r smith

I agree that is a cool video. Very theatrical and hollywood feeling to me though, wish he was actually making something instead of just letting excess oil drip and shoot fireballs while wailing on a stick of red metal. High speed cameras are nice. smiths opinion

I learned not to talk bad about people so I must stay of of this conversation. smith out

Thank you, fciron and southshore. I am not saying one is better than the other and they both certainly have advantages in certain circumstances. Just that some of the earlier posts did not make sense to me. I hope to have an induction unit in my future. I do not think it can be beat for ease of having a hot piece ready to work with no waiting. smith out

Correct me if I am wrong please. Lets say you are making a small stylish widget (ssw) and it takes 10 seconds to remove it from the forge, hit it a few times to make the bar into ssw and set it aside. Remember this is an example. Now in the gas forge that is already up to temp you put a piece of bar in that will be made into your high selling ssw and start the stopwatch........... when it reaches forging temp stop the clock and read what the number is and... one minute fourty seconds. Or 100 seconds, Now that you knot the time it take to cycle one ssw's bar stock through the forge and how long it take to make your ssw under the hammer do the simple math to tell you how many bars to load into the forge. Of course if you fill the forge with cold metal it will change the heat time but remember this an an EXAMPLE so try to keep the nitpick technical comments to a minimum. The math tells me to put ten bars in the forge because as they are being worked it take exactly the amount of time to heat up as it does to be ready for it. That means there is no excessive soak time, the instant the piece is up to temp it is removed and formed into the valuable ssw the world is demanding. With a proper burning forge with a bit of dragon breath the scale should be minimal. Remember it comes out the instant it is hot. At the same time one is removed a new one is put in its place to be ready to form in one minute fourty. Anything that happens with the grain it hat time is likely to be negated by the forging process, grains being severely beaten into submission between hammer an anvil. Now to the induction machine. It is a simple matter to adjust the machine to the cycle time of making you ssw which in this case is ten seconds. Remember the post earlier where nakedanvil said the machine needs to have enough power. It is the same either way once you are up and running, take part out of forge, replace with cold part, forge ssw repeat. r smith

Hi everyone, Longtime lurker signed on as a noob now. I recently got a small farriers gas forge on craigslist and am going to try my hand at bottleopeners for christmas presents. I took a few welding classes in school a long time ago and enjoy that type of stuff.