RainsFire

Nice meeting you Terry!

Gas forges are fairly easy to make your self, and there are many plans in this sites blueprint sections.. not to mention, making your own is a money saver, and can accomodate for any shape of metal you wish to hammer on..

Its nice being able to modify your setup quickly and easily.
have fun!

heres one I just make the burner for a day ago, works like a charm!
I Forge Iron - Blacksmithing and Metalworking - BP0535 One Burner Gas Forge

sweet, where did you find the plans for this?

it seems like it sort of defeats the purpose, to buy railroad scrap steel..
I'm sure someone here will be able to hook you up!

you could always re-cast them.. or diy, cool find copper isn't cheap lately.

I dont think you can.. easily anyway, I know there are some businesses out there that will sharpen certain ones, but I guess I dont know..

heh.. I have a bunch of those files I use for hot filing, they still cut, and it helps that the steel has the surface hardness of margarine when I do it..

you might try wirebrushing it, I've done that to a few, blast it with a liberal amount of a rust breaking agent before hand.

wow, thats really good!

YouTube - Titanium Sword

kinda cool+related.

Shmiti's smithy?
Honking chicken furnace!!
The hot place!

I dunno man, I think its something a person has to think up themselves..
your's sound good

Ive done it.. not pretty by any means, but if your careful with a really small tig head.. and really gentle foot control, you can get it.

I've tried sitting and welding before.. and burnt holes through my jeans.. I don't want to think about a yellow hot bar landing in my lap..

cool site, I wish I had some time to check it out..

ya totally.. it doesnt necessarily have to be a direct heat.. you could power a kiln with solar pannels and use that or something along those lines.
theres alot of solar potential..

take this with a grain, but I find it easiest to make a drift shape you know () that kind of thing, all the same thickness lengthwise... (so no bevels yet) then hammer in the bevels.. keeps things simple..
get it?
have fun
-Kenon

This one- Omura stone
#150 grit Omura Water Stone
should be fun..
I suppose it could be used as a shaping stone before claycoat..

Funny you should mention niobium oxide as a reactant. Oxides can be either, or both. I can make a refractory from aluminum oxide, but aluminum is the main engine that fires the candle...
Experience and a a touch of chutzpahs is all that's needed.

BTW, WHO ARE YOU? A blacksmith that knows the intimacy of fire:confused:, or some master at Google-fu? :confused:

He is the Ice czar!

cool, nice seein ya here J. Bennet
out of curiousity, is your start chamber furnace an orrigional design? It'd be cool if you could paten it.


Heh, I was just reviewing your posts on the other forum, and I finally understand what your doing with your furnace design!! I'm fairly proud of myself now lol..

just wondering, could you have used propane to heat the crucible? instead of the tuyers and charcoal? or would it not hit enough heat? just wondering, it'd be cool to make a more "permanent" design using something like a gas or wvo furnace blasting around your crucible (contained) just as a secondary heat.

have you taken metallurgical related classes? you seem really knowledgeable.

ha, ya.. I dont get it you're definately leagues ahead of my understanding of metallurgy..
good luck on your experimentations!
and you're the same person from D-foggs site right? with the star chamber forge..
nice seeing you here!

as do wire wheels.. possibly even faster..
congrats mate, grinders make a serious difference!

Something I dont understand, (theres alot of em..) is why cant we use a metal with a higher melting point to smelt the other one in? Like smelting bronze in a steel crucible.. would it contaminate the metals produced?

Oh, and where in oregon are you located? I'm in the corvallis/philomath area..

hah, no kidding.. I'de like to try it to, but here in Oregon it rains from September to June..

I have been working on it a little. I'll get more pics up soon.

What stones did you get?

umm, I bought ones that would double as really fine sharpening stones.. (so my father would understand..lol)
so I got one really course, 150 for shaping..
an 800-4000, and a 1000-8000, and the surfacing stone for keeping them to shape..

8000 is probably overkill, but should be fun.. I'm going to fill the gap's with sandpaper so I dont have to spend more money..

any updates mate? would love to see em..

just bought some stones ;( hurt a little.. painfull blow to a jobless teen.. 100dollas for two square rocks..

cool, nice video's.
just kinda wondering, what were you doing with the hammer in between hits? it looked like you were tapping the head back onto the handle a few times..
good stuffs, you should make a long one!

I'll smoke anyone with my left hand.. never lost
mainly because no-buddy wants to go southpaw..
good stuff, I'm jealous too.. don't even have a friend who won't destroy my anvil while striking.

none of those good ole syndromes, and injuries..(yet...)

I think there was a thread concerning this topic not to long ago.. I'll try and find it later.

Dropkick Murphys, Flogging Molly, Bagpipe tunes, Gordon Lightfoot. Classic Rock. Depends on my mood.
Finnr

I love flogging molly!! totally forgot about them. good times.
the pogues are cool too, and dropkick Murphys kick!

yeah thats basicaly what i do unless I put a cd in. Although in my welding shop if I`am doing ALOT of welding I put on my leather jacket and put my
mp4 player in the pocket and run the earbuds through the jacket under my hood to my ears! It happens:rolleyes:

ha, what kind of welding do you do? I think tig destroy's watches.. so I would definately be careful with an mp3 player lol..