Hi all,
I'm Ryan living outside Chapel Hill, North Carolina and I'm fairly new to this whole metal smashin' thing.
So far out in my spacious (not) well-house out back I have a small two burner propane forge (30 gallon freon tank on it's side) , 110# cast steel anvil, a bunch of hard and soft fire bricks, an assortment of old blacksmith hammers I got on Ebay, and a 4 x 36 Ryobi Bench Mount Belt Sander, 1/3 hp, an assortment of belts...and not enough ventilation!
I've been primarily working on knives made out of straigthened coil springs, RR spikes and asst steel scraps. Most recently I have been trying to forge weld short lengths of wound steel rope, to a moderate degree of success.
I have the bug tho, and am interested in learning a variety of metal working skills. I'd like to learn joining techniques especially to make small creations. I don't know how to weld a lick, so i have that ahead of me to I'm thinking.
I guess thats about it for now...nice to meet you