First time firing my new Vevor 2 burner forge. Wayyy nicer than my old homemade single burner setup, big fan. Up to heat way faster, and way more efficient. Only thing was that apparently they used to include the satanite, and now you have to go purchase rigidizer amd satanite seperately as they only include the ceramic wool blanket with the forge.

my 15 year old son really wants to get into bladesmithing eventually. but i have no idea what i am doing with ANY of this to try to help him. we live in Ecuador, and i have not found any commercially available forges. don't laugh, but we were planning to get him a load of bricks for Christmas and do a family project to help him build a basic starter. What else do we need? We have a lot of scrap metal pieces in the garage to start with, i bought him a crucible. i can get some heavy leather welding gloves - will that suffice? and some tongs to fit the crucible? HELP a mom out!

This might sound stupid, but I would like to make armour for a school project. I wonder if this is possible and making it without using fire or without the optimal equipment.

Again this may sound stupid, but it would be sick to pull this off.

EDIT: it is just for show, it does not not be be functional. I plan on doing it with 1.5 mm brass. I plan on making a Spartan Muscle Cuirass.

I put a layer of refractory cement on my wool. It’s dry but it didn’t harden up like I expected. I don’t know enough to know if I messed up or not. All the wool is coated and all that but I can still kind of “squish” it. I hope that made sense. Did I mess up?

I have been slowly getting my stuff together to get back into blacksmithing Today i rehafted the hammer i had during my blacksmithing studys Its a french patern hammer wich i though people might find interesting The handle is ash

Today I present:

Knife set Gaúcha Gyuto Kitchen utility Fork All forged integral Chaira Made in 5160 carbon steel Axis deer handles

UNAVAILABLE

A ​​big hug to everyone!

As the question above asks. I really want to forge a sword. For many reasons, self improvement being one of them. However, I have never even been near a forge, much less forged something of my own. So how can I begin this journey and make the sword of my dreams?

Just got this cleaned up and found a name I don’t recognize. Anyone know anything about these.

Hey everyone, my FIL found this leg vise for me at an auction last year and I'm finally getting around the cleaning it up. Can anyone help me figure out what the brand is? It's a pretty good sized one, and definitely weighs over 200 lbs. TIA.

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Hi! I've never forged anything in my life (although I'd really like to, someday) and I'm trying to write a book. The book centers around the forging of a magical dagger and I need to know how they would've forged daggers when the book is set. (600 AD ish) Would they be able to plate a steel dagger with silver?

I have a few other questions, too. I would love to have the crossguard look like stag antlers, but I'm not sure if that would be sturdy enough. Also, I have no fucking idea if it's possible to set a gem into the pommel nut.

Of course I could just use magic to explain this, but I'd really like to have some actual blacksmithing facts.

I may be able to get my hands on an old square kiln (similar to the one in the photo but with smaller opening and thicker bricks). I was wondering, since kilns are mostly fire brick, is there a way to convert it into a forge without completely rebuilding it from the salvaged parts? Or is it just all around a waste of time to even try? Thanks.

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This isn’t quite blacksmithing but I think you guys could give me a good answer.

I’m working on a truck with over a million miles on it, and a few bolts broke in the exhaust manifold. It took about 2 hours to drill one bolt out of it, normally wouldn’t take me more than 30 minutes. My question is, can steel that’s gone through thousands of heat cycles become EXTREMELY hard?

Really had me questioning my capability as a mechanic today, so I’m wondering if you guys would know anything about that. Thanks in advance!

No idea what the knife will be, but. [80crv2/1095(2)/15N20]s will bring me to 8 starting layers, and then draw to 3 lengths, twice should net me 72 layers. This will be done by HAND mind you. Maybe I will draw one one more time to 144, and then add on S/S layers on the outside for a damascus carbon steel/Stainless san mai.

I'm thinking a chef's knife of some sort.

Would you change anything, or, it is whatever TF you make it?

Hello all! So my wonderful partner got me a 6 hour beginners blacksmithing class for my birthday for next month! I couldn’t be more excited to try this craft but I did have some questions.

What should I expect? What should I wear? And how can I physically prepare myself?

Sorry if the writing is all weird I’m doing this on mobile!

My daughter complained that all of the knives were either too big, my wife's shitty stainless generic junk that won't hold an edge, or the handles were off for her grip style. She held up one of my other knives and said "this grip", then held up one of my wife's cheap stainless santokus and said "this edge", and then said, "but it doesn't need to be pointy". I pulled up a pic of a Japanese nakiri, and she said yes, but wanted it to have a longer shank between the handle and the live edge. This is what we worked up. It's 100% hand forged from a (probably 1095) cold chisel, quenched in vegetable oil, handle made from acacia scrap from a hardwood floor job, and, other than the one tiny wibblewobble in the spine, (the edge is dead straight), it came out pretty much exactly what I wanted. It is idiotically sharp. She is happy. I am happy. My wife hates it and won't use it, so if it gets left in the sink dirty I know to blame the kid.