Marc1

To the question "What is the price of the sword" There is no simple answer. The price of that in Russia may be very different than in Australia or the US or Switzerland. It's a large piece ... I would say that you would probably be able to sell it for around $400 in OZ. Probably more if in the right venue in Sydney or Melbourne. Reproduction decorative swords are not worth much here and I see them on display in our local second hand shop for very little money, but they are also low quality and in poor taste. I can see yours is not only a large display but also a nicely made sword for what I can see from here. With the internet, obviously you can overcome the tyranny of location if you can ship and expect delivery to work. If you can find a dealer that has a shop in europe and you can struck a deal with him, that may be your best bet. Selling direct is better but has it's own set of problems.

When it is true that what you can get for an item is what someone is willing to pay, and if you live in a desert, your anvil is worth zero because there is no one to sell it to ... I venture that a reasonable retail price for that beauty is $500. perfect size for small to medium jobs. Light enough to move by yourself. Wire brush the sides, oil them with orange oil (my preference) and don't touch the face with anything that is not red hot ...

What could be possibly offensive about that table? Sure almost too nice to use for welding, but you can top it with a sheet of steel and preserve the original top.

The Anvil of the Cross is a book. Old one. Crossandanvil.com is a methodist church

There are always two sides to "technology news". Some choose to cherish the "news" regardless of content. It is almost a religion, worship the good news regardless of anything else, jump up and down ... Kumbaya ... if you don't you are a denier, a dinosaur, a pessimist .... Others react to new technological discoveries with an instant negative reasoning. Resorting to an encyclopedic knowledge worthy of a better cause, some people have this uncanny ability to find an instant scientifically sound reason to disregard the news as nonsensical. I think that a far better and more sensible approach is to consider new discoveries for what they are. A means by which an intelligent person attempts a way to invoice another. Invoicing someone has a whole array of side effects, domino effect, butterfly effect, you-name-it effect, yes all play a role. Eventually side effects stop and if the invention survives, we may be able to buy one just like it ... or be forced to ... or told we get cancer if we don't Meantime chill. The world is an amazing place

I like "Christoferro forge"

Do you have a picture of your super forge? Yes, I agree initial heating would make a big difference

To forge straight skinny stuff you only need a small forge. If you want to forge scrolls and large decorative work then you need a big one. I notice the difference between summer and winter in how much heat the anvil sucks out of your work, not so much on the forge. But I don't have a gas forge.

Wow ... I didn't think ambient temperature would play such a big role. After all between here and there it's only 40 C difference. So heating 900C or 860C wouldn't seem to be much of a muchness

Depends on what you want to forge.

Ha ha very funny. It was 40 in Sydney yesterday, so I probably saved a bit of money on hot water too

50x50x5 angle to build the frame for a king size mattress? It all depends on how you make this frame. A king size bed is very wide and wooden slats can not span that much. You need a third rail in the center and I wouldn't use just one angle but two separated by 150mm or so and interconnected with short diagonals like an engineered beam. Consider that the load can be over 200k and it most definitely will not be a static load! A single 50x50x5 angle can buckle if on it's own. Go to a bed supplier and see what they use in commercial steel bedframe. Are you making the bed head with this? legs? it all plays a role.

Do you want to have 4 sections with intermediate post? or one continuous railing? Much easier to break in sections with posts in between. As for the arch, let them bypass each other. Much easier.

I am with Frosty, only I wouldn't wish this on a single person unless he is done it before 20 times over and is real fit. Don't forget to factor in all the jigs you will need if you want your scrolls to look the same. I would like to see what you have in mind ... or rather what the customer wants in terms of design. Hungary ... just noticed ... ... you guys know how to swing a hammer.

True for an established workshop Jim, not for someone who will use this as a stepping stone to be independent. This situations are always a gamble and the best you can aim is to minimise risk. The big question is what is there for him. The job will end of course like any other project. Will this bring in more jobs? Very likely. A hotel is a bill board open day and night. You can even ask the customer as a condition that your name is displayed on a plaque somewhere in the lobby. Making a profit and learn new skills? Looks likely. Share some of the profits with hired help? A must. Only Gergely can tell if he is up to the task. Dedicating 4 or 6 month to one customer when you are just starting for your work to be on display for a long time, seems like a big opportunity to me.

Whatever it is, it's neat and simple. As far as industrial applications, that will be the test of fire.

Glenn analysis of the time factor shows that this is not a job you can possibly do by yourself unless you have at least one year of time. But most importantly, a railing or bed head or night stand can be something that takes you a month to complete or a week or even a day. It's all in the detail. 6m staircase railing ... straight or curved? Are the stairs already in place or do you have to build them too? A lot of questions come to mind. I have made more bedhead, lamps, tables and railing I care to remember but never on my own and always in a very large and well equipped workshop with very experienced blacksmith. This days i am struggling to make a very long railing for myself only because I am on my own, and moving 3 meter sections of complete railing to install them is a task in itself. I would say that, providing you have the skills to make this to the specifications required, and the room in your workshop to do it and store the finished products, You need a second experienced worker to work alongside and a labourer to help. The timeframe will have to be flexible and don't accept penalties for being late. The level of complexity of the job has to be comfortable ... that is you must have done this before many times over. If you do take the job, post some pictures of the drawings and the job when you start. Best of luck. PS You can always tell them you are on your own and can take the job but deliver in sections. The staircase is one job. The 10 beds another job etc. What is the competition like in your area? Can they go to someone else? And most important of all ... can you cost the job so that you have a good profit?

Melting aluminium wire that goes through a nozzle like a mig welder I understand, the electromagnetic field to press the metal and produce a droplet ... ? ... I thought aluminium is not affected by magnetism.

Poles have climbing steps but no one climbs poles, they use an Abbey Hoist

A fabricated offset vice, not cast, will take a lot of abuse too. I have an 8" one and use it for welding and sometimes give her a lot of abuse yet it takes it on the chin no problem. Eventually I broke the nut off the body and when i welded it back discovered it was actually poorly welded, so it's back on and still in one piece and all lines up.

A thick "O" ring would do the job with less effort ... or a plumbers seal that fits.

Big nails are called spikes here and they are used mostly for banging together landscaping logs. Not a particularly efficient way to join logs, not to mention that the CCA treatement of radiata pine eats at the HDG on the nails fairly quickly. Log cabins logs, interlock with each other and do not rely on the spike to join. The only effective way to join big timber besides a handmade joint, is with big bolts. Spikes can be driven with a palm nailer into green hardwood but hardwood even when green splits, so it is not common practice here. The only hardwood I know that takes large nails without much problem is Merbau when it is green. There was an exchange of tradesman between the US and Australia not long ago and a group of your linesman came to work on our powerlines. They all had climbing spikes (or spurs), but as they tried to climb our 30 year old hardwood post in tallow wood, iron bark, black butt and similar timbers they couldnt get a grip and their spikes got dull quick smart.

how about stripping the cabin bare and use it for a sculpture?

You are getting soft Thomas ...

So yes, besides the obvious here in this website, is there some rivality still going on in the Us like north south thing or only as a joke?