Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: jonathan creason on January 30, 2012, 04:04:22 pm
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A buddy of mine dropped a new gas/charcoal combo grill on my back porch a few months ago, so the old one had to go. I just hate to throw stuff away though, so I hid it beside the house until I got the bright idea to turn it into a forge for some big stuff. After a couple of hours worth of work I came up with this:
(http://i450.photobucket.com/albums/qq223/jrc1106/forge1.jpg)
(http://i450.photobucket.com/albums/qq223/jrc1106/forge2.jpg)
I mixed the clay with some river sand, charcoal, ash, and grass clippings for binder this time, hoping to keep the cracking to a minimum. We've got some pretty heavy bucktallow soils where I live, with a lot of shrink/swell, so stuff cracks a lot. I hope to have it ready to fire up by this weekend. I saved the grates off of it, too so I'll have somewhere to set my coffee can forge when I'm working on normal sized stuff.
I just got some .25"x1.5" 1084 from Aldo, so I'm hoping to knock out a big blade or 2 in the near future.
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keep this post going. I have done some knife work and all my tempering was done with a heating nozzle on a oxy/act set up. i was limited to small work. love your idea. do you plan on still running propane or going to nat gas?
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This is actually a charcoal forge, the design was made popular a few years ago by Tim Lively. I've got a small forge made out of a coffee can that's heated with a propane weed burner. I use it for most of my "normal sized" work. Plus, it's nice to have when I want to beat on something in the evenings after work. Don't have to wait an hour for a good bed of coals.
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you should try useing some coal in that
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Tough to find quality coal around here, plus I really don't want to deal with making coke. Gonna stick to burning charcoal and scrap wood in it. My old forge got hot enough to melt steel with that fuel, and a fairly low air blast.
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i guess it would make sense for you then, i luckily found a place that sells 40lb bags of blacksmith coal for 10$ and boy does it get hot
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Can you send me a PM where to get the coal?
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Can you send me a PM where to get the coal?
X 2 please...
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Can you send me a PM where to get the coal?
Next derailment we have arround here, I will give you a call. >:D
(I have aprox 75 coal trains go by my house every day)
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Cool idea. I bet most folks on here hate tossing things out. Keep this post going.
Cipriano
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Can you send me a PM where to get the coal?
Next derailment we have arround here, I will give you a call. >:D
(I have aprox 75 coal trains go by my house every day)
why not take that into your own hands >:D
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Cool idea. I bet most folks on here hate tossing things out. Keep this post going.
Cipriano
haha i sure dont like to throw things away. end up having a use for it some time. especially after you get rid of it ;D In my experience ya gotta keep things hidden from women or ya get "what is all this junk" comments