Eylem Cengiz

The first one was sharpened to cut hair. It made feather sticks and thin wood shavings nicely. I don't expect it to stay sharp for ever but I preferred to send this present in its best condition. The second one cuts hair somehow but it has a wider bevel.

Hi all, I forged these two recently. These are my first two. The first one is forged from a 1"x1" square bar of 4140. Somehow I cracked the axe but repaired it via welding. After HT I left the texture. After the tempering I also left the temper color. The handle is ovengkol. It has a double-boiled linseed oil finish, with the help of some thinner of course... I made the other from a hammer. I just hammered the edge. The eye is original.

Hi all, While I am still preparing for a larger forge, I started thinking that a smaller one may also be practical. Here, stove pipes are very cheap. I bought a pipe that is 10-12 inch (can't remember exactly) It is about two dollars. I will insulate inside with ceramic wool and refractory cement. For now I am testing with just ceramic wool. For burner, I have found some stainless pipes that are not much wide. I searched for parts to produce the burner for this forge but this leads to a complicated burner with too much parts. Therefore I gave it a try and turned some components to make my life simpler. The part I turned is flexible and allows me to with two different sized pipes. The hole for the jet is drilled with 0.6 mm. I am using a gas bottle with little capacity and pressure. We call them "picnic" size here. Therefore more than this diameter will not be as functional. My pipe of choice for the burner is 14 mm. It is more stable when the gas flow is not much. I have just waited to see that I can heat a bar to yellow. I guess the forge has more potential. I haven't even calibrated the air. This is how it works: The burner consists of three parts. a narrow tube for gas input, a larger tube for output and the mid part. After I am satisfied with the tests I will solder gas tube to the mid part.

I have acquired a blacksmithing book from 1946 today. It is based on even older books. There is a drawing of a similar stump anvil. It says this type of anvils were used especially for forge welding the iron rings of wooden wheels. A wheelwright's anvil?

Hi all, I am unable to identify this anvil, which belonged to my grandfather. (RIP) I am pretty sure that he had been using this since 1950's but I don't know if he bought this one that time or inherited from our old ancestors who used to make carriages. We live in western Turkey and it can be a domestic product or imported to Istanbul/Turkey or imported from nearby east European countries. There is no visible sign on the anvil.

Hi all, I have a membership here but I had no posts, was just reading. Luckily noticed this topic today. :-) I am an administrator of the Turkish bladesmithing forum "bicaksanati". We are the only active bladesmithing forum of Turkey. I purchased this Kanca anvil about a year ago. This is the lightest one of their product range. I don't use it a lot as I am working on my propane forge yet but I hope this will change.