Metalsmith21

I believe the metaphor is beating a dead horse with a stick. But if he Really wants to know the real answer he can find it here on this site. I just pray who ever buys his pointed objects doesn't abuse them to the point they shatter and sue the pants off of the creator.

Location, location, location. in Arizona round abouts of Phoenix area its the perfect time of year to play with the fire. Considering temps don't drop below 30-40F in the winter. Its really great to forge year round, except the 4 months in the summer when it feels like your standing inside of your forge fire while using it.

Thanks I'm only a starting hobbiest i don't know what id do with 1ton of coal.

I'm over in north Scottsdale, east cavecreek. Would love to go to a hammer in if any will be happening 24-27th while I'm in town

Do they have a shop in town?

I've been web surfing and all i can mannage to find is the grill biscuits that aint that great. Im out about the country keepin the grocery stores full of the food stuffs and to bring the chistmas gifts across the country everyone buys from china :(

Ill be back in town and would love to get a fire going if only for a few days. where can i buy coal in the Phoenix/Scottsdale in arizona?

Please and thank you.

You know when you get your house apraised for insurance coverage or when you get ready to sell the house and the insurance company sends someone our to evaulate your house? I believe the object in question is a rod to pull down the latter for the attic.

other guesses would be:
A disguised golf club
A conversation starter
An item to push up lowerd celing tiles to get at what ever is hiden like office golf clubs or banned snackfoods, etc.

When you "upset" the end of the metal you change the flow of the metal by upsetting flow that it orignaly had.

Its the name of the type of blower here in the USA. As for what it resembles is a hamster wheel with smaller spaces and "blades" to catch the air and move it within a confined space out a tube.

I've never used a big a blower as the "inflate machine" should be interesting how much air it moves.

Has anyone ever forged crossbow limbs? If so what alloy?

Wd-40 or warm it up with a blow torch

Why not make a square tube with a 3inch bottom to sink into a stump, just with an 1/8 bigger inside diameter than the square stock, grease it up real good and put the heated up square stock into it and upset the end of it to make the end

Hm...making rr spikes then turning them into knives/tomahawks.. sounds like another project to add to my wish list

Living in arizona working as a welder I've been around the bush of heat exaustion and dehydration sickness

Cure for heat exuastion - get in the shade, drink room tempature water, NO ICE! because it will make you sick and will not cool you down. Get somwhere you can slowly turn. the temperture down you don't want to jump in an ice box and put your body into shock.

As what has been said about beer rings true.

I believe that Runion the smith put it best; an object made that does its job is beautiful because it does the job it was designed to do, even if an object was gold plated and encrusted with jewelry but can not function the way it is supposed to it would be ugly in mine eyes.

Oh id give my left leg to be there this weekend..

Was cirious if anyone used a big rig breakdrum lined with clay, and with doing that would it extend the life of the "fire pot" to last much longer?

Pre 1983 pennies are made up of 95% copper and 5% zinc, and 1983 and beyond are 97.5% zinc with copper plating to make up the 2.5% in copper, does anyone know if nickels will forgeweld with copper pennies? Mokougame made of pennies and nickles would be cool

I was cirious if anyone has made anything out of pennies, I've flattened a couple pre-1983 just to play with some metal (missing the forge back home so much)

There is a utube video showing the making of crucible steel, as part of a video coving the ulmbert, and recration of it, though the video name and poster of said video elude me at the moment.

Using an old metal exuast fan thats like the one you'd use over a stove? it would draw smoke and not burn up like a plastic one, or better yet fabricate a old boat propellar with a 1hp motor with speed control?

Best bet would be metal spinning, taking a large stainless steel mufffler, roughly bigger than the final shape of the challiace, and use the tool to spin it while you form it to the desired shape.

fishing eh? I don't know if the sand fish are biting this time of the year, with all the (dry) river beds and washes...might have to wait till it rains real hard.

With all the beginer threads that pop up I'm suprised there isn't a sticky on all and any beginer projects.