Mende Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 What would it be like?. . Sam said he'd go for the Hephasteus volcano type one. . Frosty wants to somehow have waterfalls coal seams and scrapyards in the same place. ..etc. I for one would also go for the huge cave inside the molten core of a volcano. .with the forge consisting of a heat resistant tube heated by a lava stream, carbon steel anvil in an obsidian setting, diamond hammers, ogre slave strikers, goblin engravers and chained politician polishers . .that use wet grinding stones and wet em with their tears. Of course the weather outside would be extremely cold to provide me with a glacier to quench my werk in . . Oh course we shan't forget the nymphs that live only 2 give you massages after a hard day at the lava stream ( forge) . ..among other things .. Plus some children to test the weapons on .. (optional - . .we could bring in more politicians or members of whatever group/race/ethnicity you secretly/openly hate). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tompdw Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 After we test the blades on politicians or whoever could we save on coal and burn attorneys. They should be oily enough to burn. They're going to burn eventually anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 We need to realign this thread to North and to blacksmithing or it gets shut down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mende Posted June 3, 2008 Author Share Posted June 3, 2008 Well we are talking about a blacksmith's shop ...and unorthodox one indeed but it's still blacksmithing . .and about the North thing . .I don;t follow .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 Well we are talking about a blacksmith's shop ...and unorthodox one indeed but it's still blacksmithing . .and about the North thing . .I don;t follow .. Burning people you don't like for fuel or using them as quenchants for blades doesn't really sound like you're one of the good guys. That's the sort of thing the evil ones do. Has nothing to do with smithing, no matter what name you hang in the subject line. Frosty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johannes Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 (edited) he has gone over to the dark side... but what did you expect... just kidding Mende, My fantasy shop would be in a gigantic cave with a river streming true, or perhaps a source. It would have ore in every stone, and also a litle lava shaft, with i can controll with tone valves (witch ar powerd with a watter mill on the river. I wouldnt need bellows cause there be shafts trueout the mountan, taht come together in the smithy, to geive me a controllebal yet powerfull air blast, I'd have a pile of mystic meteorites lying around for magical steel, in the entrance of the cave the would be a terrase where a couple of reformed sucubus and some nimf give me cool drinks and massages. I'd ride to work on a unichorn everyday and on a lower level of the mountain cave there would be living a dragon who'd give me wise advise and a drop of his blood when i need to forge extra powerfull weapons.I'd only work for kings , and i would be famous for my crusade against evil Romainian child slaying smiths :-D, oh yeah and my anvil would made of wood engraved with magical runes to make it harder than steel and more fire resistant than vulcanic rock, and my hammers would be made out of water, molded with my own chacra to a steel hard mass when i work with them... (why not trow some jappanese fantasy in there to :-) )so i would not have anny fysical hammer in the shop exept for one magical sledge donated to me by thor himself out of grathitude for helping him out taming some berserg valcurys... let me see.. mnn oh yeah and I'd have a miniature Glenn apearing on my shoulder now and then as my morral conscience :-D Edited June 3, 2008 by Johannes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt87 Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 Dragons, caves and waterfalls aside, right now I'd settle for a roof over my head, a better floor than badly supported concrete, a half-decent anvil stand, a mount for my vice and somewhere neighbours don't care about smoke or noise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philip in china Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 It wouldn't be a lot different from what I have got really. Boring I know but true. I would have somebody to clear up after me and probably a medium size power hammer. A steel yard closer than the present one. (Yes I have to go 1 mile to buy steel at present). Oxy acetylene bottles that are always full would be nice. Maybe a huge anvil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MooseRidge Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 steady supply of paying customers, new ideas, and the TIME to do it all.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Leppo Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 Looks Loke This: But With An "iron Kiss" Utility Hammer, And Enough Power run my compressor in This Building if i moved it. And, Oh Yea, Time!! Infact If I Just Have More Time To Forge, I Could Wait On The "iron Kiss" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted June 3, 2008 Share Posted June 3, 2008 Dragons, caves and waterfalls aside, right now I'd settle for a roof over my head, a better floor than badly supported concrete, a half-decent anvil stand, a mount for my vice and somewhere neighbours don't care about smoke or noise. I could ask about the 15 acres next door to us. You'd have to clear and build but your neighbors wouldn't care about the noise, me on the north side nobody on the other side. Steel, welding supplies, etc. are about 8 miles and coal is you mine it and about 30 miles. Frosty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metalmangeler Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 I need a dumpster that never gets full. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave M Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 It would be big enough for an over head electic rail type crane, with plenty of room for a fork truck to move stock from the full length stock racks. For fuel 1 500# propane tank and a coal bunker big enough to hold 20 yrds. Maybe 3 phase power and 2 sizes of power hammers. Heck who am I kidding, My dream shop would just have to have more paying customers:D Oh did I say a hot tub.:o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce wilcock Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 without sounding dull ,i am happy with the shop i have ,the only drawback is over the years it gets clutterd and it is a wrench to clear it out ,tho when i have been ruthless and sent truck loads of tools to the scrapyard, the shop again is a joy to work in .So utopia is a minimalist shop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mende Posted June 4, 2008 Author Share Posted June 4, 2008 I hear you guys on the TIME thing ... i built my shop one year ago and lit the forge 4 times .. . school . ..and exams .. . Speaking of which . .did I brag about getting in to all the 5 English Universities I applied for? ( I would have preferred America. . but the prices r huge there. ..for england one can get grants from the EU) I'm going 2 Manchester Metropolitan 2 study Advertising and Brand Management so in like 3-4 years time . ..If any of you will be needing help managing your .. brands. ..gimme a call! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisB Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 Some of you need to lay off the World of Warcraft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 Congratulations Mende. I don't know how much call there is for Brand management though, it's really simple. 1, Don't use someone else's brand or put your's on someone else's cattle you could get hung for rustling. 2, Don't touch the HOT end! 3, have a rack or shelf that'll keep them handy but out of the way when not in use. That's how we did it. Frosty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Salvati Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 I have to add Frosty's waterfall to mine! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 I have to add Frosty's waterfall to mine! COOL! Does that mean you're moving in next cave to me? Frosty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Salvati Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 We can be cave-nieghbors in the volcano-cave industrial park/condo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 Cool, Plenty of volcanoes here with glacier quenchants. When should I start looking for you? Frosty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt87 Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 I could ask about the 15 acres next door to us. You'd have to clear and build but your neighbors wouldn't care about the noise, me on the north side nobody on the other side. Steel, welding supplies, etc. are about 8 miles and coal is you mine it and about 30 miles. Frosty Don't tempt me Frosty; that would probably cost a similar amount to a 2-bed flat over here; property prices are through the roof (along with petrol/gas and diesel). Don't you just love imcompetent and greedy politicians? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 I don't know what it'd cost today but we built a 2,200sq/ft, 2 story on a basement house on 30 acres for about $200,000. We sold 15 acres (the ones I'm hoping a smithing buddy buys and builds on) a couple years ago for a nice profit. Our last appraisal didn't take into account the 30'x40' shop I'm building and it was just shy of half a mil. three years ago. You really aught to consider it, I'll help. Frosty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt87 Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 Well, I'm quite tied down for now. Perhaps in a few years. Certainly better value than living here. And living next to you Frosty would be quite an experience! (Good, I think...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skunkriv Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 My goal is to build a shop big enough that I can afford to pay someone to mow what little yard I have left! After fighting and repairing mowers for 40 odd years since I was ten years old I am more than ready to give it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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