Propane Forges

Terry McMaster

Terry McMaster

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I am certain you folks have been all over this subject, but I am in the market for a two burner, propane forge and wondering about your experiences. The good, bad and outlets for the good list.

I am in Washington state and would like to avoid paying more in shipping than for the forge. Thanks for any help you can render.
 
Blind Dog, I agree with Robert. From what I've seen of the commercial forges you can make something better and more suited to knifemaking WAY cheaper.

Take a look at Ron Reil's website on forge and burner design, here is the address:

http://www.webpak.net/~rreil/design.html

There is more information there than you can easily digest. Homemade burners are made from off the shelf plumbing fixtires. I made on of the EZ-burners featured on his site and was amazed at how well it works. Hopefully I will have a freon tank mini-forge of his design up and runnning soon.

Also check out Don Fogg's website, (I don't have the address handy). I regularly forge at a friends shop where they built one of his vertical forges and it works great. Flux just drips into the bottom where you never see it. Hope this has been of some help!-Guy Thomas
 
I concur. I built a Reil-type forge burner in about 20 minutes. You will need a regulator that is more powerful than a BBQ type, and they run about $60 new. Also, you may need to modify the hose to fit the black pipe nipple thread.

It's very easy.

My heat chamber is a scrounged steel 5 gallon pail lined with ash and clay, based on Tim Lively's design. I recently sealed it with furnace cement, because the ash breaks down after a while.

It's a good learning experience and can be built on the cheap.

Mike
 
Hey, Terry
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Thanks for the posts and info. I will look into building my own, just appeared a little daunting according to some of the plans I'd seen. Thanks for the welcomes as well. Terry
 
I use an NC Forge single burner that I bought about a year ago when I first started forging. It heats a lot faster than the home-made forged shown on the link above but also cost a lot more. It heats about as fast as a coal forge can do. Now, though, I wish I had a two-burner for larger work. You might be able to weld with the single burner but not easily. The push button ignition is nice, too. For forging small and medium knives, the single burner works fine.
 
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