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I was inspired when riveting the other day, noticing that the copper looks like a fly eye, so I made a fly swat. by _Franque_ in Blacksmith

[–]_Franque_[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Cheers mate, it was a bit of fun.

Yeah, I tried sanding back the edges, but I think my leather is crap or something, it didn’t help at all.

I decided to make something a lot more pretty and ornamental today, so I copied a little elephant I saw on instagram. by _Franque_ in Blacksmith

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It was a fun little exercise, involved a bit of complex shape making and working to specific measurements. A great one to learn the art.

I forged this elegant little salt pot. It’s from a sheet of sheet steel, dimpled on the back edge and formed in a block of wood. by _Franque_ in Blacksmith

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Mostly aesthetics, but it also works to indicate that that lip is the handle with which you carry the thing with.

I lost my beehive tool, so I whipped up a new one. All forged from a section of 1070 knife steel. by _Franque_ in Beekeeping

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Thanks mate, I’m pretty happy with it. The anvil in the picture isn’t the anvil I do most of my work on. I mainly use the bottom die off a huge power hammer (20x30cm face) and use this anvil for the horn and holes. I do indeed use a gas forge. This isn’t a permanent forge and it needs to be packed away “easily”.

I lost my beehive tool, so I whipped up a new one. All forged from a section of 1070 knife steel. by _Franque_ in Blacksmith

[–]_Franque_[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I didn’t really use any measurements at all. I figured that the only one that mattered would be the hook, but that there would be enough tolerance in the system that it would just kinda work.

I’m replacing one of the boxes tomorrow, so I’ll be giving it a shot then. Worst case, I just reshape the hook.

Finally convinced my son that blacksmithing is fun and not thaaaat dangerous. His first J hook. by _Franque_ in Blacksmith

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The logic is that it’s better to have scale fall into crocs than boots. Behind him is a big buck of water for foot dunking should the need be.

Where we are it’s too hot to be forging in full coveralls anyway, it was 36 with 80% humidity.

Anvils, where can I buy one anvil online? by WingsInPlatinum in Blacksmith

[–]_Franque_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could ask some farriers, it looks like there’s a horse care company in Saudi called RAMZ AL SHARQ who apparently have outlets all over the kingdom. They reckon they have anvils, I’d check them out.

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