Why did I hear Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer" through the whole video? 😉 This is actually a great idea! If you find yourself in a situation that needs an expedient forge, the sledgehammer is a clever idea! Thank you!
Locate a copy of The Complete Modern Blacksmith by Andrew Weygers. Has loads of info on improvised anvils that the author made during his years as an engineer and artist.
This is a good video, I'm the grinder and forge kinda black smith so I'm very limited with what I can use I've been meaning to make my own patternwelded stuff and opening my works to commissions but not having the funds to buy such a bulking mass, I'd take your advices to consideration, thanks dude
@Ry-bo9hi, Thank you so much! That is awesome! I can't tell you how excited I am that my video was able to help you! How long have you been blacksmithing for? Something that I never put in the video is that it is better to find something that has sharp 90 degree corners. You will use the corners often, and they wear down. If you do find say a block of steel with square corners, you may want to take a angle grinder and grind a graduated bevel on one or two of the edges. Meaning, say the right side of the selected edge is almost a sharp angle, and the left side is very rounded. Very often anvils will have similar bevels along the first 4-6" of there edge. I hope that all goes well for you, and I would love to hear how it turns out, and any improvements that you made! Please let me know if you have any questions! Thanks again! GOD bless! -Miles Forge
@@MilesForge I've been thinking about getting just a block of steel or a sledgehammer, the railroad options might be hard to find in my area because I'm not near any railways, maybe the question or problem I'm facing is that I want to reforge a sword I own in a pattern weld, it's in medium carbon steel and not ideal as a sword but I have sentimentality for it, what kind of common high carbon steel is ideal to combine with it? I'm thinking of cutting the sword up and finding old wood saws or tool steel from old wrenches and forge welding that and reshaping it to a sword Also, you're doing an awesome here in yt and I hope this video finds grinder blacksmitsh that wanna transition like myself or just beginners in general God bless
@Ry-bo9hi, That sounds like it would be a very cool project! Unfortunately I don't have much advice I can give you as I have never pattern welded, but I do what I can. The high carbon steel that I will typically use in a knife is leaf spring steel. It can be incredibly hard, but also has the ability to flex when tempered right. While it is a pain to sharpen it holds a good edge for a considerable amount of time. I have a kitchen knife I made from it that I use near daily and it only requires occasional touch ups. Coil springs are another option. Depending on the size, you may be able to heat the entire spring up, secure one end. then you can pull on the other end and straiten out the coils. Typically coil spring steel is lower carbon the leaf, but still hardens. That being said, I think wood saws would likely also work well. I have been hoping to make a knife from one and see how it behaves, but as of now can't speak to how well they hold an edge. Files may also work; however, at least with some farriers rasps I have seen they are actually high carbon steel laminated on to a different steel. Wrenches should work as well. Often they are a stainless steel. I would do some research prior to heating stainless up. I think that some stainless can give off toxic fumes, but I don't really know. Also make sure that they are not chrome plated. It would probably interfere with the weld, but would also give off toxic fumes. This is a really cool project you are doing, and I would love to hear how it turns out!! I really appreciate that! Thank you so much for your comments! I hope to chat with you again! Happy hammering! GOD bless! -Miles Forge
@@MilesForge oooh I've never considered files, i think other than leaf springs or old tool steel, this is a great suggestion thank you I probably won't be able to execute my plans in awhile tho, whenever I do tho, I'll see if I can update on you on this particular project, thank you again
Great video! Your next video should be on makeshift forges!
@bucketfox3502,
Thank you so much! I will definitely put some thought to that!
It was good hearing from you!
-Miles Forge
Why did I hear Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer" through the whole video? 😉
This is actually a great idea! If you find yourself in a situation that needs an expedient forge, the sledgehammer is a clever idea! Thank you!
@seregrian5675,
Thank you so much!
GOD bless!
-Miles Forge
Great video! I really enjoyed watching this and learning about anvils!
I am very glad to hear that!
Thank you for the comment!
-Miles Forge
Locate a copy of The Complete Modern Blacksmith by Andrew Weygers. Has loads of info on improvised anvils that the author made during his years as an engineer and artist.
@pheenix42,
Good to know. Thank you so much for recommending it! I appreciate that!
-Miles Forge
This is a good video, I'm the grinder and forge kinda black smith so I'm very limited with what I can use
I've been meaning to make my own patternwelded stuff and opening my works to commissions but not having the funds to buy such a bulking mass, I'd take your advices to consideration, thanks dude
@Ry-bo9hi,
Thank you so much!
That is awesome! I can't tell you how excited I am that my video was able to help you! How long have you been blacksmithing for?
Something that I never put in the video is that it is better to find something that has sharp 90 degree corners. You will use the corners often, and they wear down. If you do find say a block of steel with square corners, you may want to take a angle grinder and grind a graduated bevel on one or two of the edges. Meaning, say the right side of the selected edge is almost a sharp angle, and the left side is very rounded. Very often anvils will have similar bevels along the first 4-6" of there edge.
I hope that all goes well for you, and I would love to hear how it turns out, and any improvements that you made!
Please let me know if you have any questions!
Thanks again!
GOD bless!
-Miles Forge
@@MilesForge
I've been thinking about getting just a block of steel or a sledgehammer, the railroad options might be hard to find in my area because I'm not near any railways, maybe the question or problem I'm facing is that I want to reforge a sword I own in a pattern weld, it's in medium carbon steel and not ideal as a sword but I have sentimentality for it, what kind of common high carbon steel is ideal to combine with it? I'm thinking of cutting the sword up and finding old wood saws or tool steel from old wrenches and forge welding that and reshaping it to a sword
Also, you're doing an awesome here in yt and I hope this video finds grinder blacksmitsh that wanna transition like myself or just beginners in general
God bless
@Ry-bo9hi,
That sounds like it would be a very cool project! Unfortunately I don't have much advice I can give you as I have never pattern welded, but I do what I can.
The high carbon steel that I will typically use in a knife is leaf spring steel. It can be incredibly hard, but also has the ability to flex when tempered right. While it is a pain to sharpen it holds a good edge for a considerable amount of time. I have a kitchen knife I made from it that I use near daily and it only requires occasional touch ups. Coil springs are another option. Depending on the size, you may be able to heat the entire spring up, secure one end. then you can pull on the other end and straiten out the coils. Typically coil spring steel is lower carbon the leaf, but still hardens. That being said, I think wood saws would likely also work well. I have been hoping to make a knife from one and see how it behaves, but as of now can't speak to how well they hold an edge. Files may also work; however, at least with some farriers rasps I have seen they are actually high carbon steel laminated on to a different steel. Wrenches should work as well. Often they are a stainless steel. I would do some research prior to heating stainless up. I think that some stainless can give off toxic fumes, but I don't really know. Also make sure that they are not chrome plated. It would probably interfere with the weld, but would also give off toxic fumes.
This is a really cool project you are doing, and I would love to hear how it turns out!!
I really appreciate that! Thank you so much for your comments! I hope to chat with you again!
Happy hammering!
GOD bless!
-Miles Forge
@@MilesForge oooh I've never considered files, i think other than leaf springs or old tool steel, this is a great suggestion thank you
I probably won't be able to execute my plans in awhile tho, whenever I do tho, I'll see if I can update on you on this particular project,
thank you again
@Ry-bo9hi,
No problem!
Glad I could help!
-Miles Forge