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Posts posted by Sebastian Sundin
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A lot of great tips here, loving this forum. Started smithing earlier this summer out of a bbq grill that i filled with a mixture of plaster/sand, a brakedrum and some piping. Been a lot of trial and error through the summer since I am alone in this, got no one around me with experience in smithing. Now I've built my "real" forge, still using the brakedrum as a fire pot, and I've also constructed a side-draft chimney that works pretty well!
All I can add to this thread is wear thick socks, heavy shoes and a hat, and maybe but down some plywood where you usually stand (if you've got stone-flooring like I do).
Maybe I should consider heating my anvil before use, -20C is fairly common in the winter where I live. -
Thanks for all the info guys, I picked up a square box in the town next to mine, I'm going to work on installing everything next week
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Turns out that this square tunnel that my friend had was rusted all the way through, with big holes in it.. that wont work!
But I was thinking, could you put and old oil barrel through the wall to act as a tunnel? With the tunnel horizontal, couldn't you just attach a 90degree pipe-bend-thingy to the bottom?I'm guessing the part through the wall doesn't have to be square, or does it?
And perhaps an oil barrel is too big in diameter, I don't really know..
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Did not think about that, haha, thanks!
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Hi! I'm still kind of a newbie at this, I started forging this summer, outside, and now winter is approaching and I am thinking about setting up shop indoors.
I've got an old barn at my disposal, that actually was used as a blacksmiths shop some 50 years ago, but my grandfather removed the chimney and everything else to use it to store his cars.
It would be nice to have a chimney but since it was removed several years ago that is not an option, so I was thinking about the side-draft chimney and looked at Hofis blueprints.
There's a bit of draft from the windows, and also from the door, could this be a problem or is it just a good thing?
Also, I have got the square tunnel, what bothers me is the pipes he uses, I can get my hands on 6inch pipes but anything bigger than that seems to be pretty hard to find here in Sweden, atleast at a decent price. Will the side draft work with such a small pipe or do I need a wider one?
The barn is roughly 6x5m, so 30m2, almost 100squarefeet If I am correct.
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Hey guys, I've just started blacksmithing and have made a few knives, though I've only sharpened them with my cheap and extremely weak belt grinder.
I'm thinkin' about buying one of those "Japanese" knife grinding stones, but I don't know which one will work best for me.
I've made a few razors that I intend to make really sharp, and a few kitchen knives that could use some sharpening aswell. What I am looking at right now is a combination stone, meaning one grit on the top and another on the bottom, and my options are 240/800, 400/1500, 600/2000, 1000/3000, 2000/5000, 3000/8000.
I am only gonna buy one of the combination stones, cause I don't want to spend to much money on this right now, so which one do you guys think will work best in putting a nice, sharp edge on my blades?
Working in the shop in the winter.
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That's clever, I live in Sweden so finding wooden clogs will probably not be an issue! I'll have to try that when the temperature drops