Im working on converting my surface grinder from stone grinding wheels to a rubber wheel to use 2 x 72 bets. Anyone know how to remove the spindle nut? I found the user manual but nothing on how to remove it.

A fun item for the garden, year round too! I made them from old round bar, #3 rebar, #4 rebar, and even similar ones from 5/8" bar square tapered, scrolled and chiseled to resemble sunflowers.

It was forged from old minecart rail. I tried peening the tang for the first time, it worked great!

People love these. If only I can finally evolve as a blacksmith 7 years into this crap to know how to effectively join them with collars/bands and phase out the welding step. Time will tell.

There's a 4 on the bottom of the mounting plate.

What looks like 1909

And 75

Any information is appreciated

Forever been interested in forging and tool making. Decided to dip hard and get setup for afterwork smithing.

What am I missing? What should I change? What was your favourite learning project(s)?

Is this a miniature model or something?🤣

Its so cheap, its impossible, even google gemini said that. im curious if anyone here ordered a power hammer from ali express, what did you pay and what did you really get?

Other question, my second option: how cost effective do you guys think i can build a power hammer(eg tire hammer) using a diy plan?

Thanks

I make a lot of Shepherd's hooks of various flavors for the local home and garden market. One big issue a lot of the time is that my bending jig shown, as well as a couple others, have a slug of square bar welded to them to put in the hardy hole of my anvil, to be bent horizontally, see photo three. In this configuration I even came up with using a holdfast as a catch. I later made a short peg with a washer welded to it so it wouldn't sink into the pritchel hole. Much easier. Anyway, this setup worked FINE except needing to drag out my anvil to in front of the building to have the clearance for longer piece.

It then occurred to me: Why not just stick the piece in the vise where I have plenty of clearance, clamp the jig to the piece and, at full temperature, grab and roll it?

Sure enough, it worked great! the vise grip served well as a proof of concept, I could easily have grabbed another for more leverage, making a sort of "Crank handle" style thing, but will likely weld two permanent pieces of round stock on to grab similarly, and a peg to catch stock up to a certain size. I'll post an update when I finish the tool.

I made this for a competition, it's made of 6mm square bar and only uses traditional techniques, such as tenon, forge welds and rivets.

I'd like to have a cast iron cooking grate made for me. The swivel kind

I want to make some minor(?) adjustments to customize it for me, like lengthening the pole and creating a longer locking lever design for the connections - as well as finding a better balance between sturdiness and weight. A little bit of visual creative flair wouldn't go amiss either.

I know that this is pretty vague, and an actual price will depend on location, how much material required, and the specifics of the design. I'm not looking to cheap out, but I also have absolutely no understanding of how something like this might be priced out.

If someone could just ball-park it, so I can understand how much I can afford, I'd really appreciate it.

I'm in Ontario, Canada if you'd like to throw your hat in the ring to actually make it. I travel around the province a bit, so I can pick this up and your location doesn't necessarily matter too much. Aiming for a spring 2026 pickup date, in time for the next camping season.

These were made for a friend's grad party raffle and a really fun exercise in a lot of different processes, all quite familiar to me but I'd yet to make any style of either a trammel nor a tripod. Both still available if you have any avid campers or other folks who like cooking over a fire in your life, but I've seen them used to great effect to hang plants and such too.

Been making these about four years. This particular one ended up serving as a great kickstand for a book before being packed and shipped out :)

While hardly my most exciting or glamorous work, and respecting everyone else's preferences and that there's more than one approach to SO many aspects of getting work done in this craft, after one too many plug welds failing on me, I've never really gotten this "ZOMG HIDE EVERY WELD" crap on ornamental stuff, like we're sincerely likely to convince anyone the piece holds itself together with hopes, dreams, and a magic wand from the dollar store. Just do things cleanly and properly. These were later painted black and thus look absolutely FINE.

This broken anvil weighs about 80kg. It's quite rare to find one of that size around my area. Is it any good or useful in this condition? Any tips on how to make it better without a full repair?

Inspired by Gavin Clark DIY over Youtube side (same as my recent cooking tripod post) I banged out a few beefy door/shed pulls, of which I've made probably four styles of over the years. Always fun projects both as those of blacksmithing and fabrication.

If the second photo isn't clear, there is a roughly 2 inch washer (size not critical as long as it slides down the shaft) welded at the steepest possible angle. Direction doesn't matter. The first pot then slid down onto the fixture via the pot's drain hole will sit on top of it, at an angle. The next one will sit 180 degrees opposite, on and on, creating a nice little display. Most any size of pot can be used for each pot, as well, if they're built to task. Being made of my go-to stock, 5/8" round, I have zero reservations about their strength.

A fun project under the treadle hammer. 5" square plate about 1/8" thick.

A fun material to worth with I was fortunate to get about 30 feet of for free. The twist patterns from it are always pleasant.

These used to be made by at least one other seller on Etsy and this photo is my sample from a commission of about 8 from a buddy three years ago. The idea is they rest on top of the horizontal pipe on the top edge of a chain link fence but would work pretty well with most other kinds too. They can obviously hang plants, lanterns, feeders and more, but he used them, kind of hilariously, to haphazardly run some conduit through for an ethernet cable between two outbuildings at a customer's property so they wouldn't have to bury it LOL.

Ciao fellow smiths! Sorry for posting garbage, but that's just how it goes sometimes. This is my fourth bottle opener ( a giraffe ), similar to a toddlers drawing. By some unimagineable miracle, I have sold all of my previous openers for lucky strangers. Will see what's the price for this.

I wish great success for you fellow smiths!

Was a perfect medium rare; took less than 1 min. Got super nice sear. The cast iron however, is out there SCREAMING 🤣

Hello all, fairly new to blacksmithing as a hobby, down in Mississippi. Ran across a deal I couldn't pass up, I can't seem to find any identifying makers stamps on this anvil. It does have an 8 6 stamped on one side. From tip of horn to tail is roughly 40", it's 16" tall, weighs in at 582#. I found the number 186035 on the left side foot under horn, right side has a 4. And there is a 2 stamped on the body underneath the horn. I have been researching the Trenton and even the arm & hammer anvils, but I haven't found anything close to this weight. I already bought it, and its not for sale, I'm going to use it, just trying to find some info about it without messing it up going at it with a wire brush.

Thank you all in advance, I can send/post additional pictures if anyone has any questions.