SK-Buckwheat

Welcome to the forum. Good to have new people here, hope you enjoy your visits here.

I wouldn't do it if I were you. It will break. I know because I broke one just like that....then I had to weld it back together. I was fortunate that I had the knowledge and the equipment to fix it. Many lack one or both of those unfortunately,....find something else to beat on.

Very good looking rose there Mike. I have planned to try one of them today actually. Probably won't be as good as yours though. Hope the wife just doesn't beat me with it. :-)

You could try a copper rose and weld a mild steel stem to that though. Just a thought for you.

Thanks for telling me where your photos were. Looks like you got things going there. Personally I would have tried to put the forge in near the middle of that side of your shop because of that long material issue. My shop is about 16 1/2 feet wide inside and the forge is in the middle of it. That seems to work out pretty good so far. I agree with shorting your blower pipe there too. My blower is on a stand with a flexible duct so if I have something weird shaped and it needs to be moved a little bit to the side or whatever I can. Also if you plan on putting a heater in your shop I would suggest making a blocker plate to put over the opening on your hood. Because if you are not needing your forge right away when you are out there, or just trying to get it warmed up inside to work, your heat will get sucked up and out the forge chimney I found. All you need to make it out of is some light gauge tin. I will try to get my daughter to do some photos this Sunday and I will post them for you to check out. And you do need a poker or two too. That was the first thing I made I think. I am going to be putting a high velocity stack cap on my forge chimney this spring too, it will increase the draw on the chimney, so that bugger should almost suck a basketball up it then. Good going!

Glad to be of some help to you. I have the Super Sucker too (or close to it) and it works very well I think too. I have a pretty heavy workbench too. It works great too, there is not much concern with it moving around when you have to get a bit serious with something. I will have to get a couple photos of it up this weekend if I can for you.

Hey Element, did you snitch your brother's camera yet? Want to check out what you have been up too there.

I should be posting some more photos of my recent projects up here in the next couple days.

Thanks Adrian:-)

I have a 2" round ball for my hardy and that was mostly what I used to do my shaping. Used some heat also, makes it easier near the heel of the shovel where you have to stretch the metal a fair bit.

How come? Where where you having trouble with it?:confused:

Thanks for the comments guys. My wife said it was good too, but I figured she may have a biased opinion.

Thanks:) I don't know why the shovel handle looks wavy though in the photo. It is actually straight.

I thought I would post a photo of a bacis fire set I recently made. I was wanting some feedback from you. If you think it looks like it should be thrown in the scrap bin, let me know. Some one wanted a bacis set and this is what they got. They seemed very happy with it. And a "thanks" to my daughter for all my photos:) Thanks

Yep, that looks very good. I was thinking about a similar item like that too after I made my daughter a simple little stand one night to hang a ring of her's on that another smith made for her back in the summer. Nice work.

Yeah true. I would be loosing some in the floor alright. If it shows to be too big of a problem I may open up a hole in the floor in the summer and pour a block of concrete for it to rest on. I would like to put up a new building for all of it if I could in a year or so. Been working on a tight budget with it all so far. I put a BIG bunch of time into getting the building so it was usable again but very little cash went into it. The size of my anvil helps though too.:)

Thanks. That was what I was trying to get when I built it. My chimney goes straight up through the peak of the roof. Figured it would have better draft, and I didn't feel like trying to build 90 degree bends into it, as I made the whole chimney too.

Thanks, It would probably take me almost as long to put that all in print as it did to build it. I may have to do that though sometime. I thought about a metal stand, but I feel that the block would be more stable as my floor is springy. My little shop is alot older than me.