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Mark Ling

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    Christian blacksmith toolmaker. Contact me for classes.

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  1. Yessir. The holes are drilled and I used hot rolled, so it was pretty tight to start. And then riveting cold.
  2. Some various fireplace tools. Two different fireplace tool sets, and then one odd custom ordered poker. 1/2” square, about 3.5ft long, two pokers and a hook, it’s quite the fire tool. A few forge welds in it made it fun. The fireplace tool sets are all done without welding, the bases are 1-3/8” plate, so they weight plenty to keep from tipping over. The upright part to the stand is blind riveted into the base.
  3. Here’s some photos from my demo at quadstate, of mine and Jonathan’s forging stations, and then what we did in our demo. Those tools were forged all with a striker in 6 hours.
  4. But as a more general update I’ve been going all over it seems. Here’s from when I was in Canada forging some 3x5” bar out of 8” round train axle, 600lb steam hammer. The bar itself was about 140lbs IMG_5013.MOV
  5. Set up at a show not far from me in Conroe Texas. Cold and wet today, knew when I was going it probably wasn’t worth it.
  6. Had quite the time at quadstate. Got to meet a lot of people and mostly spent the time forging, really enjoyed it. Currently the truck is sitting not far off the ground with 5 anvils 6 leg vises, my entire forging station including forge, striking anvil, etc, much steel and wrought iron, and tools I brought for sale. I’ll have to post pictures of what all I brought back when I get home. Excited about much of it.
  7. Yes sir I do, I mail most of the tools I sell yes sir I have 3.5lb hammers and 4.5lb hammers. Message me if you’re interested, or better you can text or call me at xxx-xxx-xxxx.
  8. Finished getting ready for the Tannehill conference in Alabama and Quad-state in Ohio! Hope to see some of y’all there.
  9. More tongs, this time box jaw and v bit. workimg on finishing up some hammers and top tools as well for quadstate and the Tannehill conference next week in Alabama.
  10. I’ll be bringing my forging station along with tables of tools for sale and will be set up, anyone is welcome to join in if there is the opportunity. Myself and another young smith, Jonathan Pinkston, will be set up, with two fully equipped forging stations. We’ll be there all day for every day.
  11. Tongs finished up last night, and had day one of a three day tool making class to teach today. Next week I’ll start on some more tongs, this time box jaw and V bit. Time to make some tooling specifically for those.
  12. I’ll be there. Hope to see you guys and get the chance to meet some of y’all. I’ll have my forging station and tables of tools for sale. Quite a bit of tools.
  13. This is where a lot of people go off when making cupping tools....whether top or bottom tools. You do not use a ball or sphere to make them. You use a squished ball. Now for this tool it doesn’t matter as much since it’s just used to combat fish mouthing, but with hammers it matters. At least if you are wanting a proper and versatile hammer. You use a squished ball type radius, and you get varying fullers on your hammer face. You use a ball and you short yourself. A proper ground rounding hammer (I’m not talking in the context of farrier work) you should be able to simply tilt the hammer face to get a sharper and more aggressive fuller. So many just grind and even radius ball face, I used to, until I realized the versatility in the “squished ball” grind. I have been wanting to make a top cupping tool too. How I have been planning to do it is basically for a flatter using my flatter anvil, and then forge what would be the working end of the tool the same as you would a cupping tool. Forging the edge of the tool face with light constant blows to begin a fish mouth and then cleaning up the hallow with a ball fuller.
  14. A jig similar to what Welsh suggested would work fine...under a power hammer. I use a spring tool with two angled “dies” and it works great for making identical tapers in your case though, first learn how to forge. This won’t be a difficult task after that. I prefer drawing out over the edge of the anvil, take the same amount of material each time and you’ll get a close enough identical taper as to what you are needing.
  15. JLP- yes, mainly for the larger tools it’s being used. All the smaller items are still done with a handhammer. I’m especially liking it for forging tool billets and resizing larger stock.
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