[TheForge] How is something like this made?

[robert hensarling]

Does Tom use the front building as a showroom or retail sales?  It's a neat 
building, and I'd kill to have the blacksmith shop (sitting in Durango, 
Colo), but from looking at the pictures, the neighborhood looks a little run 
down, but maybe not.  I'm just wondering how he gets his business.   He's 
fairly specialized it seems.

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> Tom is an amazing guy.  I watched him hand draw the stock for a foreplace 
> set for his father in law.  He threw a 5# hammer, single jack, slowly but 
> steadily for a couple of hours until he was finished.  My arm would have 
> fallen off after ten minutes, if I was lucky.
>
> Roger R Degner wrote:
>> Tom Latane' uses top and bottom swages or bottom swage if is has a flat
>> back to rough the piece and then a lot of filing.
>> Watched him sharpen a chisel with a grinder.  It was a hand crank
>> grinder he mounted in a vise.  No power tools for him
>> Took a spatula class from him
>> We used 1 1/2 X 1/4 X 10" mild steel
>> Takes him less than an hour to forge and about an hour to file
>> Took us a couple of days to look fair.
>>
>> Roger R Degner
>>
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