Graham Gates(Ionic Muffin)

Here are some pictures of the anvil all set up. Its been used a bit and the surface is a bit dented but it will function as is until I want to start making knives. http://www.iforgeiron.com/gallery/image/38192-anvil-face/ http://www.iforgeiron.com/gallery/image/38193-whole-anvil/

How do I do that? do you have a link to some guide or video showing or explaining how?

I just coated the sink in a 1/2 inch thick mortar firebrick and clay pot mix that i made today. I also added a pipe out the bottom so that it will have an air in pipe. I also have made a stand for it so that it can sit fairly high off the ground. plan to run the charcoal through it tomorrow.

I found a nice round steel bar with some nice ring to it. Looked like it was some kind of axle shaft or something like that. I skipped the forklift tine this time because I did not have the money to get it. There are so many cheap pieces of steel there Ill have to make another run to get more scrap for beating on. For 10 $ I got a 22 lb bar at 2" diameter and 2x 1 1/4" steel bars about 5 lbs each which I plan to make some nice hammers out of them. I should also be able to make some other tools from another scrap run.

Ok. well Ill start the building process and i should be able to forge soon then! I am going to go to the metal scrap yard tomorrow and see if i can find an anvil...Had one line up and the person dropped off a chunk of rail back in Wyoming like an hour after I left... oh well.

So I have this cast iron sink that is junk and i could easily turn it into a forge, it has a pipe running through the bottom and could be tilted or filled if i were to use charcoal but I was wondering if this would work well. I want to start on this as soon as possible because i have been toying with this idea for a while and while i was at school i could do nothing, I not have the power to make it happen but i just need to get started. Ashes and water lining? pipe across the bottom or even the sides? I have a leaf blower that i could use for an air source, i also have a shop vac and a hair dryer. Also, is there any good places to get coal if i go that route that is in my area? Im in kitsap county washington so it would be really nice to find some cheap stuff to get started.

this is true!

I have a year and a half before I can buy alcohol legally :rolleyes: So until then I will have to use my personality.

Yeah, I guess it is. No doubt it would be an incredible experience to be a part of an anvil making team and to get to keep one that I had a hand in making, but even if I have an opertunity its years down the road and by then I hope to be an accomplished backyard blacksmith.

thats what ive read as well. I think that if i must i can add a hardened plate to the top or something but i will have an anvil none the less.

This is true. I am mainly concerned with acquiring it at the moment. When I have it I'll see what way would be best to orient it.

So I found two large chunks of steel, One is about 1" thick and about 20-25 inches in diameter. I figured I could mount it to a log and it would be a decent anvil. The other is a 2-3 inch thick steel square thing that looks like the hitch to a semi truck. It looks to be 18" x 15" Both would be good on a log I imagine. I really think these are my best bet to get started and they should be free. Its either that or i can go with a smaller railroad anvil. The two pieces of steel each weighted probably close to 100 lbs or more.

not sure if its free because its in the fenced area of a construction company.

I thought I found a huge steel bar that was around 3 ft long and 8x10 inch cross section. Sadly when I took a closer look i found out that it was merely a tank of some sort.

I am aware of backyard metal casting and his burner that he uses as the waste oil forge. I haven't seen any really good examples other than this one and so I was wondering if there is anything more in terms of concepts for the different types of WO burners. How do each of them work? I would like to do an in depth tutorial on making then and how they work and why they work once I get my own this summer, but as it is I would like to learn as much as I can before doing any sort of tutorial. Besides that I want to make a highly efficient burner that doesn't need propane, I understand this needs some form of atomization. So I figured I would make something to force the oil through an atomizer and cause it to be easy to lite. All help is appreciated.

Yep, I always think that being polite is really the only way to go. As to my Location, its a bit incorrect right now because my main location this summer is Kitsap but I am currently In Fremont County Wyoming.

Sweet! do you know of any companies out here or should I just start researching?

I'm interested in finding out if there is an abundance of heavy steel objects that would serve as an anvil out in rural WY or other places like that. I'm out here in WY during school and thought that if I could find an anvil out here then I would be in ship shape. I've already started looking around and asking some people I know but my main concern is whether or not the odds of finding a nice hunk of steel out here would be high or not. I leave at the end of April so I have a bit of time to look around. I am in the riverton lander area(but live in lander)

Well, I knew this was true, but in my head I didn't believe it like i should have. After watching Secrets of the Viking Sword I was astounded to see the smiting using essentially nothing more than the equivalent of a 20 lb sledge head embedded in a log and he and his apprentice worked the steel on that anvil, although it did take them 11 hrs to move the steel out from a chunk to a sword.

I would like to see what you would turn out in terms of drawing an anvil that is an octagonal pedestal that is about 3 feet off the ground and is 12 inches between the opposing sides. Simmilar to the one seen in the hobbit but the whole thing and ornate. Purpose would be for consolidating blooms? (purely conceptual.)

even more practical would be to look through junk yards for things that have copper in them such as fridge pipes for water and other appliances that would have copper in them and get that from the junk yard, that is, if you could get it without paying an arm and a leg.