Wayne Mitchell

13 hours ago, ThomasPowers said:

Have you attended any meetings of the New Mexico Artist Blacksmith Association, loosely based around Albuquerque though there have been meetings as far away as Rowe and Lemitar?

Not yet, I did t know there was an association until you mentioned it. I will need to research contact info for the association and go from there 

On June 11, 2016 at 6:50 PM, Steve Sells said:

you are saying that is a safe way to test a blade? how do you control whose leg the broken section cuts when it goers flying in a fail, which can happen a lot to beginners?

Keep going,  I'm learning here, you guys are a wealth of information 

Thomas,

Pleasure to meet you sir.

I am in Albuquerque / Wagon Mound,  mostly in Albuquerque as I own a construction company, Pallet Strapping you say?  my next door neighbor here at the office is in the scaffolding business (rents the stuff)  he is always using pallet strapping to tie the legs and planks down to pallets, he throws that stuff away,  if I understand you correctly I need to be gathering all that stuff up big time?   I do appreciate your offer on the stacks.

Happy Thanksgiving.

7 hours ago, Daswulf said:

The fire pot looks a bit deep IMO, but overall Nice work!

You are right it is about two inches to deep, it is six inches deep, I'm thinking it should have been like four inches?

Thank all of you guys for the suggestions, I see tong racks in my very near future like probably Tuesday :-)

Not sure what the strap was, bought it at Home Depot, so probably very low content, I never even thought about carbon content at the time, just has to see if I could weld it with a forge.

i did time it. Right at an hour and half to forge the knife shape from the billet blank. So as I understand your message I need to become much more efficient with the amount of time I work the steel to shorten the amount of heats.

Thank you for the advice it will be heeded.

I forge welded six pieces of flat strap into one billet? (Is billet correct term) then forged the blade.  I honestly have no idea as to what I am doing in terms of education,  I was not able to get the blade to harden. Metal is still soft so will not be able to use as a real working knife

This is my first forge built in my shop