Giles S.

unless your working for the railroad you dont need a forge that big EVER! i remember starting out (nearly 30 years ago) and wanting to make swords and was going to heat the intire length ... you cant work more than 6 inches at a time so your forge dosent need to be that big or long also hard to use that size... check out the forge plans on this websight ... even for forging swords it will work fine!!!!

OK then. Just out of curiosity where did I go wrong?

So here is a design I came up with from some other ideas I saw on this forum. I just wanted some advice on changes I should consider and if its has the potential to get to welding temp or should I scrap the idea before I even try to build it? Sorry I had to save the plans as a .PDF .

First Forge Plans.pdf

Hello just introducing myself and why I'm here. I've decides to take up smithing as a hobby do to the fact the wife says I need one. I guess when I'm home I get under foot to much lol. So to keep peace in the house I figured I'd go along with it and beating hot steel with a blunt object seemed my style so here I am. I think I would like to stick with making knives and things like that and there is a lot of information here so I thought I'd join and see what I can learn.