Hello from N. Idaho

Hey all, I've been lurking for a while and decided to sign up. I am just starting to scrap on the side to make some extra money. I am a telecommunications engineer, I have many hobbies which include: Blacksmithing, meat smoking, fishing and many others my wife never knows what I am going to come home saying that I want to try. I've been watching the site and watching a lot of Youtube videos for instructional purposes. This site is a great wealth of information and thank you for providing it.
-Frostie

Hello Frostie, welcome to SMF, and good luck! We have hobbies in common, I got into metal working a long time ago but haven't done much lately. I built a smoker a few years ago with an old box stove under it, works fairly well. Got a turkey and beef brisket in the freezer now, waitin on time to fire it up again.
I'll bet you like gardening too?

Welcome from the Dakota's. Thanks for volunteering to cater the next SMF party with Bear. Sir will bring the cooler, if he can find it. You may have other hobbies, but scrapping can be addictive. Good luck to you.

Welcome Frostie. Now that you're scrapping and catering, some of those Chinook Salmon from your area would taste good smoked when we all come for the party. Thanks in advance

While living in Nashville I enjoyed going to the yearly arts and crafts festival. There was a blacksmith set up there most every year. I did my treating and shaping with an oxy-aceteline set. Mostly did welding, fabricating, and tinkering with it, although I once strongly considered building a forge.
I recall here on the farm there being an old blacksmith set out in the woods. I was by it yesterday, but all that's left of it now is the big cast ring(or tub maybe) filled with concrete where they'd heat the metal. I can recall it standing on legs and having the blower attached, but the blower disappeared and the rest of it long since rusted and settled on into the black dirt we have here, and the top of it is only 6 or 8 inches off the ground

don't overlook the catering nope, caterers make Great money! ; )

HA HA looks like we need a get together! I would love to share with everyone my teriyaki brined smoked salmon its derishous. Thank you for the warm welcome and Bear its an unfotunate thing for me to hear that news about the smithing set up its a lost art but it is slowly coming back. I will have to post some pictures of my coke/coal forge that I built and my in the progress propane forge that I'm working on now. It's a lot of fun to do, I'm building the propane forge to more easily do domascus/ pattern welded steel knives to sell. anywho to much about other stuff and not about the metal I love to pick up. Cheers Fellas thanks for the warm welcome again.