Getting Started?
Hello, I am a 17 year old that is interested in swordsmithing. What is the best way to get started? Is coal, wood or propane better? What tools will I need? Can they be made or need to be bought? Thanks
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Out of curiosity, do you have any metalworking experience at all, or know someone who does? If you do, then a serviceably anvil for knifemaking and small work can be made by taking a section of...
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No I dont. I do have a friend that is but he will be busy for a few months. (New Job) If you get any pics up please tell me. I dont quite get what you are trying to do with the RR track?!?!I have a...
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Actually, the "cutting side" isn't for cutting. It's for an operation called "fullering." You'll want to dress (grind) that side down to a smooth radius. Use a chisel or hardie for cutting. (This...
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You'd be better off by going to a hardware store or a flea market and buy a hammer than trying to grind off a 5 pound sledge. You said you had an I-Beam factory near your place. See if you can...
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Does anyone have a technical document on how to make a washtub forge? Thanks
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David, Hello, my name is John. It's nice to meet you. I have only been doing this about six months myself. But I would just like to say that you CAN do this! I sometimes feel kind of intimidated by...
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I do have a good vise I can use. For anyone out there I have another question Its about the KITH project "The knife is to be file and sand finish to 600 grit or better. Oh yeah, the steel is to be an...
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I read it as applying to the steel, finished to 600 grit. In its annealed state, this is not so hard to do. Keeping a good 600g finish through heat treating is slightly more tricky, and depends on...
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There has been much good advice in this thread. Weygers' book was one of the first blacksmithing guides I read and I found it inspiring to read about getting a forge setup together from "junk".For...
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Here's my forgeMy Forge Simply a three pound coffee can, lined with kaowool, and fit with a 3/4" burner. I can forge with 2 psi and weld with about 8. Bob Yes!....Forging IS addictive!!!
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I make up my mind!! After stuffing tons on information about bladesmithing into my small brain. I have not only decied to build the washtup forge I have also joined the KITH progect. Soooo...... now I...
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What is the best way to make your own charcoal? What wood works best? ThanksDavid"It is well that war is so terrible, lest we should grow too fond of it. -- Robert E. Lee
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David, The best book I've found for bladesmithing is: " $50 Knife Shop " by Wayne Goddard (ISBN 0-87341-993-6). It sells for around $20 and is full of the answers to a lot of the questions you will...
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David, I know I said I'd get a forge tutorial up, but credit belongs where it is due. When most of us mention the "washtub" forge design, we're using the idea marketed by Tim Lively. His site has a...
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I am withdrawing from the KITH project. My Dad and I decided that between Computer Class, Basketball, Work, and school I should wait for awhile to start forgeing. He read all of the posts and after...
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I have a metal muffler, how would I find out what type of metal it is? You cant use chrome for anything can you?Thanks,DJP.S. If you could also look at my post 'HELP!!!' in the campfire room that...
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Uh what do you want to use a muffler for dude? It is probably crap steel. Low carbon, and I doubt there are many regulations as to grade of steel used, so it is practically useless. Unless you use it...
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It is nice polished chrome from a HD bike. I have 4 of them that are bent.David
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David, the -surface- may be polished chrome, but what are the innards of the metal? Blacksmithing/Bladesmithing requires that you think in 3 dimensions, and about the nature of the material you're...
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