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Welcome Forum => Welcome Board and Introductions => Topic started by: Twilight Fenrir on June 27, 2014, 09:49:12 PM

Title: Short time blacksmith: Long time antique tool lover
Post by: Twilight Fenrir on June 27, 2014, 09:49:12 PM

Hello there!

Well, I've been around, and had a few antique tools for most of my life. But, since I've started to try to establish my own blacksmith shop, my small pile of odds and ends has started to grow into something resembling a collection!

My 'new' Champion Forge and Blower No. 203 Automatic Post Mount Drill Press is what made me come looking for an old tool forums, but I find these things fascinating, and my collection is sure to grow as I get further along, so it makes sense for me to come to such a place. To share what I find, and to seek help on repairing what I do, when I need it. They will all be working tools though :P No whatever the equivalent of a trailer queen is in the tool world... :P

Title: Re: Short time blacksmith: Long time antique tool lover
Post by: Papaw on June 27, 2014, 10:10:45 PM

Welcome to Tool Talk!
You will find some like-minded members here!

Title: Re: Short time blacksmith: Long time antique tool lover
Post by: john k on June 27, 2014, 11:46:03 PM

Welcome to the forum.  Blacksmithing was the beginning of nearly all tools.   Have a Champion blower myself.  And a Peter Wright anvil.

Title: Re: Short time blacksmith: Long time antique tool lover
Post by: Daughter2 on June 28, 2014, 07:40:27 AM

Looking for advice.  My father was a carpenter/millwright for 50+years: am clearing out his packed 30x60 shop.  Lots of antique tools to include a large drill press -- and lots of tools of all flavors -- from anvils to pipe wrenches to die sets.  Where do I go in central MS to find interested collectors? 

Title: Re: Short time blacksmith: Long time antique tool lover
Post by: rudeawakening55 on June 28, 2014, 08:12:51 PM

  Welcome from Oklahoma.......

Title: Re: Short time blacksmith: Long time antique tool lover
Post by: oldtools on June 28, 2014, 11:45:20 PM

Welcome & Aloha from Hawaii!!!

Title: Re: Short time blacksmith: Long time antique tool lover
Post by: bear_man on June 29, 2014, 01:03:51 AM

Quote from: Daughter2 on June 28, 2014, 07:40:27 AM

Looking for advice.  My father was a carpenter/millwright for 50+years: am clearing out his packed 30x60 shop.  Lots of antique tools to include a large drill press -- and lots of tools of all flavors -- from anvils to pipe wrenches to die sets.  Where do I go in central MS to find interested collectors?

Hello, Daughter2.  You actuallly came to just the right place with your question/s.  It's best if you can attach photos to your queries (he says "knowledgeably," after spending the best part of 2 days taking bad photos and needing to re-do them).  Too, might want to introduce yourself — even though you kinda did in TwilightFenrir's own introductory post.  Anyway, hello and welcome to you both from north central Idaho.  (O:

Title: Re: Short time blacksmith: Long time antique tool lover
Post by: Nolatoolguy on July 02, 2014, 10:23:16 PM

Hello an welcome from Illinois.

Sounds like you will fit perfectly here.