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Check this out:

Mad Dwarf Workshop

Shows the Mad Dwarf lads using a modified log splitter as a forging press.

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Has he sighned up on here yet?

How is an anvil used for loosening fittings a professional blacksmith wants to know? I always used a vise and a wrench.

yeah i figured, im gonna quench it in vegetable oil
thanks for the warning

All the successful ones I`ve seen were hydraulic not electric and were a lot more powerful than 4 ton.

Watch your mouth or you'll get caught, but I think your right.

Yes, I have seen one on youtube, but this guy made a head that he clamped onto the logspliters head so that the logespliter could still be used.

Do not and I repeat do not quench that in water IT MIGHT SHATER. I had a Bowie I was making out of a truck spring shater on me and I was not happy.

Northern tool Co. is now selling TFS anvils and Forgmaster forges and some of Pieh Tool Companys tools.

congratulations and good luck.

Bolt down a tool steel face, drill all the way throw the ASO put in the bolts and drill holes in the tool steel that are the same size as the head of the bolt, thn weld the tool steel to the bolts.

Try dog tags.

Not only do you need to use oil but you should pre-heat the oil to around 140 degrees. I've made several knives from truck leaf spring steel ('78 Ford HD) and the turned out great. Sharp enough to shave with, tough enough to chop hickory and flexible enough not to break.

Another good tip I learned - sand the blade to with 220 grit - 400 grit sandpaper before heat treating. Eliminating deep scratches from grinding or rough sanding will go a long way in preventing cracking/shattering (unless you use water ).

I also believe that a thinner spine will help as well. Sometimes the greater the differential thickness between the edge and spine, the greater the stress between the two will be when quenching.

Not to denigrate the knife, the design of which I really liked, but a knife of that length and that thickness would probably either end up as a wall hanging or put away in a closet. Way to heavy to use or carry. Still it need not be practical to be good looking!

I would like some of those to.

Whele I gess you have to heat treat car springs with oil, I quenched it in water and it shatered. O well, I am going to make anther that looks the same and this time I will quench in oil.

Jest an update. It will be a while before I post some more pics. I need to get a finer grit sand paper for the next step.

I had one of those HB anvils and all I have to say is piece of junk. I was forging a RR spike and it made almost as much of a dent in the anvil as in the spike. They are advetised as glueing waights in there cataloge and that is all they are good for.

Thanks Gene, when I am done with it I will be putting it up for sale on here if you wont it. Hint hint

Here is a pic. I am not done yet and the handle is jest slid on.

forge thick and grind thin, that way i can get the hammer marks out. good luck,jimmy

I am making a bowie out of a truck spring, it is about 1/4 in thick and the blade will be 10 in long, do you think I should make the blade thiner.

Thanks all, sounds like I know what hammer to get when I have the money.

Are the Iron Kiss forging hammers any good? Mainly the octagon 50.

You can't harden aluminum.