Goblin79

what I was Tring to do was make my wife a cost hook that I said I would make a year ago the leaf design was spur of the moment because I wanted it thinner to be easer to screw down to the barn wood in using as a backer I will tri what uall said mane tomarro I'll have a chance to fire the forge back up in a ac guy so it's crazy at times during the summer

thx for the advise the frist thing was a knife last year just some spike ones but still

be easy on me uall frist time at the anvil ever and frist time beside the forge in 8 months let me know what uall think done two of them all I had as a chisel was a rr spike there for my house

ok I'll lol and see tomarro when I dig the side walk chalk out

that's good info what years was the anvil and vice made

nice wish mine was that cheap good find

thx uall that's what I though it was after looking on inter web thx but I guess I'll just have to learn from my screw ups lmao heres pic of my vise I'll tri some chalk tried flour didn't do good

my brother found this yesterday and called me shoot me a pic and I bought it and a Indian chief vise for 300 bucks the stand and hold down come with it

Has any of y'all made a ulu if so what unexpected stuff did u run in to and what was the hardest part I'm going to be using curicular saw blades and just cut and grind them out

Here it is with Handel done

My bad wrong tremaogey temper in over I normaellize it and the quenched it per Steves post in heat treating Sorry bout my spelling

Made from old rasp most is forge work the only grinder I have is a bench so I had to a lot with a stone heat treated in oven per instructions on here handle will be paracord

not my girlfreind thats my daughter

I've not heat treated it it's a sharp letter opener lol thx uall

This is my frist knife yes it's a spike but I had a great helper this my my girl anvil and knife

Yep forge is low anvils bout rite maby a touch high but really not to bad I'm workin on the high side of it

This frist fire I've built in my forge and my frist time moving metal I like it

That's sweet

Nice thx frosty I didn't realize that it was that good of a anvil

Nice thx frosty I didn't realize that it was that good of a anvil

It's just a small price of rail but will work as a post anvil if I bury a 6x6 in the ground about 2 foot and then mount it on top of it what uall think

Hay uall I'm new to smithing been reading here for about a month want to do knifes when I get some time under my belt hammering steel going to just work on the basics here till I get wore out on it then I'll tri my frist one got a bunch if scrap laying round all rusty so it's good I got this forge from a guy that bought one of my old teachers house he had horses I fix a air cond for the forge it not in great shape but the blower is where it's at I got 70 bucks in it all