You guys, all cheating!!!

galadduin

galadduin

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I made a vertical propane forge last week, and got a portable TC. The forge and burner works like a dream, I had to work at 3 psi as it was going up and up, sometimes I had to cut the gass... Forged a piece of 1075 or something like that (I don't know for sure as this was an excercise of forging). 2 hours of forging (I know I'm a bit slow at this):
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Forged at these temps (celcius):
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You can see the origin of steel, a 20mm rod:
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After I have worked on the handle. That took only 2 hours at most (incl. forge warmup + normalizing cycles)...
 
Then I rough ground the profile:
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I bought some Norton blaze belts from Tracy. These belts cuts like nothing I have ever seen. WOW :eek: in 20 mins the forging marks at the flats were gone, and there is a nice bold distal taper (which I couldn't took a photo of it as my camera broke again :():
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This is insane, I'm calling the forgers and guys using Blaze belts just "cheaters" :mad:. I guess I'll cheat from now on also :D;)

Emre
 
Yeah, once you get over the whole "lost innocence" thing you'll be fine. At some point, though, you may discover that your ability to ruin a piece of steel has increased by huge leaps as well. In many ways I think forging adds 10 or 15 years to a knifemaker's learning curve. And there's no going back.
 
I quit cheating and returned to hand tools. :p

Forging is a great way to ruin good steel!

Blaze belts are a great way to turn chef's knives into paring knives :p

Nice forge!
 
Welcome to the new world (well old world craftsmanship really)

As was suggested, now you have a whole new learning curve ahead of you, but you just freed yourself from the limitations of the shape your material arrives in

-Page
 
NickWheeler said:
I don't know why, but I almost fell off the chair laughing at that. :D

Emre, I'm wondering why your forge is orange hot where the burner enters it. The only place you can see orange on my forges is in the door.
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Looks like a loose fit where the burner enters the forge body, Emre, you'll want to either put a fitting there to cover that up or put some insulation there. I have a larger diameter piece of pipe that the burner fits into welded onto the side of the forge. It'll help prevent damager from the burner bumping the insulation after you fire it up.
 
Will Leavitt said:
Looks like a loose fit where the burner enters the forge body, Emre, you'll want to either put a fitting there to cover that up or put some insulation there. I have a larger diameter piece of pipe that the burner fits into welded onto the side of the forge. It'll help prevent damager from the burner bumping the insulation after you fire it up.
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Thanks Will, I'll do that...
 
Thanks, it is nice actually :D

It is made out of a bucket made for "bucket stoves". It was 40 cm high and 28cm dia.
I have took some photos of making:

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Made a net from nails to give a support for castable:
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Made a gasket from kaowool between top and body and welded a hinge:
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Refractory cast:
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Then painted and let it dry for 2 days, then 2 days of slow heating cycles. That's all
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