My latest buy/selling trip

[Mark Knapp]

On a recent buying/selling trip to Kenia Alaska, I left Fairbanks with a load of moose, caribou and elk antler, and some mammoth bone. The plan was to sell and trade antler along the way, deliver a custom hole saw to a customer in Kenia and attend an NRA banquet in Kenia where I had donated a knife. I was going have a look at some forge equipment that a friend was wanting to sell and hopefully pick up some ivory along the way. Here's the forge equipment I ended up with. I got a foot vise (not sure of the proper name, as you can see it has a foot pedal that closes the vise, that will come in handy) I got a swedge block and a "whiches hat" for forming round rings. My buddy, the one in an earlier thread with the lobster, would not accept any money for the forge stuff, so now I gotta think of something nice for him. What do you think of my new forge stuff?

 

[Dusty One]

Any new tool looks good too me. They look heavy duty....

 

[John L]

Where's the pic of the ivory????

 

[Mark Knapp]

Where's the pic of the ivory????

In the for sale area, will be posting more. in weeks to come.

 

[Allen Newberry]

That's a serious haul!

 

[bbarnettAUS]

Hey mate, good score. One of those cone anvils went for $1100 at an auction over here just recently

 

[D lisch]

Mark that is some nice stuff the cone is a good one dose it have a slot running up the back side. that would make it even better the slot gives you a way to start the bend on the rings. The vice is a vice used for upsetting

 

[Phade]

What does the swedge block do?

 

[RogerP]

Nice new toys.

Roger

 

[Burton Harruff]

Nice haul. I really like that vise.

 

[Mark Knapp]

Mark that is some nice stuff the cone is a good one dose it have a slot running up the back side. that would make it even better the slot gives you a way to start the bend on the rings. The vice is a vice used for upsetting

No slot in this one, I especially like the vise for the hands-free thing, it also has a spike-heading feature.

 

[Mark Knapp]

What does the swedge block do?

A swedge block is for forming particular shapes in metal, all 6 sides have different shapes and sizes of forms, like half rounds, bowl shapes, hexes and rectangles, the complete set-up would have had hardy posts that allow you to do more.

 

[Mark Knapp]

We (Bob Hook and I) are pretty excited to have these in our forge, I will post some pictures of the whole set-up after I...uh..clean it up a little.