CrazyGoatLady

Hello George! Yes that was my thought was just to spark test it or break it... which I would rather not break it. If it's wrought, I want to make maybe a little something special out of it. A friend in Alabama is sending me some draft horse shoes with copper nails in them. It sounds as if they may be aluminum though. She's a barefoot farrier and she's not sure about these, but it's what it sounds like in her description to me. I still like the artist blacksmith twist but my current thoughts are nail making and hinges. We are building a pole barn and I want to add some blacksmitherly touches to it. Tommie is good. He's excited because I told him to buy a saw mill

JHCC, how big is the flamingo going to be? Sorry I'm a little behind on things and I'm sure there are details on your project. And Eureka! I think I might get a photo to upload. This is the horseshoe I was talking about that may be wrought iron Also, here is my little set up for now. I miss a shop with a concrete floor but I've decided I really like using solid fuel through this process

Hey there Billy! It always makes me smile to see a post from you. Hope you are doing well. Frosty, I think it's know what the problem is with the WI. My little JABOD will get to forge welding heat easily. What I think I'm doing is working it too long before putting it back in the fire. I'm going to attempt to post the picture of the horseshoe again. 20250725_205401.heic20250725_205401.heic Okay so that didn't work. Sorry I'll figure it out. I resized it i thought

Hello JHCC and thank you. I finally got to mess with WI you sent me last night. My gas forge bit the dust and I'm saving up for another one but I built a JABOD in the meantime. I was going to make a bottle opener but it kept splitting so I have to figure out how to work with it in order to actually produce something. Interestingly enough, I grabbed a gnarly old horseshoe and I straightened it out and I'm not sure but I think it's WI too. I'd add a picture, but I'm having trouble getting one to go through

Hey Frosty! We are doing well. Expecting calves in September and ready for milk again. We've also added a couple of Kune Kune pigs and a goose lol. We are also building a pole barn. We are using as much material as we can from our land. I am going to attempt to make the hinges for the doors so I've been studying up on that. And yes sir, it's hot and since I have no inside shop, I'm in partial sun until it goes down. But with running a solid fuel forge outside, it's not nearly as hot as running a gas forge inside. I hope you are doing well I'll see if I can get a picture to load20250725_203914.heic20250725_203914.heic20250725_203914.heic Okay I'll have to figure that out again

I've been catching up on what everyone's been doing. Man, y'all have gotten so good over the years. Just thought I'd pop in and say hello and compliment all the talented folks in this group. I've been on and off for a few years and I have built myself a charcoal forge and am back at it. Got some forge time in this evening and it was so much fun

I remember what that machine was called. It is a digester

They look good. I made much smaller ones before. Like the kind you would use for tacking fence to a post. Pretty easy but a bit fiddly.

I have used horseshoes a lot in my work. I have bought new ones but I have found I like used ones better. If I run across ones made by Nordic Forge,I save those for special things. They move very well under the hammer. And I try to leave as much of the character of the individual shoe as I can. Tommie worked at a sand mine right before covid and got laid off. But they had this machine I can't recall the name of that would sift the sand and mostly there were rocks in it but occasionally it would cough up other things. He found half a very worn shoe once and brought it home to me. I made a penanular? brooch out of it and managed to keep the nail fuller intact. It is now owned by a female farrier friend of mine. Some friends bought me a box of used shoes from ebay and I collected a bunch off the ground when I went with my father in law to buy a goat one time. Turned out the guy had done farrier work and he let me have all the shoes I could find for free. Ha ha sorry. I love making things from horse shoes

Shainarue, that's a nice sculpture. I have not attempted something like that but I think I would like to. Tommy, I like your bottle opener. It has nice lines. Good work! And what did I do in the shop today? Absolutely nothing. It's getting hotter every day I think. But I could still work at the forge if I had time and money lol. Propane needs to be filled because I'm nearly out. If there was a What Did You Do On The Farm Today section I could easily fill that. Weaning a bottle baby goat. Tending to a sick baby goat and drying off my Jersey milk cow and endless other chores. And making sure all the critters including the human variety are okay through the heat

I like it!

Paul. Nice looking hook. Keep up the good work! Jennifer, lovely work as per usual. You have great skill and it certainly shows. Billy, the brackets are starting off well. I'm sorry to hear about your health problems. I hope you'll be able to get back to all the things you enjoy doing soon

Paul, that's a nice collection of hooks. I give away nearly everything I make. I have sold a few things, but mostly they go as gifts if someone likes a piece and I give it to them. Goods, I like the pendants. It's the one on the left representative of some kind of bird? It's pretty cool looking

I'm glad to be able to contibute

My boy is 6' 4". I'm 5'3". One of his friends that I met for the first time when he was a teenager walked in the door and just stopped and looked at me. He pointed at my son and said how did that come out of you!? I told him he wasn't near that big when he first came out lol

Aww that's too cute Das Irondragon, I'm not a Dad obviously but my little boy is 30 years old and he's my baby. It's shocking how fast time goes by

Haha Frosty, you're right. I hadn't noticed the expression on that guy's face

My last post doubled up too but it didn't go through until some time later and I didn't know it. Sorry about that or I would have fixed it JHCC, that looks really good. I'm looking forward to seeing the finished product

Paul, I'm in Texas and that's normal for this time of year. I can handle the heat pretty well, but I was forging at the wrong time of day with the sun up high and no shade. So when I could hear my heart pounding in my skull, I figured it was time to stop lol. I envy your weather at °75. Daswulf, I think those anhks look pretty good. That's what I had visualized Paul, I'm in Texas and that's normal for this time of year. I can handle the heat pretty well, but I was forging at the wrong time of day with the sun up high and no shade. So when I could hear my heart pounding in my skull, I figured it was time to stop lol. I envy your weather at °75. Daswulf, I think those anhks look pretty good. That's what I had visualized

Paul, I think it looks pretty darn good!

Glad to see you're getting situated. I can't wait to see more work from you. That hold fast is a very handy critter to have. I have one I made and I can't find it, so I'll have to make another one. The bending wrench will be a good tool to have as well. Anxiously awaiting more posts!

Happy Father's Day to all the Dads here! And a special happy Father's day to the unsung heroes like my husband who is a step dad and is now raising his nephew. Men in those situations don't get the credit they deserve. Here's to celebrating you too

It was 16 hours well spent. It's wonderful

I don't know how to link it, but in an interwebs search, I actually found that there's a thread about making an ankh in Member Projects here on IFI He used a split cross

Yeah I'm glad you brought that up Goods. I forgot mention to not overlap the cuts if you didn't want the open space in it. I don't know. I've never made an ankh before so that would be my best guess unless I were to see someone make one