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Daswulf

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  1. has a nice profile in my opinion. looks good. If you are making knives, you're a knife maker.
  2. Fair enough. At that size they could be bowling balls.
  3. Ah, you have shop gremlins too eh? Mine are so sneaky I can turn around for a second and something I just set down will be moved somewhere else.
  4. well that's something that can be worked on.
  5. Sounds like more then that. Darn good person all around.
  6. Even easier and more practical would be painting the eye gloss black. Good depth can be achieved with clear coat.
  7. Man, that 200lb.er would have been an amazing score for $40.
  8. Wow is that impressive! Thanks for sharing olfart.
  9. Lol, I see what ya did there Duckrunner. Keep hunting, you'll find something better. It's great to use what you have until you find something better. Oh, how about a sledge hammer head? That would work as an anvil for heavier forging.
  10. Sounds like you are on the right path and off to a great start. Welcome aboard WY-Not.
  11. Welcome aboard Duckrunner. I'm a fellow jeep enthusiast as well. I think you are going to find that I beam won't be very good for use as an anvil. It just doesn't have the mass you need and it will be super loud. There are many better things to use as an an anvil like rr track section stood on end, or a block of steel. You only Need about the diameter of your hammer face you are using tho bigger helps. The mass under where you will hammer is important. Before I really got started I had a heavier thicker chunk of I beam then that and it just won't do more then tiny work and is super loud. I'm sure you would be able to source something better. I can't comment on the gas forge as I have no experience with them. Again welcome aboard and enjoy the journey. Don't forget to do some reading through the forum. There is a wealth of knowledge all through it.
  12. tear it how ya like. Nice work.
  13. That is some very unique trench art! Great idea.
  14. I would love to visit. When? Well it's always about money and time. When I have the money I will make the time
  15. Stormcrow, as always, *************love the blades. Wow those are big ones. And nice sheaths. Keep on making me want money lol.
  16. Love the pinecone handle. Great shape and look. Well done.
  17. From another post about how to forge a fork and spoon, I meant to do a little pictorial on how I do a spoon. Well I was forging and barely remembered to get enough pictures. But here are some. This spoon I gave a generic "stair?" Twist. With how it was I instantly regretted it but finished it out how I started lol. I started by upsetting the end of 3/8" square bar. Then made a sharper but shallow taper on two sides about how one makes a leaf but I kept it to around a 1/4" length on the taper. Also not too sharp. After that I followed along with the leaf process and hammered under the upset area around about 1 3/8" from the tip and with half on half off hammer blows I isolated the upset part and thinned the spoon bowl portion. Again on two sides, like some make a leaf. Now the pictures begin. the next part is flattening out the spoon portion. Atleast in the process I used This time. Other times I have formed the handle first. That may actually be easier. So either or. I'm still learning what I'm doing but sharing some ideas of what worked for me. After that I started dishing on the stake I made shown earlier in the post with a wood mallet. Well, I needed more dish so with a ball peon I dishes more on a stump then went back to plainishing it a bit on the stake with a smooth face hammer. I did hot file a little to improve the shape but not a lot. After cutting the stock and doing the handle I continued plainishing and shaping the spoon cooler on the anvil with the ball end of the ball pein and on the stake with the regular end of the smoother face of the ball pein. Is that white smithing? I did a lot of plainishing. It was a fun experiment of something I hadn't done as much before. Final pictures show the spoon, stake, and ball pein I used. I dig it. Of course the pictures are Mixed up and I'm no computer guru
  18. Lol. Only idea is about peeling the paper towels from the front of the holder. I think the display parts may be in the way. How does it work?
  19. Bring em over, we can test em out that's the best test. If they hold up they might be good. I recently broke 2 punches I made. One in use and the other by dropping it. They were early ones I made. Guess I didn't temper them back enough. If I needed to harden and temper them at all. What steel did you use? And did you heat treat them? They look fine to me.
  20. I agree with JHCC. Welcome and thank you for sharing your work.
  21. Nice work Ibor. It is well done. I assume the one side that only attaches to the head is a belt clip?
  22. A trail camera? I couldn't for certain answer but I have never known of anyone using any special filters when taking pictures or video of welding arcs. And I never have seen damage to the device from such as long as it's not getting the heat or hit with sparks or slag.
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