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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