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I was browsing around looking at steam engines when I stumbled upon this interesting looking piece of blacksmith equipment. Honestly I have no idea what this thing is used for but thought someone here might like to have a look. Toy Steam Engines

Thanks for all of the info everyone. I am located in Gainesville FL so I am very close to you ornametal. I was able to find out the location of the blacksmith I saw years ago. They are located on the Fort Wilderness campground in FT Meade Florida. I could not find out any other info but they are listed on the current map for the campground so apparently they are still there.

Are there many members here who live in Florida? I am not involved in metalwork but it has always been of interest to me. I stumbled onto your forum while searching for fish gigs on google. I came across this post by the member cooter: http://www.iforgeiron.com/forum/f7/what-ar-wear-plate-1178/ It looks like he has not posted in quite awhile. The gigs he shows are far superior to the ones I buy from BM spears and I wanted to ask him if he would be willing to sell me one. I was not aware that blacksmithing still had such a following and I have only seen an operating smith once in my life. That was years ago at a boy scouts event in southern Florida. The smith there made all kinds of tools and traps knives etc on order. Unfortunately I have never been able to remember the name of the the town where this smith was and I'm not sure they would still be there after all these years anyway.