Wesley Chambers

quick and free would be google sketchup can set what type of layout you want, feet/inches/meters and track and use the measurements you want. its very basic but handy in a pinch!

Very true! so much so that I forgot I even had my info on that page hah! well its fixed, Boldly! thanks Mike!


Edit: Im about to pull my hair out, for some reason my gallery section is no longer showing my photos lol the flash gallery works for a few min then I check on it later and nothing, no window nada! I truly hate godaddy.

Thanks Bigfoot, I changed the gallery around a bit added some new pics and added flash to give full screen options.

He all, after much procrastination I spent some cash and put my site online. Its not much but its a start, the only issue I know of right now is the slow load time from godaddy for my background image but I'm hoping a few people might have a min to give it a glance and make sure I havent missed a link or have any bad code~ anyway I could use some feedback, any criticism welcome thanks!

Black Flag Forge


I have a link to IFI in my friends section I hope this is acceptable, please let me know!

Thanks! I dont mind a 6 year window on something over 100 years old! ;)

Not sure how to for the attachment, but I can do it for ya~

Trenton! #342 A86255 I am fairly sure the serial starts with 8 the lower hoop is somewhat larger than the top, but it could be a 3
Anyone able to date her from this serial?

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I took the 800 mile round trip to buy just the anvil



But after talking with the seller Don, he ended up filling my truck with all this as well as some new 2" stone wheels, grinders, piles of leaf springs and even a 4" solid brass cannon he made! I dont think he has any idea how happy he has made me!


Also I was very lucky to even get this anvil, I guess a few days after I started this post someone contacted the seller and offered them more than I had! but after talking with the family for almost six months they knew I would be a good home for it and they stuck with me till I could afford to make the trip and pay for the anvil.

Thank you and your family sir!

a quick shot of her underside before I call it a night

Good news!, She is home safe! some pics now and more to come tomorrow afternoon when I have time to do some cleanup.

This is my new best friend Don, the seller, this wonderful man also parted with a number of tools to help me build my shop and I cannot thank him and his family enough and I only wish I could have taken some photos of his gun smithing work, hand made wheel locks, knives, leather and woodwork, all of which were amazing!



And unloading the new toy, I am a very happy boy.




I have not noticed any markings as of yet, but the base is concave and Ill do cleanup tomorrow along with the bucket full of fullers punches and hardy tools Don was kind enough to part with.

I can truly relate, when starting new students at the horseshoeing school we make them all sharpen there knives with hand files to start because the wheels can be so dangerous, but there is always someone that wants to be lazy and use the buffer, you know what happened from across the shop when you hear that BAM!@ as the knife bounces from the table and you can only hope they didnt catch it with there body.. glad to hear ya dodge the Ti bullet Monster~

I kinda hope so, it was part of the original sale but we never talked about it, I was trying to avoid scolding them for putting a stake tool in the hardy lol Ill post as soon as I know more!

heheh I remember my first, have fun man! congrats~

Other pics from the old add they ran, not much more help to identify but it looks like the base is part of the anvil

Hah! me too, hope to go pick her up this coming weekend so pics by next Sunday at the latest ;)

So I found this anvil sometime back and was very lucky that the owner was willing to sell and not just that but hold it till I could afford the purchase, it was used in a railroad roundhouse for years, I hope to learn more about it from the owners father who used to work on it at the railroad. If anyone has any idea what it could be please let me know, once I get her paid for and home Ill clean her up and take new pics, we dont even know how much it weighs, just something over 400 lb by owners best guess. My Soderfores is only 27" heel to tip of horn and is 191 lb



Any thoughts are much appreciated~

have you looked in the Non ferrous metals section?

lol ya know I did a forum search for brass and must have only been searching the blacksmithing sub-forum I forget sometimes we have other sections! thanks guys~

So I picked up a 1 inch dia. rod 22 inch in length and wanted to do more than just cut it into slugs for knife fittings. I can find general working heat ranges on google but I would rather get some info from someone here that forge works brass personally. With aluminum I can use the "feel" of the metal against the anvil to know when to forge but I've never worked with brass in the fire.. any tips? Also I know with Al I can heat once and work a long time and even quenching seems to anneal it, guess Im just looking for basic brass forging advice~ Thanks all~

This can also be a side effect of "wet forging" or "water forging" where the face of the anvil and the hammer face are coated with water before each session of forging, commonly used to remove slag from the work. It might be overstating it just a bit but its a hydrothermal explosion of water converting instantly to steam and can give you a large bang or pop I also used a bit of this for theatrical forging at renaissance faire's to bring in a crowd of people heheh

My roommate was doing some demo on an old house in south Indiana and found some old metal I might want to play with, but Im more interested in what it used to be, any ideas?

I would vote brass over copper, its just a bit more stout and still wont ding up your work or tools, why brass hammers are used for not denting up a nice steel surface. I cannot see a reason why copper would not work other than I wouldn't want it leeching all my heat away like a giant anvil radiator :P

Have not noticed any lines on my welded shoes but anyway, if I'm in the gas and need the help this is where I turn~



But would rather just crank the heat in the coke!

Might not be your everyday Valentines heart, but tastes differ this was a prototype "Twisted-Heart" made from 1"x3/8" tapered/split and twisted, another attempt or two and get it more symmetrical

This is our "middle" shop, classes in weeks 9-16, Myself at one of our two instructor stations in that shop

Do we need video? Wouldn't as straight transcript be enough?
Phil

I thought there might be a whiteboard option or maybe images to link too, never seen the session~

Edit: So, I didnt know it would only be text and linked pics guess we dont need video, Thanks :)

I understand there might be bandwidth issues but are there any options of IFI hosting the videos? I have not looked around much for a streaming host other than youtube but I could keep an eye out if people have a problem with downloading the file directly