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Gandalfgreen

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  1. Hi Frosty hows alaska on this saturday?. I listen and remeber when told or read.  Learning is one thing i can not get enough of. That little anvil i sometimes wish is what i had over the actual anvil i have. I like its horn and chisel. And Nat dont feel bad i have a mistrike on my actual anvil so atleast you learned before un like me. Dont work tired was lesson i learned and now have a ding to remind me every time i forge. It sticks out like a soar thumb no matter how much i try to forget or ignore.

  2. Natkova is it big piece of r.r. I have used one that sits on it end. The part of tie train wheels sit on is left same and the side that gets nailed to surface 1 side is ground 8nto a small horn and other side if i remember correctly is ground into chisel. Worked very well. JHCC if bit busy might be able to post a pic of it as it is his he teaches me on it.

     

    Thomas mind sending or posting a pic of your snakes and if pissible next time make one a few pics of your forge stages when shaping. If not no big deal just more knowledge is power.

    Keep up the excellent work everybody. End with a question if i try to forge weld files together can i hammer there surface flat before i clean them up for weld or should i grind the old file surface off before start weld?

    Frosty thanks for the interesting facts did not know thats why it was started.

  3. Pretty much rookie here but all i use right now to forge is scrap metal i have gathered from trash or friends. What i have learned is old files chisels and coil springs i can forge much easier then almost every other scrap i have used and have been fooled few times by items i thought would work easily and just did not. Was actually thinking about trying to forge weld 4 fikes together to get a nice billet. File steel moves very nicely. Thats just my 2 sense as wekk as keep uo the great work everyone.

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