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Photobucket makes it easy, that is the best way I have found. Easy to group photos in an album for specific topics. By the way what do you want to know about your anvil?

So if you use Ferous metals in the solution, will that plate a solder joint and help the color match to hide the solder?

I just finished my first and second copper flower this month(Feb), I like what you have done and I would like to try to work with brass... Keep up the good work!!! and thanks for sharing the pics.

2.0 Second flower, thanks for the tips. I think this one turned out better, and she claimed this one too... http://s1103.photobucket.com/albums/g474/jeffro1205/copper%20flower/Copper%20flower%20number%202/

Well I started messing around in the basement a few days ago and wanted to make something for Valentines Day for my wife.... I had some copper wire and some thin copper sheet metal and this is what I came up with...She loved it but she thinks everything that I make is great... So I wanted to try to get an opinion from others who make things... Let me know what you think and if you have made a flower and have pics please share them... thanks http://s1103.photobu...opper%20flower/

Mike That is great! I am glad you got your big guy. It just is amazing what comes up for sale around here... It makes me wonder what is just laying around that no one thinks is worth anything... Looks to be in good shape from the pic cant wait to see it in person...

I cannot disagree with anything said so far. When I started all that I had was a 1foot section of rail road track that a friend had and gave to me. Maybe not the best thing but better than a rock and a stick... I just mounted it on top of a couple of 6x6 wood blocks and it worked just fine until I found a real anvil.... Every once and a while we still use that rr track for somethings...

I have a 150lb and 400lb Peter Wright. The smaller anvil has a 1" hardy and the larger has a 1.5" hardy. In an effort to keep my tools simple I am making an adaptor plate for the 1.5 so that I do not have to buy or make double tools... I am looking for a good hot cut so if you got'em for sale please let me know what you need for one... thanks

For what little experince I have, so far I like Peter Wright , Hay Budden , and my Fisher. Range in weight from 80lb to my newest 400lb(Still need to build a stand for the 400) but it is all in what you get use to working on. Just dont get in a hurry and buy a bad deal.

Pics are at the same photobucket link at the top of the page...post #1

Just got the camera out and there are some new pics. got the square and another oval box the square has 2 very different lids and the oval has a different lid as well. as soon as i can get my brother in law over here with his camera we can see about some how to pics but for now...I still have to clean and color them but you get the point of what i am trying to do... so please let me know what you think thanks jeff

here is my anvil stand for my 150lb Peter Wright"]http://

Took that anvil to the forge council meeting on sat and everyone there said they thought it is a peter wright and wanted to give my money back and then went on to say that we should be ashamed of ourselfs for taking advantage of those who do not know what they have.... I told them all thanks for the id info and I was to happy to be ashamed of anything at this point.

the guy that taught me in the class, his name is Robert Taylor... He teaches some classes at a folk art school in north carolina and lives here just outside of birmingham Al. look up some of his work at "Al.com" otherwise I would be happy to share what I have learned... maybe I can post some how to pics

There are several places that the AFC meet monthly, look on the web sight and there will be contact information. Hope to see ya around the fire... I meet with the Vulcan Forge Group in Tannehill State Park , behind the blacksmith shop on the 2nd sunday of each month. Look us up sometime... Jeff

I attended a 1 day copper demo and class at my forge group's monthly meeting in Nov. This is what I have come up with so far... Please let me know what you think.... http://photobucket.c...effscopperstuff With any luck this link will show some pics. Hope this works....And hope to add more photos soon because I am almost finished with a square box...

Very cool stuff!

check with other blacksmiths in the area... anytime there is a large gathering or a annual council meeting someone will have coal for sale...

1 Jeff Mosley 2 Adger, Alabama just outside of Birmingham 3 Hobby , I make different things like hooks, bbq tools, and what ever I can learn or what ever someone needs. 4 My family went camping in April 2011, I ran into a bladesmith show, meet some very nice people and they invited me to come and meet with them the next month. That event started something that I thought I would never be able to get into... 5 First anvil, a buddy of mine got me a piece of rail road track about a foot long. Got that 2 or 3 years ago, since I have gotten into a group and learned a few things I bought 3 real anvils but still use that rail from time to time. 6 My forge is a home made aluminum frame about 30"x30" on wheels, 1/8" steel top, fire pot 1/2 " thick plate and the blower is out of a gas fire kettle that was scraped out at work. 7 Glenn Holmes forge master of Vulcan Forge part of the Alabama Forge Council 8 I do not know what changed, always been interested in blacksmithing, guess that finally meeting someone who is involved and not just at a show or a demo allowed me to get started but like I said always been intrested 9 So far a real anvil 150lb and a good pair of gloves 10 Take things as they come and do not rush... All things happen in time. 11 I've not been around this enough for all that advise giving to people who are already in this, other than there is more than one way to do anything, stay open to new ideas. 12 Things that I have learned so far, you can always meet and make new friends, metal will do anything you just got to learn how to make it do what you want it to do, if you do not know just ask, the only dumb question is the one not asked... guess I could go on about all this but most of this I already knew just took a new group of good people to make me remember! 13 I hope that I can pass on the things that I have and are still learning to someone else one day, and maybe I can make a positive impact on the people that I meet.

Thanks to all for the kind words. Maybe we will see number 2 soon. I will post as soon as it happens. Until then, see ya in the chat.

That is very nice, they look really good and now my wife wants some... I have got to be careful about what I let her see... :D

Thanks Thomas, I hope to do another here at home soon and make more tools so I can get more detail. So much can go into something like this I just hope I can do it again.

I attended a 2 day work shop with the Alabama Forge Council at Vulcan Forge in Tannehill State Park where we meet once a month. I have been active in blacksmithing since may of this year so I know I have along way to go... but with that in mind I learned a lot this past weekend about making some tools and animal heads. I wish that I would have taken a note book. If this works and my pictures up load I would like to show off my dragon head.

Had a great time over the last 2 days... learned how to make some neat tools (punches and chisels) and a very nice dragon head... My dragon head turned out nothing like the instructors, but hey I had fun and its my vision of what it should have looked like. Wish some of the IFI could have been there but maybe next time If I can I will post some pics asap.

See Alabama Forge Council web site for more info Hope to see some of yall there...