[TheForge] RR Anvil - Carrie Haag

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I personally would not convert the hammer eye tongs since they are harder to find.

You don't need tongs to start so learn how to manage your stock to begin with.  Do some simple hooks then make some leaves.  If you have shorter stock, use vice grips.

After you have learned some fundamentals, then make yourself a pair of tongs.

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>Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 11:21:34 -0500
>From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net (on behalf of Carrie Haag <grddog85 at gmail.com>)
>Subject: Re: [TheForge] RR Anvil - Carrie Haag  
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>I also have an old pair of hammer eye tongs that shouldn't be too difficult
>to convert into something more useful to me.  I think I'll make that my
>first project then.
>
>I appreciate all the advice everyone's given.
>
>
>On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 3:13 AM, Vincent Nakovics <restoreman123 at msn.com>wrote:
>
>> Carrie,
>>     I preferred wood for my anvil stand. Just a piece of 6 x6 with a nice
>> wide base on it. The designs on Anvilfire work well. The advantage of the
>> wood is that it is easier to change as you change your preferences and they
>> will change over the next few years.
>>    Forge welding rebar can at times be frustrating, use new or old steel
>> or iron. There is a lot of rebar that is not rated for welding and it makes
>> it difficult to weld in the forge. Of course it can be done.
>>    Frosty and the others are quite correct that the horn is not needed to
>> the majority of your work. It is recent in history to an anvil, but has
>> become the most underutilized part of the anvil for most blacksmiths. The
>> really Good Guys and Master Smiths that I have had the pleasure to talk
>> with all say the same, don't need it but lots of stuff can be made easier
>> if you use the entire anvil, horn, step, heel, etc. Of course with a RR
>> anvil you don't have one. No problem. Use bicks, swages and other shapes
>> for forming.
>>    There's my 1/2 cent.
>>  Oh tongs, as a smart guy once said; if you can hold it you can't forge
>> it. There are lots of simple quick ways to make tongs that work well and
>> you won't spend a lot of time messing with them. Look on line and you will
>> see.
>> Have Fun and be sure to join a local Blacksmith group. I am sure there is
>> one near you. They will be able to put you in contact with one or two
>> Smiths near you and I am sure you find all kinds of questions to answered.
>> You will learn a lot of stuff from the group, safety, techniques, tooling,
>> etc.
>>
>> Vince Nakovics
>>
>> Blacksmithing; “Making exquisitely simple items extraordinary and
>> tremendously complex items understatedly simple”.
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>Carrie Haag
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>have but slumb'red here while these visions did appear."  ---Shakespeare
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