jscusmcvet
Adventurist
This year as a gift to Joe, Ann and myself, we picked up a vintage hand crank blower and coal forge. Joe and I have been playing around in the firepit, getting some mild steel glowing orange and letting him bang the crap out of it...
So this is our next step. I had to fix up the table the forge came in and refurbish/fabricate a bracket for the blower. Came out pretty darn nice I think. Also mounted an old Fisher anvil that my Dad had picked up at a junk shop before I was born. I have learned a lot over the past few weeks about refurbishing an anvil and mounting it properly. You will see in the picture it is a little low for me, but just right for Joe.
So today we fired it up as a trial run... well... supposed to be a trial run with no metal, but we could not resist. Before anyone loses their mind Joe has eye protection coming from Santa and lo and behold we survived. The boy moved some metal and he was thrilled.
More pics to follow when I can get to it. Merry Christmas.
So this is our next step. I had to fix up the table the forge came in and refurbish/fabricate a bracket for the blower. Came out pretty darn nice I think. Also mounted an old Fisher anvil that my Dad had picked up at a junk shop before I was born. I have learned a lot over the past few weeks about refurbishing an anvil and mounting it properly. You will see in the picture it is a little low for me, but just right for Joe.
So today we fired it up as a trial run... well... supposed to be a trial run with no metal, but we could not resist. Before anyone loses their mind Joe has eye protection coming from Santa and lo and behold we survived. The boy moved some metal and he was thrilled.
More pics to follow when I can get to it. Merry Christmas.