Lockgun Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 Hello, I am the proud owner of a smithy in need of restoration. I take to the quite and private life in the backwoods. Our dear neighbor to the back of us passed away leaveing his widow and property. At the funeral I saw and inquired about the smithy that sat on the brook. I dabbled in blacksmithing while at university and took to it well enough to like it. Studying Engineering, the class touched upon metalergy and I eventualy took it up as a hobby. This is what lead me to purchase this old smithy along the brook that's used to power its water wheel. The place was a forge and foundry at one point , both being in need of restoration my plans are to do the forge first and then the foundry. I would like to keep it old school as I want to make it close to its period time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Yates Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 Post in your info where you are from and photos are always welcome here @ IFI ... and welcome to you . Sam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marksnagel Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 Yes, most deffinately pictures and your location. It would be nice to see your progression as you restore the smithy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 what period? Having some sort of a water wheel narrows it down to about 1000 years... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLMartin Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 Water power shop! We would all very much enjoy photos if you will. There is a good amount of knowledge on this website. I am sure many people will give information on restoring one item or another. Good Luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WmHorus Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 is it fully equiped? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 Welcome aboard, glad to have you. Please put your general location in the header so we won't have to keep bugging you. We love pics in general but you have a special case so we REALLY love pics. <grin> There is a huge amount of knowledge and experience here and most of us really enjoy good questions. I'm thinking there will be lines of guys willing to help you restore your new (OLD) smithy/foundry. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 After reading "The Mills of Medieval England" the first though that comes to mind is "when was its last flood?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seth miracle Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 My mind is going wild with what your smithy must look like...beside a brook! With a water wheel! I bet it's beautiful! Pics are needed! How am I supposed to go to sleep now thinking about this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaughnT Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 "...at university..." Definitely either Canadian or British, I'm thinking. Welcome aboard, we're certainly glad to have you and can't wait for photographs of this wonderful find. Is there much of the smithy left? Any tooling? If it's a ramshackle building, getting it back up and running would be quite the undertaking. Building a new water wheel certainly wouldn't be either cheap or easy. But imagine the tales you could tell! Post pictures with all possible speed. TYVM. FWIW: Mr Lockgun has not even logged into IFI since making the post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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