Yea, it really is handy how much the two go together. I am still working on the bick/stump anvil, but I got to use it a bit after that picture was taken to unbend the railroad spring clip you can see poking out of the forge there. That this has a ton of metal is it, and was really tough. Glad I grabbed a few at the scrap yard, because there is probably a short sword and a dagger's worth of metal there.
The picture shows one of my favorite things about blacksmithing...
That being how many of the tools used are made by the smith.
Yea, it really is handy how much the two go together. I am still working on the bick/stump anvil, but I got to use it a bit after that picture was taken to unbend the railroad spring clip you can see poking out of the forge there. That this has a ton of metal is it, and was really tough. Glad I grabbed a few at the scrap yard, because there is probably a short sword and a dagger's worth of metal there.