My Forge! PICS ADDED

gudspelr · January 31, 2011, 08:08:00 PM

Well, I'm one REALLY happy camper

. Between 2 trips to 2 different friend's houses, I now have a fabricated 2-burner forge. Everything's ready for me to go tomorrow and get the stuff to line it and all my fittings, hose, regulator and such for the propane. If all goes well, it'll be ready to fire up in short order and get forging! Many thanks to a whole lot of you for help in answering questions, giving advice, and in general, feeding my budding addiction. I'll try and get some pictures of everything as I go along in the next day or two to post. There's already a couple things I would do differently if I built a new forge next week, but that's okay. I'm just glad to be getting in the game after so long sitting and watching from the sidelines.

Jeremy

Toecutter · January 31, 2011, 08:24:00 PM

Congratulations!

Ragnarok Forge · February 01, 2011, 01:17:00 AM

Looking forward to seeing pics.

Doug Campbell · February 01, 2011, 10:02:00 AM

Pics please...

Ragnarok Forge · February 01, 2011, 10:22:00 AM

Jeremy,

Make sure you ask how to fire the mortar you use over the fire wool. You don't just heat it up and burn it in with one firing. If the place you pick it up can't tell you specifics let me know and I will fill you in. A single firing ends up with tons or cracks and the mortor fails quickly.

gudspelr · February 07, 2011, 09:49:00 PM

Well, I finally got to the the forge this weekend-had some other project stuff to get finished.

This one's a little dark, but we were at my buddy's house and fired it up to be sure things were working prior to lining.

It's a propane cylinder made in 1945-cut off the ends and put hinges on. Kinda fun making something old from the junkyard into something useful again.

Ended up getting the holes for the 2 burners cut a little too close together.... Oh well...

1" Kaowool and some high heat mortar that appears to be drying nearly white in color after going on brown.

Overall length is about 21", inside diameter at the widest is now about 7". Can't wait to get started.

Jeremy

charlie phillips · February 08, 2011, 08:31:00 AM

LOOKS GOOD.Thats what i need.

TXCP

z-man · February 08, 2011, 05:54:00 PM

Lite that thing up and get to making some knives. Thanks for showing us.