BIG BOWIE

This bowie is 14 1/2 in. overall, the blade is 8 1/4 in. long, the handle is stacked leather with a deer antler butt cap. The blade is made of Dodge truck springs.

G.A knife

This is a knife for G.A. The blade is stainless, the handle is leather from a old saddle, the butt is a deer antler.

N.A.'s knife

This knife is for N.A. It is cut from a planer blade and I think the handle is cherry.

Newest pear of tongs

These are the latest pear of hand forged tongs that I have done so I thought I would post about them. They are made out of RR spikes and I used my coal forge, coal is nice. I still need to weld on longer handles.

My old and new blacksmithing setups

This is my old setup.

My old anvil on a wire reel.

My old forge.

The whole setup.

The junk ASO or Anvil Shaped Object.

My new tool bench and tools.

My gas forge.

My new post vise.

My good Trenton 125lb anvil.

The whole new setup.


I have been blessed in that not only have Mom and Dad let me do this but that I have been able to find the tools at good prices. God has been good to me.

I GOT COAL

My grandpa and grandma jest got back from a trip and they jest happened to be going through Nebraska City where there is a guy that sells blacksmith coal so they bought 100lbs 50 for my birthday and 50 for me to buy. So yesterday I used some of it and it bets charcoal buy a mile, I can literally melt a RR spike in 30 seconds. And my uncle Dale sent me a par of tongs. I will post some pics as soon as I get them.

Ashton's knife

Hope you like it Ashton.

ANTLER HANDLED KNIFE

This is the first knife I have ever made with an antler handle and it is also the first knife I have made from a mower blade.

HOME MADE VISE

This is a vise I made out of some old well pip and other scrap metal. It my not be pretty but it works.

Dad found a guy that had some RR track laying around and got me a piece of it for an anvil. This steel is high in carbon so it is very hard and won't dent like my cast iron anvil does.

TREADLE HAMMER

This is what I have been working on lately, this is a blacksmith's treadle hammer. I got the pic off the Internet. This one is like the one I am making but not as big. I am making mine out of a rail road tie, 6x6's, steel well pipe and other pieces of scrap metal.

HAND FORGED TONGS

I just made these tongs today, they are my first pair of tongs that I have forged. They are called pickup tongs and are for picking up very small objects. I can pick up something as thin as a razor blade with these. It was not as hard as I thought it would be, and I'm still working on your knife Ashton. In the old days a blacksmith used to make a new pair of tongs for any job that was a little different than usual.

NEW PART FOR COAL FORGE

If you look in the bowl on the forge you will see a ring that is cracked in half. That ring goes around a damper in the center and the forge wont work right without it.

This is the new part for my coal forge to replace the cracked one in the picture above, I made it out of a old iron skillet, I couldn't use steel because it would melt.

THE LATEST IN SAM'S KNIVES

I made this knife from a R.R spike using my forge, it was a lot of fun. R.R spikes are cool when they are red hot. The handle is cork and the guard is steel. As you can see it is hard I can carve on a R.R spike. This is a big improvement over all my other knives.

15 minutes, 10 minutes, 8 minutes

From left to right it took me 15 minutes, 10 minutes and 8 minutes to make them.

I used my new forge. That thing is great. It gets up to 2300 F.

My Knife

I am finally done with my knife. I was not able to make the aluminum handle that I wanted to but I made one out of wood.

Hinge

This is the beginning of my first set of hinges. With this set I just have to rivet it together.

Who's Knife

I have finished the knife and I want my visitors to guess who's it is. Evan, Andrew don't say a thing. There is info in my second post.

Fence Post Coat Hook

I made this yesterday at my forge and I had a good time making it too. It is a coat hook nail and is made out of a piece of 1\4 inch fence post.

MY NEW FORGE

This is my new forge it will be propane fired and I am going to put on a metal door. I am going to us a weed burning torch for the torch and I hope that this forge will get steel to the welding point. What you can not see is in the left side there is a hole for the torch. This forge is made out of a metal five gallon bucket, concrete and a one gallon bucket.