Sam Salvati

Cool, thanks Ferrous.

Steve Where You Been Man!?

You need to form the point/end of your material into a little taper first, then form the kneck/shoulder, then flatten the whole thing out, keeping the part where the neck meets the "head" right on the corner of the anvil.

Put it on the head of a big log, it owuld make a great battering ram. I would go with the treadle hammer anvil idea. But one for forging, not just chiseling and stuff.

Cool. I will make the list for the library. Thanks.

WOW, you do some crazy work ken!

Nice! Thanks Thomas! Those are all books you listed right? Does anyone have any simple pictures of prehistoric forges? Like a timeline of forges would be AWESOME.

Please everyone, I am looking and researching about the major styles of pre iron age into very early iron age into mid iron age into iron age into early steel age. Please if anyone has any information on the DESIGNS, shapes, styles, fuel type, definately pictures, I would be VERY greatful. Thanks!

Oh great McCraigl!, Please post more as soon as you get it!(and this is DEFINATELY the place!)

Sounds cool, I would love to see pictures to get a better idea about what it looks like!

OOOOOHHHHH ouch that link hurt.

Does kydex weld? Like can you seal all the seams?

You can straighten the whole thing out, but it is kinda slower than the other ways(I LOVE THE TRACTOR IDEA K.!),You take the spring and heat up a good section, then put it over the heel of the anvil so that the tip is just a little past the one edge on the side, and the rest is over the other side, then hammer on top of the arch that makes until there is no arch, and continue on up the bar until the whole thing is straight. One thing to keep in mind is to keep both sides of the "arch" in contact with the anvil edges. This will make sure you just don't RIP your arm out of the socket everytime you hit the top of the arch. Ever hear the phrase "beat the daylights out of something/someone"? Well if you have your anvil oriented so that the heel or horn is pointing at a window or source of light, and you put the arch over the anvil, you will see daylight under it, and when you pound on the top of the arch, you beat the daylights out of it! Also when you have a ring on a cone mandrel making it true round, you sight down the cone looking for open spaces between the ring and cone, and pound those out, hence you pound the daylights out of it/them/that guy(hehe)! Thank you, thank you, i'll be here all week!

I was just thinking Fredly, that you could operate a mini forge with slightly cheaper propane but with a bigger burner at a lower PSI than a bigger forge. And with the small chamber, you could do small frge welding with the one burner just turned up higher. Unless there is something I am not getting, I don't know much about gassers and stuff.

No offense to the oldsters, but it seems people that are older, usually had a "do it/make it/find a way to do it/make it" attitude, which was awesome. Compared to some people today, that will just go out and buy something. Not everyone today(including me and alot of people I know) will just go out and buy something, but it seems(and thankfully kind of) alot of people will. Not ewveryone wants to be a smith(though I don't know why?).

OOOOOOOOHHHHHHH mine too.

Woody, i wish you lived next door.

I would think you have to anneal the whole thing, then forge to shape, then reharden and retemper the whole thing.

Ahh ok. I wonder if you could operate a mini forge, but with a regular propane forge burner, but at a much lower pressure, and still get the same if not better performance than mapp?

I hate that myth so much Tom.

Copper gives off aresenic, when melted. I was watching thi thing about that Iceman they found, and he was a coper worker(among other things), and they found that out by looking at his hair and seeing the effects of arsenic poisoning.

Copper gives off aresenic, when melted.

I think it is alot like copper, poison if you are casting, but if you heat and anneal, not much of a problem, if at all. Though bvy no means am I an expert.

See, I have a fan running so the filings fall right away off the vice.

Wow, I want one!