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M.J. my Kanca had a thick layer of clear coat on the face. It was very hard to remove with a cup brush. Have you removed the clear if it came with any? You will get better rebound afterwards My Kanca seems very hard to me. It has %95+ rebound in the sweet spot and has barely any marks after three years of weekends I have heard of soft ones however, maybe I got lucky. I have been happy with mine - P.S. thats a good price. About what I paid, with shipping, 3 years ago

I made a hook from a piece of 3/8” square, a bottle opener from half a RR spike and an anvil hold down from a piece of sucker rod, works real good. lots of fun and thanks for looking

No name on the forge except No. 142 on pan and tuyere. In perfect condition save one missing bolt on the leg support. Belt drive blower no name but big and turns free. 1-3/4”x1/2” leaf spring pack and piece of cloth. All for $45.

Nice score. I use my mild chunk for cutting and punching.

Very nice. Lot of work there

My wife is a stained glass artist and made a gift for my nieces upcoming wedding so I took these… and a made a stand. I like nothing about it other than it works as intended (which I am real happy with) It was harder than I thought it would be. The stained glass is super special and a true work of art

I believe there are several anvil makers using ductile iron. It can be hardened to a degree supposedly.

Dollars US. The mistake was converting the orthometric height published in meters by using 3.2808... feet per meter instead of the proper .3408 meters to the foot. A small discrepency but it added up when starting from sea level like Billy said. This amounted to a 1 foot bust and caused the contractor to move 330,000 yards of fill dirt twice. It is a huge site. It started when producing the topo map and wasnt noticed until they went to tie in the sewer line and found our site was too high. Dosent sound like much but building height restrictions are very strict on the site. Very much a rookie mistake that should have been caught well before any dirt was moved or designed for that matter.

Nice to see those beauties being used. I can't say which one I like best but that '27 Soderfors is really sweet. Thanks for sharing.

An improper conversion from meters to feet just cost my company 1.4 million. Not blacksmith related just helping others to learn from our mistake. (The simplest double check would have caught it but no, they are understaffed and overworked)

Been a few weeks since I’ve posted so heres a repcap…. yesterday I punched a couple holes using my favorite sucker rod punch. It holds up much better after I hardened it. then made a couple hooks last weekend I heat treated a 1075 kitchen knife (started to polish), a carving knife from an old file (got very hard), a cleaver and sugar knife from a leaf spring. All quenched in oil and tempered in my toaster oven and the weekend before just messing around mostly lots of fun and thanks for looking. edit: wrong thread. Meant to post in the what i did in the shop thread

Looks good Arthur. Ver clean

I love punching holes in stuff especially with tools I made Turned it into another bottle opener (give them away like candy) and started a little cleaver from a Studebaker leaf spring. Good times thanks for looking

Bottle opener I know it goes against all known safety rules but I love to drink beer while forging. Never more than a couple three however

Yes nice stuff all around. The hanger has just the right amount of too much!

Very nice repurpose Chad. I will have to try one

I have not but thanks for asking. I keep wanting to but I find that I would rather use my limited time forging. You have inspired my to go grab my kit and see how long I can get away with in front of the tv How about you? I love your steel sculptures.

Nice one. Is that a date between the S's? Looks like 1941 maybe?

Melting steel is very difficult for the home shop I believe. I would contact local foundry and see if they could help. Good luck and send pictures

Nice. I like your treadle hammer too

Yes congratulations on retirement for sure! My plan is 6 years from today (yesterday I turned 59)

Dont forget, steel can be found for free if you look around. Almost every house, yard, cabinet, road side has some rusty steel laying around. I hike a lot and find all kinds stuff. Even little bits can be forged into pretty things especially when starting out, just make sure to read through this site and learn to identify steel. In rust we trust. Have fun.

Good one Mr. Anvil.

Everything stated above. you can get started for less if you just want to try it. A wash tub or wash or box of dirt forge can work pretty well for next to nothing and you probably have the rest like a hammer and vise grips. an improvised anvil is the way to go until you get bit by bug and want to upgrade. You can get a decent propane forge online for a couple hundred. That and a bundle of Kens tong blanks, an improvised anvil and some scrap steel can turn you into a very good smith in short order.. Good luck, have fun and post pictures

Safety third. cool link George