It followed me home!

Here are a few pieces I hammered out since the last post.

The spine of the blade, I was quite happy with my first knife being so straight. Now the tricky part will come this weekend when I temper and heat treat the blade.

 Here is another of my chainmaille armour pieces, this time I made a spiked 4-1 chainmaille bracer that extends from wrist to just past mid forearm as you can see.

 And for those of you wondering how on earth I put it on, here it is, a simple leather thong that holds it all together.

 Well look at my new acquisition from the weekend, It fairly jumped into my hands and for R400 bucks it was a good steal. It was a part of a whole set of stuff that the bloke had from a deceased smith (rest his soul) and was just what I was looking for to start my portable outfit. All I need to do now is find another washing machine motor for my other blower and ill be set!

 This thing weighs in at 30kg so its quite light compared to my 60kg brute I use normaly.

 Here you can see the brand on the forge bowl is millenium.

 This is where the blower will be mounted and the nice part about it is its adjustable so I can make anything fit in there.

 I had to dismantle the poor guy to get it home.

 All the little bits and pieces, thankfully the whole thing was covered in grease which kept almost everything mobile and loosenable.

 I say almost everything because this little fiend was holding the 4 toed foot at the base and the nut had rusted shut, if you can look closely you can see the bulge around the intersection between the nut and the bolt. There was thankfully just enough space to wedge a hacksaw blade in and start sawing, but woe to me the only blade I could find was from my neighbor and it was almost entirely flat. I counted 20 teeth along the whole length of it, so as you can imagine I stood there for quite a while.