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Sorry for you loss May you have the strength to carry on

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Welcome What kind of metalwork do you do?

Welcome to the group Go to the home page and check out groups. Find the one closest to you and check in with them. They should have meetings and tools may be for sale at tailgate sales. Campbell folk school in NC has clases but you might need some hands on expirience first.

Welcome to the group

welcome to the group

Welcome to the group

Welcome to the group Chek out the home page and groups for the Rocky Mt smiths contact info Great bunch of people and they should be able to help you get equipment

Welcome to the group

Welcome The guild has classes and John Adams, Rochester, MN teaches through the college there. Oct 3-5 we had a hammer-in South of Stewartville where you would have been welcome to come and get some hands on smithing.

Same as what Jeremy said

Use the same set up one would use for coal Mine is a portable type but has an electric fan attached with flexable steel pipe

Welcome to the group Change your contact info so it shows were you are from Check out groups on the home page for a blacksmith group near you for hands on training.

Welcome to the group Colorado has a very active balcksmith group

Welcome to the group Check out the home page and them groups to see other blacksmiths near you

Welcome to the group Do check out your local blacksmith chapter as hands on instruction is great tool also

Never use coal in a nonvented area. Last week at the Saltfork Conference when they first started the fire you could hardly see in the building till they got a door open and the exahust fan running. Only green coal gives off a lot of smoke. slowly add wet coal to the edge of the fire and it will coke up

I think the main thing is to get it to run the same speed What is the problem with the motor you have 3 ph and you need single or is it burned out. You certainly dont want to go smaller, slightly larger may be better as I am not sure if the one you had was under sized or not. The larger the motor the more amps which cost more electric and the motor probably will cost more up front also.

If you are only using letters you can get backwards stamps from MSC ect and stamp the annealed steel then grind a profile in the stamp that leaves a depression you like in the hot work with raided initials Robb Gunter uses an alen wrench and a cap screw head welded in a plate to index the stamp. He heats only the end of an allen wrench pounds it into the relief 3 quick times. Takes it apart and grinds the allen so it fits through the hole, bolts everything back together and reheats the end of the allen. It takes 3 or 4 times to get the depression deep enough.

Looks to me as it was set up for natural gas from the factory

Welcome to the group I just returned from the Saltfork annual conferece and had a great time 3 excellent demonstrators and a very friendly goup of people. Got a couple of deals at the tailgate area also.

I have known others smiths over the years who had Frank as a teacher and where also pleased with the expirience.

Welcome to the group Go to the home page here and click on groups to see where the nearest blacksmith group is to you. Join them also as in person help is ussually the best for getting started.

Just wathced Ryan Johnson at SOFA. He did mokume from 15 quarters and made a heart pendant. He said quarters mokume was for when he got up and remembered he had a birthday to go to and forgot to get a gift other wise he used shim stock copper and nickel silver or silver or brass ect. He recomended trying to get 10 thousands thick stock and do about 80 layers that way you had more layers to pattern and you did not have to draw it out as much. He did not clean the quarters but said you had to scrub the sheet clean so it would laminate better. I did 3 billets of 15 quarters but have had delam problems as the quarters only get so big before I start getter edges to show up in the pattern and then delamination. I may try a stack of less quarters or go to 50 cent pieces.

Go to Wal-mart in the pool/spa area and get PH-minus it is the same as sparex but 1/4 of the price. Mix with hot water as much as will desolve. This will turn the copper pink but will be no oxide. You need to buff the copper if you want it shiny I patina (color) my copper with liver of sulfur, this will make copper color from a light brown to almost black depending on how long you leave it in the sollution Ammonia fumes will turn it green google copper patina on the web it should give some mixtures and what colors. Heating and then quenching in water will give some nice reds but the piece will be soft. I did a carnation by heating and burying in coarse saw dust from a saw mill. It gave bright blues and purples but again it was soft.