John Martin

Nice, quick work. Lol.

Way to go JR!

Finally chris, pictures. Lol. Real nice job you've been doing, keep it up, hopefully it'll be done by sunday right???

BTW, when are you planning on punching out the wall in the middle?

Well, there are two ways, well many ways, but I'v learned to ways.

One is a Honey-comb or cave.
This one, you make a mound of coal, and start the fire, the inside cokes, and you add coal to the top of it, and pushing it in from the sides. You then put your metal in level with the coal table.

The other one is a hemisphere. It's the one that I use. I use the cave for forge-welding. This hemisphere fire stacking, is how I do my coal fires. I get a mound of green coal in the firepot. I then start the fire.I let it all coke up, this takes about 10 minutes for me. I now have about two inches about my the rim of the firepot lit and at forging heat. This allows me to barely submerge my work in the coals for the best possible even heat, and I work three pieces easily with this setup, I also save a lot of fuel. Everyone has there own way, or a "practiced" way. I hope I helped you. Grab The Backyard Blacksmith, Lorelei Sims has a good tutorial for fire tending, as well as a ton of other stuff. Good luck.

Best Regards,
John

Um, yeah I'm stumped, what's it for?

Congrats, good score, I hope you use it well. Lol. :)

I can only get hot rolled 1018 in 4" Round, so no. I use cold rolled, and it's dirt cheap.

Nice Chris. There are some easy door latches and pulls in The Complete Modern Blacksmith, The Backyard Blacksmith, and The Blacksmith's Primer. Nice forge, is that the new coal forge or the new portable one???

Thanks For letting us all know, can't wait to see pictures. Call me sometime today after 130pm your time.

Any pictures?

It's funny how everyone has a "dirty" shop, but is organized and when you clean it, you can't find anything. When I clean my shop I find production or efficiency increses, where as when I have a dirty shop, I have to dig to get items when I need them, because they are buried under tools.

Sorry, but how does everyone figure out the age? I have never understood when you all just take the serial number and "pop" there's the date. Lol.

I just sent an anvil down to texas that was cut in half. Now that's abuse. The bottom of it was missing, it was a trenton, and if in one piece, I would have kept it, it would have been around 200lbs.

I can't answer your question, but

Ellis Custom Knifeworks has some really good bricks and liners and coatings for gas forges. Check them out.

Lol, tell her that if she makes a garden, you'll help her and then use the anvil to help decorate the house and garden, as well as tools for the garden. Or have one of your children help there mom make a garden. :)

My cast brake drum works real good, but when I have a welder and a cutting torch, I am going to fab my own up one of these days.

Lol, the mouse nest. When he said it the first time, I thought he said he fired a mouse across the yard. However some of those industrial blowers that used in factories for venting could prolly easily blow me across the yard. Lol.

I would by all means weld the face back with hard facing rod if you can and if you have the materials accessible for cheap.

The friendship knot it pretty cool, the cross, nails, leaves, etc. People love watching artistic and useful things be made quickly. Average adult attention span is 15-30 minutes. Hence the commercial every 15 minutes. I'm not saying that is everyone's, just the average.

Those are those cathedral anvils, real nice. Nice cbl4823. You have to have money to be an anvil collector. Or just be Mike who seems to trip over them everywhere.

I have never used corn, but charcoal works great, but it burns up really fast. I now only use coal.

Get the

"The Backyard Blacksmith" by Loreili Sims FOR SURE Lorelei Sims

Well, Dennis is a member now, that's cool. WElcome to IFI. I'm John btw.

Lol, tell her it's to make here some lovely garden euqipment or flowers. If she still buys it. Lol.