jasonmichalski

The tongs on the right side I made to hold the flat knife blades, and the other I made as a do all for now, but I need to make some more this summer.

I use charcoal only and if I wasn't careful when I first started I burned and melted the steel. I started with a smaller forge and now I have a larger one based off the 55 forge design. I started by chipping the wood and burning it that worked , but as said before there was to much ash. Make your own charcoal, I do it in 55 and 45 gal drums. I like the smaller drums better. I seive the charcoal to remove the fines and brake up the bigger chunks and reburn the few unburned chuncks in the next batch. The old small forge air turn down low air up higher all on charcoal

The perch is my top decoy right now, but I had fish come in to the red and white shiner and the my frist decoy the firetiger minnow. P2161185 by jasonmichalski, on Flickr I finshed all the carvings from last year and I'm starting on a few more. I traded one for a band saw and I'm selling one to a guy in MN. I'm going to make a few more for me and maybe 6 or so to sell for supplies and tools . I also plan on forgeing a few more knifes and maybe try a few more spears now that I've had more time on the anvil.

Thank you that was the first knife I forged. It workes very well.

Lost my ID in the upgrade but I'm back

The upgrade took off my ID but I'm back.

I lost my ID in the upgrade now all my posts say guest, but I'm back.

Now they call my posts a guest post great.