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Thanks alot! Thought I'd get back on(been gone for awhile) to ask how to heat treat a unknown alloy, this just might give me the info I need.

Thanks everyone great ideas. I was needing a tie down for my anvil work and the using for a treadle hammer just solved that problem!!!

Thank for the info, anchors they are!!

Had a friend of mine give me a few steel window weights from his parents old farm house. Was thinking these might be used as hardy tools or hammer heads. Has anybody used any of these for anything other that anchors?

Coming from a "I know nothing beginner" IFI has been a invaluable source of info! If your are starting from scratch like I am I would recommend research research research. I've spent about three solid months reading/searching the net sites and asking anybody I could find that had a background in blacksmithing,welding or metal fab. questions that mignt be helpful in the process. I've down loaded the free books from the links available from IFI and read them over and over(somtimes I'm a little slow). Just in the last few days I've put together a few parts of the adventure, got a old piece of rail track...coal car rail a litle small but it beats a rock...a old bbq grill and some sch.40 nipples,T, and a 8'' flange for the fire pot(soon as i get a digital camera I'll try to put the pics. on). Went to one black smith demo at a steam engine show to watch and will join BAM through the fine people that I met there who where more than eager to help with any questions that I had. Baby steps and careful planing seem to be helping me. But I'm sure there will be nothing like hitting the iron that will teach me the most.

The building that I am going to use was built in the 1840's with a coal burning fireplace, with a stove flue in the basement. Will this have ample draft for a side-draft forge? The stove pipe is a 4 inch double walled entry plug put in the wall of the fire place (originally it was a 6'' hole lined with tin). The chimney will probably need serious attention to the whole 22' of hight. Is this a lost cause or should I give it a go? Is there any body else who has used a fire place flue for their forge? It seems to me that a flue would be a flue.But then again I have no idea what I'm doing.

Very nice blade! I've used one with lines close to that one for years as my hunter and skinner. It has great control and feel. Great Job!

Thanks everyone. Still on the hunt for tools but getting closer everyday one small piece at a time. Live in Missouri did take a small class in Kansas about two years ago sure got the bug. I believe they were BAM members that gave the class Already started colecting scrap metal to the extreme pleasure of my wife. Ha Ha. Thanks again P.S. just getting the hang of the computer also sorry it took so long to reply.

One more piece of fantastic info, all beautiful work. Can't wait to start.

I'm just getting sta or better yet have not really started. Trying to gather info. It looks as though this is the place to do it! Thank you very much