for being bold. I went bold and boy did it work!!!
    Forge in construction


    In operation
  8. The $50 Knife Shop starting on page 97 is the best example I've see on paper. I dont mean to sound rude but if you don't have a copy of this book, you need to get one! It's a great resource on how to make good knives and not spend a lot doing so.

    Kevin

  9. This was the first book I bought! I got the hardback copy from Barnes and Noble about a year ago. It goes into great detail on types of steel and their chemical makeup, best forging temp, best quench temp, and best tempering process. It truly was titled correctly. It is the complete bladesmith!!


  10. Hey Countryboy, if you get a chance come on down to the Ag Museum this weekend. Got a good demonstration working up. Bring some of that cable you got and we'll weld some up, then harden it and check it with a tester.

    The last time I was there you and Brian welded some cable using a v block type hardy hole tool. Pretty cool technique. I've let my membership lapse and running low on finds so I may have to say thanks but no thanks. I stopped by the Craft Museum a while back. How do I find out when y'all demo there?
  11. I also am a firm believer that every task has a tool and if you substitute a tool you substitute perfection. Just to settle your nerves I'll list my learning tools. iforgeiron.com, anvilfire.com, the $50 Knife Shop, The Complete Bladesmith, The Complete Modern Blacksmith, and Blacksmithing for the Homestead. I want to me the old blacksmith teaching the youth in my area.

  12. Namido Jujitsu, White Tiger Hapkido and Tang Soo Do myself. I fully agree. I've been collecting info on bladesmithing while practicing basic blacksmithing techniques. I've made fire pokers, rail road spike split crosses, coat hooks, pry bars and one spike tomahawk. I think you could say I'm taking it slow and easy. No worries. I'm in this for the long haul. I took the baby step advice to heart and decided to make tools and such to improve my hammer control.


  13. How much mass of the cable did you lose to scale and such on the last cable blades you made? After making a few knives already, you should have a good guess about how much more to make the larger blade.


    Steve I haven't made any knives from cable yet. I'm just asking questions and doing my homework beforehand. I visited your site a few days ago. Very cool work. What style of jujutsu do you teach?
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