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Blacksmithing 101: How to Make a Forge and Start Hammering Metal
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Blacksmithing 101: How to Make a Forge and Start Hammering Metal
If you want to work with metal, there's one thing you have to confront: You need heat. With it, you can make the toughest metal submit to your will. Without it, you'll never gain full mastery over this stubborn material.
Over the years, I have been frustrated by my inability to work hot steel. I've bolted metal together, welded it and soldered it. But I couldn't shape it, and so large swaths of the mechanical realm were off-limits to me.
But blacksmithing never felt alien. My father is a metallurgist, descended from generations of 19th-century blacksmiths and born in Germany to shipbuilders whose forges scattered sparks over the shores of the Elbe River and the North Sea. I grew up in rural Connecticut among Yankee mechanics who could forge anything, machine anything, build anything, fix anything--and I've been trying to live up to those old-timers' standards all my life. It wasn't hard to finally decide to take another step, and teach myself some blacksmithing skills.
Read more: Blacksmithing 101: How to Make a Forge and Start Hammering Metal - Popular Mechanics
Re: Blacksmithing 101: How to Make a Forge and Start Hammering Metal
Here's another link on blacksmithing, this one from backwoods home
http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles/green51.html
http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles/green51.html
Re: Blacksmithing 101: How to Make a Forge and Start Hammering Metal
There has been a lot of expressed interest in forging, and the above links are a great source for knowledge, but here's a cheaper way to get started.
http://www.survivalmonkey.com/threads/one-brick-forge.3929/
In fact if you are careful in selecting your equipment you can set up a small blacksmithing workshop for less than $50.00. Heating metal, and hammering it into a shape is only a small part of the process...
http://www.survivalmonkey.com/threads/one-brick-forge.3929/
In fact if you are careful in selecting your equipment you can set up a small blacksmithing workshop for less than $50.00. Heating metal, and hammering it into a shape is only a small part of the process...
Re: Blacksmithing 101: How to Make a Forge and Start Hammering Metal
We actually sell plans for an easy to make and cheap bellows on my website. Oriental Bellows Plans
My neighbor who helps design or designs the plans that I sell is a blacksmith. He used to smith at the historic reenactment town Missouri Town 1855. This bellows is neat because it blows air on BOTH the push and the pull strokes.
I have never tried smithing, and I admire you Sonshine for learning it. It is fascinating to watch.
My neighbor who helps design or designs the plans that I sell is a blacksmith. He used to smith at the historic reenactment town Missouri Town 1855. This bellows is neat because it blows air on BOTH the push and the pull strokes.
I have never tried smithing, and I admire you Sonshine for learning it. It is fascinating to watch.
Re: Blacksmithing 101: How to Make a Forge and Start Hammering Metal
Like I said my friend is a blacksmith. He is fascinated by the way things used to be done. He is an engineer and also a tight wad! That means when he wants a new toy of some kind he simple designs it. He usually designs things that are easy to build and CHEAP. The bellows plan we sell for example has plans for a full size bellows and a smaller one as well. He sized the little one down so that it could be made from a single 4x8 sheet of plywood.
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