Subject: 18th Cen. Traveling Forge

From: TOMBGUARD <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 18:31:44 CST

I am interested in building an 18th Cen. traveling forge.  I have just
started working metal, but I am so happy with it as a hobby that I
know I will keep it up and I want to build a forge that I can use with
my re-enacting.  I re-enact a farmer from the Pennsylvania area around
the 1779 time period.  Would anyone have, or know where to get, a
diagram, drawings or instructions that would help me construct a
traveling forge from this time period?  I would appreciate any help
that I get.

Robert

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From: Chris Kilpatrick <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 21:41:37 -0700

All the traveling forges I have seen have been military,  so I suggest 
old army records or revolutionary era reenactors.

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From: Jim McCarty <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 1996 08:36:48 -0500

TOMBGUARD wrote:
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> I am interested in building an 18th Cen. traveling forge.  ...

Robert, awhile back I remember seeing something in the North Carolina 
ABANA Chapter Newsletter about one of their members having just built 
a forge wagon from plans he got from the Smithsonian. I believe the 
person's name was Lonnie Stafford. I meant to contact him after 
reading it but as the poem says "I never got got back that way."

Perhaps one of the NC folks can confirm this.

I have seen two examples of a traveling forge, GI issue. These had a 
blower and four legs that broke down to fit into a small, olive green 
box that measured about 2-foot square. I passed on one for $250 -- 
wish I had bought it. Think the ones I saw were WW 1 vintage but 
perhaps older?
-- 
Jim McCarty
Father Helias Forge
Taos, MO
Editor Rural Missouri Magazine
Newsletter editor, Blacksmiths Association of Missouri

³Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of little minds³