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I Forge Iron

Daddy-O

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    Artistic metal work
  1. I've been a metal mangler for the last 25 or so odd years, and now have been adding the art of blacksmithing to my knowledge base for the last year. It seems to me that most all the blacksmiths I talk with or learn from, teach the importantance of learning to forge weld as a part of the blacksmithing art. With that said, true wrought iron should also be used if you were trying to be an ole time blacksmith. However, I feel that if there was available (gas, arc, mig, tig) welding to the blacksmiths of the past, where forge welding was all that was available at time, most all would jump at it with both feet. Metal work and welding go hand in hand no matter how it's done and students need to know how to do it the right way so they don't get hurt. I say yes that all welding aspects of welding should be offered to our up and coming metal wranglers. Folks that watch blacksmithing, want to see the ole blacksmithing ways of which forge welding was the ways available to get two or more pieces of metal together. The students of blacksmithing should be taught all aspects of welding. Or at least made available to them. l
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