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Blacksmiths?

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  • #32
    thecelt
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    Anyone still posting on this old thread.


  • #33
    lab man
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    fair old thread


  • #34
    thecelt
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    Jut hoping someone might see it and share their experience of getting into this area!


  • #35
    vincenzolorenzo
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    There's been no posts for almost 9 years, probably safe to say no one is still posting on it!


  • #36
    blue5000
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    I'm still here. Even started a bit of iron ore smelting last year;)

    We had someone making a gate with rivets recently in the guntering thread.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



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  • #37
    SuperTortoise
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    Lost art, would love to try my hand at it, blacksmiths are like hens teeth now.


  • #38
    TheFarrier
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    Not quite what you’re after but here’s my portfolio of handmade horseshoes that were a required part of my final exams to become qualified as a farrier. Long hours in the forge to make these to standard


  • #39
    wrangler
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    TheFarrier wrote: »
    Not quite what you’re after but here’s my portfolio of handmade horseshoes that were a required part of my final exams to become qualified as a farrier. Long hours in the forge to make these to standard

    Saw them making horse shoes at the Highland show last week, There was a time limit so they worked bloody hard to have it done within the time.


  • #40
    Who2
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    There’s a couple of blacksmiths around Cavan that I know of. Most of the ones I know are related and it seems to be passed down through the generations. I go to one of them to get bespoke items made every so often and it’s a pure art watching him work, but like everything people aren’t willing to pay the true cost of making properly forged work.


  • #41
    Base price
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    A neighbour of mine in NCD is a blacksmith although he doesn't live here anymore. He move to the other Irish capital :rolleyes:
    AFAIK he made the entrance gates for Swords Castle, Santry Demense etc
    http://www.markkeelingblacksmith.com/


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  • #42
    TheFarrier
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    Base price wrote: »
    A neighbour of mine in NCD is a blacksmith although he doesn't live here anymore. He move to the other Irish capital :rolleyes:
    AFAIK he made the entrance gates for Swords Castle, Santry Demense etc
    http://www.markkeelingblacksmith.com/

    I’ve seen a bit of his stuff online that’s different gravy altogether

    Serious craftsman


  • #43
    thecelt
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    blue5000 wrote: »
    I'm still here. Even started a bit of iron ore smelting last year;)

    We had someone making a gate with rivets recently in the guntering thread.


    Have you made anything interesting blue5000?


  • #44
    Base price
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    TheFarrier wrote: »
    I’ve seen a bit of his stuff online that’s different gravy altogether

    Serious craftsman
    About 15 years ago (when he was still living beside me) I brought him a crow bar that I had bent the point of whilst breaking through concrete. He sorted it out for me a cut in a diamond shaped tip to stop the point from curling again. It still works to this day although the operator isn't as fit as she used to be.


  • #45
    thecelt
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    It might be madness but tempted to try getting into blacksmithing, even if just in my spare time.

    Would luv to be able to spend time with a blacksmith who might be willing to share some knowledge!

    Am living in Kerry .


  • #46
    blue5000
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    thecelt wrote: »
    Have you made anything interesting blue5000?

    Last time I lit the fire was to straighten the frog of a plough. I learnt most of what I know from Eric O'neill, Killuragh Craft http://www.killuraghkraftworks.com/

    He gives courses in Limerick

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #47
    Gawddawggonnit
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    blue5000 wrote: »
    Last time I lit the fire was to straighten the frog of a plough. I learnt most of what I know from Eric O'neill, Killuragh Craft http://www.killuraghkraftworks.com/

    He gives courses in Limerick

    Fiskars?
    Bodies on them were made of chocolate.


  • #48
    blue5000
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    Gawddawggonnit wrote: »
    Fiskars?
    Bodies on them were made of chocolate.
    No Ransomes, they are well worn on the bottom before I got them.......some lad with a County was ploughing with it before me:(

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #49
    Gawddawggonnit
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    blue5000 wrote: »
    No Ransomes, they are well worn on the bottom before I got them.......some lad with a County was ploughing with it before me:(

    I’d nightmares about Ransome ploughs.
    We’d scn bar point Ransome ploughs back in the day. It could be perfectly set up before lunch and when you’d return it would be totally undone...piseogs! Oh how I hated them!!
    County tractors came well after the scn bar points. On rocky ground they were hardship with small 2wd tractors. I can’t imagine the damage with a County.

    I remember ploughing conacre that was absolutely rotten with scutch. The plough would make a hissing noise cutting through the roots. Before glyphosate. I think those days you’d spray TCN onto the roots to control the scutch and couldn’t grow barley afterwards...and now they want to ban glyphosate!

    Edit. We had a forge that we used principally for joining two old bar points to make one ‘new’ point. A forge was fair handy in fairness, I must ask is it still there.


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