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blackraptor

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    Alberta, Canada
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    All kinds of blacksmithing and leatherworking, horseback riding, archery, and novel writing

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  1. Hey frosty, glad I can be more chill on this forum, many others have been more demanding, And that’s good to know about the drill hammer, good story to tell young blacksmiths. It took me a try or two to make those tongs, I accidentally hammered out the part where the pin pivots, but made it the wrong direction, but made it past that learning curve pretty quickly, I will try to forge a more variety of tongs very soon, as the ones I have are the more basic tongs with the flat mouth, and the dragon thing I plan to hang it above my shop somewhere where it’s easy to see, but not get in the way, I thought the eggshell idea was good, maybe I’ll forge something like that sometime
  2. I also have a piece of railroad track and I meat check the sizes, not change, can’t change the size of a hammer practically
  3. Haha, that’s true frosty! I have pretty good hammer control from hammering up fencing for years, horses have a nack for finding trouble, haha, I think I have some hammers like that, and I know about making permanent mistakes, I had this can opener I was making and it had nice swirls at the end and I go to use a power hammer (which I still need to make) and I accidentally flattened it, ouch! So I learned a hard lesson from that. I’ll definitely get ahold of some mild steel bars for sure! I’m also trying to make a foundry so I can just melt my mistakes for something better, and me and a friend have so much junk that we aren’t worried about wasting metal, I can always melt it down too… sometimes. And thank you for the advice, I’ll start small and just build up my shop and get into the swing of things before I go into something more exciting! I do wish I had more leather though haha, I want to do many things in and out of Damascus too! Jewelry and silver work, tools, gunsmithing, decorative, farrier work, armour work, repairs, locksmithing, custom work, that kind of thing.
  4. Oh cool Thomas ! I would’ve loved to apprentice to a swordmaker or swordsmith! Too bad there aren’t many willing to apprentice where I’m from, even before corona. I have a picture of my tools bellow, I tried to make the picture smaller but my phone is acting up, and I was too busy today to change the sizes, but I have a short-handled sledge and an engineering hammer I think? And I got a couple of ball peen hammers, one almost twice as big as the other, a couple wielding hammers I think (I know they don’t have spring handles to differentiate the heat, they came that way. I also have 3 files, 2 with round sides, I have 2 tongs I made with a little help, also have a black bandana, wielding apron, safety glasses, earplugs, wielding gloves, and the thing standing in the back of the box is my dragon I made, although I think it’s a snake now cause I had a time constraint and couldn’t add in more features, I’ll post my leatherworking tools later in my gallery, as well as the 18th century barn I’m setting up shop in, and the firepoker I made. I’m interested in trying to learn as much blacksmithing and leatherworking as I can, although the most interesting I want to do is bladesmithing and Damascus, as well as custom work, I work as a farmhand for my parents so that keeps rent, food, horse board, and that is how I got the barn, unfortunately I don’t have much to spare until my gst check, although I am going for training to be a youth peer support worker once this corona thing blows over. And my market doesn’t look very well with corona, but once it’s over it’ll be way better as I live next to Cochrane which is a very rich town, and I already have a business name, a logo I’m drawing, and a slogan, I’m also be working on a website when I get there and I have deep ties with Cochrane, and plus cosplayers from Calgary are always looking for a good deal. And I’m not sure if I have something like a small business administration where I’m from, all the businesses I know just do paperwork and send it to the government and they sort it out, I’ll check it out. I have very good chemistry, mathematical, and spiritual skills, as well as being intuitive, adaptive, an out of the box thinker, and a problem solver, with the spiritual stuff, I can make holy water and fire, raise flames certain way, and I sometimes forge the soul of an item with part of my own and can insert it in a body of a similar item to make it complete. As for hobbies, I do horseback riding, archery, and novel writing! Thank you irondragon I will try my best! I don’t want to get on the mods bad sides, I just realized how the text thing works with the posting now, I’ll fix it! Cool slogan “in rust we trust”
  5. Wow, that’s quite the welcome party, thanks guys! I’ll answer you all in a sec, thanks pnut I have now read the link and I’ll be sure to do my research for sure! I sure hope I can learn a lot on here, good luck to you too!
  6. Hi, new here, I was just wondering in a comment here for the 55 forge link, is there a homemade design to add a clinker for it, even if it is more complex or complicated?
  7. Heyo! Not sure how many people are reading this, or how far I’ll get with this considering the COVID-19 crisis happening, but I thought I’d introduce myself and get started somewhere. So I’m Tyler Savage, aka black raptor, I’m 23 and I live in the ghost lake area of Alberta, Canada. I am beginning blacksmithing and leatherworking, and I am also starting out my own (temporary) shop, which I’m hoping to upgrade it and turn it into a business, I have some cool things for the business aspect. I’m also on a budget ($50 to be exact, and whatever I get from my GST check) and I’ll probably be recycling metal, melting stuff, crafting and making whatever tools I don’t have, as I have a bit of tools, I also made some cool stuff from my last blacksmithing class (I’ll post pictures tomorrow if people ask) I’m very open to anything, new ideas, criticism, etc. As long as you don’t tell me to give up blacksmithing for the rest of my life, I learn very fast on some things and I have some cool things I want to try and experiment, I’m also a fan of Damascus and bladesmithing, the problem I have is that not many people want to apprentice or train other blacksmiths where I’m from (at least not for a decent price, or free, which I didn’t expect) which is why I’m here! I have lots of junk and a friend with lots more junk, but I just need to learn and try some new things I haven’t experienced, forged in fire can only teach you so much, lol, but yeah, that’s me, sorry it’s so long, and if you want to ask something or you have something you want to tell or talk to me about, let me know! You can even ping me if you like, I’m used to it with discord, and yes, I did read some of the beginner tips for this site here, stay safe everyone!
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