sorta New lil` Blacksmith shop

[wireburner]

I finshing a old shed to be my new blacksmith shop . It is 10ft. x 14ft. it is going to have gravel floor , lights,plugins ,4 walls ( it only has 3),new roof ,paint maybe, 2 doors ,4 windows made from plexyglass,. Tools: Coal Forge,50 lb. anvil ,hammers, vise, table ,METAL,few grinders. I `am just leaving my welding machine & stuff at my other shop (basement) .

Any ideas , help etc. would be Great.

Thanks, Chris

[Hotfoot]

Eat my heart out, Chris!! I wish I could do some smithing here, but my neighbors are VERY close, and the hammering and clanging (music that it is!) would just not fly!:(

[wireburner]

Well I got to looking & the old shed ain`t to bad of shape so I `am replace the roof , plywood on 1 side and put double doors on the open end;)

[witness]

Sounds like you have a good plan. I would get a bigger anvil though. Have you ever seen any of the "Forge & Anvil" shows? I think that they are being replayed on RFD_TV, they are pretty good. You can also buy the videos if you can't get RFD.

[556man]

That'll be nice to have a seperate shed for blacksmiting. Don't forget a boombox for your music while working.:D I can't work without music but that's just me.

556man

[wireburner]

That'll be nice to have a seperate shed for blacksmiting. Don't forget a boombox for your music while working.:D I can't work without music but that's just me.

556man

yeah can`t forget my radio:p

[TJButler]

Sweeet! Next week I will be in the "Getting Started in Blacksmithing" course at the John C. Campbell Folk School in North Carolina. Never done any smithing but have hobby welded and fabbed for the last 4 years. I am really stoked(pun?) about going.

[wireburner]

Sweeet! Next week I will be in the "Getting Started in Blacksmithing" course at the John C. Campbell Folk School in North Carolina. Never done any smithing but have hobby welded and fabbed for the last 4 years. I am really stoked(pun?) about going.

Sweet Thanks I ain`t got to work on it much though. Have you seen my projects?

[davidplev]

im sorta in the same boat, im expanding my basement(bedroom) into a shop. when santa comes, he already told me he's bring me one of them pipe benders with a picket twister and and some other toys. i better be good:D

[usmcpop]

All I can say is do it while you still have the mood. I've been meaning to put together a forge and all that, then I got distracted. I'm not much of a welder, but I do seem to have a bit of a knack for banging hot steel. This is a handle for a long spoon. Did that many years ago when I took an adult-ed course that the county was giving.

http://www.hobartwelders.com/weldtalk/attachment.php?attachmentid=24888&stc=1&d=1195862135

http://www.hobartwelders.com/weldtalk/attachment.php?attachmentid=24889&stc=1&d=1195862135

[556man]

Wow! You did some nice work there usmcpop.

556man

[wireburner]

Looks Good! Ok here is the scoop! I got it done but its conctrete floor with 3 double plugins , 4 ft. double bulb light , treadle hammer, anvil , anvil stumo , forge , hood , post vice, hammer/tong/metal rack. I got it DONE yesterday . I just need to buy some cheap barn paint for it and a radio LOL:D. I will post pics. asap.

[wireburner]

opps! Here is a website with some of my stuff! www.infernosmithing.8m.com . Also got some grinders and going to buy a hf chop saw for it.

[wireburner]

Sounds like you have a good plan. I would get a bigger anvil though. Have you ever seen any of the "Forge & Anvil" shows? I think that they are being replayed on RFD_TV, they are pretty good. You can also buy the videos if you can't get RFD.

I found it http://www.georgiacenter.uga.edu/tv/videocatalog/forge.html I`am going to buy the package book and tv series thing! Thanks. Does it show how to build projects on the tv epsidoes?

[tnmike]

For anyone close to Waynesville, NC there are blacksmith classes at Haywood Community College ranging from beginner to advanced. It ranges the fields from joinery to knifemaking.

I have been a smith and knifemaker for about five years and this is my latest project. Its a tire power hammer as designed by Clay Spencer. We built 14 of them in a workshop at the college last October. Pretty good project and they work REALLY well.

I would suggest a bigger anvil. Harbor Freight use to carry a 110 lb Russian cast steel anvil. I bought one on closeout for 60 dollars about two months ago. DO NOT buy anything else from them they are all cast iron and worthless.

I started on a coal forge and went to gas. I would never go back. Its much cleaner and easier to use. I like the nostalgia of a coke or coal fire but I do not like breathing the dust and fumes.

Sounds like a nice forgeing area for sure.