MrDarkNebulah Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 Hi everyone. I've been blacksmithing for a while now and I'm about to go give a presentation for school on my progress through the year. I was wondering if anyone could point me to a good place to find some diagrams demonstrating forging techniques. I'm in a bit of a time crunch right now so I can't look as deeply as I'd like to but I'm having trouble finding them. I'm trying to find diagrams or pictures demonstrating the journeyman skills located here: https://abana.org/resources/journeyman/index.shtml#skills And if anyone is curious, the project was trying to learn as many of those journeyman skills I could and makes smaller pieces demonstrating each. The final project was making a bench which I donated to the school, pictured below. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobbieG Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 The ABANA Controlled hand forging series should cover most (if not all) of what you need - it's in the resources section of the ABANA website Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDarkNebulah Posted May 22, 2017 Author Share Posted May 22, 2017 Thank You! I forgot those existed. They will be perfect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lou L Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 Nice job on your Capstone! Did you end up getting a forge out of the deal or did your money go into the materials for the bench! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDarkNebulah Posted May 24, 2017 Author Share Posted May 24, 2017 It actually was not a capstone. My high school has a yearlong project that they make every senior do so I did mine on blacksmithing. And yes, I did get quite a bit of tooling from the school for the bench. They ended up buying me a welder, 210 pounds of coal and the materials, as well as some other odds and ends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Latticino Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 Love the bench, very clean design and assembly, but am a little confused. Looking at it I see a total of 5 bends (one which might have been able to do cold with the right equipment and the others with a torch) and two smaller (length wise) scrolls. Yet you say you used 210 lbs. of coal, what am I missing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 He said they bought him 210 pounds of coal not that he used that much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDarkNebulah Posted May 25, 2017 Author Share Posted May 25, 2017 Yea the actual forging in the bench was not much. But the project was year long, so I spent the entire year trying to learn the ABANA skills I talked about above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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