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  1. Iron Poet
    Your tools might have edges that are too sharp. You shouldn't get cracks if the shoulders are nice and rounded, unless you're going from a large diameter to a very small one.
  2. Iron Poet
    I'd recommend filing, it's what I do and it does prevent major screw ups. It just takes a couple minutes longer than with a grinder
  3. Iron Poet
    Silicon, aluminum, tin, and I believe phosphorus bronze can be forged. Arsinic is one of the classical metals that everyone used but it's fallen out of favor for 'some reason'
  4. Iron Poet
    You want to use silicon bronze, I go here and buy what I need. They usually have scuffed or scratched sheets for a big discount
  5. Iron Poet
    Made a bronze bowl with a copper stand. For whatever reason people like the dimpled look far more than the planished ones, I personally love the feel of bronze especially textured so it doesn't matter.
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    I've always been good and I've either hidden or destroyed all evidence to the contrary. Being an average dope ruins the mystique I've been cultivating : P
  7. Iron Poet
    Sanding brass in 0 degree weather is equally freezing and burning hot..
  8. Iron Poet
    JNewman, can you post pictures? I'm always interested in swage blocks.
  9. Iron Poet
    I didn't check, I just assumed that canadian pennies were made out of pot metal and so I got lazy. I'm not too broken up over it, since I'm getting around $140 for practically nothing, I was going to make a larger ladle out of some 8 gauge sheet any how the old one was rusting apart.
  10. Iron Poet
    Mostly made a little flower for a raffle and I also melted down a bunch of pennies because a woman wanted them cast into necklaces... ruined my casting laddle : (
  11. Iron Poet
    If you need me I'll be in my workshop melting lead and using prussiate of potash to case harden my mercury quenching tank.
  12. Iron Poet
    You don't like the pleasant aroma of motor oil? Next you'll tell me you don't like the smell of diesel exhaust.
  13. Iron Poet
    Silly question, but wouldn't it have been easier to heat fit or forgeweld everything together?
  14. Iron Poet
    Disgustingly neat. If you're not dragging magnets across your floor to find tools you're not a real blacksmith.
  15. Iron Poet
    I'd buy that for a dollar.
  16. Iron Poet
    I've been told to ask for twice as much time as you think you need.
  17. Iron Poet
    Small world I also got taught by Sandra, but up in Haliburton.
  18. Iron Poet
    Countersink
  19. Iron Poet
    If I had assistants I could do those welds. A bit hard to do with a single pair of hands.
  20. Iron Poet
    You'll get it when you get it. Flux heavily and when the metal starts to get a slight sheen it's ready for welding.
  21. Iron Poet
    I might be spending 2 months away from the forge and I was wondering if you had any book recommendations. There is a lot of trash books out there and I'd prefer not to waste my money on them.
  22. Iron Poet
    Which is weird since it's really not that hard.
  23. Iron Poet
    It can help prevent the edge from deforming if you're making thin knives.
  24. Iron Poet
    Yeah, it's pretty much that.
  25. Iron Poet
    I use a saw tuning hammer as my dedicated drawing hammer. It has a nice vertical and horizontal peen with nice curved faces. It's apparently a very rare find, but it's a swell hammer. The best part? I got it for free.
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