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He's about 4 miles from a 3 foundries and a drop forging plant. If you are serious it would be worth it to ask where he got it from. Not saying this is at all related , but some forums have reported that there have been some back of the foundry anvil thefts in the last year. -Solvarr

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Drogo sells em on ebay. I've been using his for years. I'm sure he can "spare" one for a few bucks plus shipping.

Primtechsmith You asked for my wife's cookie recipie She replaces one cup of sugar with splenda and does the flour with whole wheat. Merry Christmas to you and yours -Solvarr and Marion This recipe is from the Cake Central cake decorating forum. No Fail Sugar Cookies Category: Cookies! Difficulty: Easy This recipe is GREAT when using complex cookie cutters. The dough holds its' shape and won't spread during baking. Make sure you let your oven preheat for at least 1/2 hour before baking these or any other cookies. 6 cups flour 3 tsp. baking powder 2 cups butter 2 cups sugar 2 eggs 2 tsp. vanilla extract or desired flavoring (I like almond myself) 1 tsp. salt Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla. Mix well. Mix dry ingredients and add a little at a time to butter mixture. Mix until flour is completely incorporated and the dough comes together. Chill for 1 to 2 hours (or see Hint below) Roll to desired thickness and cut into desired shapes. Bake on ungreased baking sheet at 350 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes or until just beginning to turn brown around the edges. This recipe can make up to 5-dozen 3� cookies. Nutrition Information HINT: Rolling Out Dough Without the Mess -- Rather than wait for your cookie dough to chill, take the freshly made dough and place a glob between two sheets of parchment paper. Roll it out to the desired thickness then place the dough and paper on a cookie sheet and pop it into the refrigerator. Continue rolling out your dough between sheets of paper until you have used it all. By the time you are finished, the first batch will be completely chilled and ready to cut. Reroll leftover dough and repeat the process! An added bonus is that you are not adding any additional flour to your cookies.

Abana affiliates ideally meet semi regularly and have local or guest demonstrators and can be a nexus for sharing blacksmithing data. Besides the magazine I am unsure what they could really do for you in Alaska. If you do decide to do a public demo being an Abana member can help smooth some feathers with the authorities when you decide to set up. (gives em something to google) But that's usually a minor issue. Frankly unless you were willing to travel I am unsure it really buys you much. I kinda wish they had a discounted price and you could opt to receive the magazines digitally. I'd pay 25-35 a year for that. 55$ is more than I pay for my SCA membership and at least there I am getting insurance to cover the local group, local calendar, and a society wide publication. Family membership rates also make sense. Father Mother 2 kids It's 220$ to buy membership for for a family of four to abana. For your situation I'd pay 36$ a year and buy the publication as a bunch of back issues once a year from the store.

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It was over a 3 hour drive to get to meet him Joseph Art School, Box 106, Joseph, Oregon 97846, 800-459-3605 Oregon School of Arts and Crafts, 8245 SW Barnes Road, Portland, Oregon 97225, 503-297-5544 Blacksmith's Schools Page Home Page There is alot going on out west. Granted you may have to go to the next state. But washington and california are really busy areas blacksmithing wise. -Solvarr

What a great guy. We just talked for an hour about hammer design and politics. This man is a wealth of insite and perspective. -Solvarr

That forge is a few miles from me. Are you going to the yesteryear demo? If you can paypal the guy I could haul it up to va for you. -Eric

it's a little further and pricier but my crew is staying at the Comfort inn in burkeville on saturday night. There is a nice Italian restaurant in burkeville right as you pull off the highway. We stayed there for the hamer in and it was a nice place. -Solvarr

You can micro batch your own charcoal. Get a 35-55 gallon drum or a non galvanized metal container. Fill it vertically with a bunch of yard waste wood no thicker than 3 inches wide. Have one piece stick out the top about 3 inches Start a fire in the barrel and use a piece of metal as a lid so when the extra 3 inches burn down the fire goes out. This will not give you an optimal yield but it is an easy technique. There have been times when I have bypassed the charcoal and used a small but intense camp fire and setup a side blast using an inflatable bed blower and a length of pipe to blast air right into the coals. I have read anecdotes of Appalachian blacksmiths using chunks of seasoned hardwood directly in their forge.

Since the jaw on the right doesn't rotate I'd cut off the bottopm peice with the screw. Then I'd forge a piece that would butt up to the bottom and wrap arround the backside and up and do 2 L shaped welds with as much penetration as I could manage. But frankly as it is it can be a VERY handy tool . I treasure my movable vices and tools. mine 100_0608 on Flickr - Photo Sharing! not mine but I have some that are similar. 29 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

get it hot hit it hard repeat as necessary another pebble for my pile of stones (reference to how smiths accumulate little bits of info) I need a third arm (slang for I need a helper, there are some vulgar versions of this involving prehensile appendages I've heard)

And I thought my grandfather's quonset hut was HOT!!! Very cool design Doc. PS: been a fan of the Whiteboard for years. I have a printout of Doc chasing Rodger with the anvil hanging in my shop.

No prob bud. Good thing I grabbed the extra reducer bells for the forge burners. I want us to make this together so you can reproduce and tweak it later. We can start on the burner this Sunday if you like. Ltr bud. -Solvarr

Do we have an Oregon Smith willing to take RainsFire's bet? ;>

After all this he calls me up to claim the bet. The bet was over to be over Saturday morning as we had confirmed on Wednesday. He called me to claim his prize tonight after watching a show. I told him he just lost. He started banging his head on the wall....... That being said I am still giving him the setup because he is a good kid and really misremembered the time. The lesson learned: Write down the terms of the bet when negotiated!

What do you mean a dirt box gasser?

He was going to come to the hammer in but he had a martial arts tournament he had already signed up for. It was killing him. We had a great time doing the demo. Marion and I and possibly Drogo and Oonagh are looking forward to seeing all of you again in November. We are trying to see if we can get a few more people from down here to make the trip. -Eric

HAH! Iforgeiron and the forums were first on the recommended reading list! I don't know his login but he will be reading this sometime tonight. He had read almost every blueprint and was asking to use a bottom fuller the first time we got together to hammer one week after the bet started.

A local kid (16) who plays in the SCA has been trying to get someone to teach him some basic blacksmithing. After talking to him I realized he watches too dang much TV and he could be doing better in school. I told him one month... 30 days of no TV, no internet movies that were not blacksmithing related, no listening to TV... NOTHING and I would provide him with a railroad rail anvil, a hammer, a set of tongs, and a basic forge of his choice of fuel. He is 28 days in and called me to claim his bet. I had to tell him a month is 30 days and he can claim it on Saturday morning. His grades have improved and he is understanding chemistry.

the below is quoted from eBay - engelfamilyforgeartisanknives. As the material quoted is copyrighted I have reworded the quote and deleted the copyrighted material. Site Admin He only uses brand new rr spikes that he buys from the manufacturer. He suggests that you always ask the seller to provide documentation that they obtained the spikes lawfully. He says that removal of a stray spike without a salvage permit is theft, and removal of a spike from an active rail is an act of terrorism.

A friend is buying a wood lathe for my shop. Welding the collar on will save me a bunch of time upsetting. Thanks again. -Solvarr

If you have a 55 gallon drum you can make your own charcoal out of small limbs and untreated lumber scraps. Just a thought be a bit cheaper than 150lbs of charcoal which might be low for some reason for the amount of ore you are processing.