10:35 am
NWBA Member
December 27, 2014
Greetings, I am Morgan Kirk.
I've been going to the NWBA meetings at the Longview Expo Center for a year now, and it has been an amazing experience doing blacksmithing. Currently I have been unable to do any smithing besides that which I can do at the center due to complications in life, though I am near getting my forge built; a good burner is eluding me.
I have made several knives by cutting out the metal and getting them as a knife should be (tempered, edged, etc.), but just making knives like that is becoming boring and dissatisfactory. I have gotten some ideas on making some items, like a picture stand, but haven't been able to make them yet. Blacksmithing is an amazing art, and I am glad I found the NWBA.
Anyways, I suppose that's my "hello".
My Youtube channel: Cave of Skarzs
Just having some fun messing around with whatever I have a mind to do.
5:07 pm
NWBA Member
Board Member
October 4, 2010
Kirk: Keep on pounding! When I first started out I would take any old scrap and try to make something or anythiing out of it, and learned a lot about what happens when you hit it this way or that. Take a good look at the burners at the training center...very simple design, our look up how to make ribbon burners if you have a source of crayons. Get it hot, hit it hard! Jim
7:39 pm
NWBA Member
December 27, 2014
Thanks! I've taken a look at the burners at the center, but I have yet to find a coupling that goes from copper pipe to propane tube as those.
My Youtube channel: Cave of Skarzs
Just having some fun messing around with whatever I have a mind to do.
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