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emerym36
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12h ago
That Tuesday I spent 40 minutes hunting a hammer I'd set down 2 feet away
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amy_anderson
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2d ago
TIL my coal forge beats the gas one for forge welding after 2 years of fighting it
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riverb52
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4d ago
PSA: A farrier in Abilene told me to stop quenching my punches in oil, and he was right
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spencer981
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7d ago
Had a Saturday at the forge where every weld popped and I finally figured out why
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emmaclark
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8d ago
The 0.6% carbon number that changed how I quench my 1084
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the_ruby
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11d ago
Dropped $280 on a brake drum forge kit and it was a total waste of cash
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emmaclark
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11d ago
Am I the only one who finally got a decent forge weld after 3 years of fighting it?
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kim.jake
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11d ago
Spent 6 hours chasing a bad weld on a gate hinge before I found the real problem
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fiona_west21
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18d ago
Hot take: the 1800s forge at the Ohio Village still had better tongs than anything I own
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jennifer833
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19d ago
Vent: the museum in Saratoga had a colonial forge and the guy running it called my hammer technique "cute"
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lewis.terry
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19d ago
Question about coal forges vs propane: a guy in Duluth sold me his old rivet forge last month and now I'm torn
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kimr74
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20d ago
Watched a kid hammer out his first bottle opener over 3 hours, and it finally clicked why we all struggled at the start
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emerym36
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20d ago
Vent: snapped my first weld on a rail bracket and had to tell the guy at the shop in Boise
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the_harper
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22d ago
Switched from my 3 lb cross peen to a 2.5 lb rounding hammer and my shoulders stopped hurting
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charlescraig
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23d ago
Guy at the hammer-in in Ohio told me to quit normalizing my punches, thought he was full of it
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