NickOHH

Why don't you tell us your process than we could tell you what went wrong. 

What a great video, no idea what he is talking about, but super inspiring, itching to light the forge now!

Watch out though Stan there is a good possibility you want more after you get your first "real" anvil

Thanks Glenn I appreciate the help and always enjoy chatting with ya !! Gonna study the BP tonight and hit the hardware store this week maybe have a gasser to try this weekend.

Yea I just put that together sorry Charles. Makes sense to hide em with someone taken advantage of the generosity of folks on here helpin others out. It's a shame. Thanks for your patients and your help!

Thanks I've been doin research and I've gone over that blue print before but it has been awhile, I know the BP but can't seem to get there tried searches on Google but just came up with other posts referencing the number but no link to the page and it's not allowing me to browse the BP section.

So i am looking to build a gas forge to open more opertunity to forge in poor weather, which is usualy when i get most of my free time, but it seems that the website doesnt think i should build one so it wont let me browse the BP section. So i am looking for a link for BP0191 or similiar burner designs. Thanks.

sweet pics J , i got a few but i was getting to distracted to take many pics   some awesome stuff all over that shop, great time.

Yup, cheap bathroom fan here, have a fan speed control on it, works just fine, nice n quiet.

Well decided to stick alil walnut on the first one n gave it a full honing.

Some nice blades there, definetly look like somethin out of mad max or the like, well done.

Thanks Anthony! I'm pleased with them, glad they are better than the first not worse 

Those 2 are set to be SOLD tomorrow to friends so I guess I gotta make more and put that toward a  belt grinder I think . Either they are better than I think or they feel bad for me lol.

It definetly is addictive I want to make more!! Marcy forges with me once and she was hooked too, and now I don't get yelled at for wanting to forge all the time!

agreed, its ashame the pics are gone, hard to grasp what theyre talking about without them sometimes.  but there is alot of information in all those post that arent on the first page

haha , a sheeth that holds the knife and fork, never know when your gonna have to stop and eat a something! dont be caught unprepared again! build in a salt and pepper shaker and your set.

stock was 5/8 coil spring of a mini van

well a few hours at the forge and i got a couple more, ok so they are still not "pretty" or "beautiful" but i got the blades to stay strait, just worked the sides as i was beveling it. Gave a try at tempering on the forge, worked out nicely.

I used a pipe cap on my first forge with a lot of holes in it, the more the better. Now I just have a couple peices of 1/4 bar tacked in place as a grate, workin out pretty good for me. You just have to keep coal In the fire pot. A little furnace cement, clay, kitty litter will fill/cover the holes in the rotor or drop a couple bolts in and tack in place. 

For an anvil just find a heavy peice of steel from a scrap yard or the like. I started with a peice of rr track, some people on here do some amazing work with one. But it just needs to have some mass, you don't née ca big contact area, bigger than the hammer head and your good. If you can find something bigger great, but it's not required. 

And also, read, you might have to dig, but the answer to most any question you have is covered somewhere

I think I will try another tomorrow to give to a friend, to keep the edge from curving to much again would I just work it on edge more to keep it strait as I work the bevel or are there steps to take while forging the bevel? Any help is great appreciated.

Looks like it worked just fine, when I started using mine it dulled a bit but it has more or less stayed where it is since the first couple of uses so it seems you have a fine cut off.

I will be a good competition but I'm afraid that the judges may be biased lol

Well it was good practice alteast! Axle would be good I used a peice of 1 1/4" torsion bar of a dodge ram for mine, could be tougher but it holds up just fine for me , get ready though next one will be more of a workout to forge.

Do you know what kinda steel or was it mystery metal?? But a nice looking cut off, if it cuts which it looks like it will just fine that's what matters if it doesn't hold up make another

I watched a couple videos so that pretty much makes me an expert  right???

Thanks Anthony .... I feel like there are many more to come, now I want to try some Damascus.

She was just as happy to have a forge up and runnin as I am, I think I'll keep her!!   Her knife will most definitely be better, always surprises me how fast she has been taking to it. Marcy's first Forgings were better than mine for sure. 

Thanks fellas, not the prettiest but I'm pleased for my first go, was my first time forging since winter, fun project to brush off the cobwebs. Marcy has confiscated it for kitchen duty so a proper handle is in it's future.