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Hi mister admin.Im located in Greece, city of Chalkis :) My friends thanx a lot for your usefull piece of advice !!! Really apreciate your kindness and will to help :) .I know that sword crafting is a master art and surelly needs training and lot of knowledge and work (but this comes with time and experience and love to what you do)...with this site's usefull info and with the helpfull community i believe someone can find the way ! Knowing that in here, there are great smiths and newbies as me its encouraging :) .So... i must use clay and sand for my forge... Is there any link to guide me throught the process of making this mixture ? Cause this must have its own secrets and must be a lil bit diffycult especially when you are a newbie xD haha

Hallo to everyone guys ! I wish a happy new year to all (year with love and health). I am new to this forum and generally new to blacksmithing...trying to build my first forge for sword smithing (and for b/s training of course) !!! i ordered from my local metal supplier to make me this iron forge.Its dimensions are 1.40 metrs in length , 55 cm across and 34 cm height , while the iron pieces are 4mm thic ... Now i have a problem with the inside formulation ! I dont know what to do in order to have a good and efficient-working forge .Firebricks seem too expensive...someone told me to use maltese-stone (something like that)...im in a chaos ! And the other thing that assalls me is the tuyere and the bellow part.How is it supposed to have a nice fire all over this thing? Will i need an electric bellow or a big foot-manual ? I would be glad if someone helps me !!! :) :) :) This is the thing...