Jobtiel1

I recently got an apron as a birthday gift, my favorite aspects are a shoulder strap instead of a neck strap, so that the weight of the apron does not hang on your neck, and split legs so that you can still grab tongs or stock between your legs. both very much handy and comfortable. ~Jobtiel

np, the piece seems rather big and uncurved for an urn anyway, so a tombstone makes more sense anyway. ~Jobtiel

I've put the bosnian text through a translator, it says lapod urn, and not lapod um. Don't know what lapod is but it seems the picture comes from a burial urn. ~Jobtiel

Stash, I'll have a look at the age, thanks for the tip! I have lapped the soles of the planes, put a tiny bit of camber on the irons and sharpened them up. I've used the no4 for a bit but I've never really used planes so I'll have to practice a bit first. ~Jobtiel

Thanks! I know indeed, these are all rusty or dull, and I'll use them as HC stock. I have a file rack on the wall where I keep all of my good files. It's an old photo, I've added a few to the collection. I already snapped the top off off all the dull ones to check for case hardening. ~Jobtiel

I got lucky on the flea market today too. A lot of files, most of the free as the people where happy someone even looked at them, a metal ruler with both metric and imperial on the sides. And a Stanley bailey no 4 and 6 plane. I want to make a wooden chest to fit the cast iron cooking ware, and these are just what I needed to get the basic tooling for woodworking and use those to make more tools I need to make the chest. ~Jobtiel

Most of the shops I've seen here we're also in living history museums. Overall blacksmithing is also not as popular as I think it is in the United States. I've sees some blacksmith's shops online from businesses that make architectural stuff, iirc they often have steel stands. ~Jobtiel

Me too, the shops I've been in here so far haven't had sand filled stands. Almost all of them used dug in wooden stumps. Maybe someone from other places in Europe could elaborate. ~Jobtiel

Thanks Trevor, I like the straight line too the previous one didn't have that and I always felt something was missing. I want to make a few of these axes as gifts to people I know are gonna use them. So having a store handle fit makes it easier for them to replace a broken handle. I actually got this tip from JLP Services. ~Jobtiel

I cleaned up a vise that has been sitting outside in salty air for roughly 20 years. after taking everything apart only a wire brush on an angle grinder was sufficient to clean it up. A coat of BLO and it was all ready to go again. ~Jobtiel

Another axe in the make, folded construction. Made from the old wagon tyre I got a few weeks ago, still not sure if it's wrought iron, didn't break or etch like it. It did forge weld rather nicely. The beard is again a piece of leaf spring. I'm testing this out so that I have the correct starting dimensions to fit commercial handles around here. I have a drift that's made to fit those handles and the eye is now just a cm to long, so I'd have to shave off a little bit more of the starting size for the eye next time. But all in all it 's looking good! ~Jobtiel

It's not the smoke that's getting me, I have a good set up in that regard, but not inhaling coal dust is pretty good too in my opinion. ~Jobtiel

And not to forget your safety equipment! no synthetic clothes, I like to wear toe protected boots, saved me once from a 15 kg piece of steel I dropped. Also good safety glasses and ear protection, I use those foam plugs, cheap, and they work well. Furthermore if you use a coal forge, I can recommend a good respirator, you need one anyway for grinding, and if you have bad lungs (like I do) you really do feel a significant difference the day after forging if you used a respirator. I use P3 filters. Also no black boogers! IF you do use a respirator I'd get larger safety glasses so you can use them together with the respirator without a creating a big gap. I have an automatic welding hood which i can turn off that it use when I'm doing long heavy grinding. ~Jobtiel

What's the weight? if its around 30-50 kg you can maybe get 200-300 euros for it if you find a buyer, it seems the most common problem with marktplaats and the like is a good supply with a bit less demand. I think you can better keep it as a travel anvil, small anvils are a bit more rare than the 200 kg beast that pop up often. ~Jobtiel

Yeah I don't know if there is much information on dutch anvils specifically, I don't even know if there are any dutch patterns. you see a lot of german patterns around here though. Seeing our history it would be more logical they just traded for anvils instead of bothering to make their own. Especially since the Netherlands have no iron mines. ~Jobtiel

Yesterday it was Kingsday in the Netherlands, where we celebrate the birthday of our King. We also do that by having fleamarkets everywhere on the streets, so obviously is spend most of the day there. I got a couple of wood chisels, two cold chisels, an old Nicholson Holland file, a 1.5 kg crosspeen, and a larger sized wooden plane. Pretty good haul with most of the stuff I was looking for. I'm going to use the large cold chisel and file for HC stock, and I'm restoring the plane and chisels to working condition to use them for woodworking projects. The hammer is going to be the next step for forging larger stock, as currently I have no hammers between 1.25 kg and 2.5 kg in size. ~Jobtiel

Welcome to the forum! Where are you located? over here you can find perfectly good second hand anvils for under 500 euros, or do you mean dollars? or yen? Adding your location to your profile allows us to remember it better once leaving this post. There is plenty of information on this site, looking around a bit might answer your question. using google with the tag site:iforgeiron.com allows you to quickly search through the threads on this site. a quick search led me to this: ~Jobtiel

The difference between the portable forges in US and Europe has come up a few times here. the things you call feldschmiede, and I call veldsmidse, the portable foot powered fortges, I think are practically the same as rivet forges, almost all of them have cast iron firepots. Side blast forges are not really sold here, however, I jave seen some old forges with bellows and stone construction that had side blast construction. this implies they used side blast in the olden days. it is really interesting to see that the difference in history can impact tool use to this extent. ~Jobtiel

Looks like a good anvil, what's the weight and price? ~Jobtiel

Converting the other way around can also get interesting, sometimes when I try to follow and convert from inches to mm it results in stock sizes I cant really get. Often you can get by with thinking about what the part you're making does. When converting 3/8ths of an inch I take 9mm, and I can only get 8 or 10 mm, so rivets for tongs get 8 mm, while a handle for a forge tool gets 10 mm. ~Jobtiel

Didn't know about copper expanding more than steel, I'll have to think about how I'll lock it then, or just beware to not tilt the skillet too much. ~Jobtiel

I haven't thought about that really, so I tried it out, and it can turn it more than 90 degrees before it flips closed. but I'd rather be safe than drop my dinner in the dirt. I'll have to try some things , thinking about a piece of copper pipe that I can bend over the handle to slide down and lock in the handle. Thanks for the advice! Ill think about it when I use the skillet to cook dinner instead of dropping dinner. ~Jobtiel

Nice improvised tools, that's the way to do it, no complaining about not having the tools and just improvise something that works. The handle on the knife is made from mahogany and two pieces of some red wood I had lying around, don't know the specific type. I got the idea for the skillet with a folding handle from DF in the shop on youtube. ~Jobtiel

Finally got some time again to make some stuff inbetween these past few weeks, and I've tried to make my first knife from an old file. it even has somewhat of a distal taper going on. I also did some sheet metal forging for the first time and made a skillet. The handle can be closed into the skillet for easier storage. ~Jobtiel

IIRC for hemp only the male plant is grown, while for Cannabis you need unfertilized female plants. ~Jobtiel