ThomasPowers

My take: "I'm going to make a big deal about not doing my basic research ahead of time."

Curling === Hocky

Any Fab shops with scrapped fence sections? I used to get metal from one that did a lot of replacement sections from car/fence interactions. They even would junk real wrought iron sections that were damaged...

My anvil stands were found or constructed from scrapped dimensional lumber; save for one I got in Iron in the Hat. Have you contacted local tree services about getting a stump? You will need to know the correct height for your use first though.

I would use something like 316 stainless and make them "Commercial Dishwasher Safe". They could be forged from bolts using the bolt head for mass if you had a source for larger stainless bolts... As for warm beer; heated beer/ale was often drunk in cold climes before central heating was a "thing". Mulled wine too!

Ouch! At least it's during the "bad weather" season. He's going to have to get a moose palanquin to get around with...

George; I've heard that used to denigrate "String Theory" as if you can't empirically test it; it's worthless as a "theory"!

What did the company that made it say?

Way long ago my boyscout troop visited WrightPat and we camped at the end of the runway that the SAC wing of B52s came in at around 5 am. LOUD++++++++; (and loaded for "Bear" in those years.)

And remember they use more than ONE alloy for sucker rods!

I'd start with channel iron the correct width.

Flats can be draw filed too.

Rather than that; why not ask the folks at SOFA where they get their steel?

The firepot profits from some thickness. The "table" it sits in doesn't. So plate for the firepot (or cast iron) and sheetmetal for the table.

I consider cat litter a choice for folks with no access to "in ground" clay; like apartment dwellers.

Not quite the "brains" of blasting as I recall. Going to be taking some tools to the NMABA meeting in Feb as my wife has asked that I empty the shop rather than leave it for her to take care of.

I have a lovely scar from having a scoutmaster use Korean War Iodine on a relatively minor scratch in the late 1960's. It was not amusing.

As has been mentioned "good" has nothing to do with carbon content. Deep draw steels with almost zero carbon in them are GREAT STEELS for deep drawing and almost worthless for knives...

I remember the "fun" time a fellow boy scout caught the soles of his sneakers on fire. -20 deg F morning camping and I had been the first one3 willing to get out of my sleeping bag and light a fire and suddenly I was surrounded by the other scouts. The fellow in question didn't realize that it takes time for heat to make it's way in. The amusing part was watching him "dance" trying to take off his shoes when the heat started to show up inside the shoes...

Prices like that are "aimed" at commercial use. Companies then take the cost off their taxes.

My camp eating set I forged from Ti so I could boil them if they got stuck in the trunk and forgotten... Not only if you dishwasher things; but I have had "borrowers" damage stuff they did not know about. I once forged a set of gambrel hooks for a hunter in our church out of stainless so they could be thrown in a dishwasher for multiple runs...traded for game meat.

Marc; yes "life is what happens when you are making other plans". I ran into the "going to have fun when I retire" and then got hit with the "Oops major health issue less than a year after retirement."

Not trusting my grandkids with sharp edges; I made a small froe for them: one hand on the handle; one hand on the mallet. NO HANDS in the "blade zone"! Yours looks like a GREAT camping hatchet! (For Adults....)

I expect a "feeding frenzy" sometime after the next NMABA meeting...

The prevalent use of Manganese in modern steels is to counteract the sulfur they pick up during smelting the ore with coke so it seems some must be present.