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?thanks. forge welding is fun, fun and fun. I use it pretty much every time I light up the forge. for some reason i could not get that eye to blade shoulder to weld up as clean as I like so I chased it down. Its a great hawk.

Les, You are most welcome. It's people like yourself taking the time to let me know they are appreciated that keeps me making them. Thanks.

This information has been talked about many times. If the metal is not having the center of the bar effected with the hammer blow the edges will indeed upset because the pressure is not getting to the center of the bar. this can be helped along with a more driving blow.. Lighter hammer moving faster.. or a heavier hammer. The lighter hammer with a longer handle is what most do and this will take care of the problem. or help to minimize it. There is also working over the horn or 1/2 on 1/2 off to get better penetration into the metal. One of the other factors is not getting a thorough heat on the work piece. IE the edges are hotter than the center.

This was filmed way back in May just after I made the tomahawk mandrel video.. I haven't been feeling inspired to produce videos so this video has minimal edits. 1 to be exact. Been to busy with other things. I left in all the mistakes. which I usually do. It's part of the fun.

Marc1 nearly all the Eagle (Fisher Norris) anvils I have seen the lugs are offset. I've only seen 1 that was not offset and it was tiny. I had tried steel milk crates back in the 80's. The heaviest I could find.. and they didn't last. The spot welds broke along where the feet were resting.

Yup and that card board stand looks a little flimsy or that is a super light anvil. Are you sure this is even on earth? I think those white things are breathing helmets.

Sure is a beautiful spot. Great place both for a shop and retail, with that main road right there.

CGL Domestic goddess is a bunch of work in it's own right.

Ah, you guys are sweet. Les, that means a lot. LOL.. Might not be true but it's sweet just the same. Got more work done today after an 8 horse trim day and was able to get up and do some work by myself. Was so nice and peaceful. Was able to get 4 out of the 5 purlins end bolts in. Would have gotten the 5th in and done... But unsolicited help showed up and it turned into a 3 stooges movie. 2.5hrs and not a single amount of work was done. LOL. Just a stuck Lull.

Now is the time I do my best work. As long as the rain holds off the rear section of purlins should be completed. Have 8 horses to do then building work. Giddy up..:)

well done.

did not get as far as hoped, but got as far as about expected. I have some wonderful people helping me. I love them all.. 3 of the purlins on the front section had to be exchanged out for the correct numbered ones. 3 P 5 were installed but they are supposed to be P1's. So had to redo part of the job all ready done. The instruction say to square the center section, and tension the rods before all the purlins are installed. Well, that is just wrong. You can't do that because the purlins for the front half and the purlins for the rear half go under the purlins for the center section. So having to get a 24ft long piece of metal bolted on the end is tough when you can't see it. Anyhow, feeling frustrated tonight. I'm starting to get a little beat up. I have bruises everywhere especially on the inside of my thighs and legs. Having some more intuned help would be a wonderful thing and then I think to myself it's only a few more days. It's only a few more days. .. I'm doing the job of 4 people and getting tired.

Yup or one could just open or download the pdfs attached to my post. These are 5 very good ones.

They are one of the distributors.

The British rural arts counsel ones "The Blacksmiths craft "(Cosira series) are stellar books with very teachable content without the complexity of disyhering the information. Many of the earlier and even some of the later books on the subject leave information out as common knowledge or as a way to entice schooling with the writer of said books. Plain and ornamental forging (1916) is another decent one. One other problem I have seen is the wrought iron vs mild steel equation. Wrought iron practically will weld with little more than spit, but mild steel needs more care to weld well. (IE Good clean job) Something earlier books dont account for. Some of the information for sure can be elaborated on as far as formulas and such.. Sq to straight taper. 2X length, sq to full square taper 3X length, etc, etc. blacksmith shop practice.pdf blacksmiths manual.pdf blacksmithscraft.pdf BLACKSMITHS-MANUAL-ILLUSTRATED.pdf Plain_and_Ornamental_Forging.pdf

Right on, We don't own anything. It owns us.

You keep that up and you'll look like HeeMan. Personally there is something rewarding about working hard physically and the way it feels. I"m not talking about the muscle soreness because of using muscles that haven't been used since the last time, but that overall feeling vs going to a gym and such. Building the building and being up on the beams is something that I used to do daily years ago and it is a good feeling of work at the end of the day. Or recently with splitting all the fire wood by hand.. At the end of the day it was a good tired vs just being drained.

My buddy Steve took one of me when I was adding the end purlin. I'm using my knees to push it back up the slope and pulling them together to get a bolt in.

Thomas, If I were in a warm climate I'd have done a pole barn as well. I had originally looked at doing something like a 40X60 pole barn. After looking at rafters, metal sizing, wood framing, site prep. there wasn't much difference in cost between the steel building and the pole barn.. Where the costs were the main problem was the site work, steel for the foundation, and insulation. 3500 2014 vs 9+ in 2019 with R30 roof, 25 walls. I wanted this to be fully insulated and be able to heat it reasonably. One thing that I wanted to avoid was the risk of fire hazard. This is one of the main things that won me over once I looked at the cost between the 2. Anyhow the building was probably one of the most reasonable pricing points out of all of it. FYI the site work was more than the building. With that said I figured out a way to increase production even working by myself. I put vise grips and C clamps on the sides and brought up all the purlins and slid them down till they hit the vise grips. I then fastened them on the end wall and moved over to the steel girder which is easy to walk on. it took about 1.5hrs to setup the vise grips, sort metal and get the metal up. then 2 hours to get the end wall aligned and bolts in. I only have 2 or 3 more on that side to fasten to the main structure and then will move to the close side. I have a feeling tomorrow I will have the metal framing aspect of the building done or pretty close. there is some custom work I need to do to the front shed dormer but this was because of a design change. The door is a full 12ft wide vs 11'4" I also go and see about getting a manlift so putting in the insulation will go quickly. If all goes well. the building will be whole by next week or there abouts. the thought of this project being done and out of the way is exciting. I love seeing the amount of free stock piled metal getting smaller and smaller.

The slit method of doing them is great for a smaller pair and it cuts the forging time in half. Here you go.

Old crew tongs don't take that long. I put up a couple of videos on different methods that don't involve forge welding. The part that usually throws a person off is the forge welded type which is the fastest vs drawing the reins out which can be tiresome if the hammer arm is not in great shape. Brian Brazeal has a great video on tong making and a great take on moving metal. Well worth the watch.

Pretty cool.

I have found that few students ever show up to learn the way of peace.. it's a gradual process as they find fighting is not what they think it was and that peace comes from inside. Not what is happening around themselves. The only thing we can control and change is our own thoughts. Everything external directly or indirectly can test most to respond in a knee jerk reaction. Anyhow, I have found that it takes some time before they see beyond what they think things are.

that is cool. So literally there is no height adjustment for a given stock size. I wonder how the spring/toggle action works to accommodate this? IE pivot action and growth vs newer style hammers which have adjustments for throw. I have seen a newer style that was out of adjustment and the spring was practically falling out when adjusted for smaller width stock and then moved up to the wide side.

Tangle diver. sometimes those Leds need some time plugged in to correct. With this said. why EMI filter? Do you have something on the line or close that would cause interference? Randy, 52100 can be fickle and its one of the only steels that I quench in oil on a regular basis.