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  1. Nice article, but the instructions are a bit hard to follow. Some detailed photographs would make all the difference in the world and transform this into a winning series!

  2. Best to buy and learn to operate your forge NOW. Too steep a learning curve to wait until things collapse, then try to figure it all out. I had a farrier’s forge for years, handy size for small to medium work. All I made in it was buttplates and trigger guards for Kentucky rifles and a few tomahawk heads.
    You can find small forges and associated tools at farm auctions.
    I have thoughts of building a nice big brick one and a building to put it in but I’m getting to old to take on projects like that anymore.
    You can take blacksmithing classes at Conner Prairie Living history Museum in Fishers Indiana. I used to teach Kentucky rifle building classes there, good outfit.

  3. Buying a cheap knife forge and a 100 Lb. bottle of propane would do for 95% of anyone’s forging needs for many years, if not forever with no screwing around with all of the stuff in this article.
    After SHFT there are 10 things you know of that will get you over time and another few that you haven’t thought about plus of course bad luck.

    1. For the price of “a cheap knife forge and a 100 Lb. bottle of propane,” (and something resembling an anvil?) you could save yourself even more trouble by purchasing a couple of good knives, if that’s all you think you’ll need, but the charcoal and the forge, not to mention the skills and understanding you’d develop, might serve you later, in ways you can’t even anticipate until you’ve worked your way through.

      1. A knife forge will accommodate most anything mentioned in the article. It’s simply a description of a small forge that knife/axe makers and other fabricators use and are made in many places for little money.
        My thought was that a working $300 system is a whole lot more useful than a hypothetical idea you read about sometime in the past. Or are you seriously suggesting that anyone will actually do this post SHTF – and do it right before giving it up?
        As to an anvil. Anybody who would consider undertaking this already has one.

  4. I grew up in the 1960s, the daughter of a blacksmith in Pennsylvania. He was from a long line of blacksmiths. His business was combination blacksmithing and mechanical. During WWII, he was not permitted to go into the Army as they requested he stay where he was and they would send all their Army vehicles to him for repair. My father had 4 children, all girls. It is sad that all those generations of knowledge were lost to “progress” and learned/traditional roles of women.

  5. I grew up in the 1960s, the daughter of a blacksmith in Pennsylvania. He was from a long line of blacksmiths. His business was combination blacksmithing and mechanical. During WWII, he was not permitted to go into the Army as they requested he stay where he was and they would send all their Army vehicles to him for repair. My father had 4 children, all girls. It is sad that all those generations of knowledge were lost to “progress” and learned/traditional roles of women.

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