Can I use Kingsford Edge charcoal in my small forge for doing blacksmith work and knife making or do I have to use coal? Right now I use coal but I watched the Hoods Woods video where Tai Goo used mesquite coal to make a knife blade and I wondered if say, Kingsford Edge or that type of charcoal would work. Thanks.
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Hey Kyle...
I don't see why it wouldn't work,,, but there is charcoal available to us here in Canada...
Matter of fact right here in town..
Zehrs sells real wood coal,down the end of the first isle...
Also Sanfords in Harrows has bags as well..
Seemed fairly cheap as far as I can remember....
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I don't see why it wouldn't work,,, but there is charcoal available to us here in Canada...
Matter of fact right here in town..
Zehrs sells real wood coal,down the end of the first isle...
Also Sanfords in Harrows has bags as well..
Seemed fairly cheap as far as I can remember....
ttyle
Eric...
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would stay away from briquettes. I have heard that they leave pits in the steel. I would ask Tim Lively over at his forum, he has been using charcoal for awhile and knows more about it than i do.
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It's something about a clay component that's pressed into briquettes to keep them together.
Tim Lively makes his own. He has a wood fire (which he says he generally cooks dinner over
) and puts it out with water as soon as the wood is down to coals. He says you then let it dry and it's pure wood charcoal. I haven't tried it yet myself. It's supposed to be nothing but thunderstorms here for the next 3 days so I guess I won't anytime soon.
Tim Lively makes his own. He has a wood fire (which he says he generally cooks dinner over
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I occasionally use some brands of briquettes for heat treating, but for forging, it does impart its many impurities to the steel. My first forging was using them. It required much more air, and produced clinker, which doesn't happen in natural charcoal.
One of the other downsides about it is that it smells. That's because most brands have dung as one of their components. Makes it tough to even consider using it on a blade that could touch food, but maybe I'm just strange like that.
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One of the other downsides about it is that it smells. That's because most brands have dung as one of their components. Makes it tough to even consider using it on a blade that could touch food, but maybe I'm just strange like that.
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Wouldn't want to guess any real #s, but am sure that a great deal of food has been cooked over the centuries on dried dung. As I understand it, the pioneers never would have made it across the prairies were it not for the very prevalent buffalo "chips."
When I was in Vietnam, crazy, too often with more beer in me than I needed, and for sure often protein starved, used to eat pickled pigs feet. Even ate canned pork tongue. Think about those a bit, and feel certain your concerns about burning chips might go up in smoke. Then again, your mileage may vary.
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When I was in Vietnam, crazy, too often with more beer in me than I needed, and for sure often protein starved, used to eat pickled pigs feet. Even ate canned pork tongue. Think about those a bit, and feel certain your concerns about burning chips might go up in smoke. Then again, your mileage may vary.
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Thanks guys, I ended up picking a bag of real wood charcoal up at Zehrs just like Eric mentioned and it worked great. I forged a bunch of nice plant hangers and flower pot hooks, and also started a knife blade out of a railroad spike that I annealed the other day. Seems to have plenty of heat for any kind of forging.