Klinkerhoffen Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 Just got me a cracking anvil if anyones into smithing etc, double bick and a rather light 230kg. Anyone do their own knives? ive been making some damascuse steel whilst bored. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0FLlINgkEU Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoney baloney Posted April 30, 2013 Share Posted April 30, 2013 that's so f*cking cool. how long did it take you to learn to work with metal like that? i would like to learn. talk about an unappreciated, lost art. back in the day... blacksmiths were highly revered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klinkerhoffen Posted May 1, 2013 Author Share Posted May 1, 2013 Heya Baloney, I first started when I was about 17, I was studying archaeology and working on a roman fort here as a field archaeologist. One day I was asked if i could go help the stonemason who was doing some fancy work on a roman gatehouse reconstruction, he was a real old timer at his thing and so professional, still working at 80 something years of age. Cutting a long story short, hed broke the teeth on one of his stonemasons chisels, me being me said 'I can fix that' so off I went in search of a propane torch and a few basic tools, fixed it, hardened it and he was a happy guy. Soon after I got my eye on a weird looking bunch who had came in for an open day complete with roman armour, swords, javelins and portable digging tools etc etc. I sat on the grasseating my lunch and realised the romans must have had mobile blacksmiths to fix all that crap when it went wrong, I went off and researched the pants offa it. Soon after I started forging small portable items, then over a few year I did more and more working my way up to making gladius type swords from damascus (or pattern welded*) steel, something many historians thought the romans couldnt do despite there being a number of steel 'blooms' from furnaces on hadrians wall. I landed another job that paid crazily well and left my archaeology behind along with smithing until recently. Good part is, I'm back with a vengeance and plan on setting my own commercial forge and foundry up in a year or so. I'll grab a few photos of those tongs I was making, made maybe ten sets that still need to be polished up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klinkerhoffen Posted May 1, 2013 Author Share Posted May 1, 2013 (edited) Edited May 1, 2013 by Klinkerhoffen 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papito Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 Could you make me a Ring like this one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoney baloney Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 Heya Baloney, I first started when I was about 17, I was studying archaeology and working on a roman fort here as a field archaeologist. One day I was asked if i could go help the stonemason who was doing some fancy work on a roman gatehouse reconstruction, he was a real old timer at his thing and so professional, still working at 80 something years of age. Cutting a long story short, hed broke the teeth on one of his stonemasons chisels, me being me said 'I can fix that' so off I went in search of a propane torch and a few basic tools, fixed it, hardened it and he was a happy guy. Soon after I got my eye on a weird looking bunch who had came in for an open day complete with roman armour, swords, javelins and portable digging tools etc etc. I sat on the grasseating my lunch and realised the romans must have had mobile blacksmiths to fix all that crap when it went wrong, I went off and researched the pants offa it. Soon after I started forging small portable items, then over a few year I did more and more working my way up to making gladius type swords from damascus (or pattern welded*) steel, something many historians thought the romans couldnt do despite there being a number of steel 'blooms' from furnaces on hadrians wall. I landed another job that paid crazily well and left my archaeology behind along with smithing until recently. Good part is, I'm back with a vengeance and plan on setting my own commercial forge and foundry up in a year or so. I'll grab a few photos of those tongs I was making, made maybe ten sets that still need to be polished up. so cool. so freaking cool. i appreciate anyone who authentically makes the things in their life they need. when i graduated culinary school, we spent about a month on a farm in rural colorado... one of the guys educating us was such a good blacksmith, and from that moment on-- i realized that was another thing i wanted to learn. cheers, and thanks for posting this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinBacon Posted May 2, 2013 Share Posted May 2, 2013 The P.C. term is 'african-american-smith' Humph!~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klinkerhoffen Posted May 2, 2013 Author Share Posted May 2, 2013 (edited) Could you make me a Ring like this one? easily, ive the foundry side too. What it would cost you is a different matter Edited May 2, 2013 by Klinkerhoffen 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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