Michaelarmer

A poker and a rake! thanks for the idea ID. My greatest drawback until very recently has been location. I had been living in a very residential area and did not have room to set anything up. This has since changed and i'm ready to go. Might try making a few hooks and rams head pokers as I've already made them on courses in attended on the past, any other idea welcome! 

Hello everyone thank you for reading. Its been years since I first started aspiring to one day become a blacksmith, over these years I have been slowly (as funds and availability allowed) adding to my collection of tools and materials needed to get started. As of posting this is have.

300lb anvil 

Complete solid fuel forge 

100kg of anthrecite beans

Ball peen hammer

Hot set

Rasp

Lots of files 

Tongs

And a few more smaller tools that evade my memory.

The thing that inspired me to get these tools was a book called "The Modern Blacksmith - Alexander Waygers" I had intended to work my way through the book and make every tool in it but I was soon met with a extensive list of equipment that needed to be acquired before starting. This led to my next task. Getting it all! It is now nearly a year since I started collecting, and I am still far from complete but I can't wait any longer. I'm dieing to hit some metal.

So my question is "with the tools I have and a small collection of rebar and bits of scrap metal (also pretty unlimited supply of aluminium due to my job) is there anything I an make with little experience behind the hammer?

Any recommendations as to tools that I should start looking into getting would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

Michael

Thanks for the help guys! Sorry for the slow reply but I've almost finished cleaning it up now and I have found some markings on one side which read "2 2 20" mean anything to anyone? I'll post some pictures as soon as I get home. 

Thanks again 

This is my first anvil. I have no information about it and was wondering wondering if anyone could identity it or tell me if it's any good. 

I am looking to clean it up to look a lot nicer any help with that would be appreciated too.

Thank you in advance.

Thank you for the reply and the offer! I will be down that area in the near future as I have a knife making course with Owen Bush would love to make something more out of the trip if the offer still stands.

Thanks again

Hello everyone 

I'm Michael Armer from Liverpool, England. This is my first post sorry if I did anything wrong. I took an intest in blacksmithing only recently but have fallen in love with it. Since then I have been attending courses and doing research into the feild but am still finding it very overwhelming. I am hoping that I could find some help here and hopefully help as many people as I can when I have the knowledge. 

Thank you for reading, any and all advice is more than welcome.