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Offline tippit

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Stay in Place Forge...Finding Free Material
« on: March 27, 2020, 05:39:38 PM »
With everyone figuring out how to cope with the Stay in Place regulations, I thought I'd give you some ideas on forging material and things to due especially for guys & gals that may be just starting to forge.

Free Material...
Old rusty springs are my favorite material to forge.  The more rusty & pitted the better.  Pick up from dumps, old auto yards, and just out in a farmers field. 

Extremely Pitted Spring (nobody would want)...








This forged knife came from a piece of those springs and it sold to a CEO of a big investment firm back in Boston.  Knife was essentially free.  The pitting just gave it more contrast.



I'm lucky to have some friends that are exceptional Bladesmiths.  Here is a piece of Birds Eye Damascus a friend gave me.   Need to finish this one up but because I didn't make it that's hard for me.  I make Damascus but mine is just random design and I hate the way the flux gums up my forge.  Anyway look around, you never know where you'll find the next master piece.  Have fun forging...tippit