hotanvil
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Well another Vermonter. I have not been here for a while but get back here every now and again.Not doing a whole lot of blacksmithing these days I mainly make knives
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Very nice work
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I have a KMG and 2 home made ones. I now make my own attachments for the KMG as I come across something that needs something other than what I have.
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Where did you get your ceramic platen and how do you like it.I am currently using Pyrex glass on my platen and have been for a few years now.
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One of those small hammers brought up in this thread is mine. I have built more than a few air hammers. My bench model was designed for spring swedges.I have a collar that locks in place around the anvil and then you can lock spring swedges into that. I built it when I was doing stuff with 3/4" rope swedge and did not want to have to keep changing things out from my regular airhammer
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I use vegetable oil or olive oil when I quench blades. Its a good light weight oil and smells better than motor oil. Have to keep the other half happy you know :^)
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What they have said is true. The normalizing is really needed when one forges the blade to relieve the stress's from the forging process.You hate to find those stress's when you get to the hardening phase quench it and it cracks or bends or worse yet shatters
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HAnd forged blade from a ball bearing with an antler handle -
HAnd forged blade from a ball bearing with an antler handle -
Made from an old sawmill blade with a black walnut burl handle -
Made from an old sawmill blade with a black walnut burl handle -
When I first started forging all I had for an anvil was a 1" thick piece of plate steel RR spiked down to a stump. I had been forging all day and when done happened to stick my hand out to lean on the stump and put it down on the plate to discover it was quite hot. Thus began Hotanvil Forge
