Aaron Gann

well you could do what i've been doing lately, if you have a good yard you can always build a ground forge kills the knees unless you make a seat or get some knee pads , all you gotta do is dig a hole in the ground make sure you have some pea gravel sand etc, to absorb the heat (i have a red clay yard) dig out a trench for a pipe stick it in (make sure you cover it back up or it will fall out) connect your blower and voila. its very versatile if you want to change the shape its as easy as a pick and a shovel

okay I have been looking around at building a sword forge and wanted to weld together one out of an i-beam. i was looking around the web for some ideas when i came across this Forge Building this evening i tried a modified version and just dug a hole in the ground stuck a pipe in there and taped my blower to the pipe and it worked like a charm my question is why don't more people do this? or at least i have never heard of anybody doing it?

i got this book last year and yes it is amazing, one of the few books i will never get rid of

not a problem

i made it using a bench grinder to bring out the basic shape and create the bevels for the edges, heat it up to cherry red and fine tune any malformed hard to grind areas. I don't have an actual pattern but i can give some step by step instructions. 1: get a flat piece of steel preferably 6 inches in length in case you mess up the initial grinding. 2: mark the center of the piece with a marker or anything else you can clearly see 3: draw out the outline of the wings coming in 2 inches at top then curving down till it comes in 1 inch, making a point coming back out. (remember the bat head) 4: make another curve coming in towards the center to form the second part of the wing plus the tail 5: at the top make some bat ears try to make the the same height as the top wings 6: do the same thing on the opposite side 7: I grind to shape but if you have a cutting torch then by all means I just can't afford anything else 8: if desired bring it up to a dull or cherry red to finish the shaping. 9: heat up the piece till critical then quench in motor oil (if you want a black finish), if you do not like the black then polish. 10: congratulations you now feel like bruce wayne and want to go kick some bad guy butt, remember if you do and you throw this at someone you didn't hear how to do it from me

yea i tested them out on some wood and they stick really well they throw easy too, only problem is because they are low carbon the don't keep a good edge

hey here is another thing i made a while ago it is based off of the shuriken batman uses in batman begins and the dark knight, its simple weldable steel since its cheap and i didn't want to spend too much money on something i wasn't sure of. I sold them to a few friends for about 20 bucks each. the first one's head was a little off, the second one came out much better.

I made this one awhile back but this is the first knife blade i ever completed, made from old file

thank you all very much, i tried the chisel method and worked like a charm, unfortunately the reciprocating saw is my only option atm because i can't afford anything else right now. thank you all very much!

sorry to clarify i meant i've heated up a few old saw blades and normalized them to make blades out of now the ones i'm trying to actually cut with, also done that with a few old files

no it is a brand new bi-metal cutting saw blade for reciprocating saw from lowes

hi I am new to this website and am going to ask a question that has already been answered probably. I've searched and i couldn't find it anywhere. I've been trying to cut a leaf spring so that i can make a knife out of it, my saw will not cut and and when i look at the little metal it did cut it is blue, i tried to normalize it by heating it up to bright red/orange and let it cool in a bucket of ashes to make is softer (done it on a few saw blades) but it won't soften can somebody please help, or show me where the thread is that already has this answer????

lol yea just last week i was working in my forge and poured water on my fire and then suddenly my pipe (a dryer hose) blew up into about three different pieces. lol scared the xxxx out of me

lol sry i know old thread but i just found out the other day that if you hammer straight down on the head it forms a thick mass of metal that when forged right looks like a pommel on a european style sword, i'm working on some double edged designs for these now :cool: