CrazyGoatLady

They look good to me Frazer. Forge welding is fun isn't it?

Thanks for sharing your story Irondragon. That touched my heart

It's pretty already. I wish I could get hold of some WI. I'd love to see what it feels like to forge

Wow. I didn't even know there was such a thing. 

That will be interesting. It follows you!?

He would probably laugh his head off and wonder what in the heck we were doing!

Nobody else around here has a use for my tongs, so I don't really worry about those. I leave out certain files and hammers that are on the  'Ok to use pile' just in case. But mostly they don't want to hear me yell at them so they stay away from my little corner of the shop. 

Are you going to upload the new video Jennifer? I'll look forward to it

Or when they wrap their hands around the bare blade to straighten it. That makes me cringe. 

I would be glued to the TV if you were on it Frosty 

6 hours ago, Marcus_Aurelius said:

I also can get protective of my anvil, and my hammers, and well frankly my tongs as well .

Agreed! And my files also. Those go in a drawer where no one else knows but me  Good looking tongs. 

Jennifer, great work. I bet it'll it work well

I told him to look for other markings on it. He works two jobs. Maybe he can get them soon. Thanks for the help guys

That's what I told him. I have a Vulcan also. I think it's probably around 70 to 75 lbs. by the description he gave me because that's about what mine would weigh if it weren't missing pieces. 

Thank you Thomas. Vulcan was my guess as well. I read elsewhere where you were talking about the logo being cast proud in relation to cast iron anvils and learned quite a bit about the Arm&Hammer logo. But at 50 bucks, I think he did good in the current market. Ithink the stand and hardy tool he has in it came with it

I hope this is the right place to put this. A friend of mine recently bought this for $ 50 (US). He sent pictures and I don't know what it is. I see what I think is an Arm&Hammer logo. After some studying, I can't come to a conclusion. He hasn't weighed it, but the way he describes it, it sounds like it weighs under a 100lbs. If I need better photos, I'll see if he can get more. Thanks in advance for any help y'all night be able to give. 

Awrksmokey, I like that little hammer. I have a couple of small hammers I use for detail work. 

No one is allowed to even breathe in the direction of my anvil. Ok, maybe a bit of an exaggeration, but not much. My RR track anvil or the little Vulcan is what will get used if and when someone else is working in my smithy unless maybe they are someone with higher skills than me. Got a friend that may want to learn in the near future and I'll try to help him out as much as I can. The Vulcan will fit the bill for that 

There's not a lot of grass in that particular area. They were scrounging through some leftover hen scratch and leaves from the tree there. They are very opportunistic eaters for sure. The two black headed girls in the picture get particularly hefty when the grass is plentiful. The red headed one had gotten pretty dragged down from her kids but she has filled back out nicely. 

Virusds, nice looking blade. Keep up the good work!

This came in the mail today. From Glen Stollmeyer of GS Tongs. Comes with flat, fullering and butcher dies. Thanks Glen

I need to make myself a back scratcher. Hmm another little project. I have a notebook and I have pieces of scrap paper all over the house where I get an idea and jot it down. Usually drawings, then I work out the stock later when I actually take it to the anvil. I really need to put everything together though.

Grass... It does a body good 

Took me one good time of grabbing a black horseshoe and blistering two fingers and thumb and the web in between them to learn that the hard way

Thanks Frazer and Jennifer. I never even thought about the fire/water connection. I have more ideas than I have time to execute them. But I've been at least smart enough to write them down. And I have to remember to leave enough material on a scarf for a weld also. Nice rake. You do really good work. 

Haha thanks Frosty

Thank you Chris. There are a few around the bottom bend of the bigger one on the right. That's something I've been working on is smooth lines with as little scale and hammer marks as possible. Only leaving hammer marks if they are intentional. Which they weren't on the one opener but it didn't quite come to where I wanted so I just left them

Last time I flung something into the quench tank, it popped a hole in the bottom of it. Fortunately, I had another Turkey fryer pot

I thought about that too. But I hammered the finials snug to the body on these. They fit in the hand nicely and can accept a lanyard of some type if some one is so inclined