ThomasPowers

I have seen tongs with the right angle bend in them used in pairs to move hot wagon tyres to the wood for shrinking on. Also smaller ones used to hold stock for dishing.

Please note that for 3000 years an anvil has looked like a cube or rectangular solid. This was/is also pretty much all over the world. The London pattern anvil is closer to 300 years old and geographically more limited. So 3000 or 300; what does an anvil look like?

Talk with the minion with the minion.

IIRC the Shire post mint has been selling various stamps for letter sealing.

Now do it in stainless and have a dishwasher safe version.

Found a Minion statue made from an air compressor tank at the scrapyard today; one of my minions/babysitters snatched it up.

For claws I would forge weld separate rods together.

Blacksmithing can be like pottery; you can make things by moving the mass around. You can add mass or subtract mass but mainly you can modify the cross section without removing or adding stock. Fab work is like carpentry.

Are you sure it's a "smelting" item? Smelting is turning ore into metal. HOWEVER many people are using it incorrectly when they mean melting---turning metal into liquid metal for casting.

Funny how often my "hobby" got used when I was supporting several million US dollars of computer equipment in a major software lab. When the dotcom bust happened I was one of the last laid off because of my "do it on the cheap" skills.

Just like my 70# flat rate box where the PO had me go behind the counter to move it myself...

Well as they were stamped piecemeal; there tends to be a lot more errors in the older anvils.

I once rode a retired Rodeo horse that "objected" to the jingling of my chainmail shirt; thought the noise meant SPURS! For rowels they sell replacement dressing "stars" for grinding wheels. High C last ones I used and "pre shaped".

Using a star drill to make holes in a concrete slab; or putting in T posts for a fence with a sledge with a cut down handle builds stamina too.

After all the work they did that allowed me to come home from the hospital; *buying* tools should not be a consideration! Come select some gratis!

Glass or Plastic are both NOT TO BE USED! Especially with a flammable oil! Know a smith with decades of experience who burned his shop down using a plastic bucket to quench blades in. Bad burn too.

Old bloomery wrought iron starts out as a bloom that is a pretty nasty mix of iron, slag, ore, furnace wall, fuel, etc. You take that and consolidate it as "Muck Bar". (It can be very mucky---the worst blooms we have worked were consolidated on a wooden stump with a wooden mallet to keep it from "splashing" when hit.) Take several muck bars and forge weld them together and forge them down and you get Merchant Bar; which was what was commonly sold. If you take several Merchant Bars and stack and forge weld them together and forge out into a bar you get "Singly Refined Wrought Iron" repeat for Doubly Refined and repeat again for Triply Refined Wrought Iron. I've noticed that every culture that used the bloomery method seems to have come up with pattern welding. Also a lot of scrap Wrought Iron was "busheled" stacked and welded into a recycled bar. Now later processes didn't do as much "stack and weld" stuff and so doesn't show as much pattern.

Sold off a bunch of Dishing Forms at the SCA event Saturday. Very kind folks unloaded and loaded set up for me. My wife has asked that I clear the shop before I go. Next sale at the NMABA meeting in Feb if they allow me to display a bucket or two of tools. Hopefully I can repeat as needed as I learned that I do not have the strength to load much at one time.

Thanks for the pics of the spinning wheel! Jo Ann tried to visit the cabin once but they were closed.

Cauterizing is a common thing in modern surgery using an electrocautery instead of a "plain scalpel". from pubmed: Surgical incision using electrocautery can be quicker with less blood loss and postoperative pain scores than the scalpel incision. (I once had a contact with the end of a hot piece of pipe rolling off the forge leaving a sickle moon scar; I tell folks who notice that it's a sign of a secret society I belong to...)

Signs of the Alpacalypse!

Don't forget smuggling in of Western European & American tech; I once worked "post wall fall" with a fellow whose previous job in DDR was the removal of "evidence" that the computer systems they worked on were smuggled tech. Anyway good to know that there are some crossover tools available. I envy you that anvil and I'm working on downsizing my smithing equipment!

Time to get started practicing your Horseshoe Hearts for Valentines Day! Realism????

SDST metal screws can be used to help stiffen up a gas grill stand if you don't have a welder too.

Did you do a preheat and a slow cool anyway?