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Bryn athyn college is a beautiful campus with a real nice blacksmith shop.  Consider taking one of the workshops they offer.  Blacksmithing, stone carving and stained glass. I've attached a few pictures of the ironwork on campus.  It's a real hidden gem 

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All ironwork is in Monel

@ basher. Your saying forge welding promotes skin cancer on the hands and arms from the uv light ? Or the spatter?

there is no UV light from forge welding  its IR

Omg buy already!

On the last striker that looks snail like. What's the rivet washer thing? Iron and steel? Decoration? I'm feeling it. Nice job

Wow!!!!

Looks good! Care to explain how? All one piece? Size of stock started with?

And.... Make the top half of the socket lap over the bottom half of the socket on both sides making the top half bigger leaving more metal to raise up during the socket drifting operation.

Actually the bick was rectangle and then the socket was drifted into the 5 sided triangular shape

When I made my goose wing I used 2 halves for the socket and welded the sides. The poll was laid in between the socket sides and the blade in between the sides up front. then the edge was steeled on the bottom side. Need to make triangular shaped drift and bick to get the socket welded and shaped up

Get American axe by Kaufman it has a diagram.

You need lots of hammers. How many clubs does a golfer use? and they are just hitting a dumb white ball

Hey smooth bore where u from? I live next door to hopewell furnace personally

Anyone ever try navel jelly?

Motor and linkage are the easy part. Go get that hammer!

Get a piece of wood about 3"x3" square and just drill through it. then layOut your handle from the the entrance and exit holes. Who cares if it's A crooked or curved hole. You can't miss

Forge weld it. Way simpler

Where do you all find the flint to go with the striker?

Ok I'm gonna cut some extra material off the handle area and do some tests. Annealing and oil quench to see what happens

I'm inclined to leave it normal and not harden it at all. Would the grain be to big to take an ok edge?

Dumb question. I made a TP special knife out of a hundred layers of flat drain snake alternated with starrett band saw blades. I normalized it twice and gritted it down. It seems to be a pretty hard flexible blade at it normal state without hardening. A mill file cuts it but barely. SO what would the hardness be at normal state compared to hardened and tempered back to straw color?

Id post photos but can't figure how

If you flatten the gunbarrel tall ways then you can hot slit it easily. I find if you don't flatten it first then it squashes when slitting and is a real pita to get unsquashed.

I got logs 3 ft in the ground and love them! 3 logs 1 for the vise and 2 for the anvils. then I changed my setup and had to jack all three logs out and and move them over 18 inches or so. Terrible experience.

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