Small Creek Custom

Thank you all for the great advice! I am going to take your suggestions and do the mailbox type-ish forge and will be cuting the length down to about 12inches. Like you guys have mentioned I took my plans for the forge and made myself think that I needed this monsterous thing. I will be postibg pictures of the finished produbt in about a month or two once I find the time to finish the forge.

Damascus, knives, axes and heat treat large knives/ shirt swords down the road.

Thank you for this advice! I have decided that I will then insert the 2in kaowool into the now cut tank I will then insert a fire brick bottom and place a wood box that is the same size chamber that I have settled on(7in by 4.5 in tall by 16 in long) and fill any gaps between this box and the kaowool with refractory cement.

I will be cutting the ends off of the tank leaving the tank at 16 inches.

Thank tou for the advice. This is probably what I will do. Would you suggest 2, 3/4 in burners?

I am a newbie blacksmith and want to build my own propane forge. To do so I recently aquired a air compressor that is 16 inches wide and ablut 24 inches long. I want to insulate it with 2inch ceramic blanket, cover that with a half inch of refractory cemnt and line the bottom with fire bricks. The problem is I do not know if I will be able to reach forge welding temp with how bug of a space I will have? Any I deas on how I might redesign are much appreciated.