r/blacksmithing

How To Get Started Blacksmithing: (Sticker and Video Link Fixed.) Video Includes Types of Forges, Safety Equiptment, Anvils, Tools and Everything You Need To Know For Getting Started. Save Money and build some of what you need yourself.

Video Here If Allowed: https://youtu.be/SMuDJeLgOO4

Please feel free to check out Resist The Grind on Youtube for more historic trades, blacksmithing projects, and green woodworking. Sorry about the errors the other day, think this post is correct now. - Best, u/obxchris 's wife

Hi all, new to this but just got gifted this shoeing anvil. I already have a few different weights of ball peen hammers from other metal working endeavors but was wondering what people would recommend to get to get started. I might be getting gifted some assorted tongs but that’s to be determined if they can be found in the same stash this anvil came from.

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

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!

There unfortunately only this one photo in the listing, 76cm long and 26cm tall, doesn't say how much it weighs. Hes asking for 320€

Go mai with 80CrV2/Pop’s Procut twist cladding, nickel shims, and Apex Ultra core. Center line got a little lost on me but still turned out pretty good!

Hello I found door knocker years ago at a thrift shop. I am pretty sures its a more modern piece. I was just more curious about it. Im hoping you can help she'd some light on it for me.

My 7 year old has been obsessed with blacksmithing for 18 months. I wasn’t discouraging it, but was thinking it was just a passing interest but he didn’t let go. He was saving his own money for a forge even forgoing spending money on games and toys. For his birthday all the family and friends got together to get his a basic kit (forge, anvil, hammer, tongs and safety equipment. So now I find that I am his apprentice and… doing blacksmithing… wtf!?!

We do lots of double striking since he can’t move too much material yet. But we managed to make a small knife out of rebar just for practice. We are doing some basic isolations, drawing out, talking about projects he could take to craft shows or give as gifts.

He made this small blade from one of those practice pieces and it felt like it took forever! So my question is… how long should this take? I think we worked on this for at least three hours maybe four. Square the rebar, isolate the blade blob nugget, draw out the tang, smoosh the blade… is four hours crazy long?

BTW He loves this, I think he is hooked and I am hooked by proxy. 🤪

Hey, this may be a repost, I am illiterate and not sure if I deleted the other one or not....Anyways! I have a vevor single burner forge, my set up is as is with the kit and a 20 lb propane tank. I applied rigidizer and 2 coats of satanite, the final coat is in the pictures. I used Mr volcano supplies for both and followed the recipe for making it very closely. Please let me know what I did right and wrong in this, just starting out. Edit forgot satanite

Hello, Im not too sure what to put here but Im trying to learn where the best place to look for old tools handles or possibly where to maybe get suggestions to commission something.

A brief bit of info, im a haunter and I use a chain whip, well im wanting to have a proper one, not one made with c links. But my biggest challenge is the handle. I think I know what im wanting but im not sure where to look for it.

I sometimes am lucky enough to have my gf be my shop apprentice and help me forge these big axes out. Here she is holding a 6lb splitting axe commission so I can use a 20lb Sledge hammer to really get the bevel forged down in 4 or 5 heats. If I did this alone it would be double or triple the amount of effort.

So about 6 months ago I tried drawing out a railroad spike to a steak flipper, it didnt go as planned. Since then I've been making blacksmiths knives and had a bit of spare time today to try again. This one was much better. I cant say it was better because of my new hammer, but it definitely helped with the drawing out.

Which configuration would be best? (yes I have access to a welder and my welds are proficient).

Also there is a center hole in the concrete blocks and the steel rod will go into it with some rebar welded onto the end to go deeper into the ground. Also if anyone has any ideas to get this thing to working height please free to tell me.

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