scottwbriscoe

Ran across this yesterday and thought it might be useful for a lot of people. Essentially a metallurgist with an interest in knives started a web page and it has some great info on the scientific side of what we do. Apologies if it has already been posted. Nothing new, in fact we already have an entire section devoted to blade heat treating, I will relocate this there, Contact the site admins to arrange payment for your Advertising

Turns out I did buy split fire brick, locally no one carries any full fire brick. That's nice at least. Thanks Mikey for the suggestion. *edited for poor spelling. Thank you all for the comments, this forum has been a gold mine of information.

Latticino I used whole firebricks. I decided to build with local materials and figured I'd see how these performed. Hopefully they're not too much of a heat suck. Thanks JHCC! Added my location Irondragon. Thanks for the link.

Just joined the forum, but I've been lurking for months. Thank you all for all of the information posted here! I've been doing research for several months and just finished the forge body itself. I've got a few wraps of kaowool with high density fire bricks on the inside of that and two Ron Reil style 3/4" burners with the TWECO tip mod (0.030 tips). Forge body is probably a bit overbuilt as I made it out of 1/4" diamond plate. I need to put a choke on the burners but wanted to do a test fire to check out whether it worked first. You can tell I'm not a welder, but the main goal was to have a working forge. I've still got to put the legs on and the work rests on the front and rear. I started blacksmithing about two years ago on a home built solid fuel forge. It's tough to source affordable coal where I'm at and I got tired of the sparks and difficult regulating temperatures with hardwood lump charcoal. Can't wait to start using this forge.