DNADave

Made my first copper spoon a few weeks ago and not happy with it. Today I made a better bowl and will try it with one rivet instead of two. We’ll see

Played around with a towel rack this morning. Made from a pice of stock, a pipe hanger, and a coil spring.Need to rivet it all together next.

Today I cleaned up my shop and a pair of shears I found for cheap at an antique mall. I guess these go in the hardy hole? And then my wife wanted a hanger for her grandfather’s banjo to hang on the wall. That was a stretch of my ability at this point but….”.it will hang”

I made some hooks for a charity auction. Hope they go for $30 but I’ll start them for $10.

We're in West Virginia. the evaporust seems like something I can try first to see what happens. Thank you all for commenting.

It's right at 200 lbs even. Would a sanding disk on an orbital sander work?

I'll probably be forced to sell eventually. My wife is already unhappy about all of the other tools/stuff I have on the porch. It reminds me though when my dad used to tell me as a kid that I could tear up a lead anvil. If these are still usable, it may be best for me to resist putting a wire wheel to it and leave them as they are for the next guy. I was all in at 500 bills for this and bunch of other stuff. I figured 250 for the two forge blowers, tools, vice, the two pot looking things with crank handles (don't know what those are). Then we agreed on 100 for the anvil.

I've had a few blowers and pans before, but I'm not a blacksmith at all. I do enjoy finding these things though. Yesterday, I found an estate sale and found all these things below. Once we had made a deal on "all" of the blacksmithing tools. I asked if he had the anvil too, and sure enough, he did. All of these things are so rusty that I now wonder if I should have passed, especially on the anvil, which is a Fisher 200#. All of the forming attachments were in the bottom of the tool box with the tongs, which are all froze. What do you think? Would you pass or pull the trigger?