Thorsrevenge

A well armed child is a happy child as my dad always said

you might be a blacksmith if, you have the srap yard on speed dial or they have you on speed dial

Another fairly good song is Blacksmiths Prayer by Seth Lakeman there are several youtube vids. My opinion the lyrics and the instrumentation are good but it definitely needs a different singer.

Here is my Champion #83 boiler makers forge during its first use after I restored the champion 400 blower and clutch system and well as cleaning it out. I saved it from the continued fate of being a bird feeder. It however does not have a fire pot but even without that I can forge weld surprisingly well in it. The image is of it's first fire before I finished my shop.

Hello every one, I'm an apprentice blacksmith in southwest colorado while I'm going to college at Fort Lewis for history and education. I would describe my apprenticeship as a formal one and almost traditional, or at least as traditional as it can get with having started when I was seven. I work in my teachers shop three days a week during the school years and six days a week during the summer. I am his over all shop monkey charged with cleaning (lol), making sure tools are put away, getting things ready and layer out, as well as any forge work my teacher deems I can tackle or help with. Thats just my normal day then there are the days where all the work I put in pays off in the form of continued lessons in specific topics or areas of blacksmithing. All in all Ive been at it consistently for six months now and I still have sixty more years to go before I know anything and I can't wait.