Thorsrevenge
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I made the touch mark out of an old rail road spike upsetting the end and then making my design finally wrapping some 3/8ths round around it for a handle -
The first set of tongs I ever made they are simple v-jaws -
a set of tongs I made the tail on one of the reings was a bad idea but I have yet to correct it -
a horse shoe I made out of two old shoes cut and forge welded together. This now hangs above my forge -
the set of forge tools I made for use in my forge -
a basket twist handle again for one of my forge tools -
a pineapple twist handle for one of my forge tools -
The very first thing I ever made on the first day of blacksmithing class at the Cowboy Forge Mancos Colorado -
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you might be a blacksmith if, you have the srap yard on speed dial or they have you on speed dial
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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.
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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.
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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.
