Jeremy BSblade

Thanks, you too brother

Thomas, I have a little coal forge that works awesome, ive done my share of welding and had some successful faggot welds but its hard in a coal forge. That's why I'm trying to make a gas one. Wasn't really educated on the necessity of oxidation, thanks for bringing it to my attention. Thanks for the help JJ as well, defiantly looks like I need to do a little more research on that. Anything else yall think I missed? It would help a lot, like I said, I don't like doing things twice!

Honestly I'm not very experienced with gas forges. Just seemed like the simplest thing to do, and I already have a rarely used one on hand. What do you suggest other than that?

Ok, so me and my parter have made a few knives and are happy with our results so we think we're ready to move onto forge welding and making some demascus. I've got a pretty simple design in my head. I have an old propane tank I can cut the bottom and top out of. Going to cut a hole it, shove a weed burner in it ,fill it with a firebrick/ refractory cement mixture up to the lip and coat the outside with kaowool. I don't like doing things twice so I'd like to do it right and I've heard that most fluxes can tear through basically anything pretty quickly so I've done some research on materials I can line the inside with to protect it. Mostly what I've heard is there's nothing to do accept touch up the cement periodically, but I recently ran into a product from a company called homesaver that's used to line fireplaces. It's called "Flue goo" and I've heard a few smiths say it's suppose to be very resistant to flux. It's about $30 a gallon so I'd like to know if anyone has any experience with it and if so is it worth it? If not is there any other products you suggest that would protect the inside of my forge?