jacobd

Welcome, good to have you here!

You've done some excellent learning.... Those are beautimous brother.

I actually work at Home Depot, your cheapest bet will be BC plywood, then polyurethane. Felt or similar material to reduce slider friction. With a 1/8 blade, cutting dead on the line will give you a 1/16 gap around all edges, fabric will pretty much fill that. I'm no expert here, just my take on it. (BC is sanded on one side fairly well)

It's all in the wrists brudda, at least for me it is. Me and my dad are built like dwarves. Short and stocky. Seems the larger joints are good for getting the mass moving while the wrist is good for a little boost at the end.

Following my progression since I was about 13, the first step towards learning something useful was being more realistic about it. Not limiting imagination, just using it in a more realistic way. The next was to self educate as much as possible, the anvilfire guru recommended spend at least $200 on books. I did, well up to now probably more. He told me once I've done all that reading I would have questions who's answers would help me a lot more. I've been hobbyist for a few years, so I have a little bit of practice. Over the last few months I bet I've watched well over 24 hrs of YouTube. Tried to be very observant of their methods. What works, what doesn't seem to work well, what I would do instead (assuming in my limited experience I have a method that works better). Quality education is out there. You just have to love doing this enough to take the time to find it. On that note in no way am I claiming to be exceptionally educated in this matter. I've done fair bit of reading. I've watched a lot of YouTube. Until I put this to practice, it's all just spent time. So we'll see. I don't think all you guys realize the quality of education in your posts. The different perspectives, the methods, discussing problems, and totally different ways of going about the same operation. The more experienced of you on here definitely have a lot to offer. Even if it's just one of the tools/methods you do, that you don't see anyone else do. YouTube also, any projects, be successes or failures are a treasure trove. So many projects I want to do once my new forge is finished I already have a idea where to start, what to do. All from posts or videos. Keep on doing what you do. If you want to provide education by means of videos or articles, do so. Trust me, many of us will benefit from it. Those who want to succeed will weed through the junk. So please, never hesitate to take the opportunity to post a video. Thanks guys.

Not a super important one, but I learned very quickly to grind with your mouth closed. Isn't a refreshing feeling when your mouth is full of metal grit.

Bituminous May be better, but I've always used anthracite and love it. I don't know any different, and it works very well, welding heat is easy, doesn't go out immediately, not too bad on clinker.

Does the Japanese style hammer offer anything function wise that a regular cross peon does not? Does the center of mass or linear mass help?

I love me some grizzly wintergreen, but swallowing gives me heartburn like crazy...

If you can make do with little, I wanna see what you can do with your main setup.

What I read awhile back told me that magnesium is fed or included in the mold, the burning of said magnesium almost "frothed" the iron, this causes the carbon to form spheres, instead of regular carbon flakes. It takes a tremendous amount of energy for cracks to jump from sphere to sphere, this isn't the case with the carbon flakes, another important part I can't accurately answer is it's harden-ability. Idk if that's attributed to the same frothing from the magnesium. This is the same nodular iron GM and other auto makers use to make crank shafts. You can run 500ish horsepower on the stock crank in a vortec 350, in fact my IROC-Z28 will be getting a 450 hp vortec 350 motor with said crank, just gotta finish building it :). I read that before buying my TFS, it was a dumbed down version I found somewhere. If I'm wrong correct me please, I'll never turn down a free education.

Very carefully. Sorry bud, that's beyond me.

Well that's convenient

I found an old post relating to this. And the odd duck foundry is producing new ones, however they are only for electric motor right now, he's working on a hand crank version.

Hey guys, besides centaurforge, I was wondering if y'all knew of any other decent new hand cranked blowers that you could get here in the US. I have seen the Taheri blowers from India. However I don't know if they are big enough for a good sized coal forge. Also, I don't know the quality there. I burn anthracite. What are y'all's opinions of a hand crank blower on anthracite? Once again, it's much appreciated guys.

My tfs anvil is cast ductile iron, face is 52 rc. Very hard, very loud, and very solid anvil. I love my 150# tfs. As good as cast steel in my opinion.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5N6wQc6kbA8 Watch this. It'll show you what a guy with 10's of thousands of dollars in tools has to do to make it. My opinion? Wish in one hand XXXXX in the other. See which one fills up faster. Watch the language, you are pushing it

Make what you can, then when someone doesn't sell exactly what you need, you're ready to take care of yourself!

James at Texas farrier supply helped me out a bit. He got me a 150# tfs blacksmith anvil and 150# of coal for around $800. The anvil has 85%ish rebound, which is pretty good, and it has a nice hard face, 52 rc I beleive. I love it. Also read the anvilfire review of the 100# tfs blacksmith anvil. I live in Waco Texas btw.

Weld a spike on the bottom and drill a hole slightly smaller in the stump our wooden mount. Then put a good 2x8 piece over the top and set it with a sledge hammer. Or weld feet on it.

Words from the wise. I appreciate it. I don't know what I'm getting myself into......

Go to more reply options, choose file, attach this file, then post.

Sounds about right. It should just give you the option when you make a new post to load and then attach the files.

Make sure you hit attach. Otherwise they won't

I have no idea how many "Brian Brazeal style ______" videos I've seen on YouTube. Credit to the original designer seems to be the key.