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Frosty,

I just wanted to say


HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

I hope you have a great day.

Tim

AKFrosty57 is Frosty

Welcome back Frosty!!!!

Just think what other group thinks getting coal for christmas is a good thing.

Welcome to the obsesion.

USAF 77 – 81
42nd SPS & 42nd Services Squadron
Loring AFB, Occupied Canada….uh… Main

What a dirty trick to play on a southern boy.

with a Hofi hammer

The address is on post #163


Minotaur,
He probably harnessed “Abby Frost, His therapy dog in training” to it.

From Facebook:

“De Frost
Well, Frosty NOTICED the lap top today for the first time ... I explained the necessity and he understood - and wanted to know where HIS was. He also said to please say "Hi" to all the "metal folk" that he was so AMAZED to hear were on Facebook checking in on his progress regularly. He now has me going thru my "friends" book, naming off all of you. It makes him smile. ”


Go Frosty!!
With Frosty improving by leaps and bounds, they are going to have to keep an eye on him.

Can you say “Bedpan Forge”?

Welcome newbladesmith


I’ll throw this in.

If you'll click "User CP" at the top of the page and edit your profile to show your location it can make a big difference. IFI is represented by members in more than 50 countries. You never know who might be just around the corner that is willing to help out.

billp
Do you have his first name or initials? Also his approximate date of birth would help narrow down the search. (GGrandma’s birthdate would give a general target year.)
Let me know and I’ll see what I can dig up.
Tim

I was back in Brookhaven getting my youngest registered in school. I started to ask how it could be a school of the arts if they didn’t teach blacksmithing, but thought better of it. Anyway no money for pop to get an anvil fix.


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But here are some pics of the anvils that the Brookway Market Basket has for sale.

Looks like smoke and mirrors (or camera tricks) to me.

He starts with the microwave standing on its side, but when it's shown hot, it's setting upright.

The temperature switches alone would have shut it down long before it got that hot.

And if he had disabled them, then the copper tube in the consumer grade megatron would have melted brfore the iron would.

Just my two cents on the subject.

I fired up the forge last night and had time to do some thinking while waiting for the metal to get hot. Now a word of warning, anyone who knows me knows to head for the nearest swamp when I get to thinking. I’ve been told that it is down right dangerous for me to do it in any way, shape or form.

Now for the last two and a half years I’ve been doing a lot of reading about blacksmithing. In post after post I’ve seen the older (uh… more experienced) smiths encourage the newer ones to practice, practice, practice. The more you practice the better you get and the faster you’ll work.

We’re also admonished not to under cut the smith who is doing this for a living.

I’ve also seen posts repeatedly asking what price do you place on your creations, Most of the replies set a price of sixty to sixty five dollars and hour of shop time.

WARNING here comes the thinking:

Mr. Frosty, who was born with a hammer in his hand and has been forging since.. (Length of time withheld for my protection) can whip out a leaf in ten minuets that looks more natural than the ones on the trees and he sells said leaf for ten dollars.

Me, I’m just now figuring out which end of the hammer to hold, I spend four hours making something (that if you hold in the right light, squint your eyes and use your imagination) looks like a leaf or maybe an arrow head, but really it just looks like a beat up peace of metal. But I have four hours of shop time in it and acording to the posts I've read, that makes it worth two hundred and forty dollars.

Now who is getting under sold and why would I want to get any better or faster? :confused:

Ain't it strange where the mind will go while waiting for metal to heat?

On April 4, Brookway Market Basket in Brookhaven, Ms had nine anvils for sale.
Weights ranged from about 50 to around 150 lbs. They appearied to be from poor to almost good condition. (Just my opinion for what its worth.)
I didn't look any closer as I had other things going on that day and no way to get one home at that time.

Brookway Market Basket
835 Brookway Blvd
Brookhaven, MS 39601

(601) 835-2855

Frosty
I was trying to give a fellow newcomer a chance to get an anvil before someone out to make a buck got there. He's had time to get one if he wanted to so I'll post the information shortly.

As you can see from the number of posts that I have made, I don’t make many comments. It takes Microsoft Word, Spell Check, a Webster Dictionary and quite a bit of time just to be able to post the few that I have.

I want to thank Glen for this site and everyone who takes time to answer the questions.

For those whose stock reply to a repeated post is “search for it”, Please remember the size of this site. With the number of threads and posts on this site, it can take an act of congress to find the answer to a question.
For example; some time back someone asked where to find an anvil. (A nice simple question.) As it happened the following week I was on the other side of the state and stopped at a store that was within sixty miles of the posters location. I walked in and there set nine ( 9 ) anvils. When I asked about them the clerk said that they were all for sale. As there was no room in my wife’s car, I reluctantly left them there.
When I returned home, I spent over two weeks of multiple hour days trying to find the thread where the question had been asked. I knew that is was there, I knew what was asked, I knew what area of the state he was in and I had read it in the past week, But it still took over two weeks of hard searching to find. I finally found the post and sent him a Pm with the information.
When it comes to blacksmithing; while you are running marathons, I’m just learning to crawl.

Just my two cents….. Now back to lurking in the shadows

Just as soon as I get the forge together.

I was working on one of our wells when one of the elderly neighbors stopped by. One thing led to another and he said that he had one of those things that a blacksmith used (making a circular motion with his hand.) Did I want to see it? (Need you ask?)
He cranked it but it produced very little air. He said that it was his fathers but he would take ten dollars for it. I give you my word; I did not run over him when I took it to the truck.


Removed the dirt daubers nests and straightened the blades, it blows’ like brand new.

Ran across this and I thought that I'd pass it on:

Anvil from 70 lbs. to over 400 lbs., 5 & 8" jaw post vise, 100lbs & 150lbs swege blocks

Ads

Too bad its not closer by.

You might want to check out this video from Purgatory IronWorks:
Firing up the Waste Oil Forge
YouTube - Firing up the Waste Oil Forge

I believe that you will find that different companies use different types of metal. On my mower when I use the brand of blades that came on it, I need to sharpen them before I finish cutting the yard. But blades from another supplier will cut the yard three or four times before they need sharpening. I’ve worn out several sets of both kinds, I don’t buy the brand name ones anymore.
Tim

Six great leaf springs.

Tim

One of the things that I am thankful for is this wonderful group of people who a willing to step up and share their knowledge and their time to help those of us who are just starting out.

Thank you one and all.

Tim

Just my 2 cents.
My Great Great Grandfather on my mother’s side was a smith. He kept a pot of coffee boiling on his forge and drank straight from the spout. We know where his shop was for he loved it so much that he made his family promise to burry him in it. The family did as he asked and it is now the family cemetery.

I can’t be a BSaholic ..
I haven’t built a fire or beat metal on an anvil… yet.
OK so I’m in the process of building a shop and the forge and anvil are in storage until I can get the door up.
Just because a blower followed me home last week and the same guy was showing me a four inch post vise that he wanted seventy five dollars for, he happened to mention that he had a bigger one that was froze up and he only wanted forty dollars for. I can’t help it, I just had to give it a home. It’s just a little 6

I use a wheeled garden hose reel, one for my cords and another for my air line. With the cords I put the lightest one on first and work out. I don't have to tote them and I always use the hever cords first.
With the air hose, I remove the water connections and put one end of the air line through the hole, Just reel of the length I need to use.