Michael Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 I usually start a forging session with a couple three nails to get warmed up, make sure everything is where I need it and the forge is hot enough. Some really rough nails have been produced, then I toss them towards the large speaker magnet on a corner of the vise table and get to work. Well, the magnet wasn't holding them anymore, the newest nails just bounced off the top of a pile so I pulled them all off, stuck them in large tuna can went back to work. Later on, as the forge was cooling down, started counting and sorting by size and ugliness, 102 Nails, or your average apprentice's work output before breakfast! Probably another 2 or 3 dozen in use around the shop and the smithy, so not really a stellar output in close to a decade of lazy shadetree smithing, But the last one, in the top of the egg crate isn't half bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Starting a session with a couple three nails makes that sound like a decent run of sessions to me. Since the accident I've changed my introductory lesson from a leaf coat hook to nails. Seems that after the kids make about three, their nails are better than mine. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 If your nails look too good you probably are not making them right...(or you have made way too many of them...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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