Bom dia Ken, EduBacha, Frosty and 781, and thanks for a great welcome. I've spent the last few days reading my way through old forum entries. I'm having to learn many new things here. The language is difficult for me at least, but as you say Frosty, learning a little is helping gather goodies and tools. Welsh is a lot easier to me at least (though I'm not that good with that one either lol). Portuguese .... português é muito difícil.
I'm in a small city called Tubarao. My wife's Brazilian, so I've ended up here. There seems to be a wide variety of small machine shops and engineering works here, so I'm hoping to make some friends that I can trade skills with.
My wife is an English teacher, which appears to have some benefits. I helped one of her students recently and in return just landed three 18" pieces of rail to make an anvil (the student is a manger for he local rail company).
This site is huge and has an amazing wealth of both skilled people and information. Very happy to be part of it.
Which part of Brazil are you in EduBacha? I'd love to meet up with any smiths out here.
On the to "to do" list is creating a workshop, making or finding tools and then hopefully making some knives etc.
Shame I can't pack the workshop at home and bring he tools here (most would be too heavy or cost a fortune to ship). My father was a blacksmith in a coal mine in South Wales and later (after some time in the RN) went on to be a fabricator, serving the coal industry. I'm rescuing his hammers when I'm back in the UK in December :) wife can moan, but suitcase space is allocated ;)