Elemental Metal Creations

If you can get an inexpensive pipe clamp you can clamp it onto the side or face of your RR track and use it for a bending jig or horn. Just to be sure to clamp it as solid as you can and don't hit on it to hard it hurts if it comes loose and smacks you. Don't ask how I know! ;-)

Drool!!

It looks good, If you can get some more angle iron bolt a frame to the one you have to hold the table above the lip of the drum, as close to the top edge of the drum as you can get it. It will make it easier to rake fuel into the firepot. Old bed frames can be found pretty cheap at junk/antuqe stores

Awsome

The hammer works very well altho I haven't used the peen much. I use the anvil edge more that the peen. I made my wife a russian rose for V-day last night.

US$ - 602.34. I wish

I spent an afternoon at bigfootnampa's a week or so ago . I got to see what coal is like, much better that the charcoal that I normaly use. I also got to try a power hammer. here are some pic's

We made me a nail header (no pic's) and converted a 2 lb ball peen hammer head to a diagonal peen hammer.

I had a great time. Many thanks to Bigfootnampa.

There are those that can do it in one heat, but I am not one of them and I have made about a dozen of them.
Looks good!

Small steps when time allows can = big results over time. Any time at the forge is good time!

I am going to look at this http://semo.craigslist.org/tls/2811050841.html next week. how can I tell when the tanks are due for testing? It comes with the cart, 5 torches(1 harris, 1 Victor), regulators, hoses, 1 O2 tank with some in it, 1 acetline tank and 1 argon tank both empty, ect. I am thinking it my be worth the $ ( i will try to get him down to $150 or 200 if I can) even if the tanks are out of date. he bought them used so I don't know if he hase any paper work.
What do you think? Thanks for any info

I live in SE Missouri and every place that is worth calling a town (and some that arn't) has at least 1 family owned Mexican restaurant. Our favorite automatically brings us a bowl of there hottest salsa without needing to ask for it. About 30mi. away is a Tai place where if you say xtra spicy you better MEAN it, I love it. but for good Italian I have to drive 2 hrs but worth it when in the area.

That sounds right Dablacksmith. My work was actual fusion welding though... copper to copper or copper to silver etc. with no solder at all. I like the possibilities for the copper brazing though! I'll have to keep it in mind. Modern pennies are nearly all zinc so might not work very well. I guess we can't afford copper to make them from any more? They are thin copper on the outside and zinc in the middle. I have copper tube, bar, rod and sheet though.

If you can find a reputable coin shop sell the old rings and use the money to help buy some fresh gold.

Look at the 55 drum blueprint at the top of the solid fuel page or look into brake drum forges. I use a combination cost about $30US

Looks handy, i need one of these.

You don't need a welder to make a brakedrum forge. You need a brake drum, some black iron pipe fittings, (floor flange, I 3 threaded nipples) some bolts and nuts, preferably stainless steel. Search on here for info there is tons of it.

I wish I could find a deal like that around here, this area is anvil poor. I was in a used tool shop yesterday and they wanted $200 for a 70lb. cast iron ASO!

Try searching for "slitter geometry" with the " I turned up 10 topics

Cheap tarps, or use plastic on 2x4, about 50x100mm lumber frames. The coldest it has gotten here is +9 deg. F.

I can't say it any better than the rest of you and probably not as good as many. What a shock! I will miss and probably still look for Grants posts. May the gods be with him.
Jerry

I trrging hammers.y to use a different hammer but sometimes forget. I have a multitude of hammers but only 2 good forging hammers.

Hooks - S hooks Drive hooks C hooks. Good practice and they come in handy for a lot of things.

I went to the flea market yesterday and bought a couple of chisels. After talking to the guy for a little bit and telling him I was a blacksmith he handed me a small piece of thick sheet metal, He said that he didn't know what it was but his son brought it home from an aircraft factory. It is 3/32" thick, 1.5" wide and 18" long, has a gold tint to it,and is pretty hard. A magnet will stick to it. I dulled a new hacksaw blade almost instantly although it did mark the metal and it can be filed. It flexes when bent by hand but springs back straight. Is this Ti.? and what would be a good use for a piece this size? Won't let me post pic's.

!hr&10 min. to go, happy new year