RyanErnst

These look good, and way better than mine.

well thanks for the info, i'll try a smaller pot never needed the one as big as i got i just figured if i needed it i mightaswell have it but i can easily make changes, and ill just have to make alot more charcoal when i can again and stockpile as much of it as i can it's not exactly hard to do its just annoying but worth it specialy since i have no other means of fuels around here besides berqquets and i really dont want to go to those, as far as blowers go im just useing a hair dryer constantly messing with it finding the perfect air volume, so now i know this has been bugging me for awhile thanks again

okay well... never really seeing anything in-use first hand or told about it, i was simply wondering how fast the average charcoal forge blows through the fuel, it seems im putting more in every other heat and i blew through a weeks worth of work for charcoal alot faster than i'd like to, i dont have any pictures or anything but im just wondering some things i could do to help or if anythings even wrong to begin with, my firepots about 4 inches deep, about 6 inches long and about 4 inches wide, or mabye it's just the charcoal, i dont know but thanks in advance to answer my little newbie question :P

thanks john! thats just what i was looking for, good examples and lots of them, that will definatly help me out :D

unfortunately i never thought of them as a hold down device for a large peice of metal for more metal to roll on that metal, i seen them as oppertunity more than anything, and from reading alot of peoples posts on these, you either love or hate them, in my opinion metal is metal and no one should be picky considering the circumstances of what we do, some shapes, sizes, and kinds of metals may be better for particular things but we work with metal because we enjoy it or at one point in time enjoyd something about it or most of us anyway, we alter and work the metal to what we want so i don't think we should take any metal for granted, its all metal its all smithing it's all enjoyable and fun and thats what alot of us do it for, i know for a fact thats what i do it for but again, this is just my opinion and only doing this for a year im sorry if i seem rude on the subject im not trying to be, but back to the questions at hand, i was wondering if they had enough mass and strength to make a deacent hammer?, just a thought i kinda want a lighter one for my smaller items i like to make thats suitable for blacksmithing.

thanks for all the posts, also nice work and the tongs seem like a great idea i've had in my face and didnt even realise it was there, i should make some of them ;o

ok well i know someone that has set me up with.....lots...of spikes and being the new blacksmith i am they are glowing with potential but, bringing the potential out? i only have few ideas, now i know you can make alot of things from spikes but being new and haveing no help on thoughts of uses, i wanted to see how big a list of things i can make out of them with, i'm not asking how well they are for this and that, i just want to know what can be done with them regardless of poor quality of the finished product, it is one of the only few metals i can obtain without any hassle and for right now is about the only thing i got to work with so if i can get any thoughts or info on anything spike related please drop a post. :)

those are awesome sauce, i particularly like the flowers.

haha so i talked to my freind today aswell and he said in 2 months on my birthday we can go to some places and i can pick out a anvil and he'll get it for me, this is amazing its all happening so fast!

thank you! i cant wait to start rolling that ball , i'll get as many pictures as i can, it might be a couple weeks till i get it but i just cant wait, the only thing i'll need now is a leg vise, but i can easily get one of those from making things, if i can ever find anyone that would buy them, i think i'm getting quite lucky with this, a anvil i bought years ago i just happen to have when i start, a small vise i got years ago i just happen to have when i start, ability to mass-produce charcoal right off the bat, now this. it has been quite a expirience for me in many ways and thanks to all your guyses help and posts on these forums i'll get to keep getting them i aprciate it very much this is a life long dream and it's actually comeing true, i had no idea it would actually go this way, anyway thanks again and good luck all .

so i told someone today about my blacksmithing and he thought that was just awesome and he knows someone who would make anything for him welding/metal wise and said if i got him some plans for a forge he could get one for me and lots of scraps aswell, barely starting and already getting such things "if it happens" well im just very excited and cant believe it :D

very nice! way better than my pile of hooks haha, thanks for shareing!

out of the months i have been useing this forum i have never seen a introduction thread get hot posted, i feel special now haha, i also have a question idk if i should put it here, i mightaswell but im in need of some hot cut hardys and mabye a few other mounted tools but the problem is i dont have a hardy hole i was wondering if some of you guys had a few substitutions to share with me and i dont really have room to use normal chisels so i need to grow a extra arm or come up with a solution that i can do myself, thanks

the famous frosty and his wisdom posts in my thread i am honourd :3, and what/where is twisp? ;o and i pass through kettle falls every few days that would be amazing if i can get someone that close to help and your forge sounds kinda like mine except atm im useing a fan and a coffe can to direct air into it however today i just got a old hair dryer so im gonna try to find out how to attache that tomorrow.

yes i'm kinda staying away from rebar now, however i can get it just about everywhere for free, its a readily available metal and i'll use it if i got nothing left but i'm not one of those few rebar fans that are hangin around :3 and yes im looking into forges and designs a bit, and looking out for anything i can use as a table instead of the wood one i made that ended up charing from lack of a good surface hah just more fuel i guess after i repair it again and come up with other random pointless things to keep it working again for another good week, within the next couple weeks im gonna be seeing where my 30$ can get me i dont know what im looking for exactly i just know i gotta find something that's better than what i have and can use with my lack of tooling and thanks for the pdf. "once it's done loading, dial up is just awesome" i'll probably need some sort of liner i cant exactly go get thick sheets of metal and make a proffesional forge like its just another day, the only problem im haveing troubles with "in my stockpile of plans" is how to attache a tuyre effectivly but i still got alot of research to do and gathering of resources. and yes i know how berqquets work and i'm sure if i ever meet him he'll like it wayyyy better, and seeing as my budget is extreamly the opposite of extreme im hopeing i can mabye do something with that, as there is no hope for going out and getting anything i need that is "perfect" right then and there with no effort at all anyway im draging this post on far longer than it needs to be yet again, thanks and good luck with all your...uhmm blacksmithing stuff :3