Try not to laugh. Along with learning how to make knives and operate a forge, I’m learning how to weld. I cut the pieces from a plate I was using for a weld bench.
She’s 9” long about 6” wide. It’s 5” from the tuyere to the top. The pipe is 3/4”. I sliced an opening in the pipe that runs the length and is as wide as a cut off wheel for a 4 1/2 angle grinder. The pipe is underneath 2 pieces of 1/8 x 1” bar stock welded at 45 degree with less than 1/4” gap for air to get through. It’s lined with cat litter, sand, grass clippings, and ash. It’s already crumbling but I got to make steel change colors.
I had my heart set on a frosty burner and a small propane forge. The cost of insulating materials and tools needed made it too expensive for now.
When I did the plate on the file thing I was burning the last bit of charcoal. Only half the file was in the forge and it was at a 45 away from me. It was resting on a pile of fully lit coals at the same angle.
My fire maintenance technique is similar to watch burgers cook on a grill so that’s my next research assignment.