switchjv Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 Railroad spike with leather. Experimenting with etching too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigfootnampa Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 Looks pretty good! You might be ready to do some for real! I like this one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 switchjv; where in NM are you at? The next SWABA (ABANA affiliate for NM) meeting is at my smithy in Lemitar right off I 25 near Socorro. We also have a southern branch that meets in Las Cruces at a different times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
switchjv Posted September 24, 2012 Author Share Posted September 24, 2012 Looks pretty good! You might be ready to do some for real! I like this one! Thank you, i want to do some more practicing before i screw up some good steel. LOL switchjv; where in NM are you at? The next SWABA (ABANA affiliate for NM) meeting is at my smithy in Lemitar right off I 25 near Socorro. We also have a southern branch that meets in Las Cruces at a different times. Im located in northern nm. (Taos). i would love to attend the meets, it would be a long drive though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 Might have to keep an eye out for our meetings in Santa Fe---we move around as people volunteer to have a meeting at their shop. I'm as far south as the "northern" part of SWABA generally gets; save for our yearly conference in Las Cruces in February. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
switchjv Posted September 24, 2012 Author Share Posted September 24, 2012 Might have to keep an eye out for our meetings in Santa Fe---we move around as people volunteer to have a meeting at their shop. I'm as far south as the "northern" part of SWABA generally gets; save for our yearly conference in Las Cruces in February. Santa fe would be great. Its only an 1.5 hour drive. let me know when there's another meeting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loneforge Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 It's fine time you starting messing up High Carbon Steel! Looks good man! Not hard to tell you're loving what you're doing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Hale Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 On this forum I have been able to watch a lot of folks learn to smith...and some of them struggle for a long time to even do passable work, (if there is such a thing!) And sadly we have seen some folks just fade away discoiuraged. We have also seen alot of new smiths learn to forge blades and other items really well, Soe sell there work for very respectable money. The success stories have to me a common denominator. They sought help early on. They reached out and visited and learned. That simply cuts the time of the learning curve by a lot. Meaning you can jump father ahead in the same amount of time than you could on your own. To do this you need a commitment. And that may include a paying job to support it. For this to work youi also have to seize any opportunity that comes youir way and activily seek more of them. Thatg may include you traveling, That may cost youi some money, That may take time and commitment. When I was learning I paid t attended as many weekend cliniics as I could find, I travelled to some of them by airplane and some by truck,,I carpooled , any way I could go I went. i puseued any lead i coiuld find and learned which ones I thouight wouild be the best use of time and money. I never ever waited for someone else to let me know when they would have another clinic i should attend. In most cases i was oneoof the first to sign up and show up. Not sure where youi wish to go with your smithing, Are you a tinkerer or more? Like I said before,,your shop your rules... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
switchjv Posted September 25, 2012 Author Share Posted September 25, 2012 It's fine time you starting messing up High Carbon Steel! Looks good man! Not hard to tell you're loving what you're doing! I'm going to start collecting some nice high carbon steel. With this, lll begin on smithing some nice blades. I really enjoy smithing I like creating something beautiful from a raw piece of steel. On this forum I have been able to watch a lot of folks learn to smith...and some of them struggle for a long time to even do passable work, (if there is such a thing!) And sadly we have seen some folks just fade away discoiuraged. We have also seen alot of new smiths learn to forge blades and other items really well, Soe sell there work for very respectable money. The success stories have to me a common denominator. They sought help early on. They reached out and visited and learned. That simply cuts the time of the learning curve by a lot. Meaning you can jump father ahead in the same amount of time than you could on your own. To do this you need a commitment. And that may include a paying job to support it. For this to work youi also have to seize any opportunity that comes youir way and activily seek more of them. Thatg may include you traveling, That may cost youi some money, That may take time and commitment. When I was learning I paid t attended as many weekend cliniics as I could find, I travelled to some of them by airplane and some by truck,,I carpooled , any way I could go I went. i puseued any lead i coiuld find and learned which ones I thouight wouild be the best use of time and money. I never ever waited for someone else to let me know when they would have another clinic i should attend. In most cases i was oneoof the first to sign up and show up. Not sure where youi wish to go with your smithing, Are you a tinkerer or more? Like I said before,,your shop your rules... I would love to attend meetings and travel and meet other smiths. At the moment I have a full time job plus side jobs to pay for a mortgage, insurance and other bill. I do a lot of my projects after work or before. Hopefully in three years when my home is paid for, I'll be able to do more. I would love to make more pieces to sell in the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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