October 28, 200817 yr I am interested in getting started. I dont know anything about it. Does anyone have any pointers. I live in Georgia if anyone can help. Thanks Chance
October 28, 200817 yr What you need: Metal. Something to heat the metal with. Something to hit the metal with. Something to put the metal on while you hit it.
October 28, 200817 yr Hi Chance. Welcome to IFI. If You go to the home page, look at the right side and click on "Getting Started". That's a good place to start. Then any questions you have, or problems, bring them to the forum and you will most likely get several experienced smiths that will be able to help you out. This is a great bunch of folks, here. Enjoy and good luck. BTW. That was onry Highlander. LOL. cute! But onry.
October 28, 200817 yr Hi Chance, welcome to IFI. I've just started recently aswell, here is a thread about all the help i've been given, I hope it can help you to. Help starting off. Also feel free to message me if you need anything put simply, some guy's are helpful but are so good they forget how to put it real simple, I'll try and help where I can at least. Good luck
October 28, 200817 yr Welcome aboard Chance, glad to have ya. Please go to the top of the page, click on "User CP" and edit your profile to show your location. That way folk in your area can help you in person. Rich says we don't put things simply enough but I'll bet he'd be left feeling a bit shorted trying to operate on highlander's perfectly true advice. Some of us can put things very simply, unfortunately most of this is very complex in it's simplicity. Just ask away and ask again if the answers don't make sense. If that doesn't work I'll be more than happy to make up something special. Frosty
October 28, 200817 yr Na' man highlanders advice was sooo far over my head.. i got to the metal.. and phew.. too much. I didn't mean that in paticular, but definatly ask and ask again. Also i wouldn't take anything "special" off of frosty.. sounds dodgey to say the least. Anyway back on topic good luck, not that you'll need it here, these guy's will have you making thing's in no time!
October 29, 200817 yr On simplicity Maestro Uri Hofi once said that thinking simple is difficult and he is exactly right.m When designing things we can all put an extra bit here and an extra bit there and spend hours and a lot of money on something that could have been delivered so much more simply if it had been better designed at the outset.
October 29, 200817 yr Author Thanks to everyone for the help. Edited October 29, 200817 yr by chance1125
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