Thanks Allen -- looks like a mint-condition anvil there :) I've been smithing with friends almost weekly for about 14 months, and since I got my first home I've been tooling up my own shop with my increased free time.
I'm interested in casting too -- found this site inspiring: http://backyardmetalcasting.com/ There are a ton of great smithing sites, from anvilfire and on... maybe I'll have some public pix up someday, for now just these older ones: http://flickr.com/photos/benborg/tags/blacksmithing/ Lately I've just been cutting, bending, welding, and grinding at home, but I've just about got my forge materials together, I am going to purchase a well-tuned venturi burner from a pro, and experiment with making my own burner later on. cheers to the DIY'ers!! Open source the hardware tech :) ben On 2/22/07, Allen Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ben Barrett wrote: > But I don't want any waste heat... I'd like to minimize the "waste" by > putting it > into a heat pump... another input will be my propane forge, which is almost > built. > > Cars: just a temporary hang-up, I suppose... being out of regular work has > begun to change my attitudes, I fear in a somewhat back-stepping way. > By now I should be buying & selling other companies for breakfast and > buying "overcompensators" (high-end cars) for desert :) > > oh well, who wants to hire a fool like me anyway, huh ;) > > ben What will you do with your forge? Blacksmith? http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/HotMetal/index.html I've done some blacksmith, but I do more casting ... foundry. -- Allen Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/ I never worry about action, but only inaction. --- Winston Churchill _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
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