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Thanks for answering my question tom. I have another question for you. Would an additional 30 lbs make a differwnce when forging hammers on the striking anvil? Do you have a striking anvil? What beer is good to drink at room temp? I had some fosters warm in Afghanistan but that was because we didnt have a fridge. Itwas the best and worst beer i have ever had.

Im not an ice cold beer. I cant make everyone happy. The more i think about this topic i wo der more and more what would you need to forge an anchor? Thomas could you help here?

You could have just asked what i wanted to make. I would have answered hammers and tooling for the craft. Thanks.

There u go.

Im building a striking anvil now. I w Have the 2 inch plate with the hardy hole in it and the a plate that is 1 inch thick. My question is, would that be enough or ahould i put another 1 inch plate under the 2 incher? I only want to build it once so if it needs that plate let me know.

My mechanic gave this to me and i dont exactly know how it works. It seems like there is an ash dump and the other arm is some sort of adjustable jet. Any ideas? I am not a coal forge kind of guy yet so this could b3 used with anything and i would not know it.

I understand what you are talking about now. I think i would rather go the forge a shank first and then when i see how hard it is and then may e go to this method. Thanks for the info.

That sounds like a lot of fun actually. Im looking forward to it. I am in central maine just in case someone is close by me.

Wow, I wish I would have gotten on here 8 months ago when I started this journey. Thanks for the explanations. Frosty, I imagine that you could forge whatever diameter fuller you wanted after you have the initial shank set. So if you were going to forge the 1/2 inch diameter fuller bottom tool what is the size of stock you would start with? Or am I not understanding your explanation well? Thanks to all of you for the responses.

Thanks Frosty, I used to be on a Army bomb squad. The name came about from when I handled some old nitro based explosives in Afghanistan and got the worst headache of my life. We were the ones taking care of all the explosive hazards, including IEDs in Iraq and Afghanistan. I thought that I may be needing an extra hand when it came to forging this. That was a good suggestion just welding a round stock onto a 1 inch square shank. I may do that just for now, and then when I have my striking anvil finished attempt to forge one in a single piece. I really enjoy making the tools that I use to make other projects and I am sure I can find some help as long as I tell them there will be beer there. Another question is, I read that if you do this on a normal anvil you could end up breaking the heel off from wedging the 1 inch stock too far into the hardy hole. Is there any truth to that? Thanks for the replies. Also. What size stock do you need to start with in order to forge a fuller and what type of metal should I use? Yeah I have a lot of questions.

Hello All, I apologize if this is not the correct room to post this question in or if the answer is extremely obvious. I started this craft a few months ago and have searched far and wide for a good tutorial that explains how to forge a bottom fuller hardy tool. I have seen a few videos on youtube, but they all seem to be using power hammers. Like most beginners I do not have a power hammer, but I am in the process of building a striking anvil. With that said, could someone point me in the right direction on this forum to a good tutorial for forging a bottom fuller? Everything I search for seems to be images or descriptions of what people have forged. It really seems strait forward, but I would like to know what people use for stock at the start and the steps or little bits of experience that could be shared to help me do this right the first time. Judging from the massive amount of posts and experience that has congregated here I am sure more than one person will be able to point me in that direction. Thanks in advance and I look forward to some feedback on some of my future projects.