Spoetry - Submit your own Spoems

liobeking (Sunday 16th of November 2008 02:06:41 AM)

Does anybody have an URL to a site I can see what I need to start doing this? I like to make things and this seems like the perfect hobby for me! I now a little about the blast furnace industry (at least, I think) and wonder if a blacksmith makes his own wrought iron in a bloomery or can you buy the stuff (maybe the pig iron to start with)? Saves a lot of hammering.

bluesguitarist29 (Wednesday 9th of July 2008 08:28:28 PM)

what kind of fuel do you use for your forge?

JosephtheBlacksmith (Friday 1st of August 2008 08:56:34 AM)

Don't you mean 'Hearth' that's what they used. Not a forge

KidSmith10 (Friday 7th of November 2008 06:47:03 PM)

my guess would be that its a coal forge because of the smoke in the background...i love my coal forge!

pho2 (Sunday 3rd of February 2008 07:23:08 AM)

I think Bob only does ornamental work now and has done for the last 20 years when i met him. Most villages had at least one blacksmith shop. The village i grew up in had 3. I visited Bob when he was in Hackthorn in the 80s. Is it still possible to get wrought iron these days or is that gone forever,,?

isaiah3018 (Monday 4th of February 2008 02:09:17 AM)

Today, "wrought iron" generally refers to decorative iron pieces - whether it's hand forged, manufactured, or even cast - so in that sense, it's widely available. "Wrought iron" the material is almost never made anymore. Today's blacksmiths use any number of different types of steels = steel being an iron and carbon alloy. Wrought iron has caparatively low carbon content with other compounds added, namely silica and phosphorus. Look it up "wrought iron" in wikipedia for more info.

chowpappy (Sunday 3rd of February 2008 06:37:41 AM)

always wondered myself until I caught myself doing it. The hammer's bouncing and when you're finished hitting what you're hitting, it wants to keep bouncing. It's kind of a braking action.

isaiah3018 (Friday 1st of February 2008 10:36:09 AM)

As you turn your work to reposition or inspect it, it's helpful to rest the hammer on the anvil instead of holding it in the air for no reason, and in such a case it may bounce a little on the anvil... but keeping time by tapping the anvil is wasteful. If you have rythem, you'll hammer with rythem, if you don't have it, tapping the anvil isn't going to help you. If your hammer deforms due to too much heat from the piece that you're working, it's too small to begin with.

msjh14 (Saturday 2nd of February 2008 10:25:21 AM)

iv neva don it tbh - i find its just another thing to consentrate on.

86F350 (Saturday 20th of September 2008 09:23:52 PM)

yeah, because god knows you didn't concentrate in school.