Matt Smith

I whole heartily agree that smithing is more than just banging on metal...I am a youth pastor and am currently in collage seeking my masters in Religion Studies.... I believe that God made man with the desire to create and make things with our hands. We have a primitive desire to form and mold something from nothing in a sense what God did with us when he created humanity. This is not saying that we play at being God but that the desire to create is in our souls and for those of us lucky enough to discover this about ourselves it can be a time of development and growth... That's just my 2 cents.

I would be intrested ads well

thanks for the replies I use a small coal forge currently but plan to make a gas forge down the road

Ihave been playing around with the idea of using a pop up canopy one of those 10x10 types as a tempoary shelter to use for when i forge this summer...i have a grage but unfortantly its full of my grandparents stuff which im slowly gettng rid of and i also have to fixx the roof before i think about moving my tools in there...does anybody have any experiance usining a conapy for this purpose... the one i am looking at is flame retardent but i would hate to set it up only to burn it down...lol

^{I used all of mine on the ground as floor tiles}

Thanks for the tips

Thanks for the argice

I recently scored a railroad tie plate i thought of useing it ti hold hardie tools since my anvil doesnt have a hardie hole.....any thoughts...or any other uses

Been awhile since i have posted im ok with my rail anvil right now but still thinking about what to do with hardie hole issue... i might try the square tubing as mentioned elier...i also recently aquired a 1in impact socket for free i thought of having this welded on to an extra pieace of rail i have laying around anyone know if normal hardies will fit in 1 in socket

spike is about the right size for the urkHai scimiter but it defiantly needs to be grounder to a square point in the front to be authentic

sweet video

know when the program will be aired

truly a master blacksmith

looking good

Im a huge tolkien fan and thats pretty good design, Im intrested in what the runes mean...

gee didnt know it was so complicated......lol .. I was actually wondering more about the actual hinge part did you mesure out the sections within each part inorder to make them align correctly or did you just forge and eyeball it...sorry if this sounds like a stupid question I am more experianced with forging sharp pointy objects than inter locking parts

awsome video

nice, thanks

Those are beutiful how did you forge those? Any recorces inwhich I can learn how to forgehinges like that

good info

Yeah I have thought about a website down the road my buddy is a graphic designer/computer programer and he builds sits all the time..But to start off I think I might try ren fairs or gun and knfe shows

could u post a pic of your home made etcher I am interested in what it looks like....thanks for the tip.

thanks for the link, ...thomas do you have a url or link to "Knives and Scabbards" Museum of London.

Check post #1 for the how-to link :rolleyes:

Thanks for the link