ryan28801

Thanks for the support! I'll show more as I make it, and sorry for piggybacking on your thread bipolarandy

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

Newbie here.....I like the knife! I've been working on staightened out coil springs myself. I call it my ugly stick...the others are works in progress, all coil springs...and the obligatory RR spike knife. Just havent tried putting a real handle on anything yet...no drill press. Aren't springs great? :D