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What to demo forge at SCA.
Thief_Of_Navarre replied to Daswulf's topic in Blacksmithing, General Discussion
The cleavage dragons are fun to watch being made. Tent pegs are easy, quick but a tad boring unless you have a nice design in mind. Sporks are fun too! As has been said strikers are easy, but mind the chit chat with high carbon in the fire -
Beginner to Known Steel
Thief_Of_Navarre replied to AR AnvilWorks's topic in Blacksmithing, General Discussion
As TP said traditional smiths work in WI, but it's mighty hard to get hold of in some places. I luckily have about 200lbs of it (minus my anvils) that I managed to salvage from an old barn in Berkshire. not really sure how available it is in the americas, probably depends on the state! -
Indentifying a Soderfors
Thief_Of_Navarre replied to Thief_Of_Navarre's topic in Anvils, Swage Blocks, and Mandrels
Thanks for the info guys. Do they all have that taper visible when looking at them head on that Dylan mentioned?- 15 replies
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Any of you out there that have any tips for spotting a Soderfors in a crowd without any obvious marks? The feet appear to be similar to Peter wright with the little step on them; correct? Anything else that screams Soderfors that I should be looking for?
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Restoring an austrian style anvil
Thief_Of_Navarre replied to Obert's topic in Repairing and Modification to Anvils
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I second kozzy, you can find work surface if you look for it! About an inch and a half before the Hardie looks okay.
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Smiths over here make them in that style and sell them as smiths rounding hammers. I have an old 3lb lump hammer I might try to repurpose in that style, I guessing it might be a whole of a lot of hitting without a striker of a power hammer
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Show me your Bottle Openers!
Thief_Of_Navarre replied to Arbalist's topic in Blacksmithing, General Discussion
Those are great. Almost too pretty to use! -
That safe is really cool! How on earth did you move it! Mandrel was a steal also
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I know plenty of smiths here, just not many locally on IFI! Perhaps I should just point them in this direction
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Show me your Bottle Openers!
Thief_Of_Navarre replied to Arbalist's topic in Blacksmithing, General Discussion
Buying it in tins? -
That's cool!
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I like how you make such a vast place sound so cosy. I feel isolated in the UK with only 70-80miles between IFI members :s
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Show me your anvil stands
Thief_Of_Navarre replied to pkrankow's topic in Stands for Anvils, Swage Blocks, etc
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How high is the roof? With two open sides I'd say there is enough ventilation if your talking an eight foot roof, any less and I personally would want some way of extracting. That being said I use coke whereas coal has FAR more risk because the volatile substances are still in there. I'd say use a chimney anyway; coal is nasty stuff!
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Just picked up this beauty!!
Thief_Of_Navarre replied to Jason gardener's topic in Anvils, Swage Blocks, and Mandrels
My (second) French anvil is close to 95% rebound. About as good an anvil you can get and the shape in lovely to work on. The feet are starting to go a bit dodgy now though so I try to keep the work light. -
Nice Cat Das!
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lovely anvil in Florida
Thief_Of_Navarre replied to JT's topic in Anvils, Swage Blocks, and Mandrels
I'd leave it in the ocean and take periodic dives to check on it! -
Armitage Mouse Hole no pritchel hole
Thief_Of_Navarre replied to Daswulf's topic in Anvils, Swage Blocks, and Mandrels
Mine has no original pritchel (alas a poor attempt to retrofit one) and no cutting step but the basic shape is the same (that speedboat hull under the horn that I like so much). Nice find, you'll be hard pressed to find any other marks on something that old. I think mine is a C&A from a bit earlier and I found the C and part of the weight stamp, nothing else -
Just picked up this beauty!!
Thief_Of_Navarre replied to Jason gardener's topic in Anvils, Swage Blocks, and Mandrels
Gifting a knife, or a wallet is seen as bad luck over here in sunny england; the token silver coin makes it a transaction and presumably circumvents any erroneous luck -
So you think YOUR anvil's broken. ...
Thief_Of_Navarre replied to D.C.'s topic in Anvils, Swage Blocks, and Mandrels
If you can get just as good a weld i'd go with the spacer. Just to keep as much of the original beast as possible! -
Help with id'ing new anvil?
Thief_Of_Navarre replied to corso21's topic in Anvils, Swage Blocks, and Mandrels
Looks a bit like a Thomas hill I've seen at a tool auction. Anvil and file maker from sheffield -
Peter Wright copy/false stamp?
Thief_Of_Navarre replied to Hairy_eyeball's topic in Anvils, Swage Blocks, and Mandrels
*rolls eyes and sighs*- 12 replies
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- falsified stamp
- barn rescue
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It's the T in the centre of the triangle that makes the A. I was think your bang on the money there scrambler!