Jon Smith

Awesome Bowie. And dont criticize your early work too much; definitely puts some of mine to shame

I would be proud to test this little beauty out for you for a trial period of the next twenty years or so...lol.
Gorgeous piece, to be sure.

Curious, what's a penny scroll?

I've been teaching myself blacksmithing, as there are very few mentors to be had around here, and I built my own forge.
I don't have a recent picture, post mods, so please bare with me.

I built the forge out of firebrick (in the absence of durablanket) with an iron frame. It's a simple setup with with four bricks in a square with the frame acting as a clamp, with two more bricks acting as adjustable doors. The burner is a Reil style venturi burner.

I was having trouble using the burner correctly, as it was a pain in the *** to keep enough air flowing through the fire box, even with both door-bricks removed, so I added a blower, with the pipe running straight into the bell reducer on the burner. I can now close the forge, but I'm still only able to get the work up to around a bright orange heat.

I'd love to be able to forge weld, so is there any way to get it up to welding heat? I only use smallish stock (the most I've done is 3/4", and that was just a twist), so I don't think that's the problem....

Oh my Lord....

Yep, I'm officially impressed.


Must...fight urge....to go light....forge....

Nope, I fail. Sore shoulder, here I come

Muriatic acid works wonders. Stronger than vinegar so it's a faster reaction; you might wanna watch that. It'll take the zinc off of galvanized anything really in a matter of seconds.

Amazing work as always jeremy. If I didn't see this was tubing, I wouldn't believe it

Very nicely done! I may have to try this one day....

Alright I've been looking into building a lightweight tire hammer (somewhere around a 25 lb ram) and the one thing I can't get my hands on is the specs for spring. When in doubt, ask the experts, right?

What kind of spring usually goes into the DuPont linkage?