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What I work with- my anvil's in Chronicles 10-12 already. On top, my forge, with a welded fume hood that goes to a nice tall chimney so that hot coal ash won't set my forge on fire, and so that at least some of the smoke and coal dust goes outside. When I'm smithing it appears all the smoke and dust is going up the spout, but hours later when I am sneezing black and washing black out of my hair, I wonder how effective it really is. Ah well, it's a fabulous forge, with lots of room.

In the middle, the family coal supply. We got in contact with coal mine testers in a local metropolis, and it seems they regularly get tons of coal in which they test, know the precise contents of- and then throw out because really they only need a couple of buckets but they'll get sent a boxcar full. So we called them up, asked if they had any bituminous coal relatively free of sulfur or ash, that would burn up past 1600 or 1700 (the really good stuff is coke, but that requires a whole lot of preparation, and you get it in a good coal fire anyway, as a byproduct of burning coal). Lo and behold, they were delighted that we'd take some off their hands.

Bottom pic is some other stuff; tall stump and mallet for evening out lines in patterned steel, smaller stump for sticking files , punches, etc., into, and a vice for clamping things I need to twist, bend, or in recent experience just rip right off and waste a half hour's careful work, gripe mutter gripe.

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What I work with- my anvil's in Chronicles 10-12 already. On top, my forge, with a welded fume hood that goes to a nice tall chimney so that hot coal ash won't set my forge on fire, and so that at least some of the smoke and coal dust goes outside. When I'm smithing it appears all the smoke and dust is going up the spout, but hours later when I am sneezing black and washing black out of my hair, I wonder how effective it really is. Ah well, it's a fabulous forge, with lots of room.

In the middle, the family coal supply. We got in contact with coal mine testers in a local metropolis, and it seems they regularly get tons of coal in which they test, know the precise contents of- and then throw out because really they only need a couple of buckets but they'll get sent a boxcar full. So we called them up, asked if they had any bituminous coal relatively free of sulfur or ash, that would burn up past 1600 or 1700 (the really good stuff is coke, but that requires a whole lot of preparation, and you get it in a good coal fire anyway, as a byproduct of burning coal). Lo and behold, they were delighted that we'd take some off their hands.

Bottom pic is some other stuff; tall stump and mallet for evening out lines in patterned steel, smaller stump for sticking files , punches, etc., into, and a vice for clamping things I need to twist, bend, or in recent experience just rip right off and waste a half hour's careful work, gripe mutter gripe.