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RobDobbs

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  1. I'm gonna steal that idea! Well done, Sir.
  2. Wow! That is an awesome pattern!
  3. Hei, Minotaur. The shop is looking great. I'm quite jealous as I had to leave mine back in Texas. I am living in Lepp
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    Little EDC

    very nice. Good job.
  5. Looks good. What are the specs on it? It looks like quite a handfull.
  6. I've been struggling with a name for mine. I grew up on a Texas cattle ranch. My first shop was in central Texas, that got moved to Dallas, then to Arkansas and now I'm working on getting a shop put together in Helsinki, Finland. I'm currently using Dobbs Blacksmithing, but that seems a bit boring. Plus, I'm also getting into jewelry, so I thought about adding "Studio" to it. I want something that keeps it tied back to Texas but still shows the worldliness of my travels. (28 countries, so far) "Texas Rambler International Forge and Studio" is just too long. Any thoughts from folks wittier than I would be appreciated.
  7. If you're just getting started, don't get hung up on waiting for a "real" anvil. Here is a shot of my first "anvil". Simply a big chunk of steel inset into a very large stump. My "hardy hole" was a hole drilled into the end of the stump. I radiused one of the edges with a file but left the rest of the edges sharp. It worked fairly well for over a year and didn't cost me anything. I got the steel from Chuck Stone, a blacksmith in the Dallas area (Thanks, Chuck!!). He took pity on me and donated it to me from his scrap pile. Even after getting a "real" anvil, I still found that I used this one fairly frequently. Alas, it is now in storage back in Texas waiting for my return.
  8. Made this for a cowboy friend back home in Texas. It is heat blued mild steel with nickel silver scales riveted on with brass rod and brass cross with N/S rod riveting it on.
  9. Man, my wife hates it when I stop on the road to check out possible scrap steel. Especially when we were in her Sebring Convertible. :)
  10. The KLO-1 (Knife Like Object). Beaten out from a push rod??? I found in a scrap heap. Forged it using a brake drum sitting on the ground with a pipe buried in the dirt hooked to an old vacuum cleaner. Vice grips to hold the steel and old hickory chunks for fuel. My anvil was the "anvil face" of a large bench vice. I really didn't know what I was doing but had Wayne Goddard's Wonder of Knifemaking and the will to succeed. Within a week of mangling this poor defenceless piece of steel, I had tracked down my local ABANA chapter and went to my first meeting. That was pretty much all she wrote for me. Forever doomed to black boogers.
  11. Does it mean I'm a blacksmithaholic if my 5 year old daughter tells Santa that "My daddy has been very naughty this year, so you should bring him lots of coal." (And no, I did not tell her to say it. She told him that with no prompting.) Proud member of the Benevolent Brotherhood of the Black Boogers
  12. Hello all, I've been into blacksmithing for about 2 years now. I'm from Texas but have recently moved to Helsinki, Finland. Looking forward to joining the community. Thanks, Rob
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