Heat treating oven build advice

Sell it and buy the correct stuff to build a forge/oven. There is no real practical way to use that let alone a cheep way especaly for a heat treat oven. Do some research here on the forum and get some knolage under your belt on how these heat treat ovens work.
 
Thanks, but if you're going to reply, could you at-least give me some constructive advice? Maybe their is a thread you could recommend, or links to get me started on the path you think is correct? I've done a bit of research and I was originally planning on constructing an oven out of soft fire bricks but I'm trying to use what I have for now...
 
What JT is saying is you can't make a HT oven from a propane shop heater. It won't work at all.

Building a forge or HT oven is not a low cost effort. Additionally, there is a lot of ,"You get what you pay for" involved. Trying to do any of it on the cheap will usually give you poor results.

Scrounging things for a forge shell, using a toaster oven or old in-wall oven for a tempering oven, and similar things are fine, and can save you some money. Converting a used pottery kiln to a HT oven can be done, but the cost is often a good part of making a full function HT oven.

I almost always recommend the "Coffee Can HT Oven". It is really simple.
Take a large coffee can and cut a 2X.25" slot in the lid. Epoxy the lid on the can. Every day stick a dollar bill in the can, two if you have it. If you find you have any change at the end of the day, dump it in, too. If you get a few bucks from selling a knife or something, or doing some work, stick it in the can. Do not open the can for any reason but buying a HT oven. In about a year, two at the most, the can will buy a good HT oven.
 
I'm sorry I was not trying to post useless information I was just stating a fact. You asked one question and I answered it. Sorry if that was taken as I did not want to help. Building an oven right can be expensive, I budgeted $1000 for mine and I'm worried I might go over, just because I tend to over do things. Even a good forge is not real cheep to build. But it all depends on what your wanting to do. If your just wanting to heat treat a few knives you make in a year then Sending them out for heat treating will be MUCH cheaper. But like Stacy said save your extra money and do it right if your going to do it.
 
Thank you for responding. I agree with you but I may have worded things wrong because I'm as amateur as they come and I haven't even finished my first knife, so I can't even start to thing about investing into a legit heat treating oven. I'll Probably either end up sending the knives I make off to be heat treated for now like JTKives suggested. I really want to experiment so I'll probably end up building one of these: http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/920120-Virtual-BBQ-2-Brick-Forge-WIP

Thanks!
 
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