Sam Salvati

Welcome! Good conversations(alot about the weather too) ABOUND here on the forums and on the chat, check out both!

Welcome! Nice little puukko, I will definaetly have to try one of those!

Gorgeous work, i find it great that as an apprentice you do as good, if not better looking work than some master smiths.

You can even mount a spud gun and a turret on top too!

Wow, it looks like he/she is pulling a big wheely with that helicopter! Cool!

WOW, cool stuff, was it all cast iron?

That..........truck...........is.........AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!! Very :cool: .

Great work! Very:cool: .

Great qoute at the bottom there PM! FORGE TO LIVE AND LIVE TO FORGE INDEED!

Excellent, I never knew that, how cool.

Great work, I too like that cleaver.

WOW, I am floored, that is gorgeous! NICE work!!!!!!!

Fred, that is some PEICE!!!!!!!! That would be neat for working deep things like pitchers and stuff.

They are forging, well forge welding PIPE FITTINGS! Amazing casting Valentin, did you make it?

What is a Stairs protector?

Awww Please Post Some!!!!!!!

Broken edges, what do you mean?

Can someone elaborate a little on these specialty steels and what the deal is with them!?

I would love to try and make a cable, out of some really good steel wires and stuff. Like forge out/buy some 1095 and then mix in some wrought iron cable, that would be neat I bet.

Well, as funny as this might sound. If I needed to turn out scrolls like that, I would take a peice of flat plate, the starting thickness of the last biggest part of the scroll, and then forge it into a taper matching the exact taper(or dang close) to the taper in the negativespace. then you would just curl up the flat peice of tapered to match plate right inside of the scroll or freehand into another perfect scroll again, and bam, all you would have to do is taper the square or round right and insert it into the flat bar scroll.

Sounds great Levi, sorry this reply is so late! Sounds like you have a great setup, I would love to see pictures of you and your shop, both the stationary and mobile setups!!!!!!!

I agree cable is alot easier than a billet.

Good motto Bob!

Great find!

I agree with Strine, spectators allways seem to identify as well with an apprentice more then with a master as they think you know as much about smithing(HORSESHOES!?) as they do.:cool: though on the little apprenticechip action, sounds like the master is a cool guy willing to teach you some cool stuff.