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B Finnigan	Wind powered KITH Arrowhead	Lead	[-]
Posts: 1804 (06/21/09 4:52 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Tags : None Forged from 1045 1/2" round bar. The mount is wild crabapple wood from off my place and the peg mount is Pacific Yew. My forge was some large rocks I arranged into a "C" shape with the open part facing SW where most of the wind blows from. I waited for a good breeze to come around and started a fire. My house and shop are at the peak of my cone shaped property so I get more wind then I would like. within an hour I had a very hot bed of coals and I started forging. My anvil was an 80 Lbs block of tool steel I used as my first anvil. It was set up on two construction bricks. I needed to use my fullering swage so I filled a coffee can up with ash and stuck the hot arrow head into it. Then I ran to the shop and worked it and then took it back out to the fire. My fuel was chunks of alder, misc wood chips from where I split my fire wood and several pounds of coal. It worked and I did not have to build any type of bellows. But I have no intentions of using it again unless the time comes when propane and electricity are no longer available. Last Edited By: B Finnigan 06/22/09 11:27 AM. Edited 4 times.
Phoenix 1967		#1	[-]
Posts: 815 (06/22/09 3:01 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	That's really cool man, it reminds me of the Zulu spear heads. Funneling the wind was a good idea, but you can also do a hearthforge with a tall, narrowing stack. The heat rising gains velocity, and draws cool air in. Lawren http://phoenix1967.webs.com/index.htm
jamesGIII		#2	[-]
Posts: 922 (06/22/09 3:06 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Great work brent.
B Finnigan		#3	[-]
Posts: 1805 (06/22/09 4:49 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Thanks! I was just going for fast and efficient and really did not want to build a box bellows. And I needed to rake up all the chips around my wood splitting area anyway. I remember seeing some pics a few years on another forum of a hillside smelter that just used the wind in a flue/funneling setup. That is about as unplugged as you can get. It also took at least three times longer to forge out.
traxxs		#4	[-]
Posts: 763 (06/22/09 5:03 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Man that came out great! The whole thing looks good but the way you necked it down to form that little ball looks awesome. I think I saw a pic of that fullering tool a few years back but if you have pic of it would you mind posting it. -=- Mike P -=- "The details are not the details. They make the design." -Charles Eames
Radharc 59		#5	[-]
Posts: 1038 (06/22/09 5:35 PM) Lord Haggis Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Very nice piece, Brent. I like the specific low-tech process too. I read somewhere about a high-performance firepit, where you dig a flue or intake vent hole down and into the side of the pit, near the bottom. Convection pulls fresh air in, and it's apparently very efficient. Michael www.radharcknives.com "There is no such thing in nature as staying the same. You're either striving to make yourself better, or allowing yourself to get worse." ~ Unknown
kellerknives.paleoplanet69529		#6	[-]
Posts: 13 (06/22/09 6:19 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Wow look at that, that ball is a nice addition to the spear with a socket tang. Awesome job, your forge sounds great also. Id like to see a picture of that fuller also.
B Finnigan		#7	[-]
Posts: 1809 (06/22/09 6:39 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Here is a video of my 1/4" fullering swage in action. I also have a 3/8" and will be making a 1/2" real soon. Leaf spring works good since the edges are already rounded and they come in so many different thicknesses. And you do not need a welder to make one although it's much faster. The swage is 1:47 into the vid. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X-FKR4S6Dc&fmt=18 The steel is normalized and not hardened. I just heat them to CT and flatten out the curvature of the leaf spring. Isn't it beautiful? Notching all the way around. Drawing out. Last Edited By: B Finnigan 06/24/09 5:44 PM. Edited 4 times.

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