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I'm out of town up here in Charlotte, North Carolina, for the week. I've brought all my reading resources, drafting gear and whatnot, for when I have nothing to do. But I got a couple of things on my mind: one is the fact that I have found an abundant source of thick oil rig cable(theoretical...

Semester is finally over and I have an entire summer to work out in the shop. I've been trying a couple of things with my forge the past couple of days, and I have come to the conclusion that everything I have is too big for forging. I've got me a 20ton pump hydraulic press from harbor freight...

A couple of questions for yall who have made a venturi set up before. For the first firing I was able to work it down to where it will run on 5 psi of pressure with either 1 or 2 burners running, is it favorable to run on higher psi or lower?

Local radio shack says they pulled it off the shelves a few months back and I have no clue where else to buy from, anyone got a suggestion? T.Hunter

In the complete modern blacksmith, there is a jig made using a U shaped leaf spring to hold a top and bottom die on an anvil, allowing the smith to hold both steel and hammer. I was wondering if anyone had ever thought to make bevel dies for use in something like this, mostly just for a concave...

The question I have: what options are available to someone who does not wish to spend 500+ on a heat treat oven just yet? Will a $20 toaster oven work for tempering medium carbon steel blades(1045), or is there a technique you can use with the forge to do it? Thanks for any input T. Hunter...

1045 heat treating Local steel supply company has 1045 in 2" round stock that I could use for forging some tools(hammers, hardy tools, hot cutting tools). most of the time when people start listing out the simple carbon steels they end em on the low end around 1050, so does 1045 have enough...

as you can see its kinda rusty and has a couple of gigantic "chips" near the hardy hole, which I have no earthly idea how they could have been made. Anyone know of a good way to knock off all the rust and get it back to a polished finish, and what I could do about the chips?

I need to look at getting me some stock for working into hand tools and hardy tools. Anyone know of a an easy forging, simple tempering(like using a forge for heat, wont have a tempering oven for awhile) steels. I need something that could be used on something like an axe or hammer as well, I...

Started yesterday working out how to make micarta scales, first test I used 15 layers of fiberglass cloth, set for around 24 hours, which gave me this ugly thing the 15 layers was no where near enough to try allot of shaping with, as its only about 1/8th of an inch thick, though I decided...

I'm about to get all of my parts and pieces together and finish up my blacksmithing shop. I want to go about making and treating blades in a more traditional manner: hammering em out, draw filing to sharp and shape, aneal the steel for a couple of nights(long soak in the forge, let cool in...

I'm looking at making me a sturdy and unique machete and I decided on making a golok, now there are a few things I'm looking at doing to help performance, one is horizontal fullers and the other is a metal handle. I'm mainly wanting to make me a beast of a machete for taking out medium sized...

alright, I've got about a week before I can start forging blades, first thing I'm thinking of is a large knife for taking down and witling medium sized trees. So what I was thinking is something like a cleaver mixed with a machete. Hoping to make it around three inches wide and about twelve...

Hunter here, long story short, I'm an mechanical engineer major. In general I like taking a certain medium and manipulating it into something else. One of my longtime mediums is paper, and I have developed my art of origami into expert level, mainly I like taking a scrap of something and making...