Ed

[Emerson]

thanks for letting me join the group.
Back ground I am a Millwright just getting started in Blacksmithing. I got a plow forge last year with tools and just picked up a 250 anvil with hardys and some othere stuff to finsh off basic tools neeeded but I wanted to start on a power hammer and belt sander. So I saw the plans on the web sight and jion up lot of interesting stuff here cant wait to get started on tools.

again thanks for letting me join

[kbalch]

Hi Emerson,

Welcome!

I've always been fascinated with blacksmithing - must have been all those childhood field trips to a local historic village. Let's see some pics of your setup.

What's the first thing you're planning to make once the power hammer is ready?

Ken

[Emerson]

Ok I will try this again ( fat fingers on my part) Here is what I have so far. well pic's wont load but 1 year ago I got a plow forge ( Coal ) and 3 five gallon buckets of tooling, hardys ,hammers, tongs. last weekend I got a 250 lbs Anvil really clean nice bounce clean face and a nice ring to it. I also picked up a really nice post vise and 1 more bucket of tooling mostly hardys. So I could really start things now but I would like to have a belt sander and power hammer. ( being a millwright with 25 years of experience i am really comfortable with building my own tools) Trying to figure out how big of shop I need to build to fit all the stuff in and have room to work comfortably

[DIYer]

Hello Emerson, plenty of blacksmithing projects here to inspire you. Welcome to the forums!