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Hey Meissenmann,,
nice way to start binging iron. after a few hooks, my fist protect was a hummingbird based on an anvilfire blueprint by Bill Epps. Yours came out far nicer than my first one. keep it up

Mark, Frosty has it exactly right. I wish you lived a little further from the "left" coast on the pacific and closer to the "right" coast over here on the atlantic:D
I would maybe even be able to convince my wife of the benefit gained from your teachings.

thanks for the mini class on tenons

on a slight side-step; many of the airport security entries are now using body scanners that, according to a friend who is very familiar with airport security functions, will pick up even a fiberglass shank.

Very nice designs Bart. I especially like the little fixed pocket model. that one just looks really useful. I will have to try one out.

Frosty,
LPS? It took me years to figure out ROTFLOL . what exactly is LPS?

on second thought, google is pretty neat. LPS is basically petroleum-derived carbon and hydrogen, paraffin, mineral oil and a small amount of acetone.

pretty clean. thanks

Bruce,
your blade looks beautiful, but the pictures are from lilliput:D
would you happen, perchance, to have images larger than a thumbnail?
again:D

Bart, great job and thanks for the pics. I have been working on one but keep getting stuck on the pivot and lanyard detail part of it.
paul

Beam me up Scotty!! let us know where you are by going into the user cp and filling in the rest of the blanks.

as to the gas saver, check out larry zoeller's site and see if that is what you are talking about

because I have one of the old trusty russian HF anvils with the diamond hardy hole, I have to make virtually all of my own hardy tools. I have found that making the stem from a piece of round rod or pipe that fits the hole works well. If I need the tool to stay put, I build up one or two sides (of a circle:D) with a few beads from the welder. works fine so far.

Another trick was to use heavy angle for the stem. Grind it to fit the hole and weld to the base of the tooling

Like most things blacksmithing, I probably read about these ideas here on the forum

hassenfeffer:D
(that's what the wife said when I said bacon)

mmmmm bacon

Hey fats,
where abouts in NC are you?
welcome to the forum

Pascalou,
Beautiful work, as always visible!
We hust had a copper/blacksmith/carpenter from Germany stip in at our last NCABANA chapter meeting and he showed us some of the tooling and techniques in volved with making a simple small copper bowl.:o:o

My hat is so off to you I cannot find it.

...and my first, second and third are still waiting finishing.
great start

very nice knife. I really like the way the pattern is brought out.

Thansk for the before and after pictures. nice knife and idea. I have been meaning to make one of those .
Inspirational

I know that I haven't seen any more of the russian submarines from HF, but I got mine for less than a dollar a pound.
that one there scares me. YOu can buy a better pieces of scrap metal to bang on for less than 200

Nice first try. keep up the work and post the finished product. I would also suggest patching the hole in the smithy roof:D

you can also go to Larry Zoeller's site and pick one up for less than $35 not including shipping
Burner Flares & Gas Forge Parts

I would go for it. I would have love to have something like that to start with.

On the topic of hard-facing; The main anvil used in the blacksmith shop at the state fair was just resurfaced by one of the old smiths with a whole lotta years of experience. I asked him what he used and he said 70-110. He said that heavy hammer edge hits may dent a little, but there is absolutely no shattering or chipping. Also, it is easier to grind, file and sand. FWIW

Alex Bealer's revised edition.
438 pages
ISBN-13: 978-0-7858-0395-9, and ISBN-10: 0-7858-0395-5
I hope this is not a duplicate.
Another great book for reference. I have sen reference to this one several times, but never a review in this section.
The method or writing/organizing this book is almost like story-telling. Mr. Bealer goes through just about the whole book as if he is describing things to someone while he is standing in his smithy doing the work. This is a slightly different approach than the textbook style used by some, but is very effective.
The illustrations are clear enough to give you the gist of what is being described, so you can form a mental picture that matches the words. I have found this to be useful over and over again.
I would definitely recommend this as part of a budding blacksmith's literary repertoire.

I have to second Dan's advice. I only have a meager blacksmithing library, but continually come back to Blandford's book for mental refresher and explanation. Very useful book. This is the one that had the boot scraper that I put together a while back.

old man river

Don,
cool idea on the angle for hardy stock. I am "lucky" enough to have a HF russian submarine for an anvil with the diagonal hardy hole. so making a post to fit is a bugger. But, while typing that in I realized I could weld the angle on the edges and it would work fine.
thanks for the helpful inspiration!:D

tzonoqua,
you nailed it on the head - Geiger-esque
something you world see in an Aliens movie. Very cool