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    this is great to finally see a smithy forum on this site, lets get some pics posted on your works of art, past and present.
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    IMG_8131.jpgIMG_8132.jpgthought i would try and get the ball rolling with a couple of pics of a project i started a couple of months back, this forum got me motivated to get it done (well over due). wife hasn't seen it yet, hope she doesn't mind it in the house.

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    IMG_8136.jpgIMG_8137.jpgthis is like pulling teeth. here's a couple of pics of camp fire tripods i knocked up one morning, one's for a mate and i will keep the other.

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    knocked this up this arvo while i was modifying a camp bbq grill, not my best work but, any excuse to fire up the forge
    32mm nb pipe cut at a random lenght.
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    IMG_8161.jpgIMG_8159.jpgmade this roast fork for when we go camping this morning, 10X10mm square bar. my fan caught on fire just as i finished now im in the marked for a new fan, so if anyone out there knows of a good quality electric forge fan let me know otherwise im sure i will source one somewhere.
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    Nice work there kraits, you certainly have an eye for pleasing form and proportions!
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    Quote Originally Posted by AndrewOC View Post
    Nice work there kraits, you certainly have an eye for pleasing form and proportions!
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    cheers Andrew, will be a week or more before i get back out there, need to find a new blower for the forge, getting some pretty hefty prices here.

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    Kraits, Have you thought about using a fan out a car! Could be a cheaper way to go especialy if you can do some scrounging and have an old usable battery around?
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    Quote Originally Posted by anglesmith View Post
    Kraits, Have you thought about using a fan out a car! Could be a cheaper way to go especialy if you can do some scrounging and have an old usable battery around?Graeme

    i spoke with a fella from abasa today who suggested the same thing, i need a greater volume, forge is over 1200X600mm with a 100mm pipe leading into it, looking at a inline can fan for about $300, 15m3 per minute shoud do it, also is wired for a variable speed switch, will order in the morning just won't tell my wife

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    Thats some nice work there Kraits, i will put some pics up when i get a chance to take some of stuff we have round the house. Most of the pics i have are "real" ones and i don't have a scanner.
    I particularly like the candle holder made from the pipe, it would take some care to fuller the neck without the whole lot collapsing.
    Its good to have this new forum, makes me miss my forge even more though.....it will be set up again sometime...soon....i hope.

    PS, i'm told that old dryers are a good source of blowers.....personally i have a 5' set of double chamber bellows, only used an electric blower a couple of times, hated it cause i kept forgetting to turn it off or down whilst striking and the fire kept burning hollow....
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ueee View Post
    Thats some nice work there Kraits, i will put some pics up when i get a chance to take some of stuff we have round the house. Most of the pics i have are "real" ones and i don't have a scanner.
    I particularly like the candle holder made from the pipe, it would take some care to fuller the neck without the whole lot collapsing.
    Its good to have this new forum, makes me miss my forge even more though.....it will be set up again sometime...soon....i hope.

    PS, i'm told that old dryers are a good source of blowers.....personally i have a 5' set of double chamber bellows, only used an electric blower a couple of times, hated it cause i kept forgetting to turn it off or down whilst striking and the fire kept burning hollow....
    pipe was quite easy to make, got the idea of iforeiron gallery, just used a cross pein, a straight pein and the edge of the anvil, shaped the end over the horn and it basically made it's self.

    ive been thinking about getting one of those big E stops wired up as a foot pedal for an on off switch, might even think about some kind of timmer to avoid what you have mentioned with it continuing to burn, ive wasted so much coke doing the same thing, the sisalation on the roof has seen better days as a result of the flames reaching up into the range hood.

    can't wait to see some of your pics, something else i can plagerise once i get this blower soughted out my next project will be with a a couple of dog spikes i picked up on the Odnadatta track a few weeks back, will forge them together and draw them out to make a cork screw, well thats the plan atleast.

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    here's a pot belly i made for a fella down the road last year, wasn't easiest thing to do but the end result was well worth it.june1 017.jpg

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ueee View Post
    the pics i have are "real" ones

    still living in the dark ages eh Ueee......

    ps...couldnt resist hahahaha...apologies

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    i know this is an old thread .. but its still a good one

    ive just started - what a great way to spend time. A local farrier gave my son one of his old forges.. so i had to give it a go

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    this was the second thing i made - the first was a pile of scrap

    hey kraits - do you still live in roxby downs. we were there for 2.5 years about 18 years ago !!
    besides being in the middle of nowhere, it was a great place

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    Quote Originally Posted by markaus View Post
    i know this is an old thread .. but its still a good one

    ive just started - what a great way to spend time. A local farrier gave my son one of his old forges.. so i had to give it a go

    019.jpg
    this was the second thing i made - the first was a pile of scrap

    hey kraits - do you still live in roxby downs. we were there for 2.5 years about 18 years ago !!
    besides being in the middle of nowhere, it was a great place

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