Hopefully this winter I will have a roof up. There will still be plenty of snow around, but it will at least help keep it from piling up where I need to stand and making my anvil too short.
Thanks! It was made of spring steel from a large truck coil spring. Most likely 5160 spring steel, and I heat treat it as such, which has worked well. Though I don't have any the equipment to say 100% that its not a slightly different type of spring steel.
How do you like your anvil? I have one in similar condition. I'm just getting started and wondering if I will have any issues with it being that I don't have any sharp corners remaining. Is that a problem for forging knives?
Sharp corners are actually bad for forging in general as well as knife making. Sharp corners in the finished product create stress concentrations which will be a weak spot. You want radiuses corners to prevent this. In general I really like this anvil. Irs very solid and quite heavy enough to work efficiently on.
@@northernforgeblacksmith I'm just now getting started first thing I made was a pry bar second man made with a fire poker both of them very ugly but they worked do you know a good project for beginner
Keep working on it! My first project was a dross scoop for doing aluminum melts, and in retrospect it definitely looked like crap, but man was I proud of it at the time.
Nice to know I'm not the only one who forges in the snow. Cool video thanks
Hopefully this winter I will have a roof up. There will still be plenty of snow around, but it will at least help keep it from piling up where I need to stand and making my anvil too short.
Fun to watch. I made my first blacksmith knife yesterday :)
Congratulations! I prefer making them to other types of knives because there is more forging and a lot less grinding involved.
Great job!
Thanks! Tapering thin material without causing cold shuts can he tricky, but this one went pretty smoothly.
Looks good
Thank you!
Parabéns ótimo trabalho
Thank you!
👏👏👏👏👏👏
Enjoyed the video. What steel did you make it out of?
Thanks! It was made of spring steel from a large truck coil spring. Most likely 5160 spring steel, and I heat treat it as such, which has worked well. Though I don't have any the equipment to say 100% that its not a slightly different type of spring steel.
How do you like your anvil? I have one in similar condition. I'm just getting started and wondering if I will have any issues with it being that I don't have any sharp corners remaining. Is that a problem for forging knives?
Sharp corners are actually bad for forging in general as well as knife making. Sharp corners in the finished product create stress concentrations which will be a weak spot. You want radiuses corners to prevent this.
In general I really like this anvil. Irs very solid and quite heavy enough to work efficiently on.
If you want crisp corners make a hardy block with crisp edges🙂
How long have you been forging
around 7, going on 8 years.
@@northernforgeblacksmith I'm just now getting started first thing I made was a pry bar second man made with a fire poker both of them very ugly but they worked do you know a good project for beginner
Keep working on it! My first project was a dross scoop for doing aluminum melts, and in retrospect it definitely looked like crap, but man was I proud of it at the time.