My grandpa gave me an anvil, probably 150lbs if Im guessing correctly. It's old and it has a very thin crack in it. I can't tell if it's something detrimental or if it's just normal wear. The crack is a hairline near the horn. It's long, but it's not very wide. Any advice?
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Practicing my J hooks this weekend, any advice is appreciated. Steel was old 3/4 wide Allen wrenches.
Making a cuff from Baker Forge stainless damascus.
Didn’t realize my phone over heated so I got zero footage of the grinding and forging to shape. But the next one is going to be epic.
I see many questions about this, but the usual answer is to go and find a local club. Problem is that theree isn't any close to my home, and the only course cost thousands of euros to buy, and I don't have the money to pay a course. I could buy the equipment to do it on my own. How do I start on my own? Is it possible?
I have tried a bunch of different things but still can’t get my metal very hot. Any ideas?
First time trying to forge an animal head. The weather finally cooled down today after a heatwave so I figured, why not start the forge, it's been a while. I finally got to use my eye punch and my small ball punch I made a while ago, that felt great !
Cheers
I'm pretty happy with the first attempt
Did a Google search but couldn't find anything about what kind of steel this is
A few more pendants from the cutoffs of mosaic at various stages in the process. These are super fun to make and I hate wasting good steel, so, win win!
First time posting here, thought y'all might enjoy this: my starter anvil made from an old forklift fork! 4140-ish steel.
I started by cutting off the shank (vertical part, you can still see the top hook) and cleaning the surface. It measured ~22.5" x 2" x 6" and roughly 75lb.
I tried hammering some rebar on it, and it took WAY more work than I'd thought.
Looking into why real anvils "hit back" and learned about the vertical mass under the work surface being responsible for that.
I also needed a hardy hole, and racked my brain on how to get it...
I ended up cutting a 1" slot in one end, then welding another section of fork onto the end and smoothing it out.
Then, I took the largest section of fork I had left, cut a longer 1" slot on one end, and welded it to the underside.
All in all, it took a Class 4 fork, eight or ten 4" cut-off disks, two grinding disks, and eight 7018 sticks... All free from work 😅
It weighs in around 120lb now, and does hit back!
I'm very pleased, but what do you think?
I just did a basic drawing on what I intend to do. But I think I should never draw again hahahhahahah.
Any tips on how to do a useful sketch? Or it's just trying to draw whatever that is in my mind and I will, eventually, get better at this?
This took me way too long to make
Very new to Forging, I've forged out a piece of rebar into a blade shape but I'm curious as to what tools I can use to grind it down as the only one I really know of is a belt grinder and I do not have one.
I have a vevor 2 burner forge, I’ve always just used it outside but I recently build a 24’x8’ lean to wood shed with an 8 x 8 area for my blacksmithing “shop”. The tall end is 9’6” from the ground and the short end is 7’ from the ground with a loft at 7’ inside. I didn’t put any boards down in the loft area, it’s just 2x4s for storing metal over my shop and wood over the wood so you can still see the steel roof. When I built it I never even thought of the clearances of the forge but it’s never too late I guess lol. I sided it with wood boards and I put cement board on the walls around the forge but above the forge what should I do? It gets really hot above the forge and I’m just trying to think of ideas on how to handle it. I haven’t actually set up my shop area yet but am in the middle of it. Thank you all.
Left is a random pattern, right is more structured lines. I'm trying to decide which I want to go with for my next run of knives.