August 16, 201510 yr Hi Folks,I've lurked here a long time, signed up more recently and gotten into things properly yesterday. (Fire and metal hot and hammered!)I've always been fasinated by shifting hot metal, and watched smiths for hours when ever i could when younger.Played with large nails and a sledge head a few years ago to make primitive arrowheads, have done a fair bit of cold-'forging' of plate to make smaller bits of armor.So happy I'm now into it for real. On the hunt for a decent anvil, made my first tongs, and a fire tool, started to beat on some files with a view to getting them knife-like ;-)More realisticaly, I need to find some more scrap at the dump and improve my hammer control, and make some more tools first.
August 16, 201510 yr Welcome aboard again, glad to see you. We like pictures a LOT. I'll have my fingers crossed for an anvil down there. they're pretty scarce up here too. Not to worry, expedient anvils work just fine too.Frosty The Lucky.
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