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I returned home from a trip and aquired many feet of old drive shaft and axle shafting. I beleive that the drive shaft was from a well drilling rig. I want to make anvil tools and hammer heads from them. I would like some advice on how others have gone about doing this.
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So the best things to make are anvils from rail.
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Back to rail anvils. I have set up a 22'' section on a stump and I dressed up the face with a hand grinder. I did not get the face completely flat because I wanted a slight convex curve in it. I use it for finishing the bevel of knife or axe blades. It feels very dead compared to my forging anvil, but the curve is perfect for finishing bevels.
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The rail is 12 feet and 7 inches. I did the math and it weights around 1,233.67 pounds, so I think it is around 300 pounds a yard. I tied a rope to one end and would drag it 3 inches at a time. It was very slow moving and the hardest half mile of my life. I bet it took three hours.
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Railroad rail is engineered to be a rail not an anvil. There are better anvils out there. An anvil made out of rail would have a very small face, and would not be considered the main forging anvil for someone who really knows what he is doing unless that is the only thing avalible for them. But for their size I would consider it superior (if properly heat treated) to some anvils of similar size which are used for sheet metal or light forging.
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I am quite sure that the rail line has been abandon for a long amount of time, as there are trees growing in between the ties. Some of the ties are so rotten that you can pull the spikes out by hand. I would not pull the same stunt on an operating rail line.
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I was reading about rail anvils and everyone says that they make crappy anvils. These same people say that the best anvils are forged. Rail anvils are forged the only difference is that they are tempered differently. It reality it is not all that hard to harden the face of a newly ground rail anvil. I want to start an arguement for and against rail anvils.
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I found an abandon railroad near my home. I was looking for spikes one day and I found a 12 foot section of rail. I dragged it out of the woods and brought it home. I want to make a rail anvil out of it, but I want to know of other projects using rail as stock.
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A while ago I received the back half of a 1951 Ford two ton truck. I was after the leaf springs, but the guy was going to scrape the truck so he gave me the entire back half. I now have about fifty or so leaf springs that I want something to do with. I have recently been making knives out of them but it is kind of thick stock for a knife. If any one has any other ideas on any good projects that call for old leaf springs I would be glad to know.
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To define a authentic Bowie knife "It must be long enough to use as a sword, sharp enough to use as a razor, wide enough to use as a paddle, and heavy enough to use as a hatchet". This ment that the knife was used for just about everything in the wild west. Another thing to keep in mind is that the original Bowie Knife could have been made with the only intention to kill. It just so happens to meet the specific criteria of what a froutiersman needed.
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These are really nice. As a reward for obtaining the award my assistant scout master built me a forge and I have been forging ever since.
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Suppose you go through the ordeal of forging a blade from Vasco Wear. You eat up a couple of belts sharpening and polishing the thing, and finally you have a knife. What happens when you need to sharpen it? It will take a long time to dull, but there is not a knife out there that will never dull over time.
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The best way to make a desent rr spike knife is to forge the handle from the spike and weld a steel blade to it. I have mig welded the blade to the handle and ground and polished the welded area down to give the impresion that the entire knife was initialy one piece. Doing this also results in haveing more material for the handle.
