Ed

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

Hi Emerson,

Welcome! :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

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

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