this old blacksmith

Wow have you figured out the fuel consumption yet. Bet it's like my F250. How fast does it bring your heat up to working temp. Always been wanting one, how quick does it eat a 20 pound gas bottle. Have you used it that much yet. Very nice

Also Thomas. I wanted to make the edge very hard and the back soft to prevent breakage. Apprecite all the info. Just thought it would be cool to make a knife from a Caterpillar rear Ring Gear tooth. At the very least it would be a conversation piece correct. Thanks again Thomas

Thanks I'll try to figure out what tpe it is then ask again later. For as where it came from was the ring gear of Cat 100 ton Haul truck. I thought it was tool steel for when I heated it to bright yellow white and struck it. It decided to crumble on me. A friend stated that it was tool steel and only work it while it was a dual yellow to bright red. But since there so many types my question and discription is quit pointless. Thanks any way Ragards and thanks for the explanation

Thanks for the reference on where to ask the ?? JK

Hello I'm a new bee at the knife making. This is my second atemp at a knife. And Damascus I've got the blade etched but need to know how to get the milk haze off of the bright folds. Without removing the darker etch. Anyone feel gracious and give up some info. I thank you in advance. This old blacksmith. Short (T,O,B,)

Can antone give some info in heat treating toolsteel to keep the blade very hard and the back softer to keep the knife from breaking. Thank much T,O,B

Thanks all for the help. I did plan on using from top of forge draw box well above the fire3 box not to see to much heat. Again thak you all. t,o,b

Thanks I been welding a fabing for over 25 years. Know the do's and don't about coated meatals thanks for the reminders though. I do plan on making a super sucker side draft for next to the fire pot. I was really worried about the GAlvanized corroding away inside of ayear or so. Didn't want to have to go through trouble of restacking the forge do to rotting. Thanks for the info appriciate it all.

Does anyone know if Galvanized pipe is ok to use for exhaust stack. I'm hearing it corroides very fast, something to do with a chemical reaction in the sink. Is there truth to this or would it be ok to use appreciate the help.. Thanks in advance t,o,b,s.

I use old fashioned oncrete squared nails. Thanks

Instructor at the guild made one which was totally beautiful. So I had to try to make one myself. It's a lot harder to work with the smaller pieces of metal. Mines not half as nice as the instructors, but I still liked the end result. Material list 3 and one half old fashioned concrete nails and after I burnt the first six up of course. It's easy to lose them in the fire one slip of the tongs and there gone.

Ok thought I'd suggest the coke since you live inside a city. E Bay sometime has some for sale if you'd like to try it out. Just some thought. Thanks

Thank you sir. I still have to put on all the handles and hardie staples along with the ground spikes.

When your heating you may have your work to close to air tyre, causing exccessive oxidation. Try moving your work a little higher up from air feed. This will held reduce scaling some what. Just a thought in case it wasn't mentioned before.

You can use blast furnace coke to. if you can find a steel foundry close by. It burns extremly hot and clean & smokeless. Can't say enough about it. Recomend breaking into small one inch nuggets. This way it covers your work more evenly and has more surface area, to produce a more even heating. Fire will burn a clear blue flame.

Anvil weighs around 30 pounds stand about the same. Thanks for the kind words

Drilled then made a mortice out of angle to cut square.Then used popane torch to burn out shavings. Thanks for all the complements appreciated

Added pictures to first post hope went through

Thanks appreciate the info. do you know how to decrease bite size

Depends on how worn your bushings are. But a thin oil should surfice so it seep into the shaft bushings and lubes well. If it drips to much and makes a mess put a little heavier in. I had worn bushings in mine had to spin new ones. but also added little felt washers to keep leaking down. Thay all will leak a little you just don't want to much running out to where your always adding more. I'd Start with a 30 wt Hope I helped

Anvil is hand made. Used 3/4" Hard plate and heavy mig for filler on the horn.

The candle plate looks great. What do you use to pickle the metal ??