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Sounds cool, what's the date? See if i can blag a family trip up there... Cheer's

Any idea's on what next year's schedule is going to be? I'm really looking forward to it, keep us updated! Cheer's

Thank's for the post's. Beaver was so right about the computer fan.. It's a refreshing breeze.. But i don't think the fire would notice it. And Sam, your right but, the problem is I have alot of time.. and a bank roll of nothing. So time is all i have to spend. Well im going to look into an apprenticeship, for smithing soon, so that'll knock me straight on everything. I have a concrete BBQ chimnley that im going to try move over to my forge soon. So i can stop dying, and get a good air flow from that aswell. Buut the only thing i can do at the moment is steal the miss's hair drye and risk a bloody nose, or change the motor in the cpu fan (which was a actually a side fan for the tower) i just realised. im sure i've got a stronger one here somewhere.. or make me some bellows out of thin air.. actually... come to think of it i thin i have a large desktop fan here somewhere... Well i'll go look, Cheer's

That look's awsome! Very nice indeed!

Cheer's for the post's guy's, yeah John hit the nail on the head, well i was using some wierd piping that lowered the pressure when it got to the forge, but gave alot of air output.. Actually... It just may of been bad "plumbing" on my side. Well i have a few fans around amongst the other thing's I can try. What do you think of a cpu fan from a computer in a coke bottle, hooked up to a motorcycle battery? Apart from probably a burnt out fan? Cheer's again

Well my compressor is broken.. the fan mashed it's self against the cover, destroying both fan and cover. So im looking for another. I want a relativly small one that can kick out up to 100 psi. I'll only use about 60 most of the time but when i want a bit more heat i go a bit higher. Any site's or places you can reccomend would be much appreciated. But no general hardware store's cos' they're useless down here. Cheer's

Ah, see I am taking all these idea's in for when I finally get my shed sorted out. I don't have a table for my forge currently.. But i gotta shiny bin... Which now has a grinded up ol' lump of a quality street box stuffed in top to help. Well today i was teaching my brother the basics of how to heat and hit metal. He made some funny little squiggly thing.. it sort of looks like an 8 on a plate... I'll post a picture later. I also hardened off my knife. Didn't go to plan. Well I heated it up to a sort of darky sort of yellow.. Checked if it was magnetic.. But while doing this realised when i pulled the blade out of the fire, and brought it up it just sagged bent... which sucked.. Well in the end i repeated the process about 3 times, was quite annoyed to find at some point a nitch had appeared in my blade near the tip, I'll add a photo aswell.. Well basicly next time I'm going to use either a leaf spring or a tractor plow disk, or some general 5160.. Or whatever the number was. If i can find any.. With out getting caught ripping apart car's or tractors... Cheer's

The ring isn't in the focus point of the camera, the bacground is clear and the ring isn't try moving it so that the ring is in a better focus, then maybe someone will be able to identify it or point you to someone who can.

Ah okay I'll see what everyone will say if i rip the stove pipe out of our kitchen.. It's not used.. Sooo should be fine.. I'm blaming all else on you I expect we have something similar around here, I'll have a look. Thank's for the head's up. Cheer's

Very nice mate look's really clean and very shiny :D

Of course I would be intrested! And I should think alot of other people would be, but i don't see many English people around.. And those that I see are quite far from the Devon area.

Nice shaping Nate. And even nicer hat Are you gonna make a nice sheath or scabbard to go? Like leather or something. Would look real nice if it was the same as the hat.. But don't use the hat!!

Hey welcome to the forum Noah, I'm sure you'll find what your looking for here. Finding smith's is probably easiest in a phone or address directory.. I'm from england, we have the yellow pages, but i'm sure you have something similar over there. Good luck and have a good time!

When you get some picture's up, im sure these guy's will be able to help you more, but remember to go with what you want and feel comfortable with. Also remember once you cut thing's up to much it's hard, if not ni' impossible to get them back to how they were before. So do think before you act. But good luck mate, I'm sure you'll get something perfect for you. Don't forget that trial and error is the same as practice makes perfect.

Ah cheer's for clearing that up Nate, Yeah I think i'll put something infront of any hot area anyway, plasterboard or even some wood.. make charcoal as i go . Well today I got fed up of been "smogged" to death by coal so i made a make shift temporary chimnley, out of one of those metal bin's that open when you press the button with your foot. It probably wasn't the best idea, having a boiling hot bin relativly sturdily balanced on top of a wind visor for a bbq over my forge.. Anyway It was a little less smoggy, here's a picture of the "teeter-totter chimnley" Cheer's