NickOHH

Wow , that is one beautiful hammer .

Nice das, creative as always! Rose looks good. 

12 hours ago, beammeupscotty said:

Proper technique for forging a point and taper is to forge the point first, then draw out the taper to the desired length.

Much easier and faster way thanks to not losing heat as quickly . 

Beautiful knife

Ouch 

Sweet, your almost done your prosthetic finger nails!! Awesome 

Not a bad lookin blade there, good job, what is the overall legnth?

Me and Marcy are probably about an hour from Lancaster depending where exactly but we grab coal not far from jws's place, and try and make the PABA meetings when we can .  Always cool meetin people from the forum. 

Very nice axe, let us know how it works for ya.

I want to be there when you harden it too 

Nice stand, good idea, nice and simple, have to test it out on my next coal run  won't be long now.

9 hours ago, DSW said:

I posted this up for you the other day.

I drift my openers vs opening up the ring on the horn ( still working on getting that down). You can make a simple pritchel plate by drilling various size holes in it and using them to drift open the hole. I use the small pritchel on my anvil to punch the hole ( though you can drill it with a drill or even slit it with a chisel instead). I drift to about 1" on my swage block simply because I have it. If I didn't, I'd make a pritchel plate to go over my "portable hole".

 

Arkie here suggested slitting vs punching the original hole and I've found that useful when I don't have as much material to make the ring. I can't remember if the RR spike opener I made I slit or punched. I know I upset the point to drive more mass up into the ring area before I did anything else. I've also found knocking in the corners 1st helps, I was fighting getting the ring round before I did that

 

 

Ahh ok I see you start with rounded corners before you punch and drift. Didn't catch that the other day .

You could either make a bick/ stake anvil and mount it on a stump or you can drift it all the way open but it's more critical to have a good centered hole to drift it, however you can work the corners with the drift in the hole then drive it all the way through for final sizing.

Hmm.... I drift mine about half way then use the horn to finish it , if the hole isn't centered exactly I can work the high spots to keep it even then work it back round at the end.

2 hours ago, DSW said:

They might also know of someone else who has one. I was talking about my forging class to my Chiropractor when he mentions he knows an old farmer who is a client of his who has a few anvils. I was talking one day to the neighbor of one of my customers about some small things I had forged, when he mentions he has a friend who cleans out houses and scraps stuff who may have an anvil for sale. My big primary anvil came from the police officer who was taking the machining class at the tech school and got paired up with me to share the milling machine. He tells me he has one from his dads old business that I can have if I want.

 

The 1st two examples are two people removed. You just never know when you'll find someone who knows someone who has something smithing related.

Marcy's  step dad owns a bussiness that does house clean outs , he has found 3 fishers so far for the taking. An 1897 120# , a 40# and the 1860's 80# that I received for my bday.

I am thankful for this wonderful free source and all the help that has taken me from a guy who smoothed a peice of steel to a guy who can slightly more efficiently smoosh a piece of steel! 

That's not very deep, can you use a brick in the edge of the forge or rig up a stand to hold it then you could pile it higher.

2 hours ago, Stash said:

Welcome Dave- I'm just up Rt1 in Concordville. Give me a yell, we'll get Nick and Marcy over and beat on hot stuff.

 

Steve

I like the sound of that, we like playing in your "toy room" :)

Sounds like you may just need to pile on some more coal, it wants to burn.  How wide x how deep is the fire pot? Bottom or side blast?

1 hour ago, anvil said:

If you plan it a bit, a deep etched pattern looks like veins.

Ooo I like that idea

On November 19, 2015 at 10:48:55 AM, ThomasPowers said:

I've done a pizza cutter, use billet ends for hammer handle wedges and am glacially slowly working on a pattern welded spangen helm...

Pizza cutter hmmmm.... Maybe that would encourage Marcy to make more delicious pizzas.

Nice work ! Keep it up.

No help here but curious for responses , I think a couple damascus rings are in the future

You may be hard pressed to find a better tasting solution to your slack tube needs.

16 minutes ago, Charles R. Stevens said:

Lol, ah your a mess! I would have bought a cristmas popcorn tin and ait the popcorn... Problem solved

Now that's how you problem solve

It has potential if you can grab it CHEAP!