Monday, April 5, 2004

All day fun...


  Spent this past Saturday doing a demo all day.  I started at about 10 in the morning and went until Sundown with only a few breaks.  I managed to make a few more chain parts.  Then, moved onto making more stuff for the camp.  I made a spiral viking iron and a large meat fork.  I also spent some time making a nail header which did not turn out as nicely as I had hoped but not too bad for first effort.  In addition, I was given a larger (about 12") grinding wheel.  I'm going to build a foot pedaled stand for it so I can do grinding at demos without using power tools.  I was able to smith all day with my arm only getting weak in the last half hour or so.  In most cases, I'm able to do what I want with the smithing so I've made a lot of progress considering its just been over a year since I got my first real forge.

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