Rock for anvil?

pendentive said:
Call I just call you Dang?
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You just can't get ahead of Pen. (Alias Dan). Dang! I like that! Don't let IG see that, Dan (Pen.) He will jump right on it with his valuable 2 rupies worth! I say "dang" when I grind my fingers. I must be looking to Dan for guideness right then, huh?
 
you're losing me, John....:eek:


:p :p :p



My favorite one so far is the on you gave me, Dang.....

"Dan the pen"


now folks will think I make pens....:rolleyes:....or I'm a great writer.....doh!......or maybe a professional wrester.....:eek:
 
well if I were Dang
I'd be heard in most every house in the us and a few more hahaha just yesterday I cut myself and said DANG! well I kind of said that anyway..:footinmou
 
Ok, Dan...I won't call you Dang as long as you don't call me Dank....:eek:

:barf:


:footinmou
 
:confused: I would think if they forging, they would be been smart enough to forge a Hammer to use :confused: and then again it may have been that steel was at a premium too
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You gotta start somwhere. they made a bloom in worked it from there.
Had a guy on the double lung goat skin bladders pumping like mad.

things have changed since the europeans have been there.
My uncle was a missionary in Burundai.
He said they watched a wrecked car dissapear in about two days time.
they swarmed it and tookit apart for all the available materials.

http://www.africans-art.com/index.php3?action=page&id_art=363

doesn't show them useing the anvil. in this set. Used to be an entire series of them working the bloom. But check it out. :D
 
pendentive said:
Ok, Dan...I won't call you Dang as long as you don't call me Dank....:eek:

:barf:


:footinmou
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:D I kind of like that DANG hey Dang ouch Dang :D
kind of grows on you don't it
it just rolls out of the mouth


prutty sure about the Dank for you Dan I'd stick with pen :D
 
I forged my first knife on a head stone. The only problem was that I couldn't work close to the edge without it chipping. It made it hard to forge the bevels. Now I use it for straightening long blades.

Ward Nelson
 
that's the question I have. I'm wondering about using it just to make billets - either cable or damascus (for those of us without a power hammer/press/etc.) - and for general profiling, drawing out(tapering) tangs/blades, etc. Would it be good for that?

I can set bevels at the grinder.
 
That should work Pen.....I first got my rock to check for straightness.

Next time anyone is driving through the Shelby, NC area I can give you a location for free chuncks of headstone material....
 
I would think it would be good for drawing out billets. I got mine for free from a head stone maker. I just looked him up in the phone book and gave him a call. He was a little suspicious of me at first. I'm not sure what he thought I was going to do with the headstone. But once I convinced him that I was really going to use it as an anvil he was happy to show me his scrap pile. I had my pick of 20-30 pieces. There was some nice stone there too. I keep trying to think of other uses for the stuff, but since there were already peoples names on most of them that limits what I would want to do with them. :rolleyes:

Ward Nelson
 
Stones with deceased folk's names on them might get you some funny looks by the uninformed, yes. But, aren't we knife makers kind of thought of that way by some "ordinary" folks, anyhow? I would not be too concerned, the stone won't care, either. I would just flip it over if it had the other side smooth enough to work on. The smaller stones would make good instrument tables. Sincerely, Tombstone John
 
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