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Home made blower


Steve Sells

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One of the OABA members took a trip through asia and visited a lot of blacksmith shops. A few years ago he did a slideshow of his trip at an OABA meeting. The shops ranged from a place in Japan that looked nicer than my livingroom to a square of sidewalk in India with a hole in it which was the smiths firepot. Many if not most of the blowers in use were built from bicycles or bicycle parts. Many of the anvils were a piece of round bar or even a large sledgehammer buried in the ground. These were all blacksmiths making their living out of these shops.

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Kind of shows up our obsession with having the "right" equipment for the hobby. How many times are we asked where to find a proper anvil or blower or forge when they can all be made out of scrap laying around us all.

Hats off to the "inventor".

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