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Posts posted by Carl Greywolf
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I'm a stones throw away from Hull... City of Culture 2017 , actually I can see the Humber Bridge from my window upstairs. A magnificent structure it is too.
If a throw a stone hard enough I might reach you in Lincs.
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Thanks Owen,
Yep God's own country and not just for anvils
A proper anvil will have to wait until fund are a little better, I'm a minimum-wage slave but thankful I have a job. That is a rare thing around here. I can honestly say I actually enjoy my work. I am a carer in a care home and look after adults with challenging behaviour, every day is a new experience and a learning one too.
I'm looking at Smithing as a way of switching off, letting the metal be my total focus... meditation if you will... loud, hot meditation
In the mean time I shall keep an eye open for a lump of steel to use as an anvil and heat it with a charcoal fire in an oildrum (I looked up the 55 forge, Thanks Frosty) and hit it with my children if I have to until I get a decent hammer.
I really look forward to learning from the group's experiences and I'll find a way of forging that suits me perfectly.
ATB
Carl
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Thanks Frosty, I'd have been annoying the neighbours with the noise for little reward with the I beam. Time will give me the best anvil, until then time to hit the car boot sales and scour for other odd and ends.
Time for work... catch you all later.
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"What do you have for kit so far?"
I have a 55 gal oil drum, some 2" stainless pipe and jumble of ideas for making a coal/coke forge :D
No anvil as yet but looking at finding a H beam offcut for a temporary solution. As for a hammer, I'll have to find one as I go.
So far my head is stuffed full of possibilities without anything to make them with, but given enough time... they say necessity is a Mother... or something like that ;)
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Hello there (or as they say around here "Now then!")
I once hit hot metal back in high school... that was way too many years ago to contemplate...Actually I made a gardening trowel, it fell apart. :lol:
It my have taken me *muffled mumbling" years to get back to it but I want to have a go at beating the sh... shaping iron and steel to make useful or decorative objects.
So you "lucky" folk have got me looking at your projects, tools and methods and drooling/scratching my head trying to work out how I can achieve that too.
Expect me to be quiet at first as I read, read and read, but be assured I will have questions and hopefully some solutions in the future.
Thanks for taking on a complete numpty novice.
CG
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