Fuel?????

[babuga]

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[Aeneas]

Originally Posted by ApprenticeMan

It's been used for thousands of years, charcoal was in fact the very first, and longest used fuel for blacksmith's and bladesmiths.

Japanese sword masters still ONLY use charcoal, and they make the finest swords around.
sam

[Archie Zietman]

In my solid fuel forge I use biomass of any kind which can be cut into small chunks (the size of two fingers curled up together, can be smaller, but it might burn up before it cokes) Anything works: charcoal, wood, herbivore dung, tree nuts, pine cones etc.) I just need to have a deep fire so that the stuff cokes/charcoals before it gets down to the main fire. With dung an corn and some other things I can work the same way as I would with coal, coking it from the edges and pushing it in.

remember, deep fire and fuel cut into smallish chunks is good!
be merry!
Archie

P.S. If you are doing bladesmithing or suchlike where it is very precise, go with charcoal like aeneas said.