gobinu

Well, here is mine. It is a PW 109# that I paid close to $250CND back in 2007. Since then the dollar has soared!

G'day all, Well, the story for me is that Gobinu is a Celtic God of iron working, among other things. Seemed pretty topical around here, as with others I've been around the net for a long time and have found that Peter is almost always taken and my other handle does not fit in all places. I refuse to post too much detail about myself on-line, especially in heavily searchable forums such as here at iforgeiron(I just did a goodle hit for Gobinu and my profile came up number one, for example) I've seen too many people get hurt, or fleeced by giving out just a little too much information. Even simple things like talking about the weather or the colour of your house can, to the right crazy mind, be used against you. It amuses me to see this discussion here as the wife just went through something similar on another forum. The upshot of it being the answer to the question "How can I possible judge your work if I don't know who you really are?" The answer: "If you cannot judge a work of art without a name but based solely on the art and what it says, perhaps you aren't ready to judge." Wow, that was almost as heavy as that new anvil I have. Peter

G'day all, I would like to introduce myself since I've been lurking for a few weeks now and have found you bunch of people to be quite informative and friendly. My story is pretty simple as I am just starting out on this whole smithing journey. I've been interested in self-sufficiency for a while, perhaps because my day job is shoving electrons around circuit boards. Over the last year I've been reading several books on creating things with wood, iron, stone and the like but I never really seemed like I was ready to take the plunge. That changed a few weeks ago when I decided to make myself a forge from some on-line plans. A few days later I went to the Williamstown Fair here in Ontario and met a very happy lady smith who gave me some interesting tips and new reading material. I was doing some searching for equipment, more specifically an anvil, figuring it was the one thing that was going to be difficult to find and happened upon a local blacksmith selling this Peter Wright 109# anvil on a classified sales site I've never heard of before. Turns out I knew the gentleman selling it from another local attraction over at Upper Canada Village. It was a little closer to $3/lbs than I thought to pay but I decided to snap it up. I've added a picture below. Then, rather than working on my home brew forge, the wife wanted to go up to Merrickville, a very interesting place to visit. Unfortunately for the pocketbook I found a nice working farrier forge which will do me for learning a few of the basics. It still needs some repairs and such but the price was pretty good. I've been working on the leather drive belt and on loosing all the screws so I can clean it up real good. At this point, I'm very close to pounding hot metal but just not quite there yet! See you guys around! Peter 3rd photo is a duplicate only enhanced.