Blacksmithing fun, basic, and primitive, for the beginner novice. noob or newcomer.: Tools you can make with a welder that will be a huge help, if you also have a vice.

So if you have a vice a welder (or a buddy with one), and some way to cut metal, you cam make these awesome tools that will help your metal bending immensly.

The first is just a set of simple bending forks, what' s cool is, yon can adjust these to make any
size bend in any stock. Want a tight bend, set it so the bar barely fits between the pins. Want a loosere on , play with the distance between them, or make lots of small bends close together, it will average out to a larger smooth bend...

Make two pieces that look like this

Put them in the vice and adjust the distance to fit.

Make another one of the two parts above replacing the round pin with a square one, that's 1/4 , 3/8 or 1/2 and you can pop a socket of the matching wrench size, on the square one and use it to get a precisely sized larger bend (get some old black oxide or un coated sockets for this, as it will probably ruin the temper.

you will also want one of these to fit into your anvil, or honestly several with different sized bars and spaces.. they go into and out of the hardy quickly and leave the vice open for other operations.

The best way to make hardy tools is to forge them, second best is to get square solid bar the size of your hardy and weld them up

but cheap and easy is to get 1" square tubing from the hardware store and use it to weld them up, if you hardy is smaller than 1" you just squeeze the tubing liek this till it fits, then weld it onto your tool to be the hardy post.