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Thanks so much, I would have driven around for hours trying to find the place. 

On 5/9/2019 at 7:29 AM, Les L said:

I saw in one of your other posts that you joined LAMA, are you coming the meeting this Saturday? If so, look me up and we can discuss welding and the different types of equipment.

Les

 

Acctaully I will be, I'll see you then.

1 hour ago, ThomasPowers said:

 

Why the short term for a complex goal?  Especially with two jobs...

What kind of stock removal equipment do you have access to/skills with?

 

1) I have a friend who i've flying to visit in august.

2) 1X30 belt sander switched to a 1 hp motor. And an angle grinder

1 hour ago, Irondragon Forge & Clay said:

The optimism of youth, gotta love it. Next thing you know it will be a Seax made out of pattern welded Damascus.

I acctualy made a Seax for a school project the pictures looked good enought for a  100 but...its was god awful.

1 hour ago, Buzzkill said:

The next question is: how much time do you honestly have to dedicate to forging and related activities between now and your deadline?

If i suspect correctly, not enough.

1 hour ago, ThomasPowers said:

I notice that there are 2 ABANA Affiliates listed for Louisiana; can you get to meetings at either one?   

I've already sent my membership submission into LAMA, and I've made planes to be attend two of the monthly meetings before August( and then as many as I can after that). In terms of PPE, I've had proper eye/ear protection for a while and i have a half face mask and filters ariving in a few days. 

hehehheummmmm proably about 5..hours.  I have not even fully planned the size of the blade. i plane on having a full draft of thje thing tomorrow morning all write up. but if i had to guess proably about 13 inch long blade length, 6-7 inches on the handle. 

Like i said, i'm for all intents and purposes brand new. So its going to be a huge undertaking. 

I plan to use   5160. I'll have a propane forge large enought for the whole blade to fit in, i'll be quenching in  warm peanut oil. I would LOVE to attend a calss at the ABS school. but I'm working two jobs this summer so it wont be an option.

How large of stock will i need to start with? I was thinking 3/8 inch x 2.5 inch stock, then forge it down, but i dont know if thats the right thing to do.

I would like to forge a kukri but the end of august, but i have no expereance what so ever. What steps do I need to go through, or hoops need to be jumped through to be able to forge a proper kukri by that time? 

2 hours ago, Daswulf said:

 What do you intend on welding, and how often?

I want to do the occasional welding project. I'm  defedently going to spend more time praticing welding rather then acctaully working. I cant tell you what I will be doing but that I have had projects in the past that welding would have made much faster, so I want it for the future...most notebly I plane to make a forge and welding will help a lot with that.

Thank you much guys, I do apprecate the help.

2 minutes ago, Glenn said:

The internet is full of good material if you dig for it. Stay away from youtube until you know what is good information and what is not good information. It is full of both.

I much prefer books anyway. thanks.

1 hour ago, pnut said:

 Does your high school have an industrial arts program?

 

One of the great disadvantage of living in New Orleans is that nobody cares about vocational jobs.There are welding courses taught at schools by outside groups, but none that are free,  sooooo finding a class  it is....unless there is sombody would would let me apprintice in their shop. However like I said before, not much of that in New Orleans at all.

1 hour ago, Irondragon Forge & Clay said:

Depends upon condition. I would check with local welding supply companies, they frequently have used machines for sale.

Good idea, I'l see if there is one in my area.

1 hour ago, Daswulf said:

Not knowing who is typing on the other end of the keyboard, it's hard to tell and we try to be thurough.

Sorry, it was not meant to be an insult. Thanks for the feed back.

Well.....considering that I'm 16 I don't think facial hair will be much of a problem. but thanks for the advice 

I want to buy a filter for when I'm grinding but there are so many diffrent masks/filters/types that i don't know where to start. Any suggestions?

I dont even know what a duty cycle is...to the reading

Right, I've fixed the duty cycle knowledge problem. I might try to talk him down, but is 350$a good price for the unit?

I've never welded before in my life and I want to get a machine to start. A used  Miller AC/DC 150 Amp welder has popped up in my area for 350$ and is listed as "60% duty cycle"...I just need guidence.

Really? I guess I know less then i thought I did, but assuming the condition is the same, is it a user prefferrence, or a fact?

The guy who has the mouse hole estimated it at 170 so I guessing its higher, but weight aside, is mousehole a better brand?

On 5/2/2019 at 12:21 PM, JHCC said:

Other than Mousehole (The Undisputed King of Anvils), of course. Still, it will do.

I have the opportuinity to buy a 200ish pound mouse hole...I already have a 170# hay budden, would the mouse hole be better?

where are you located in louisiana?

Well one of the suggestions that the introduction post made was to listen to the old timers who know more then you and don’t waist their time...I’m seeing the wisdom in that now.

Thanks frosty. Will do, I’ll post when I get it mounted.

I’ll be bladesmithing mostly. I won’t touch the anvil with a mill or anything else for that matter. Y’all seem quite adamant and I’m new so I’ll take your word for it, thanks for the help. One other thing, late last night I secured an almost perfect pine stump for the anvil, but it is fresh cut and I don’t know if i need to let it sit for a year to dry out. 

I guess I’m a bit confused, but I do come from a place of ignorance so please help me to understand. It seems that following logic, you want the flattest anvil face you can get. And if I’m only taking off 1-3 millimeters I don’t see much damage being done to the anvil. I don’t mean to insult anybody but I can’t understand why I wouldn’t flatten it. I guess the argument could be made that 1-3 millimeters is not that much of a difference. But in my rather  limited experience it says that it does.

16 hours ago, Irondragon Forge & Clay said:

Absolutely not only hold off, but do not mill, grind or weld on the hardened face ever. Plenty of discussions about that here. 

I’ve looked quite a bit but I can not find a post on this, could you direct me to one, or explain your reasoning?

Also, I might have the chance to have the face milled perfectly flat. Should I hold off on that?

Do you have a lot of anvils in your area?