windancer

Nice job on the roses!
They look great!

Preciate the PDF- will add this to my straight stack this weekend!

I like it all!
Being partial to roses i do like them the bestest :)

LOVE the dragonfly. My wife is crazy about them and this is the first one I have considered making for her. You are spreading joy in places you don't even know about
Thanks for posting- this is a beauty!

Very, very creative and original!

Very very sweet work!

Very cool work- best I have seen in a long while- they look as though they are moving!

So did you guys get your stamps?
How much were they?
Thanks,
Dave

Have you got this up and running? More pics?

Jymm
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will you email me a price on a similar forge?
Thanks,
Dave Evans
Tenino, WA

Can anyone give me a source or two for hot forging lubricant?

Blacksmith Depot and Blacksmith Supply have none.

Thanks,
Dave

Great job, Nick!
And professional, as is all your work
Dave

I got tired of trying to swage big stock with spring swages and the one guillotine tool I had was to small so I b uilt this one from all 1/2" stock..The only dies I have in it right now are mild but hardened in super quench..I have some 1045 for my next swage dies laying around..The striking button on top is 1045..Its setting on a 200# fisher. Sorry about the pic quaility, Ive never had pics turn out fuzzy like that before

RR spike knives and hammer hawks are the only things that I have made in a year and a half of blacksmithing, I have made different ones, like cord wrapped handles, micarta handles.

Today I tried making a striker for a flint and striker set. I thought it would only take twenty minutes but it took me every bit of an hour. The knives only take me about thirty minutes. I guess practice makes perfect.