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I tought it does make some dent in it?

Yeah i was thinking same stuff, I think to join those stumps with some 2x4 and nail it on 3 4 sides.

Here is birch wood stand. I will make it from two stumps. One question is it better wide part to be under floor or under anvil

Was making nut cracker but it ended realy realy bad. Lost my motivation for week. IF you mess first step in making something, i think its in vain to try fix that. Better to throw it to scrap, or to other project. I was making shoulder and hinge for nutcracker like you make with tongs, some space away from one end. But boss is located in nutcracker at near end so it give more leverage. After that fail i saw i wasted it for good, tryed to fix but , ended with wierd shaped hardcarboon steel objects.

Does that blow damage anvil?

For all of those folks that like to build bellows, or that like to watch bellows how they are made, or how they are renovated.I Think this video will give good results. This type off bellows are from 18 century austro-hungarian style wich i saw on internet and i want to share with others. Maybe it can help someone to build bellows, i think its interesting video. Things i like about this bellows is that they are same model as mine and i think mine are younger but i didnt had chance to track date of mine bellows. But i know same style.

Sorry for bringing old topic but i heard your hammer get hot, loos temper if you constantly hit hot metal with it that way you need to tap on anvil i mean that empty blow. Like when you are drifting and you put drift in water to cool it off before it loose temper.

I saw this video of blacksmith on youtube and i wanted to share this design of tool that goes in hardy hole. It is somethign like fuller, but it remind on guilotine. On opposite side goes spring (just to translate) but it got broken . I coulnd fight right topic for it, moderators can merge it if they want in other topic.

Always bend thing that you poke fire with that way you will know which side is hot! Otherwise you will get burned .

I fount this video most honest . He changed his mind later

I don't know does this topic exist on forum, but i am gone to open it, moderators can merge it latter or do something with it. One youtuber was honest and said as i remember that his videos are cut off real forging, like in real time he wont forge that tool that fast but he used to cut that boring part of hammering or grinding, so my question in all framework what is done on internet how much off that stuff is real, motivational for some folks, and how much of that stuff that we see on internet is fantasy for someone, not worth trying or doing. I catch myself sometimes for example watching how to make damascus knife but i dont even know how to forge weld, my point is how much you trust in internet , and have "false hope" that one project will work good as showed on internet, book or youtube. Behind every fail there is some kind level of frustration. Right? When its not worth trying something you see on internet? This is not topic so one can get his motivation for blacksmithing killed, but its to put some things back in "reality"-

Sometimes i get ashamed when i see your work guys But i do some small stuff that need to be done for my purpose, like woodworking tools etc on small scale.

What you used to heat that stock Thomas power was it kinda gas forge?

Some woodworking axe handle making and axe fitting.

Here how it is still done and made in ancient time.

So i don't know Smith that build used bottom blast forge for charcoal and suggested me to use that instead lignite or other coal But i like that my fire have clinker breaker which have two purposes. One is to control air, because European styles clinker breaker I think tend to go up down , and USA one twist. Ian kinda aiming for hybrid forg if possible to do that.

I sometimes blow with bellows too , what about air gate for bellow? One advantage of bellows is that you can hear fire roaring, while in electric blower you can, and on bellows you have like more control Disadvantages are that they take space, you got occupied with both hands, fire poker and bellows es handle, and it's easier to light forge with electric fan. Ian lazier now with blower at first when I started using them I didn't know what to do with hands , had more free time instead pumping bellows. And Ian not sure can bellows work at bottom blast so they need some kind gate

And jaws are important too!

Well i red and its true when you want to quench room need to be darker so you can see that glowing temperatur. When you want to quench. But when temper i would say it need to be light so you can see that white straw transforming to other colors. And i gues you "catch " that color and cool material.

If forge is designed to be bottom blast why it is supposed to use coal or coke, and why side blast i prefered to charcoal forge And I noticed firepot need to be shallow for charcoal than for coal. There is picture where to put material when you want to heat it , and I think sweet spot for charcoal and coal are not same. Am i right.

When you shine up one side does it mean the other side have same color? Lets say you shine up 3/4 on one side did color traveled same thicknes trough whole piece.

I think definitly some anvils need to have narower heel. Like this.

I know that for hardening and you need to check with magnet its easier. But with tempering its hard to find that straw blue peacock or any color, metal is too dirty. How much time you have before tempering collor apear , i allways think i will loose time while i file it to get that color. I tought it could be done by grinding then quenching then after you quench you can see. But you cant scale form on it and there is no that white shiny space. Dont get me wrong i know for what iam looking for but sometimes its hard to predict when it will appear. That's my bigg issue with heat treat.

Nice becasue i scale my work from machinist vise to blacksmith vise and iam allways in habit being cautions . Thats why i had vise (machinist) for 10 years. Didnt cracked so in that habbit i tend to avioid smacking post vise. Or hiting things in it.

Well from my espirience sometimes is better wait and its cheaper in time and in money then rush to temporary solution (build with what you have) if you build something that will be waste of time money and nerves. And you have to destroy it and make more quality tool /thing. There is poverb in my country "You dont make pie out of garbage" sometimes its good to improvise iam not saying its not, but sometimes its waste of time.