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Mende

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  1. I heer that playah!:cool: ridin' thru tha hood with tha smoke commin' out them windows . .u kno . .fishbowlin. . sippin on gin and juice... slowin' down traffic . . and ev'body stopped and stared when you got out . ..You know them wankstaz wuz jealous. They knew you were loc'd out! Fo Shizzle!
  2. Firstly, if you just found it .. I'd love to see the thing it was hiding behind .. .i mean how can you work in a shop and miss something like that? And second . .the short bus is for cool people cuz every seat is the back seat.
  3. It also serves to lighten the blade while maintaining its strength ;)
  4. Tharr she blows!. . now try one in real size :D
  5. I think ApprenticeMan comes second after Glenn. . . .which is quite a realization .. . I built up posts by mainly repeating what others said in a different expression .
  6. Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.' Cool crow btw ..
  7. Hope you won;t break that very important blacksmith law and give it out for cheap . .or worse . .for free.. Make sure she makes it worth your while :D
  8. Speaking of chains ..when one has a shop with a high roof it's handy to set up a network of chains to hang tools and such ..everything should be over your head+cap height .. I found that having nothing on the floor and everything on walls or suspended from ceilings makes life easier. . I don;t like to bend over to get stuff.
  9. I usually listen to my iPod . .got some in-ear headphones so they eliminate outside noises as well .. also wear hearing protection over that ..so I'm almost deaf .. Still can hear the anvil ringing tho ...it rings like hell . .all the dogs in the village start barking when i hit it ... I listen to heavy metal. .Rammstein especially because I can't understand German and the lyrics don't distract my attention ..Plus. .the style is actually "Industrial" so it sort of fits.
  10. Well . . I was thinking of applying to some universities in England. . ..based on media and communication ..like creative advertising or diplomacy stuff. .. also seen they had some advanced courses for artist blacksmiths. .and jewelers. . but i'd rather do one of those as a second degree.
  11. LOL. . .I almost messed up when I had 2 talk for one minute about my hobby .. I said it was poetry . ..cuz one minute wouldn't have been nearly enough for blackmsithing.
  12. Unfortunately I didn't buy any new anvils or powerhammers lately.. .but I;m happy that my test scores from an American TOEFL ( Test of English as a Foreign Language organized by ETS . .that is ran by Princeton) I got 112 out of 120! .. This drastically increases my chances of getting accepted by a good university! anyways .. Just wanted to share this with you as it made me very happy!:)
  13. Everyone is right in a way .. I say you should work until you have good hammer control ..and then ..while following some guidelines in books . .start making whatever you wish ... You can screw up blades as well as nails or hooks...at first but then. . .you will be churning them out by the dozens .. Heat treating is also important and can be practiced o stock removal blades and such . .so you don't crack a good forging.
  14. It seems like a good idea when shaping a long bar of steel ...or something with a handle. . .but looks risky when welding or when holding the work with tongs. I like to be able to jump back in case a hot piece of metal jumps from my tongs.
  15. Good work man . ..Like the gut hook.
  16. Yes ..It was Archimedes . .more of a well known scientist/inventor/mathematician . . . He made all sorts of contraptions to defend Carthage from the Romans in the Punic wars ...altho he was killed by Roman soldiers that were rampaging around after the city fell. It is said he was killed because he would not follow the soldiers' orders because he hadn't finished his latest theorem.
  17. Welcome Saiga ! .. We hope you will the benefit from this community's common knowledge. We do every day! :D
  18. Nice first setup . . . You are very lucky to have an anvil like that ..so take care of it I'm also concerned about the fumes. ..so you should only use pure iron/steel components around the fire .. nothing plated or galvanized. Everyone knows about Paw Paw Wilson ( may he rest in peace). He was very experienced, but after even he fell victim to this "metal fume fever".
  19. If you follow this link ( Twin Oaks Forge ) You will at least learn how to make a box bellows and a good sword forge. This site is also mentioned in a charcoal making thread. In the middle of the homepage you can see a rather traditional outdoors Japanese style smithy . Hope this helps.
  20. I doubt a huge lenses could be successfully and productively used to forge steel ... Altho it's a very good way to heat up small crucibles and melt nonferrous metals..for casting jewelry and other trinkets. . or experimenting with stuff. . . One could build a furnace that receives concentrated light from an arrangement of mirrors. but that would require adjusting the mirrors very often.
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