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You might try Kayne & Sons Blacksmith Depot. I understand they are (or were) Iron Kiss dealers. You can google iron kiss hammers LLC they have a facebook page and lot of sites on google.

Don't ya hate it when that happens.

Welcome aboard Sixshooter. There is a section Farriers and horse stuff below this one. There are several members threads, who make some very nice spurs there.

Where in the world might that be? It always helps with answers knowing your location, hence the suggestion to edit your profile to show your location in this thread. READ THIS FIRST It is full of other tips to help in getting the best out of the forum. Scrap yard or your local mechanic, if you have one is a good place to get steel like coil springs, torsion bars, drag links & tie rods, etc all of which make good tongs.

Buttering is done with plain water by the way.

Welcome aboard... We won't remember that once leaving this post, hence the suggestion to edit your profile to show location. Have you read this yet? READ THIS FIRST It will help with getting the best out of the forum. Sorry I can't help with the ribbon burner, but I'm sure the folks who know all about them will be along shortly.

Welcome aboard... Have you read this yet? READ THIS FIRST We won't remember this once leaving this post, hence the suggestion to edit your profile to show it.

Welcome aboard... Have you read this yet? READ THIS FIRST It will help in getting the best out of the forum.

Welcome to IFI. I always suggest reading this to get the best out of the forum. READ THIS FIRST It is full of tips like editing your profile to show your location and many others. Could that be Lindsey? I have seen Lindsey farrier hammers, may be an anvil made by one of the foundries for a store brand. A picture of the underside of the base and knowing where in the world it/you are located will help.

Welcome aboard Tyler. It sounds like you will fit right in here. The link pnut gave you is full of hints like how to do the best search because the forum search is not the best and some will help in staying off the moderators radar. We love pictures, just be sure to resize them so they don't take up so much bandwidth and data. We have members world wide and many still have to rely upon dial up internet or pay extra for data. Remember in rust we trust.

I usually haggle at yard sales and junk stores. A while back my wife & I were at a junk store that had three large wrought iron wagon tires. He wanted 10$ apiece for them. I offered 20$ for all three and he accepted. While loading them on the truck he said he didn't know what they were and asked what we were going to use them for. I explained we were blacksmiths and because they were old wagon tires made from wrought iron they were getting harder to find. As we were pulling out my wife chastised me for giving him an education and if he comes across any others you can bet the price will be tripled.

Read a story today that folks who are working from home are drinking a lot more. I don't drink any more or any less since this "social distancing" started. I have been wondering which genius coined that term, the very act of distancing is antisocial. Since I've been called antisocial by some, I decided to use the term "physical distancing" instead. Thomas, putting some smoldering oakum in your beard braids would really top off the look.

Happy to hear you are getting back up to speed. So far the Saex looks good, can hardly wait to see the finished knife.

Welcome aboard Gabriel. I always recommend reading this to get the best out of the forum. READ THIS FIRST Knowing where in the world you are located will help with many answers, hence the suggestion to edit your profile to show your location. I doubt seriously you will be able to find an original screw & screw box for that monster vise. Making one like in this thread is not that hard. What is wrong with the one that is in it?

When we were working for the Cadillac dealership in Miami mid to late 70s GM, was going to electronic/computer ignition systems. One of the mechanics/radio man had a CB in his van that was so powerful that when he keyed the mic while driving on I95, it would shut off all the GM vehicles near him. He had so much fun with that moving traffic out of his way.

The cement you listed is not a decent or recommended refractory. If you do some reading here you will see what is recommended.

That's why I updated his quote.

Reading the news on Yahoo all the stories about covid19 are all gloom and doom., don't go to the grocery store for the next 2 weeks, millions are going to die (exaggeration on my part) and on and on. Then on the local news the stories were a bit more positive, states like New York are seeing a leveling off of new cases and fewer deaths...*good grief* one doesn't know what to believe. To update a Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) attributed quote. If you don't watch the news, you are uninformed. If you do watch the news, you are misinformed.

The Tim LIvely washtub forge lives on here, can't tell how many new folks have been advised to build one.

I think I've read that the tuyere outlet should be 2 inches off the floor.

Yep... ya done good.

Yep... Ike Doss was 90 and still in his shop 6 days a week. He had no intentions of slowing down, until he was hit by a car while walking to the shop one sad morning. He never recovered from that and passed away at 91.

We won't remember this once leaving this post, hence the suggestion to edit your profile to show your location. READ THIS FIRST

That's the same way I do it for the Star.

More than likely it's just black paint. I have never removed the coating before forging coil springs and never saw any special coatings.