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Here is my demo anvil and stand with Mark Aspery doing a demo at our fall conference I am in the background trending the fire.The square solid beam is wrapped with some 1/4" x 1" strap hand textured and pinned with a square head lag screw. Gaylan

Hi Brian, Bonneville Forge Council has a web site at www.bfcsmiths.com that is kept upto date pretty well. It will have calendar dates etc. Welcome back to Utah. Gaylan

Hi All, Just to add my thoughts. I watched Alison Finn from Freedom Metals in Colorado come to our Bonneville Forge Council Conference and do some amazing forging. I think that thoses that put forth the effort practice, practice,and practice and have the desire to always to better will become great. No matter the gender. Gaylan

Hi Brian, Welcome back to Utah!!! I live in American Fork just over the mountain.We have a great meeting planed. Hope you can make it. Lots of great Smiths. Gaylan

This is such a shock! I think that all who knew Grant have a great respect for him. I have never meet Grant but I can say that he has taught me so much. To his family I say thank you for sharing this Great Man with all of us. My condolences go out to all Grants family. Gaylan Veater

Sorry to hear of your lose. Our prays are with you and your family. Gaylan Veater

I am so sorry to hear of your loss. I have used Seans easy tongs when teaching boy scouts the metal working merit badge over 50 boy scouts have them in hand. Thanks for his example of always helping other. You are in our prayers and thoughts. Gaylan

Hi All, Just a few comments about the BSA metalworking merit badge. I have boy in my area for about 8 years now. All of the boys I have taught have been really excited and all that started have finish with great results. I start out with teaching the safety that is in the handbook also the requirements can be found on the web also. After safety I do a demo on forging a taper on a piece of 1/2" round to about 1/8" then file the end and teach how to harden and temper the end that becomes a center punch.After the demo I let them do the same.After they have completed that we test the center punch and now they have a useful tool to take home. Next we make the easy tongs that Sean Conner demos on anvilfire. It takes care of several requirements becasue of the twist and rivet.Then after those are made they now have themselves a pair of useable tongs to hold there round or square 1/4" x 6" stock and I have them make a s hook tapering both ends to a point and bending over horn and put a twist in the middle. After those things have been done I let them make some that they would like to many choose to make a flint stricker and I teach them how to make charcloth then they are really ready to go to the next camp out to try out starting fires.I have found that teaching these boys very rewarding to me and I get to know the boys alot better. I was a scout master for about 14years before I starting blacksmithing so I do have a soft spot in my heart for the BSA program. I hope this info will help a little bit but also keep in mind that the option in the book leave it open to alot of diiferent things that can be made. Thanks, Gaylan

Hi All I just wanted to tell everyone worldwide MERRY CHRISTAMS and a very HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! Keep on Blacksmithing. Gaylan Veater

Hi, I agree wax them use bees wax, floor wax old candles etc. It works and gives it a really nice look. Gaylan

Brian those are some great ideas of uses of the crane. Thanks for the process of forging and all you do for the blacksmiths of the world. Gaylan :)

Very nice I wish my 10th one looked that nice. Keep up the good work and thanks for the pictures. Gaylan

I just wanted to say thanks to Brian and Lyle for all the pictures etc. It makes it some much more helpful for me to see and then do. I love to make tools because without the tools we can not make the product. I have enjoyed following this thread. Thanks again Gaylan Veater :)

Hi All, I just wanted to thank Lyle and Brian for this great vice idea. I had a vice I have been wondering what to do with. These is what I came up with I did not have to buy any materials all was from my pile. This has been a great learning project thanks to Lyle and Brian I have made a very useful vice alot of great ideas.Here is some pictures. Gaylan Veater

GREAT JOB!!! THE TOOLS LOOK GREAT, I AM SURE THEY WILL GO FAST. THANKS FOR SHARING YOUR KNOWLEDGE AND PICTURES.HAVE A GREAT DAY GAYLAN

Biggundoctor, I live here in Northern Utah and we get our coke from Christensen Brothers in Spanish Fork Utah. They get it from the east coast. It can be bought in 1 ton bags about the same size mentioned above 4ft by 4ft on a pallet. Also can be bought in smaller bags about 50lbs.I have bought a 1ton sack before and it will fill about 7 to almost 8 55gal barrels. It does very some. Gaylan

WELCOME, YOU ARE WELL ON YOUR WAY FOR ONLY A FEW MONTHS. THERE IS ALOT OF KNOWLEDGE ON THIS FORUM AND VERY HELPFUL PEOPLE HERE. READ UP ON THE THINGS YOU WANT TO MAKE AND THEN PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE I HOPE YOU ENJOY THIS BLACKSMITHING AS MUCH AS I DO.MOST OF ALL HAVE FUN!!!! GAYLAN

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FROSTY AND MANY MORE TO COME, I AM GLAD YOU ARE WELL. HAVE A GREAT DAY!!!! GAYLAN

Brain and Karen, Thanks for sharing the how to do it!!! Looks like a lot of fun. I hope your trip is going well. Everything I have read about it looks great. Will you be going back to North Carolina on the east side at all I have a son in the military at Cherry Point. He would love to come to a demo or something.Keep up the good work and have lots of fun. Gaylan

Welcome back Frosty!!! I am soo glad you are doing so good. I will always remember you were the first one to welcome me to this site. Thanks for that and all else you have done. Keep on getting better Gaylan

Mine is made from a elk hide no hair on works great!!!! I go to the mountain men rendezvous and wear deer skin pants etc they have held up really good. Go for it!!! Gaylan

divermike, I just got done teaching 11 boy scouts the metalworking merit badge with the blacksmithing option. Alot of fun I may add. besides the normal safety rules: safety glasses,hearing protection, protective clothes etc the one that helped the most for the boys was I told them to treat everything in the shop as hot to burn until proven different and be awhere of those around you when moving from forge to anvil. We spent 12hrs working on the merit badge four 3 hrs sessions. They all left with no burns or injurys.

HI ALL !!! Here is my demo anvil, stand with tools etc. Always lots of fun when I use this one:)

Looks like you finally got the WIN SOME !!! Looks like a great find to me. Good luck getting it mounted and put it to use. Gaylan

Hi, I also have one I bought a few years back. It has worked great for me. A little clean up when I got it which I knew up front. I have not had any problems of it being to thin. For the money it is a great deal!!! Gaylan