I am looking to find some pictures of your forges usd for knife making. Me and the boy are going to make one and give it a try!

I got my Son interested and if'n I can get him out in the shop, maybe I can get him to take interest in selfbow building too.

If not, I'll at least get him to strip the bark & whitewood off some osage staves for  fire starting material.

 

I e-mailed you some pics of the one I built and I have some forge sites saved I will pm to you.  Drew

Good topic. I'd like to see those pics also drewsbow

I also would like to see them plans.

Search out the British Blades forums.  They have a forum dedicated to forging and show lots of home made forges, including a neat little two brick forge. Robtattoo here on the Gang is a frequent contributor to the BB forums too.

There are also lots of plans on the net.  

-Fritz

Here's mine, . .finally got a break in the weather & got outside today to forge the T.G. knife swap blade. Click on an image to enlarge.
Larry

 
Looking into the dragon's mouth . . .

 
Forging the TG knife swap blade.


Found one more.

http://www.britishblades.com/forums/index.php?s=aa751221acc1a5fbcbdfa8da3c1c43ba

Larry that looks like a great Forge. Did you make it? Hey jerry long time no see.<><<><

i do not have pictures of it but a good friend of mine who makes knives for a living was using a habatchi with a hair dryer attached to it by duck tape. wasn't much to look at be he made awesome knives, i'll email him and see if he has any pic's of it.

Here are a couple I have found

gas forge

http://www.zoellerforge.com/simplegasforge.html

charcoal

http://64.176.180.203/washtubforge.htm

Naw Frank, it's a Poor Boy (made from a freon tank)from that E auction site. For 155. plus the regulator it doesn't pay to go through the hassle.  

Larry

Okay gang thanks a bunch! I appreciate your responses!

This is what the boy and I came up with today.
Scavanged the dump and made us a coal forge.

Now we need to learn how to use it. It did give me something to do and got the boy interested in making something traditional.

He is trying to make a hawk out of a railroad spike,,,we'll see!


Project supplies:

Roofing tar bucket, burned out the tar with kerosene.

Old wheel hub

A blower fan robbed from my building/shop junk.

Some links of chain a few bolts and some high temp sealer left over from a head gasket job.

Coal forge $0.00

       

Busting up lumps of coal found along our railroad tracks  

Hot steel pounding  

What do you think?

Now someone explain making a knife blade or hawk from a RR spike!

By the way one handed typing aint so easy!

OsageTree, Brother............Where there is a  WILL,   YOU WILL FIND A WAY!!!          

I like it!

OT,

Here is a link to the iForge site on Anvil Fire.  Go down to project number 12 for a rail road spike hatchet build along. Project 97 is a RR spike knife build.

 http://www.anvilfire.com/iForge/  

Cool forge BTW.

-Fritz

oh yeah great post. it is fun to make blades. so little time and so much to do.