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This is a forge. I’ve been working on for a few months whenever I have free time from school and I finally finished it about two weeks ago and I’ve been using it to learn how to forge.
For people who are interested it is a buffalo Forge from the late 1800s to no sooner than 1920 it is a hybrid powered semi portable shop or farmstead forge, which means that it stay in it’s original configuration as a hand cranked forge or easily be converted to work with a line drive system. At least this is what I could gather about it.
For the restoring part, I made a new leather belt for it which was new me since I’ve never worked with leather. Also, I took it apart and cleaned and applied new grease. I also built up a fire pot with castable factory cement which I’ve never worked with, so hopefully it will last a while.

I’ve been looking everywhere for an anvil and when I was visiting my grandpa, I asked if he knew of any anvils in the area and he told me that he had his dad’s anvil so I now have my great grandpa’s anvil. It is a Trenton the serial number on it is A72999 and it says in hundred weight that it’s 121 so I believe it’s from 1908 and that it weighs 169 pounds but I’m not 100% sure.

I just finished turning this padauk wood into a handle and was wondering if I could get away with epoxy to hold it together or do you think I should try and extend the tang out to peen it over.

The knife with the hourglass handle was my very first blacksmithing project ever and the Bowie was my second.
I made these a few months ago at my neighbors workshop, who allowed me to use his forge.