[TheForge] Re: burns

[Mike Spencer]

dan tull wrote:

> Old blacksmith tale: "If you can sit on your anvil at lunch, you
> aren't working hard enough".

Well, at, say, ambient 25F in the shop, you can forge a lot of little
hooks, fire pokers or even light horseshoes without warming the anvil
much. After all, you try to minimize unnecessary contact with the
anvil to avoid cooling small work.

If you're forging anchors or ironing a sailing ship, that's another
story. :-)

This time of year, I don't do much in the shop but there's a Calrod
heater element frozen into my quench tub that will turn 1/3 of it back
into water in an hour or so if I take a notion to brave the cold.  I
reckon ice water in the quench tub would be good if you get a burn.


- Mike

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