No need to worry my anvill (for now) is just a heavy piece of scrap steel on a few foundation blocks, I'll post pics laterKortoso wrote:One thing that slows a lot of would-be smiths, is the assumption that the anvil needs to be a huge block of iron or steel.
The Vikings often made do with something little more than a iron spike driven into a heavy stump.
Home made forge question
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Yesterday I tested the forge, finally! The full setup looks like this:
It's fueled with hardwood charcoal and I'm pleased to report that my strange layout of pipework didn't cause any problems, intact it seemed to work perfectly.
As promised heres some photos of the anvil:
The anvil has a second plate that fits over the top to protect my flat serface from cuting and punching. It also has a work holding chain which allows me to do activities that would normally need three hands. The only thing that didn't work to well was the stand. The top block ended up cracking with repeated impact so I need to rethink that (i'll possibly mount the anvill on a piece of hard wood first)
Here's some pictures of it working:
It didn't quite get as hot as I would have liked, I think the next thing I'll be trying is an electric blower and using ether coal or coke. And I've got to learnhow to use it, so far I haven't really made anything due to not really knowing what I'm doing.
It's fueled with hardwood charcoal and I'm pleased to report that my strange layout of pipework didn't cause any problems, intact it seemed to work perfectly.
As promised heres some photos of the anvil:
The anvil has a second plate that fits over the top to protect my flat serface from cuting and punching. It also has a work holding chain which allows me to do activities that would normally need three hands. The only thing that didn't work to well was the stand. The top block ended up cracking with repeated impact so I need to rethink that (i'll possibly mount the anvill on a piece of hard wood first)
Here's some pictures of it working:
It didn't quite get as hot as I would have liked, I think the next thing I'll be trying is an electric blower and using ether coal or coke. And I've got to learnhow to use it, so far I haven't really made anything due to not really knowing what I'm doing.
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Aragorn: It's the beards.
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Try talking to a local tree service, and see if you can get your hands on a log. Anything recently cut from a live tree would do the trick. Ask for something that’s as tall as from the ground to your knuckles in a closed fist at your side (minus the height of your anvil). It’ll be a much more comfortable working position, and you can always nail that chain to the stump.
Looks pretty cool, though! Looking forward to seeing this skill progress.
Looks pretty cool, though! Looking forward to seeing this skill progress.
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That sounds like a great idea, I think I'll do that, thanks GregGreg wrote:Try talking to a local tree service, and see if you can get your hands on a log. Anything recently cut from a live tree would do the trick. Ask for something that’s as tall as from the ground to your knuckles in a closed fist at your side (minus the height of your anvil). It’ll be a much more comfortable working position, and you can always nail that chain to the stump.
Looks pretty cool, though! Looking forward to seeing this skill progress.
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Okay, I've been absent for a while... again... Anyway, how is this progressing for you? The forge looks great! It would work well as is with coal or coke. If you want to continue to use lump charcoal, then you may want to consider building up some walls around the firepot using firebricks or clay. This will allow you to heap on more charcoal, it will concentrate the heat and it will shield it from outside wind. You want your air coming from your blower and into where you want it.
I do hope this is progressing for you!
I do hope this is progressing for you!
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Well, I have plans to improve the setup, I've found a nice powerful electric blower and did plan to use it with coke instead of charcoal, I have got a ring of metal I can put on the table around the firepot to shield it from wind if the conditions make it necessary. Problem is I haven't had any time, that was last years college project and now I'm mad busy with this years, which is HNC and much harderEric C wrote:Okay, I've been absent for a while... again... Anyway, how is this progressing for you? The forge looks great! It would work well as is with coal or coke. If you want to continue to use lump charcoal, then you may want to consider building up some walls around the firepot using firebricks or clay. This will allow you to heap on more charcoal, it will concentrate the heat and it will shield it from outside wind. You want your air coming from your blower and into where you want it.
I do hope this is progressing for you!
This is the only thing I've had time to make with it so far:
https://www.deviantart.com/maygoldworth ... -764036083
And it's not very impressive, at the moment the forge is buried in the garage and it would take me about half a day to get it out
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Not a bad start. The leather work is really nice too. My leather work could use some attention.
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ThanksEric C wrote:Not a bad start. The leather work is really nice too. My leather work could use some attention.
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Sadly the forge in this thread is now so buried in the garage that it would take weeks of sorting out and tidying up to get it out, so ironically when I decided I needed to forge something it was quicker to build another forge, and although this isn't very good compared to the first, it did the job
So here are some photo's:
A (as promised) video of making the forge:
[youtube]xjQbkI7iX3M[/youtube]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjQbkI7iX3M
and a photo of making my gift for theowl:
So here are some photo's:
A (as promised) video of making the forge:
[youtube]xjQbkI7iX3M[/youtube]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjQbkI7iX3M
and a photo of making my gift for theowl:
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Awesome!
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That’s awesome! The sign on the bolt organizer is particularly inspired
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Thank you
yep, and necessary when you have a brother who thinks it's funny to mix them upManveruon wrote:The sign on the bolt organizer is particularly inspired
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That looks like a lot of fun! One of these days when I have the space for it, I'd like to get more into forging and blacksmithing.
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yep, me to If I had space to have a forge permanently set up I think I'd be using it all the timeCimrandir wrote:That looks like a lot of fun! One of these days when I have the space for it, I'd like to get more into forging and blacksmithing.
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Aragorn: It's the beards.
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