trinculo Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 my lovely scottish shipyard swage block, i love it, it is so useful, i have another swage block, the usual kind, but it hardly gets used. I like your swage block. Never seen one like it it has very nice lines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natkova Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 Shed 004.jpgIMG_0654.JPGIMG_3268.JPG Thanks Billy, its usually the end where I head to. The other stores the car and some other metal and woodworking gear that was my grandfathers. I really like your shop too. Thats a neat old looking building. I see some newish timber on some of the framing. Did you build it there? What was it used for before the smithy? Jason Its strange how this web is made. We here in Bosnia and Herzegovina have welded iron web that is used for foundaments. We don't tie them with wire they are already welded Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldironkilz Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 My shop in progress. I get to work on it a couple weeks a year. I work in it mostly during the winter. I clearly do not have enough tools. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caintuckrifle Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 nice shop!!! Let's see your shop Alec! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strgraw Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 It isn't much, but it's a start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Kehler Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 A quick little vid of my shop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grymm Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 My shop in my basement! Hopefully moving out to the shed soon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Mullins Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 Is that a hand drill operated fan? I am abut to build a portable 2nd forge and this might be a good option for it. Old fans are much easier to come by than blowers.I never thought about putting a handle on one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 Is that a hand drill operated fan? I am abut to build a portable 2nd forge and this might be a good option for it. Old fans are much easier to come by than blowers.I never thought about putting a handle on one. Eddie: Not only can you put a hand crank on one but a little imaginative use of bike parts and you can gear it up to really move air. Nice adaptation there Grymm. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 A nicely made bellows would be a lot easier to use than a brace turned squirrel cage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Mullins Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 A nicely made bellows would be a lot easier to use than a brace turned squirrel cage. No doubt, and I have been looking at bellow pics on Google, but was wanting something more compact and portable. The only ones I have seen were quite large.I have a small work area so this forge will be taken outside as needed to work on longer material I don't have the room to twirl about in the shop. If you have or can point me to plans for bellows you think might be suitable please share. BTW - I happen to have a few decomissioned bikes of varied size in the scrap pile : ) . I have a few ideas rattiling around for them... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yves Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 To operate the fan, a foot pedal. Pic is taken from the Angele website. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pug}{maN Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 1 of 2 shop's. .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 I've worked forges with single action bellows that were smaller than that blower! Take a look at *old* bellows instead of just 100-150 year old recent ones. I built my own with the plans based on what I could scrounge. Based roughly on Theophilius "Divers Arts" and like him I was using charcoal as the fuel. I still use one I built about 15 years ago for less than a dollar with my Y1K forge (along with a fancier one I bought leather for after the design proved in They tell me I will have a bellows thrall so I'm going to drag it to the Albq renfaire and work on some viking cooking tools from WI...) Now the big double lunged bellows can be a joy to use if made and set up correctly; but there is well over 1000 years of smithing with bellows before they showed up... Also give a thought to the oriental box bellows. Not much room needed and can do quite well... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grymm Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 You can't see it in the pic I posted, but on the workbench my brother and I salvaged the crank and gears from a mountain bike we cut up. We are working on a multi gear setup for the fan. The fan is actually an old floor drying fan he pulled out of a school demolition job he was on, the motor was fried but the fan blades were fine! Cleaned it up, gutted it out. BAM! Couldn't afford a buffalo but this has more meaning since it was a project :) Here's a closer pic: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpankySmith Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 (edited) A couple shots of my truly Backyard Blacksmithing "shop", just finished setting it up today. I still need to hook a blower up, but then I'll be ready to go. Note the clever disguise at the end, anvil, forge and vise cleverly disguised as barbecue grills when not in use! :) Edited April 20, 2014 by hairballz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danguite Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 I finally had another reason to take a picture of my shop today, so here it is: I have so much fun out there, it is really shaping up. The only downside so far is because of how finished it is, putting in a chimney for the coal forge will break the bank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaughnT Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 And a nice dartboard, too. Good set up, Danguite! I haven't thrown in awhile, but I like any sport that allows me to be fat, smoke cigarettes and drink beer. If I can do all that in a smithy... well that's just awesome times ten. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danguite Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 And a nice dartboard, too. Good set up, Danguite! I haven't thrown in awhile, but I like any sport that allows me to be fat, smoke cigarettes and drink beer. If I can do all that in a smithy... well that's just awesome times ten. I've found that as a beginner it is nice to unwind with some darts after ruining a project. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Fleming Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 This is my shop......Small but effective.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L Smith Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 Danguite we smiths don't have failures. We have learning experiences! Just ask any of us to show you our "learning experiences" They all take up space over in the corner of the shop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skender Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 Nice shop. Especially like the massey hammer. Is it a 3 cwt ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Haaf Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 My new smithy, just got this up this year. 18x21 -7' outer walls and 10' 6" in the middle , I love all the open air. Just have to keep everything secure from walking, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geehi Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 Some photos of my newly completed "Shop". Frame is all new treated pine - everything else is recycled. To give the building an aged look I am painting the new & secondhand timbers with a mixture of sump oil & kero which seems to work OK. The floor is quarry rubble which I think I might pave over as the sand content of the rubble is being tracked out onto the garden paths. The area of the new shop is only about 11sq m as we only have a small suburban back yard and that was all I could negotiate with my wife. Have joined it to the existing garden shed which will now be used for my storage. Will "fire up" the forge next week in it's new home and see how I go with making some weathervanes. Cheers Ron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianinsa Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 Around this part of the world that would be seen by some as luxury accommodation for a family of 8! Nice little shop, did you get those 2 handles in 'diagon alley' grin(invisable=harry potterish ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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