Build a fire in your forge. Insert a piece of steel. Turn up the air blast and wait. If you remove the piece of steel and find half of it GONE and the end in your hand looking like a 4th of July sparkler, then it is hot enough to forge weld. (grin)
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Tools do not make the blacksmith, the blacksmith makes the tools. gc
If you do not build a box, then you do not have to think outside the box.
If someone questions your standards, they are not high enough.
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