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Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: skyarrow on June 26, 2010, 01:06:37 pm

Title: new forge
Post by: skyarrow on June 26, 2010, 01:06:37 pm
well here is my new forge i still need to make the clinker breaker for it but i think its in great shape i have never seen a forge that had a built in cooling bath like this one i should have the blower mounted soon :) the tuyere slids in a slot on the bottom but this one was missing ugg i wish i had another so i dont have to make it. if any of yall know what brand this forge is plz let me know ttyl

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Title: Re: new forge
Post by: aero86 on June 26, 2010, 02:50:51 pm
that looks pretty cool..  i need to learn how to do that stuff
Title: Re: new forge
Post by: El Destructo on June 26, 2010, 03:07:08 pm
I don't know what brand it is Sterling...but I know that My Grand Father had two just like it ...in His Shop when I was growing up...He was a Blacksmith/Wrought Iron Maker....I wish I had spent more Summer Days with Him in that Shop...a lot of Expertise and Knowledge died with Him...
Title: Re: new forge
Post by: skyarrow on June 26, 2010, 03:34:16 pm
i was hoping to find the tuyere thats for it hope some one on the net has one :)
Title: Re: new forge
Post by: El Destructo on June 26, 2010, 03:54:31 pm
The ones my Grandfather has were called....Canady/Otto...spelling may be wrong...but thats close...and they looked just like this one...might search that...may help
Title: Re: new forge
Post by: skyarrow on June 26, 2010, 04:08:49 pm
sweet thanx atleast i have a start now :)
Title: Re: new forge
Post by: stickbender on June 28, 2010, 09:37:20 pm
   
     Cool!  Looks like an up turned riding mower body......Hmmmmmm :o  I think I just had an idea...... ;)

                                                                           Wayne
Title: Re: new forge
Post by: El Destructo on June 28, 2010, 11:03:42 pm
yeah Wayne...but this is Cast Iron...not Stamped Steel........ ;D
Title: Re: new forge
Post by: stickbender on June 29, 2010, 12:28:05 am

     El D, I bet you're the kind of person who would pull on a piece of thread, on a six hundred year old tapestry, in a museum! :o
Ok, I will just line it with clay!  Plllltttptftzzz! :P ;D
But you have to admit, it does look like an upside down riding lawn mower deck.  Still, I think the clay would work just as well as the cast iron.  Or I can just build one out of fire brick, and clay.  Your Carrot wood limb is slowly drying, still heavy, but drying.  I will try to cut it off at six feet.  Have you found out if you use the heart wood, or sap wood, or a combination there of?
                                                                            Wayne
Title: Re: new forge
Post by: mullet on June 29, 2010, 12:56:51 am
 Wayne, when you coming over?
Title: Re: new forge
Post by: stickbender on June 29, 2010, 03:35:50 am
     Eddie;
     Are you you back from hunting prehistoric armadillos, and feeding the Ga. tiger skeeters? 
When would be a good time for you?  Sat. I will be at the Gun Show, Sunday is open, as is the week, except the 6th, and 7th, and I will be going to Montana after that.  Anytime this week, except Wed. is open also.

                                                                      Wayne