Big Lake Forge

see that is somthing that i was having trouble with. my plans were to have 8 ten foot poles to hold everything. i was going to dig two feet with my post hole diggers and thn concrete everything when i get it level. you might be thinking that 8 foot is too short but i have measured my swing and 8 foot is tall enough. plus i will have 2 x 6's as my hadr boards. By the way my birthday is in about a month and a half. i will be turning 14 years old. so anyone that has any blacksmithing tools around birmingham, alabama feel free to pm me.

i can always add on if i feel the need to.

i dont have the funds to do a 12 x 16 shop. i need a shop that i can lock so my stuff will stop getting stolen

well i dont even have the materials yet. picking them up this week sometime

I am making myself a smithy. It will be 12 x 12 with a 29 guage steel roof on it. i dont have the funds for siding yet. Pics to come!!!!!

same here

someone should put that on the news. then mabe the stupid question of wether us blacksmiths shoe horses or not

some people are just lucky

if im not mistaken it is a Sodofors 200lb'er

those are real nice

all of those are very nice, i like them

then use wood for the fuel

just build a brick forge and us a blowdryer. or make a bellows

thats nice, i like the finish

that looks like something that came out of a museum. nice job!!!!!

that is pretty good. if you like it stick with it and you could learn alot

in a blacksmith's world there is no such thing as a rusty anvil, as long as you are using the anvil properly!

read my first statement

I did not know that.

So whitesmiths are real?

Yea that makes sense. And i appreciate you expressing your thoughts. But hey isnt that what forums are for?

Well no one here was trying to make it seem like people are stupid. I really just wish people would think again and consider to not make our proffessions seem like a walk in a park. Blacksmithing is fun but it isnt easy and you know that. See you said it is just sily fun, you are right and that makes other people think that the whole day we spend in our shops, we are only working for 10 minutes to work on a 10 foot tall ornamental iron gate and the rest of the time we are playing. And you know just as well as i do that isnt true. Not tryin to be mean but sometimes that is how commercials make us like

Here is what i think, If you have hammered sttel into a desired shape useing a forge, hammer, and anvil and continued on with the trade then you are a blacksmith.

That mac and chese commercial is just stupid. at the start he was hitting the horseshoe in mid air. now looking at it again he was holding it within 2 inches of yellow hot steel. at least they got the right hammer. and his ''forge'' had no place to heat the iron. and then it said ''weld the skillet, forge the family dinner'' yea right my family would sure want food cooked on a ''forge''

So today i was watching an army commercial and they said something but then i heard ''it was forged in the crucible of training'' it brought back all the memories of the questions that all of us blacksmiths hate ''Oh, you're a blacksmith, do you shoe horses?'' , ''Do you make horseshoes?'' Sometimes it just makes me a little frustrated. And i know all of you know exactly what i mean.