Recently I’ve been using the fly press quite a bit and doing some reorganizing of tools and making improvements.  There is one thing I wi...

When I bought my fly press I could only afford the smallest size.  It has been satisfactory for just about everything except but one.   ...

I needed to test a couple of things with the fly press and couldn’t quickly find the tool I needed.  The reason?  It was somewhere in a ...

My fly press came with a single handle.  It’s the one shown in the foreground of the image “All Three Handles.”  It didn’t take long to st...

I make a lot of botanical sculptures mostly of sizes which serve as table displays.  Invariably the heavy base has some undesirable rou...

The most powerful tools in the studio are the power hammers, the hydraulic forging press and the fly press.  Each has a distinctly diff...

My press came with a single handle.  I have found that three handles work better for me.  I fabricated the additional two handles from ...

Yesterday I needed to make several pieces which I call "pivot/lock rods". They require a pair of opposing fuller marks to demarca...

Following up on the theme of making edge tools with tool steel these are some ideas about making the tangs with which they will mount in the...

Yesterday I forged a slitting chisel and an opening chisel for the fly press for a future project. I chose H-13 tool steel for the job. Th...

When I became interested in blacksmithing and started my first first forging efforts I had no sense of direction to the work. I was only in...

Continuing a welcoming introduction I’ll present an overview of my workspace starting with the forge room. The building is approximately 40’...