Johannes

nope if you want some real beer for the shack, get Duvel or Westmalle trippel, or kasteel bier, or Westvleteren, or Orvalle, or Chiney, or Tripel Karmeliet... Belgian beers are the best of the world! :-) believe me if you ever tested one of these al athors including guiness will taste like dishwater or stale coffee, it is a know fact that we make the most diverse and best beers in the world (exept for pilsner type beers, those are better in tjechie and germanny). I'f taught a couple brewing clases and beer tastings around europe. your always welcome!!! but I gues belgian beers would be kind of expencive in the US right know due to the shipping costs en the dollar being so low to the euro. So go for "leffe" its a pretty good belgian beer, and Imbev brews it locally in the us. kind regards!! johannes

Cant you just avoit the potential danger by filling it up wit water and then cutting it with a grinder..? thats what I did with an old propane cylinder, worked wonderfully.

Hi Badger, THis is the kind of stuf I'm looking for for my portable gas oven, do they deliver in small quantities? and how was the price? fielen thank!

botle openers can openers trowing knifes, (so you can hang a picture of your boss in there) a pipe lightening poke (to heat up in the stove and light your pipe with) hinges for the doors? a camp-grill for outside keep us posted!

I'm interested in the subject, but I have no experience in the matter. but I was wondering, what about fumes in an wast oil burner.. wouldn't those be kind of toxic?

anny chanse there would be anny ending up on containership heading for europe? :-)

here it is on google: The Complete Modern Blacksmith - Zoeken naar boeken met Google

if you want to know more about making chisels, drawknife's rasps and al kind of tools i can strongly recomend the book "The Complete Modern Blacksmith by Alexander G. Weygers" the athor is besides beeing a blacksmid also a sculpturor, so there's allot of info on the subject of making wood working and sculpturing tools. I'm a bit of a sculpturor myself, so it was one of the first books on blacksmithing i bought. kind regards Johannes

interesting theory habu68, I'm gonna try that out! and that work of Heath Satow... really nice, incridibily good work! aspecially the mobile for dubai and the alien table!! Really nice work!

Interesting subject, First let us look at an example in art; Henry Moore, was often called a master in negative space, he used this as a narrative in his timeless sculptures. Photo 1 Photo 2 he had a keen understanding of how to create an image, using only the hidden parts of it. In a way using negative space is like making a picture by building the frame.. but then doing it in such a way that you stimulate the viewers imagination in such a way that he sees the picture you wanted to show, witch often is more an emotional or intellectual concept than a visual image. as blacksmits we could use this concept to our advantage in various ways, it gives us an entire new level of forms to play with. some more good examples of negative space Photo 3 Photo 4 the last one is less abstract and more to the figurative side..

hey guys, Yesterday i bought a post vise for my new shop, its not the biggest one, but its one of the best made I'v ever seen, it's entirely made out of forged steel. I bought it for 15€ from a guy who collects WW2 militaria. He told me it used to belong to a field smithy from the german army , when the nazi's fled, they left it all behind, and localers raided the camp, a local carpenter used the vise for years, and then he sold it together with allot of war stuf to the collecter, i believe this story to to be true, because it has an old german stamp in it. I was surprised of its weight! its just lacking a spring, does annybody got anny sugestions how to put on in, and what to make it from? kind regards, Johannes

Good to see more europeans joining this, lets face it guys, amarican dominated community. really nice work by the way!

cheers to that ted! aprentice, you should first think about what kind of shape would be usefull to you, and as a designer, I have to say this; but astatics is wourth something to, an anvill that looks nice to you, will give you more fun and pride working on, but thats only my opinion and I maybe right or wrong ("but you can find them both in the grand cannion at sun down" sorry guys I could not withstand to quote Bob dylan :-) ) greetz

thnx dan, I think i'm going without one, I'f done some testing, and I think its not nescesary with the coal i use. the desing of my the forge i"m building is on the forum. kind regards, Johannes

matt; I'm gonna use good quality fat coal, and coke

how thick are they? whats their relitve mass? make sure its not asbestes! :-)

looks nice!! maybe we should start a decorate your tools contest?

I'd just use a hollowe gutz, chizzel and hammer, and allot of elbow greace;-)

a 800 gram and a 1500 gram, both with an oval handle of about 350 mm

Hi guys, I'm building my new forge, I'v made a design with the resources that I have, could you guys give me your opinions, or advises? before I start building? how it is made; 2 build up concrete wals carrying a cast fire-concrete table, with a steel tray (an old mold tray from work) cast into it, and an opening for placing a water container, this concrete is build up with a layer of fire brick, te elevate it to the same hight as the frame, in the frame is a cut, with a cast iron pot in it (was a street drain), inder the pot is a pipe from cast iron, and an tuyre with a self made (hope this is gonna work) valve, with a pusch/pul mechanism. around it a layer of old hand brick, for decoration. the hood is gonna be made of welded up frame with rivited galvanised sheeting (i'v also got an old fridge ventilator to help the draft if needed), the tyere is running out of the forge so i can attach my old vucum cleaner untill i find a cage blower. do you think the fire hart would be sufficiant? how would you add a klinker breaker to this? what should be the distance between the table and the hood? thanks for the advise guys! ok tomorrow I'm gonna post some pictures of the parts, and of my new (350kg!!!) anvil.

Ok in order thy genarate an income; -Product designer/developer -art history teacher -farrier -cenceptual artist/decorater -blacksmith my goal is to bee a full time farrier/blacksmith (half half) in 5years time)

I would get en inverter welder and a plasma cutter, mm and maybe a blower that makes less noise, but around here, with de dollar beeing so low to the euro i would probablebly only be abel to buy only the welder with 600 dollar (if we where talking 600 euro.. that would be nicer... an inverter welde costs around 400 euro around here). And maybe more comfortabel savety shoes.

hi Phillip, I have designed a few stoves before, my advise is to make one in masonry, with a metal insert and door (make it arch out it you can this will dramatically improve your draft), and a cast iron grill of some kind te elevate your fire enough to create good air circulation. also an ash drawer under it might be good, be be sure it locks tightly. If you want I can make you a design drawing, if you tell me what materials and skills you have available. greetings!

Thanks for the info guy's, I added some pics of what the the old pacement sink that i'm gonna use as a fire pot loks like, it just a drawing, cause i don't have pictures of it here (i'm at work). I used to have a highe ridge in the midle around the hole, but I alreddy grinded a part of that out. Its made of fairly bridle cast iron, and I have a cast iron pipe that fits over the end snugly. How would you fabricate a breaker in this? Thanks for the repley phil, do you know how those cutting rods are caled? Philip from China; those diagrams would be greath, nice to so somebody from china here! & greetings from belgium to all!

Hey gys, Im currently Designing my new forge, I will post the building plans later on. It is going to have a masonary base, with an old mold frame (i nikt at work) made of 1.5 cm thick steel, I'm going to cut (with a grinding weel because I have no plasma cutter or annything, or does annybody here now how to make one? or even better, does annyone know of a way to cut with a stick welder?) And insert a cast firepot witch I made from a drain pot, with a thick cast iron pipe under it, my airstream wil be regulated with an electrical switch.. but now my question is, I have no idea how to put a klinker breaker in this, does annybody have an idea? and even more, is it nessesary to have one in the first place? I have acces to good coal so do I need a klinker breaker, and how would you make it? thanks, Johannes greetings fro