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  1. #1
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    Default Always learning and curious.

    Hello to yall,

    My name is John, age 61 and I'm living in a small town called Elburg in the Netherlands.

    After working for more than 30 years as a woodworker, I started 8 years ago as a metal worker.
    I started to learn how to weld and working with metal working tools, like a Milling machine and the lathe.

    I work as a blacksmith at a beautiful, 400 years old Smithy called De Hoefhamer. Forging Iron with a coalfire, is something completely different than working with fine tools like milling machine or lathe. I recommend it everybody to once try to forge.

    I hope while wander round here, to learn loads of things and have fun.

    Greatings yall
    John

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    Welcome, John!


    We have forums here to cover Metalwork, Woodwork, and Blacksmithing (The Smithy).


    A few times I have wanted to create something an odd shape, and have been tempted to try Blacksmithing. The idea of beating something into the shape, and them putting it in a lathe or mill to finish it is very appealing. Much stronger than fabricating/welding, and much less wasteful than something like CNC machining.


    We'd love to see photos of some of the things you have forged.

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    Hi John and welcome to our MetalWork Forums


    To explore the other areas of our forum here's a guide on how to to navigate our Forum and find all the other forums and help pages.

    Goto the FORUM box in the top left hand corner of the page and click the down arrow. This will bring up a pull down menu that has Forum Home at the top

    Click Forum Home which will present a scroll down page entitled Forums and members help.
    Our rules, the Terms of Service are right at the top ,we encourage you read them.

    Below that are all the various help pages and subforums that make up our MetalWork forum.

    We look forward to your questions and contributions of knowledge to the Forum.

    Welcome

    Grahame

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    Welcome to the forum John.

  5. #5
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    Default Some examples of things I forged

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    Quote Originally Posted by nigelpearson View Post
    Welcome, JIMG_3691 (2).jpgIMG_3689 (2).jpg_DSC2376.jpgohn!


    We have forums here to cover Metalwork, Woodwork, and Blacksmithing (The Smithy).


    A few times I have wanted to create something an odd shape, and have been tempted to try Blacksmithing. The idea of beating something into the shape, and them putting it in a lathe or mill to finish it is very appealing. Much stronger than fabricating/welding, and much less wasteful than something like CNC machining.


    We'd love to see photos of some of the things you have forged.
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