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  1. 781
    Nice looking tongs
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    Glad to have you with us
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    Welcome to this group Very informative into Maybe I will see you next year at SOFA look for me bicycling with an anvil on the handle bars Thanks
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    I also like it.
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    Welcome As for rail being a small surface on end why use the end most make an anvil by cutting and forming a horn on the flat rail surface. You need a stand or stump to get it to the right hieght. Google railroad rail anvil or something similar and there should be tons of pictures.
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    Welcome
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    Welcome
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    Welcome
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    Welcome
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    I make mine using the direct burn method. The wood is directly burned in 55 gal barrels with 4 two inch holes in the side of the barrel just up from the bottom. When the wood is burned so if you grab it with tongs it breaks I plug the hold and cover the top so it is air tight. Get 40 to 60% charcoal to wood burned.
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    Welcome to the group am sure there are many casters here
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    I bought one at SOFA this year. Have heard them called horse shoe vise which would be a calk vise also called wagon makers vise as they had bolt heading swages and an adjustable length stop to make bolts. The jaws come out and the swages went in
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    Welcome to this group and to blacksmithing
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    Welcome
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    Welcome
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    Dovetail die is ussually how the for mounts to the anvil of the hammer. Flat or drawing OS the working surface. use flat with top tooling or spring does on the flats. WWW.umbaonline .ning.com has clay Spencer fforging with a tire hammer and flat dies # rd105.
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    The paint on it now will most likely contain lead so dont breath eat it.
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    Welcome to this group and blacksmithing
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    You will have to heat and anneal the steel several times depending on how much you change the pannel. A friend does his steel with lead as a backing.
  20. 781
    Heat a piece of 3/16 plate or thicker if needed sink to the shape needed then weld stiffiner around outside edge and other places if needed.
  21. 781
    When I first started forging my coal was all fines. This coal was pit on a pail filled with water. This wet coal was packed around a tapered plug. The polygon was pulled paper and wood shavings were used to start the fire with pieces of coke from the last fire. This wet coal coked and as used up more wet coal was added to the outside of the fire now I use homemade charcoal
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    Welcome. Nice work for a first forging
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    Check with bam at www.bamsite.org Pat McCarty has a new years day meeting at his shop north of St Louis. That may be a great place to meet locals
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    Welcome
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    Welcome Check out Ivba or umba for local blacksmiths to you
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