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My lovely wife bought me a blacksmithing course for Christmas. I’m sooo looking forward to it, but......
I don’t know what to make.
A wrought iron frame?
A fire poker?
Some sort of bent spoon for my rear brake?
It’s only a day long and whilst I can handle the tools I don’t think I’ll be able to make anything too intricate
Mattock or McLeod type tool? Splitting maul or a nice shaped axe head?...
toasting fork, it's what my dad and uncle did at school along with everyone else so I guess it has the best chance of coming out ok
Anvil?
A Battle Axe
I'm sure a day will be plenty, probably have time for a pub lunch
A wrought iron frame
No point, One-On got that market covered with the Inbred.
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I had a course for my birthday just before Christmas.
We started with S hooks, then made a coal hook for the pizza oven, then finished with a small knife. I had an antler for the handle.
Any poker type thing is good as you get to use a few techniques.
I made a fruit bowl. It was shit.
Don't make a fruit bowl.
Keep it simple. Some sort of poker with a nice detail for a handle or something.
How long is the course. A knife would not be doable on a one / two day intro.
A wildwood bushcraft steel blade survival knife featuring:
Tzenku watermarked 4" steel blade with Norwegian grind, secondary bevel and a hidden gommet.
HopiGopi boxwood scales, mirror polished sealed with Hanke oil
Brass trisket rivets
Ferghus antler pommel (drilled)
I made a poker / two-pronged fork with a Rams head. Loads of techniques employed, my arms were utterly shagged by the end of the day.
I now have one of the fanciest fire-pit-sausage-forks in Sussex.
Anvil, tongs and hammer (plus hinges for bellows) then set up in competition
A lucky horse shoe.
A third Kelpie?
I’ve made a few branding irons in the past. Not the most useful thing to have but they can be fun to make and might make a more interesting fire poke.
Hammer and Sickle?
barbell / squat rack. So much manliness from one gift
They get really experienced bladesmiths to make a knife on forged in fire in 6 hours and many fail.badly. So even a simple campknife might be a stretch in a day. I second the poker.route
Bike stand?
A chisel knife
and if that doesn’t take the whole day
a faberge egg
A wrought iron shoe horn with a filigree handle.