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Title: ideas on making a forge
Post by: cheech1 on October 01, 2009, 10:39:00 PM

i'm a beginner black smith i have made a few fire pokers and the like with someone else's forge i would like to get some ideas on making my own forge please. so one day i can make beautiful knives like you guy's and girls

Title: Re: ideas on making a forge
Post by: DANA HOLMAN on October 02, 2009, 08:47:00 AM

cheech1
check out this web site  www.dfoggknives.com/forge.htm (http://www.dfoggknives.com/forge.htm)

this is how i built mine, with the help of kevin evans (rooster)
goodluck
dana

Title: Re: ideas on making a forge
Post by: cheech1 on October 03, 2009, 04:16:00 AM

thanks that looks like a good one i did not think propane would be hot enough.

Title: Re: ideas on making a forge
Post by: kbaknife on October 03, 2009, 08:50:00 AM

It'll make it up to about 2300 degrees F. (1260 C.)

Title: Re: ideas on making a forge
Post by: cheech1 on October 03, 2009, 09:26:00 PM

how hot will i need to get steel to make damascus

Title: Re: ideas on making a forge
Post by: NightHawk on October 06, 2009, 09:02:00 PM

I made one out of a truck wheel drum. It worked well I used the hole in the drum to afix a pipe with a blow dryer in the pipe to provide air flow into the bottom of the drum