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Hephaestus

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  1. my dream shop would have an anvil with a horn as opposed to my current railroad track on a stump. a bigger forge than my car wheel on a stool frame, and as long as we are speaking in terms of fantasy ; iron maiden would live there and always be playing a pump up song just slightly louder than the sound of a grinder or hammer blows, and a dwarven smith would live in a closet and always have helpful advice for novices such as myself... oh, and there would be a lemonade spring where a bluebird sings, a lake of stew, and whiskey too...oh wait, that was something else.

  2. just curious about some stuff. right now ive just started off. ive got a forge made from a garage blower, a car wheel, and a decapitated stool frame, my anvil is a two foot piece of railroad track. hammers are a 3 pound cross peen, 1 pound ball peen, and a four pound maul. also ive got a shabby set of homemade tongs, a pair of channel lock pliers, and a restored vise i found in the woods. is this enough gear to to do much with, or am i missing something key?

  3. this thread makes me think of some advice i got from a metal artist i used to work construction with. (some of his stuff: Stone Metalworks :: Ornamental ironwork and wrought iron). he told me i would be sadly dissapointed if my idea of blacksmithing was standing half naked on a mountain with the wind in my hair while i hammered out a 5'X6'' dragon gutter. hehe.

    a little off topic, but if you really wanna confuse/amuse someone when asking if they know where to get an anvil, tell them you've had a road runner problem lately, and need it to deal with them.

  4. eh, thank ya much for the info everyone. it's gonna help a lot. my homemade forge at the moment is a car wheel on a decapitated stool with an old blower from a garage hooked up to it, so coal seems the way to go. i have a lot of junk in the yard, and im cheap, so i think i'll definitely go the coal route. also, i'll update my info pronto.

  5. Thank you for your input. They are illegal in UK as well. I have never quite understood the logic. If you are stabbed with a switchblade are you somehow more dead than with an ordinary lock knife? I don't make knives so it was just a purely hypothetical question. I think they are legal here. Certainly they are widely sold.



    its mostly just for the opening speed. but in that case, it doesnt make much sense seeing as how a fixed blade in a sheath is always open, but not illegal.
  6. all mis-guided logic and idiotic fascism aside... this story really makes me think of mel gibson in face paint saying something along the lines of "they can take our swords, but they can never take our FREEDOM!!!". man, how am i ever gonna get a genuine Scottish claymore now?

  7. i live in eastern Canada and im just starting up an amateur backyard forge. anyone know where i could get borax? and now that i think of it, where would generally be a good spot to get coal? i dont think there are blacksmith's supply stores in my neck of the woods.

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