Ethan the blacksmith

make sure your anvil is holded down securely! (like the stand bolted to concrete.)

thanks very much!

stan, the anvil repair is holding up brilliantly.

The ghost of Ethan has come back to haunt you with more awesome tools!

that's right, I am back with new tools. I finished a 4.5 lbs hammer and I have the vid for it:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzmWxEfLX0Y

I hope to finish a strait peen hammer for I fly of to the uk in  weeks.(yes, I will take lots of pics)

please give me any tips for forging further hammers. hope to be posting more.

Ethan

looks like a very early English anvil. mouse hole im thinking.

I good friend of mine, dave, gave my this tool along with some much needed parts for the steamer. it looks like an od type of vice grip maybe. if anyone can shed some light on this that would be great!

P.S. you are invited to come to vegreville alberta this Saturday to the fair. we will have our steam engine their along with a couple others, I will also be playing fiddle for the weekend. 

the first hammer is 2.75lbs. The second 3 and some..........................yes there is now a second!

a new friend Dustin came today to make his first hammer. he is a great striker and had the best time making his hammer! his hammer is about 3lbs. 

got a good one hear! forged rounding hammer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQAqYDbSH5g

Finally have the pics. one is a Vulcan, the other, mystery!

I just wanted to put up a pic of all the tools posted here so far. I also wanted to redeem myself because some of the handles were just put on so they had one. As frosty said they went as good as they could have been, I fixed that! Anyway, here we go.

its finished! with its new hickory handle (hand made by me), I am pretty proud of it! its a little, marked up because I did it all under the trip hammer, but I like it!

another announcement; I now have ALL the tools to make a Brazeal hammer, and hot cut!

some time I want to make one good one out of flat metal that has many different holes, so I it can hold different tongs.

I totally forgot about this! I try to fallow through with what I say so here's the tong ring/clip I came up with!

Thanks biggundoctor, will do!

Ethan Harty reporting live:

just made a 5/8 top fuller! first tool made under the LG. credits to my dad for striking for the hole. I have not finished it yet so any recommendations for finishing/handling is great!

Thanks.

thank you everyone for the replies, and to frosty for the great explanation(and doing it again)!

I have not observed any cracks, so I must be lucky. I know why; its frosty the lucky!(hahaha really bad joke)

pics coming soon. I am very busy because the farm is going into hyper drive to get hay cut (because of bad drought) but I am trying hard to reply and upload all these pics! its great fun!

thanks frosty for the tips.

when I went to the welding shop they said they had a good rod for welding anvils because the did it before,(not that, that means very much)

it works great for me so far, and as you said I don't think I damaged it that much.

to answer you question about preheating, I did not, because I thing it would have taken out the hardness(is this bad?)

I wanted to weld up 2 more anvils(Vulcan) with very bad edges(I will upload pics) and so any tips or recommendation are appreciated!

did you torch, or drift the hardy holes?

Frosty:I will defiantly be moving every thing around. I put it there so I have something to look at in the mean time.

Thanks frosty for the feedback!( and for the LG info for mounting)

I think I might have to make the 'cup' in the tool a bit deeper. I hope this will solve the problem...

Thank you Mr. Cochran!

I believe the little blob on the horn to be a weld on after it had been mushroomed over or something?

so this is where it gets interesting,the old German blacksmith bought some stuff from my great, great, grandfather when he first came over. we now have the Germans anvil.

we made a phone call to my great grandmother, to ask if she remembered anything from her dads anvil. The fist thing she said was that he use to hang lots of tools around the stump, BINGO. I know that reason is pretty general but things of that size tend to stay around.

in conclusion, there is a good chance that that anvil was my great,great papas! 

good to know, I have not done to many things on it so far but I the rod is also tough, but I am not sure.

heres the video linkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmrec11Dvfo

25lbs little giant, 200lbs peter wright, yes I am exited!