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Nice bit of work!

A friend of mine has several anvils on the sand filled fabricated base. He used channel with a section of pipe where the web is. The channel was cut on an angle with the pipe split in half length wise. A 1/4" steel plate is fitted over the sand. They are very solid and haven't settled in 2-3 years of heavy use.

I believe those pieces John showed are from Roberto Girodani and Cal Lane respectively but I could be wrong... Nice work regardless! That piece of steel could make a nice Anvil base, although a bit short.

Just an FYI- I have not seen a porta bandsaw or operator who could cut accurately over 1" long in large material. They LOVE to wonder even with a fresh blade.... Consider an upright bandsaw....

Nice delamma- No "real" input here but I sure do like the ribbon burners I have used. Nice even heat over a large area.....

Its worse then that Michael. I haven't run it either :( I'm in the process of converting my shop to 3 phase.... I'm tired of buying VFD's to run my tools and the VFD to run this hammer was going to cost about $1000.00

Nice Tim Up close and personal!

Access DENIED! Same thing Clinton "page not found"

I don't think he helped his selling potential! I've seen that hammer offered for $7500 someplace too.

Pictures will tell.....

OMG! My shop is a total disaster! I'm getting ready for a trip.... No surface goes uncluttered.... Until I leave, then is all goes in the truck.... Ah, I think!

Not to much to say about this cool old baby except I'm supper happy to have it! Runs like it looks or perhaps better-

Hey Clinton- I went to look at the pics and it says "page not found" ???? Nice work Jeremy!!

I went and visited a friend the other day. I should mention this is a new friend who is a publisher and our meeting is a bit of a long story. But, after our visit I get this message on facebook saying something about a Bio. Huh? Bio? This friend went and looked at all my facebook posts and my website. Just with my posts and website she was able to come up with this amazing bio. I was and am a bit shocked at how much info she was able to pull together in the 15 minutes that she claimed it took. My point, only put out on the web information you don't mind the world knowing about. Its stays out there for a very long time. As far as macbruce's pet peeve, yes, location is very helpfull.....

Dude! You Shaved??? Gett'in pretty for the photo?

Nice video- Watching them getting wound up... Then the misfire. I don't know how many times I have done that....

COOL!!! Thanks Clinton! Hope to see LOTS of pictures from the whole conference....

I was so bummed when I finally had to throw in the towel about making it to ABANA. I had a ride, likely a place to stay but no money for the ticket. If you have pictures, I sure would like to see them. Videos of team Claudio would be most excellent too. I have friends on the team and I helped make some of the tools...

I use plumbers flux... The cheap stuff. I use Tin or Silver solder depending on the strength required. I clean the area to be soldered and place little "chips" of Solder near the areas I want the solder to flow. Then I gently heat, start with the larger mass and the solder will just disappear into the joint. The little chips make for some clean joints. As opposed to feeding the filler rod into the joint like welding. Definitely clean after soldering. wipe with damp towel while still hot. Tooth brush is great idea, add tooth paste and it will polish as well.

I'm not sure I'm getting what you want to do. Are trying to move air for combustion or for dissipating heat? Are you trying to turn your rocket stove into a forge?

Great Job Yves!!!

This is something I have spent many hours pondering over the last few years I've wondered if filling the tube with fine sand and capping the ends would make it so it forged easier and could be drawn out and reshaped further. Anyone ever try this?

I like how simple your forge is!!!! Very cool! Welcome to IFI- lots of good work and knowledge here.

That comes with practice too! I'd like to add one more thing about practice. As long as you are learning how a material works, you can never have to much practice. I would say go ahead and draw the temper. I'm not a bladesmith but I can't see a reason why it is not a good idea to understand how heat treatment of mild steel won't help you understand heat treatment in higher carbon and more costly alloys. I'm not talking end result so much as the observations made during the process. Whenever I make something out of precious materials I do lots of tests and sometime make a "mistake" piece so I do all the learning and setups on a sacrificial piece to insure I get the high value one done right.

Hmmm. Something about your test meathod seems risky. Like holding a match to a leaking joint to if there is a gas leak......just thinking out loud...