JeremyPharma

Thanks a lot for your replies, I'll follow your advice and I'll try to clay it then. I'll come back to y'all when it will be done. And yes there is a hole on the underside of the tuyere with a little "flap" to block the airflow and to release the accumulated ash. Do I need a special kind of clay or will some clay from the riverbank do ? If so, I'll search a little bit on the forum for a formula. Thanks a lot for the warm welcome guys !

Hi guys ! Been lurking on this forum for a while and learned a lot thanks to you all. I'm trying to upgrade my forge a little bit since I think it consumes a lot of coal. In my opinion, my firepot is way too big and way too deep for what I'm doing with it. A month ago, I stumbled upon a post on the "french craigslist" (Yeah I'm a frenchie). Someone was selling an old tuyere with its manual blower for real cheap and I bought it. My main question is, how do you use this kind of tuyere ? You will find attached to this post some pictures of the exact same tuyere/blower as mine and a schematics with dimensions of the tuyere, the forge "casing" that I plan on using (different than the one in the pictures), and a firepot that I designed based on some maths (thanks trigonometry) I did looking at a couple of commercial firepots adapted to the "casing" dimensions. I'm open to all insight you might have and if there is a way to combine both the tuyere and the firepot (maybe as a way to contain the hearth to consume less fuel) I'm in ! Thank you in advance ! Forge Blueprint.pdf

Hi guys, I wanted to start blacksmithing as a hobby for a long time, and a couple month ago I stumbled upon the information goldmine that is this forum. I build my first forge inspired by the JABOD posts and the video from Torbjorn Ahman (this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-R6iY-mY-Y) and started with the basics on a rail track. I'm now in possession of a 54kg (yeah metrics for life) unidentified anvil, a blacksmith leg vise, and a little welding machine that I got for christmas (thanks Santa). Otherwise, I'm a 25 years old pharmaceutical sciences student in southern France, and I really needed to make something with my hands. Taking a hot piece of steel out of a roaring fire to transform this raw material in a tool or an ornament is an amazing feeling. In the pharmaceutical world, it takes months and years before getting a result, which can be really frustrating. Blacksmithing can bring you this wholesome feeling of a job well done and I think that's why I really want to invest myself in that craft. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and inspiring enthusiasts like me ! My newly welded coal forge :