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Im 14 and I'm very interested in knife making. My first knife is almost done and I'll post pics soon. I have a question for you guys, do you alll have profesional made forges? Mine isn't to special...
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I'm 16--I use a homemade forge... only I need an anvil. But yeah, if it works, it works, ya know? Could you show us some pictures of your forge? I believe there are some links around here in the...
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I'm 17 (oh so very close to 18!) and, with my dads help I made my first forge at 14. And it's still my main use forge. This year I was given a propane forge, and it's professional made, and a good...
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you'll find that most of the metal pounders here have made their own forges, whether they be charcoal, coal or propane.
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I have made four forges: one solid fuel, two gas, and one oil burner. The one I use most right now is a commercial cast iron coal forge.
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i've made 3 forges so far. a Tim Lively style charcoal, a dry stack fire brick (the white ones) with propane and now i'm using an old converted mail box lined with ceramic wool using propane....
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I've never used a commercial forge...DIY all the way! I've built, I guess, three or four forges now, all of which burned charcoal and/or wood. My latest (made 4-5 years ago) is a proper Lively-style...
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I made 3 of my four forges; 1st one was a charcoal fueled converted BBQ grill with a lid blown by an old hair dryer....2nd was a "venturi" style 2 burner based on a R134 cannister with Mizzou...
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Matt, my oil burner was a very crude one that required preheating the forge with propane, wood, etc., to get it hot enough to vaporize oil. It wasn't truly a burner; it was an injector that sprayed...
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i have a little metal melting furnace i built and ran on propane but havent used it in a couple years. been thinking about building an oil burner for it
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Mine home made. I wish i could get a cast iron fire pot. They cost so much new.
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@james - Couldn't you get a big ol' cast iron dutch oven for a fire pot? Zachary
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Wrong shape. I could but then i would have to figure out to connect the T for air source and ash dump.
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Drilling big holes can be kind of a pain in the rear. But yeah, you could do it that way. James is right that it's not ideal; a solid fuel firepot should ideally be more of a funnel shape. But it'd...
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Way back when I could run a coal forge, I had one that was made from a plow disk (funnel shaped roughly) with a pipe welded to it. Lined with a refractory clay/sand mix it worked great. No...
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Yeah, I meant to say that a Dutch oven could be clayed to improve the shape of the interior for firepot purposes. With a hole drill and a little patience, I think this actually isn't such a bad idea....
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