Brandon1986

Ah, we work 2 crews the other crew most likely took care of him. Now I am up to speed.

Ok friend you TOTALLY lost me... Best I can figure you went where ever I am buying my forge from.. I can't be sure though, because outside of a phone number and a craigslist add I have no info on this thing, not even a name of the builder. My guess is I came up in conversation.. I've also deduced Deb is your wife and you only have daylight hours available... Be that the case you are doing me a favor in getting me pointed in the right direction (for which I would be willing to pay you provided your fees are reasonable) so you name the time of day and I will be there if I don't have to work.

As soon as the frost hits and digging season ends I would love to take you up on your offer... I would much rather save myself the time of teaching myself vs having someone say "no you idiot why did you go and do some dumb thing like that" =D

My family owns Fischer Bros Excavation, and we do our own fabricating and maintenance. That said I have scads of high carbon scrap steel hanging around, piles of rebar chunks of track pads that have been cut down, used cutting edges. I stumbled across a piece of fresh cutting edge that was trimmed off about 1"x1"x6" I was thinking about trying to make a blade out of, and I will be buying a propane forge

Hello, I am working my way into this hobby. I hope this is a good place to ask a couple questions of you folks who live in my area. I know just about nothing about this, just that the concept intrigues me and I already have most of the tooling I think I will need to get started. The only thing I lack is a decent forge, and there is a guy on craigslist that I will be buying one from as soon as he gets that done. I have a stack of excavator cutting edges welded together for an anvil weighing between 150-200#... rudimentary but from what I have read functional. I noticed I missed a meeting yesterday in which I might have been able to learn some basics of the craft. Is there any other meetings or public booths (such as the one at the fair run by a member of this forum if I am not mistaken) in the upcoming future that I would be able to attend. My end goal is to be able to make decent blades to give to friends and family for Christmas birthdays ect.. Any help or pointers in a direction would be helpful, thanks in advance Brandon