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trace 
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Posted: 13 May 2019 at 11:04am |
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any of you guys on here do any blacksmithing? what do ya make?
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Thad in AR.
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Posted: 13 May 2019 at 1:06pm |
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I make coat hooks, split crosses and such. I made all the closet brackets in our house. I made pipe hangers under a shelf under our kitchen cabinets and lots of S hooks to hang cups and such on that hanger. I made all (50) of our cabinet door pulls out of railroad spike heads. The rest of the spikes became split crosses. I prefer to make Blacksmith tools to make more tools. Ive made several sets of tongs, hot cuts, spring fillers and all kinds of wired tools. It’s good medicine.👍
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trace
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Posted: 13 May 2019 at 1:11pm |
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really want to get into that when i retire. would like to make knives and tools. would be a good hobby.
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Posted: 13 May 2019 at 2:03pm |
I do all of my work cold, excepted what I cut on the cnc plasma table. 
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Thad in AR.
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Posted: 13 May 2019 at 3:46pm |
 trace wrote:
really want to get into that when i retire. would like to make knives and tools. would be a good hobby. |
Start looking for a good anvil today. Everything else can be found cheap or made.
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Thad in AR.
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Posted: 13 May 2019 at 3:47pm |
Thad in AR. wrote:
trace wrote:
really want to get into that when i retire. would like to make knives and tools. would be a good hobby. |
Start looking for a good anvil today. Everything else can be found cheap or made. |
Very nice👍
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desertjoe
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Posted: 13 May 2019 at 10:51pm |
You know,,one needs a good anvil around a shop more times than not and those real anvils seem to be in very short supply,,, I've always had my eye out for one and the only'ist time I ran across a used one,,it weighed bout 150# and the old guy would not come off his $200 askin price,,,,,then the other extreme is this lady had one made out of a chunk of rail road rail bout 10" long,,very crudely cut with a torch and she wanted $50 for that chit,,,,. Ther must of been different sized rail road rail as the one she had was much bigger sized than the ones I've seen around here. Fact is,,,a friend of mine has a 12' piece of rail road rail that he told me to cut what I needed,,,so,,I better get after that one befoire it disappears,,,,,
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Posted: 14 May 2019 at 12:17am |
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Cut off a foot of that for me Joe. You can bring it with when you and Thad go up to see Dale and get that Jeep. BUT,,,,,,,in the mean time, call Les first and the whole bunch of ya can jump into one of Shameless' transports,,,,,,,,,,WITH a trailer,,,,,and come and pick up that Ferd that I'm givin Les. It ran when parked.......it's a black 76 with the BIG V-8. Did I mention that it ran when parked? It's in real good shape, it hasn't seen a road or gotten the tires dirty in ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, oh must be 15 years now.....
LES,,,,,,,how long ago did I say you could come get it? Just add 10 or so years to that and you'll know how long it's just sat waiting for someone to come get it and drive it off. It was running when my son parked it.
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Thad in AR.
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Posted: 14 May 2019 at 5:05am |
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Right now anvils are bringing $$$ 4.00 per pound and sometimes more around here. I have 3 and keep looking but never find any at the good ole price of cheap.
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Posted: 14 May 2019 at 6:39am |
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What I have seen sell at sales I would NOT buy, heavy chipped out edges bowed to swayback from over hammering on cold materials, loads of damage and they still got good money but mainly for ornamental pieces not working units.
A good anvil will not have chunks and chips out of it regardless age as a GOOD Blacksmith KNOWS how to work steel Hot and Soft, there is an art to 'Adjusting' cold steel or iron and it does not involve beating it into the next life damaging the anvil.
My great Grandfather was a Smithy, he had his own shop in N Alton IL years ago and I suspect somehow I inherited that gene, how to see color as correct to work metals.
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JoeO(C-MO)
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Posted: 14 May 2019 at 7:33am |
I was lucky to obtain the forge, anvil w/stand, blower, a timber frame beam drill for the wood pegs, and a few other goodies from dad's home place at the auction about 25 years ago. I was bidding and had made up my mind not to let go, I knew what I wanted and I wasn't going home with an empty truck, I just didn't bring a big enough truck! So far I have ordered a new hood, trap thingy under the forge, a new pipe (muffler shop)from blower to trap thingy, hung the beam drill on the wall along with other farm items from our farm, purchased blacksmith coal and all of it now sets in the shop doing n-o-t-h-i-n-g. I was a member of a B/S group but didn't stay with it, too many things going on at work. It's still where I put it. There were other steam traction, saw mill and threshing items dad had talked about a number of times but had found other homes. There was a large beam barn there also, I took some Pic's of it at the time but haven't been able to locate them and large barn has succumbed to some Barn builders, don't know who, but the barn is gone now.
Edited by JoeO(C-MO) - 14 May 2019 at 7:49am
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Posted: 14 May 2019 at 9:09am |
At the farm I have Dad's Arm & Hammer anvil that has been there longer than I have. It's about 180 lbs. and in fair to good shape. Bought a forge at auction last fall. One of my friends at work is big into the black-smithing thing. Worst thing is he will probably retire this year. It's really only an 'interest' for me. Just want to heat stuff up and pound on it some. There's always something that needs straightened.
Anvil prices around here are through the roof! A good one around here will bring 3-4-5 dollars/lb. or more! Have seen some very nice ones sell in the last couple years, glad I didn't 'need' one!
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