kovacija(blacksmith)

in my town there are no garage sales ! :(if a folk sels his house (and my dad do the electricity for new owner) I usualy get lot of hard iron rods...etc and sometimes hammers... but if I don

1000 Anvils?????? (take a cargo boat and steel all of them...)

I see it would be a nice forge in it...

I found some sort of a blower (in the bush) but I think it will be dificult to make something of it...what about a hair dryer?

it has a stand for rotor but the ball bearnig is broken so it jams sometimes i tried to hook it up with a old blender motor (bad connection ) it product a very strong blow (need bigger engine) how am I going to hook it up with an axle ????-of el.motor any suggestions? should I remove the existing axle of "blower"

yes just like i ment... I am not happy too!
I will try to make a blower of some sort for the burner... I think it would work...:rolleyes:

Great work!
did you make a little hole for nail to hold the handle without loosing the spear?
in my country all gaff is made like this it is much safer...

I found a gas burner so I am wondering if is possible to install it into the forge?
see pictures above...

Thanks for the explanation...

but I can

that is genius!
it is what I was looking for-I can connect my wacume cleaner to the water pipe!
only i still cannot understand the gas inyection? throug the elbow pipe...

What about forged ends of water pipes is it very important how wide are they open?

maybe this is OK - I have all the material- pipes:cool:
see in the first post on top of the page-picture

Ok for the burner this summer my paycheck went to oxy-fuel(propane) equipment (aprox. 1000$) but i still haven

I see I had stupid wories about my forge...
Now I know why I become a member of this web page-because people like you!
thanks for everything! still I have problem with burner My dad has a lot air conditioning equipment ( cooper pipes etc...) and i must figure out how to make a perfect burner... until then
salute to all of YOU!:cool:

Thanks for your interest and explaning some things...

I know that skoda was produced in čehoslovačka(cehoslovakia) now two countries and the ww2-hitler interest for that country was expecialy for the Iron and Steel in that time they were leading industry for steel.

I think some wool ressistant to fire... if not I have been tested a roof cover wool and it gives a (some ) results 40% not burning teksture

and 30 cm diameter is that enough? (for my forge)

I have a lot bricks-from el.heaters actualy ressistant bricks for the iterior of forge;)

this is a skoda (

hello I have a little problem my charchoal forge is too slow and non economic for me so I am going to make a GAS forge
so the problem is in my tube for it...
my tank (water heater) is made of steel thick 3mm or i think 0,1 inch
his diameter is 30cm
so the question is: is all that strong enough to hold the tempreture
(I already seen all blueprints on this site,...)

I don

only in my forge I missed a important thing! I must open a 5 cm space under the doors because heathing part is not straight (horizontal) so it takes a lot of charchoal (go to waste)
next month I am going to start a new project _ gas forge I think it is better and less smoking :rolleyes:

first I took water heater tank (120 lit) cut a door on him and make the door handles then screw a pipe on his "up" side and a old wacume cleaner who can blow on the other side... insaide i made a circle with drilled holes so ashes dont fall in the pipe ... see for yourself ;)

have you got any blueprints?
and what is the diference bettween hydraulic and fly press???

Hi guys I am wondering if is possible to make an press-for blacksmith of scrap material?? (I have a lot of el.engines from industry so...):rolleyes:

for me it is hard to get blacksmith books (intercontinental) so this version really helps!
thanks GNJC!!!

yust like me (but with course) h...

A lot of plans in blueprints page!

:)My name is Veljko and as you can see I am still in school (age 17)
I have great will to learn everything about blacksmithing!
just to say hello to all of you !
something about me:
I will post my pictures of my forge,anvil and tools
I have gathered all of that in 6 months (anvil is skoda vs-184 from a ww2/1cannon repair kit)
forge is made by me:) in my city (island) there is no blacksmiths any more- 30 years , but there is a pile of old blacksmith stuff, tools... people keeping in their houses!