Hello! Thank you for letting me join Moneo.Town! I am a amateur blacksmith and silversmith with a profile on Moneromarket, and i am writing this post in order to get help with starting a blacksmithing and silversmithing business. The biggest hurdle for me at the moment is fuel costs (charcoal), the fact that i'm using a make-shift anvil out of a railroad tie-plate and potential shipping costs. Materials may become costly, but that's unknown at this time. With each product I make, i will try to make an associated video along with it; in order to both show the process of its creation, and to ensure to the customer/s that my products are hand-forged by me. If you would like to help cover the costs of these things and would like to have a Monero-focused blacksmith/silversmith vendor, please donate to my Kuno Fundraiser. If you have any questions, you can reach me on here, but twitter may be faster My Twitter
I made a post on Twitter about it, but I'll make one here too.
The "anvil" i'm using is just a railroad tie-plate help to a wood stump with screws and washers. A sturdy and tough surface is absolutely needed for any blacksmith work to get done; without one, 90% of my effort is just bouncing the metal off the plate (and the plate off the wood stump). Today I attempted to get some work done on making a square-punch - so i can make a nail-header for making nails - but the "anvil" just bounced around and made it impossible to move the metal the way it's supposed to.
I am looking to buy an anvil off of Amazon, utilizing Anon Industries' anonshop, so i can purchase it wil Monero. The total cost right now would be around $230 when taking into account anon.shop's 15% fee and shipping.
I will sell other things in the mean time on Moneromarket in order to supplement fuel/metal/shipping costs for the blacksmithing business.