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thank you all very much for all this. i have quite a few ideas now and i think i can figure this out. ill be reporting back once i get some results!

Greetings! For a long time, I had always wanted to try blacksmithing, even if I only do it once. Recently, at an SCA event, i got my chance, and found it very much to my liking. Unfortunately, I am a college student wiht a very limited budget and no time to hang out with an experienced blacksmith. So i turn to this forum, with a request for tips, advice, guidance, and general help. Talking with the blacksmith at the event, he told me i could use an old charcoal grill and a hair dryer as a blower, and with a few modification i could have a very basic forge. I was wondering the viability of that set up, and if it would be able to last for a while, as it might be my forge until i graduate college. Second, I find myself lacking a very key item, an anvil. where would i be able to find one cheaply, or is there anything i can use as a pseudo-anvil until i can find/afford a proper one? Im sure i will have many more questions, but ill keep this post short and ask other questions in the proper sub-catagory. Tyler