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brief googling returns this. http://www.xinfa-abrasives.com/5-2-recessed-grinding-wheel.html largest diameter is 900mm for you 'mericuns thats 35.4 inches image below with a guy in the background im sure they have more styles available but i got lazy. and i bet the shipping on a block of stone like that would be crazy!

Beautiful. my only hammer at the moment just says mastercraft on the side :(

Good evening IFI. This is my first post so I guess I should tell you about myself. young (27), reasonably well educated (I know enough to know I dont know much), bit of a tinkerer, love my hobbies and my wolfhounds. I have been lurking the forum for a month now gathering information for my first forge. *incoming wall of newbie questions* Hopefully you will allow me to pick your brains for a few questions I have regarding layout, before I start building. Specifically I will be doing iron work for the family farm and I want to make sure that I have room to work on large gates or stall doors. I have designs for a side draft masonry forge but I want to make sure its not too small (I'd love to make it smaller but I dont want to find out it is insufficient for later projects.) so far the plan is for a 3' x 4' forge surface, and I have zero clue what size of firepot to build or if I should go with one of the vulcan firepots from centaur forge. also I dont really have an idea of what sort of area should I leave around the sides of the forge to allow me to work longer peices of metal. and a shopping list for beginner tools (beyond the basic anvil, hammer, first set of tongs, fire tools poker/shovel) -vice (bench or legvice? both???) -anything else you can suggest (cross peen hammer? sadly I cant afford to even think of air hammers etc. But if you could point me to design plans for a manual treadle (sp?) hammer or a grinder I would be super appreciative.) I will be at caniron this year looking for tools and watching the demos. Thanks so much for spending the time to read this. tldr -what recc. space (forge and shop) for gate forging -what firepot size / shape -beginner tools list -see you at caniron