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hi guys im damien im from sydney Austraila ive just starting making knives and have just finnished making a forge
im looking forward to learning from you all
thanks damien

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hi im from australia too.
any thing you need to think it is already thought on this site, or if it isnt, the thinkers will soon help you think it through....
welcome.

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Look out for the forging day at Sydney Maritime Museum Roselle some time later in the year, Andrew O Conner is the man to talk to about that. Get youself to Moonies for Hammered at the end of October,

Phil

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Welcome Damien!
Yup, June 24 is the date at Rozelle. There are quite a few 'smiths lurking all over Sydney, just no organisation...;) A great contact point is the TAFE at Ultimo, where apprentices, small business guys and hobbyists of every level go to classes.
see ya bout the traps,
AndrewOC

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hi guys thanks of the info, ive herd of Moonies Hammered but whats the forging day at Sydney Maritime Museum what do they do there

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A group of forges anvils about 20 blokes n shielas too. What ever you want to make within reason, (maybe bring some stock) put on by the Traditional Tool Society of Sydney. There normally some instruction available of varying quality.
Phil

  • 1 month later...
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I WANT TO MAKE A SWORD :)
or just ask questions and watch someone work and have them tell me what and why there doing it

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areyou in a re enactment group?
most swords now in production are stock removal, and it comes out as a very similar finish.
the sword comes a lot later than the learning of smithing. learn the basics first, then swords will come when you have mastered the basics......
a forged sword is a lot of work for someone with little equipment/ knowhow, and dangerous if forged or heat treated wrongly.
therefore very dangerous on a live steel battlefield.

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If I had a dollar for everyone that tell me that they want to make a sword I'd be a billionaire by now, even more so if the sword also needs to cut railway line in one blow, smash rocks to pieces, be able to shave with and be able to lever a truck up and be able to be bent back on its self so as the tip touches the handle without breaking, but I don't want to pay more that $2.00 for a piece of steel, can you teach me how to make one in a weekend.

I give up!

Phil

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was only joking about the sword making i have enough trouble keeping my knives strate when heat treating them

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im surprized you didnt get more irate responses about the sword thing :)
pet hate of a lot of smiths..... but you would know that if you have been trawling the archives.....

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'im surprized you didnt get more irate responses about the sword thing ' ...often I ignore it!
Last year a tool club member 'wanted to make a knife', did as i suggest, and brought along some spring. Problem was it was a whole pack of 3/8" thick leaves! I pointed out the huge amount of effort required (only hand forging available), and he was thinking of a machete.

Otherwise get a bit of flat bar (less than 4lbs) and put a handle on it... voila' a sword-shaped-object!!!
;)
A.

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yeah ive read all about it ive been lurking around here for a while.
Can you just go to watch cause i dont have anything to make i just want to learn as much as i can

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Hey Damien!

Good too see you on here!

You finished that last knife yet? I hammered out a spear point hunter today...

  • 2 months later...
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Welcome to IFI. Stick yourself on Dale's Oz Roll Call thread.
And get over to Australian Blade Forums as well as British Blades if you haven't already. BB especially is a fantastic resource for budding blade smiths. (not that IFI isn't). See you at Moony's hopefully. :)

G'day Corin :)

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hi Ratel10mm im all ready a member on ABF ill have to joint BB and ill go look for Dale's Oz Roll Call thread now
thanks damien

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