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Finaly i had a change to go back to the forge after way  to long time.

So i figuered out that it was a time to make something i could show to others (that is time of practice is over) :)

so those are the blanks i made yesterday

go to your forge, smith an flower vase or pot that wont sit anywere execept on that anvil, plant a flower in it and give it to your wife and when she moans about it wont stand anywere tell her that you have the perfect stand for it ;)

if you are using ajusteble jig, you can start by 45° and see that is to steep so then you cut that in half or 22.5° if you still think that is not enough you change again and agin until you are happy then you wright that number and the thikness of the material dovn. there you are set on that thikness of steel then you repeat it for another thikness and so until you have built your own database!!!

you cant ask other what you will be happy with

i recomend that you read theese posts if you are lokking for books to learn from

personaly i recomend book called A Blacksmithing Primer  by Randy McDaniel

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_0_9?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=a+blacksmithing+primer&sprefix=A+blacksm%2Caps%2C425

youtube link on this vid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXbLyVpWsVM

what i tend to think when i finis something is "would i be reddy to pay for that if someone elese had done this" is my set step for when it is "good enough"

if i am reddy to pay or would like to get the iteam as a gift i consitter it as "good enough"

if you are not your hardest critic someone elese will be and that is a tough bite to swallow

thank you guys for the info

and thanks a ton for the link Glenn

i know that i should buy steel to work with but here in Iceland we have a bad habbit of putting everything that is sold into icelandic and in the translation it intend to change the meaning of the wordsfor example "tool steel is called i think macine steel here" and the contains of the steel is not given, atleast not in theyr website. other thing is for a nation of only 300.000 there are only 2 importers of steel adn i dont intend on begin the 3rd lol...

so i searge every forum that i can find to build up my knowledge and use a scrap for stock as i am a mecanic and theese things are kind of thrown away.

And for the last thing Stephen ive tryed to google and i have been reading usualy my last resource is to ask so if i would have found what i am looking for i wouldint have asked

i understand the fustration of beging asked the same question over and over, but for a guy that dosent speak the language fluently or cant write it perfect the serge engens are kind of crap tools to use....

i apologise for your inconvenience if there are any and just keep looking

I have been looking in forums about materials that i can forge which has high carbon and usually there are mentioned that a leaf and coil springs are best scrapyard metals to find because it is most often made out of i think 5160 steel which i understand has .60% carbon in...

but what about other car parts like axles or crank and cam chafts? or bering chase´s??  Balls from realy big ball berings?

i have lieing around some very big leafspring´s (from a trailer) is that usable?

Hardox used in truck platforms?

i just cant find any good jeep springs or small leafsprings

finally has there been any post´s created on steel contents and what the number means?

thanks. it kind of supports what the guys above said about my anvil begin PW

Now I'm curious! I tried to let the ball bearing falling on my anvil and it jumped back up to 80%! is it good or just average?

in this fire i was using coal ( filled the houst with smoke while i was geting it hot) lol

yes i need to have some kind of damper for the air flow, it is burning coals very fast like this.

the future plans has a blower whitch is in one of the pic above and i am going to have a swifch on it that allows me to run it at very low speed so i can controle the heat better...

my live has a new meaning lol

that genarates a huge heat it took less than a minute to get 10mm (3/8") bar to orange heat and man i had very nice 2 hours heating and hammering lol

and managed to make a pair of very ugly looking tong and a very ugly looking coal rake....

thanks for the inspiration guys now it will be a lot of practice

this pic is taken when i was quitting and had turned the blower off which is btw a hairdrier

On the 3rd picture there appears to be a casting line under the heel and if it came from Norway it might be a Soderfors anvil. The waist also appears to be slightly thinner than the face when viewed from the horn or heel. Either way its a nice one. How easy is it to find anvils in Iceland?

you dont find that many anvil´s here!!! usualy there were 1 in each village but most of them have been buried with trash and the ones that survived are in use by the guys that are into blacksmitting...

i just got lucky i know about guys that have been looking for years for one

i am in Iceland and i know it was brought here by Norwigean Whailers (Whaile fishermen)

i just got this anvil and i havend weighed yet but i would guess ig is between 70-80 kg (140-160 lbs)

sorry about all those pic

only thing i know about it is "it is  made before 1928"

finaly i had some time to get some work done so time for updade

in 2 hours it looked like this

then after another 2 hours it looked like this

and finaly i got my anvil yesterday

i hope to finish my forge to morrow and try it for the first time :)

Welcome aboard, glad to have you.

 

Looks like you're off to a good start. I'll be looking forward to what you have to say about slanting the tuyere. I used exhaust pipe for my large coal forge and the ash dump is an exhaust stack flap cap counter weighted to stay closed unless I give it a lift with a tong, fire tool, etc.

 

If you weld a flange around the outside of your fire pot you can just drop it into the table so it's easy to work on or modify if necessary. I don't weld the fire pot to the table unless that's what the end user wants. Of course the hole in the table is the same size as the upper side of the fire pot and the flange extends it's width beyond so the fire pot rests on the flange but isn't directly attached to the table. If you're wondering I've never noticed any movement of the fire pot in use, gravity and the flange keep it solidly set.

 

Frosty The Lucky.

 

Thanks i am glad to be here

i will be watching the tuyere closely to see if it has any disadvanteges, as for the ash dump i guess i have a simulair thing that is just a lid whitch is closed by a counter weight.

The tuyere is bolted to the firepot with 4 bolts 10 mm (3/8") and i am going to weld a flange to my firepot and have it loose in the forge table.

Dammn nice i whis i would have seen this post earlyer, it would have made my job a lot easyer.

a time for new pic

here is a pic of inside of the forge and that thing in the middle i think it is called a clincker-braker

and here is a pic of the forge and the blower i am thinking about using

the blower has an output pipe with a 3 1/2" (90 mm) inside diameter but the squer tube in the air intake of the forge has a insite diameter of 2 3/4" (70 mm)

next step will be to build the table a round the forge and get some coal :)

please feel free to comment, ask question´s or guide, as this is my first forge build i am not quite sure on what i am doing so i guess i will have to learn from misstake and guidens ;)

thank you for your reply´s i will keep them in mind as this gets build

the airpipe will be bolted on so it is not that much deal if it fails this time

"Very nice bit of welding, friend. Though, I am curious as to why your decided to angle the air pipe like that. Not saying it wouldn't work, just that I've never seen anyone do that before.

And don't worry about your english skills. You're doing great, and certainly better than a whole bunch of native english speakers that I know!!"

humm... i don´t know how to explain this other than saying "imagion driving your car straight in to a wall amd then driving your car from an angle in to a wall...

i am hoping to deflect most of the air away from the "ash pit"

Hi all

I am new to Blacksmitting (well havent started yet, building a forge) i am trying to let an old dream come true... and as this forum gave me the idea on how to build this forge, i like to share with you the progress ;)

this is the firepot... it has an opening of 13" X 10" and is 4 1/2" deep, it is made of 1/2" steelplate




and this is the air intake on top of the firepot. i think it is called Tuyere in english



im sorry if my english writing is a bit off as i am from Iceland and is not very good at writing english. :(

hopefully i can post more pic tomorrow