Short time blacksmith: Long time antique tool lover

[Twilight Fenrir]

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

[Papaw]

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

[john k]

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

[Daughter2]

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? 

[rudeawakening55]

  Welcome from Oklahoma.......

[oldtools]

Welcome & Aloha from Hawaii!!!

[bear_man]

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:

[Nolatoolguy]

Hello an welcome from Illinois.

Sounds like you will fit perfectly here.