Matt Smith

great video i like the look of the final poroduct

I like it , great job

As a minister I can appreciate. That blade. Nice work

Awesome video

Awesome design now I need to make.one

No unfortunately no real shop yet just my backyard I was a In a member but due to my work and schol schedule I never could make it to meetings. I plan on rejoining when I get more free time. I would love to go to a hammer in with the swIN meteorite mashers

From a fellow evansvillian I like it

Congrats..word of advise given to me before my wedding..happy wife happy life..lol

Watched the video awesome work on the blade wish I could have won it

Anyone use diatomaceous clay instead of benteonite clay in there casting sand

I stated in my orginal post it was illegal... i was talking about if it could be done. not should it be done

I agree about fume fever.. nasty stuff. In all reality if one wanted to make money off of copper pennies you could hoard them until the gov allows them to be scrapped

So the only way to seperate is chemically?

Ok all of this is hypothetical... currently pre 82 pennies are worth double their face value in copper at 95% copper 5% zinc. If someone wanted to smelt the copper out of them and separate the zinc could one do this simply through heating them? I know zinc melts at a lower temp than copper so would you be able to separate the melted zinc before the copper melted?. Now I know that it is illegal to deface currency and I also know the dangers of melting zinc... fumes.. positioning etc. I am just curious if this is a possible process. Maybe if one day the gov allow us the use of scrapping pennies. I know a lot of people are hoarding them right now.

beautifully done

I haven't been able to forge since summer cause of work and my school schedule getting my masters

shes good for 12

Lucky...lol

Thank for the advice guys .. i respect your concerns over the difficulties .. of bussiness.. i am the type of person who doesnt do anything hap hazzardly i look st everything from all angles.. right. Now i am gathering information and weighing my options while decidinggetting what is the best way to approach this dream of mine

Thanks for the advice guys...i understand all the concerns over the bussniess part of the bussniess . My goal right now is to help offset my income while getting my foot in the door of the busniess world...im thinking to start with a etzy store but idk much about it....if i start to due well ill hopefully grow into a bigger bussniess pursuits....anyone use etsy

Hello, Im at an intresting point in my life which can be a blessing or curse.. my job of 11 plus years is going through changes in which my hours will be cut basically in half....So Im left with either quiting and starting over or pursuing a pipedream I have had for years which is to open my own small bussniess selling items I make through my hobbies which iclude blacksmithing, lethearwork, fabercation and airbrushing. If I pursue the later i would still work where I currently am until I would be able to make my small bussiness profitable enough to quit the day job so to speak. I have been researching opening a etsy or ebay store to start off and posibbly looking into opening a booth at a trader bakers flea market...with the goal of oneday running a online based bussiness. My question is for those of you who use blacksmithing as your sole source of income or as part of your income how do you do it legally speaking... I know if I make money I have to claim it on my taxes and from what I have been reading online sites such as etsy etc... you would have to charge sells tax if your state requires it. Which I live in Indiana and it does...So how to go about this, do I need to get a bussniess licence, tax id number, can I file it on my normal taxes, etc any help or info would be appreciated.

Thanks for link

How did you polish out the handle ...it looks amazing

I am a huge lotr fan so i think i know the design your descibing but if you posted a pic i dont see it.

thanks for the link