Culver Creek Hunt Club Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 Stumbled across the site a few weeks back while doing some research on blacksmithing. More of a hobby interest and it has always intrigued me. My wife would say I need another hobby like I need another hole in my head but here I am. I am pretty handy and good at fabrication. I hope it carries over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 Welcome aboard, glad to have you. Need another hole in your head eh? That's what my friends kept telling me when I told them I was getting married at 45. The same guys kept saying I'd have a ring in my nose too. I got my ear pierced and a gold ring to show them how good their predictive abilities were. Then my coffee shop buddies met Deb and decided we were made for each other. They got that one right.Being a fabricator won't hurt, been there do that. What do you want to make?Oh and we LOVE pics and we're not too picky so long as you wouldn't mind your 9 year old daughter looking at or reading to the post.Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles R. Stevens Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 That is what rivets are for... Welcome aboard. Most of are hobiests, so no fear. When you make the wife that nice pot rack or headboard she will be your greatest fan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seldom (dick renker) Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 there are a fair amount of smiths in the upstate ny area including a state wide organisation call the ny state designer blacksmith artists. you should check them out.upstate is a big area, can you narrow your location down a bit, dont need your house number or anything like that. welcome to the asylum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Culver Creek Hunt Club Posted May 14, 2015 Author Share Posted May 14, 2015 Thanks for the welcomes. I was originally from the Mohawk Valley but have lived in Rochester since 1992. I want to try some sculpting and household decorations. I have a small hunting camp and hand made items would look wonderful there. Looking forward to to learning as much as I can from the members here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 There you go, "Rochester, NY" is near perfect for a general location in your header.Hunting camp gear is a great place to start. If you have cook fire in a pit you need a tripod W/ trammel hook that converts to a spit. Cooking grill, toasting forks, fire tools, etc. Don't forget lantern / lamp stands, cup holders, J and drive hooks. There is camp "yard" furniture and accoutrements to make. You'd need to live in Alaska to need a forged steel bug swatter though.Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Culver Creek Hunt Club Posted May 15, 2015 Author Share Posted May 15, 2015 There you go, "Rochester, NY" is near perfect for a general location in your header.Hunting camp gear is a great place to start. If you have cook fire in a pit you need a tripod W/ trammel hook that converts to a spit. Cooking grill, toasting forks, fire tools, etc. Don't forget lantern / lamp stands, cup holders, J and drive hooks. There is camp "yard" furniture and accoutrements to make. You'd need to live in Alaska to need a forged steel bug swatter though.Frosty The Lucky.Exactly where I was planning to start. Hooks for clothes and guns are #1. Fire pit trimmings and cook items like a pot rack are #2. And since we occasionally get a few deer, some Gambrel hooks. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 I thought of Gambrel hooks a while after sending my last post. Lots of things a person can use in camp. I used to sit around a camp fire and forge stuff while the other driller was knocking back a half rack of beer every night after work. I'd rather play with fire and hit things than get sloppy stupid but . . . Nevermind.I've never cleaned a deer but I doubt a rib spreader would be helpful. I have cleaned moose though and we typically use block and tackle and prop their ribs open with branches. You just haven't lived till you've cleaned, quartered and packed out a 1,200lb. animal. Darned good eating though. Moose tongue makes THE BEST sandwiches. mmmmmmmm.What I discovered was really useful when tenting was a stake puller. No I didn't forge my tent stakes I used 22 penny nails and sometimes they'd really get stuck. Of course being nails I could just slip the tent loop or guy over the head and drive it flush. I don't know how many 22 penny spikes I've left around Alaska, the puller fixed that though.Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Made a hunter friend of mine a set of Gambrel hooks out of stainless so he could throw them in the dishwasher. (he had a custom built support as he did everything from elk to antelope to oryx to mule deer to...so he wanted a set he could position as needed on his support bar. I actually made him a large set and a small set; he paid in bison from a trophy hunt on Ted Turner's ranch.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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