Chris Gross

Thanks Patrick, I appreciate your kind words. It's been a fun learning curve and a great adventure.

Thanks Ridgeway, you're exactly right! I styled/optimized it after the Hay Budden and then tweaked the design so the horn is a little more cylindrical for doing even bends and scrolls. The overall length is 26 in, the face is 15.5x4, and the cutting table is 1.5x3, so the horn is about 10 in Long. The base is approximately 10x10 and height is 10.4 in.

Hi All, nice to meet you. I've seen this site many times, figured it's about time I join. I'm a chemist by trade, started forging about 8 years ago with the intent to make knives, but fell in love with the craft as a whole, and got hooked. That led to a career change about three years ago, when I sold my half of the environmental laboratory I owned, and went to work for a tool company as a blacksmith. So now I get to cut, weld, forge, and create with the wrought iron, 52100, aluminum bronze, S7, 01, and other materials we have at work (my main task being reuse and/or resale of the off cuts and flashings from our tool making process. I get to make san mai, go mai, damascus with 52100/15N20, Cu mai, etc. and we also just came out with 52100 anvils late last year, 125lb classic style, cast from the leftover flashings from the tool forgings. (I posted in the anvil list thread). Cheers.

Xcalibur Metalworkx Superior, WI 125 lb London pattern, cast 52100, 53-58 HRC, Blanchard ground top and bottom. Cast in MN, made from repurposed steel from our tool manufacturing process in Superior, WI. Cheers! Mod note: added to list.