Mikishelby

Thanks for reply. The down side is i know noone who forges so I was trying to figure it out on my own . By the looks of it it did not work;) I would say that forging is much harder than I first tought . My sister kids love Halloween and that gave me the idea to make something like that after my failures of forge welding. Thats exactly what I was thinking to put a small led in it because its to small for a candle . I haven't done it yet Thanks Thomas

Thanks for reply. Yes I'm from UK. My friend has his workshop in Ballymena Northern Ireland thats where I am set up. I am from Antrim so only 15 min away. Regarding steel I only found the GFS knife supplies for the steel. I jave messaged few places in Northern Irleand and few places in England for spring steel but on the websides they only have o1 and never got reply of any of them about spring steel especially 80crv2 and 15n20. I know in UK these steels have diffrent names but I cant find it how you call them . Thanks for the tip about the burners . I dont know anyone else who would have a forge or have any knowledge about forging. So I'm finding it hard to tweek everything to get it right. All my knowledge is from YouTube videos whom I have ben watching for few years now. But it only looks easy on videos I'm quite a good fabricator working in a small company making everything and nothing what is nice because you're are challenged how to do things a lot of time but forging is a completely diffeent ball game Thank you for all your replies guys I really appreciate it and I am so glad I found somewhere where I can speak to someone who knows something about it . To be honest I am quiet and not really talkative most of the time so this is definitely a big change for me . Thank you again . I will be in the shop over the weekend and I will make those adjustments and keep you posted . For now the work picked up and doing overtime at the moment.

so when it comes to the forge guys when i first build the forge ill post a picture i had it regirazed and burners reesest in blanket . The rigirazer was just colorless maybe white , I have let it dry for 24h and on the regiraze dries in 30 min so a lot longer than i should and then I first turned the forge then the rigirazer went all black. I guess the burners wer not tuned it took me a little bit of tweeking to get them to run what i consider clean but as you know i dont exactly know how it sould be running so i tought they are running good. Then i have tried weld forging with few small leyers of 15n20 and 80crv2. What did not go well then i tought the forge was to big for the burners and I have added extra half brick to one side and another 1" around the rest of the forge to smaller the volume and thats the time I have not used regirazer for the extra layer and left the burners sticking out thanks . I know I can do better but I think I'd did not turn out too bad What do you mean reverse its front and back ends? Sould I remove the extra 1" layer that is not coated or just coat it with te rigirazer? I have added it to get some volume of the forge down because I tought that was the problem the first time Should I remove the flares from the end of the burners when I am ressesing them back in to the blanket or just keep them? Thank you for reply

Thank you all for all your replies. The shop is thanks to my good friend, he is fabricating and welding and let me set up a forge in his workshop only 15min from me. I ment to set it up in the garage but I'm actually separated and don't know what is going to happen with the house so did not really wanted to do it there. I was watching and admiring people forging and making things mainly knifes for good few years now . I must have watched all Alec Steel videos on YouTube. Thats part of the reason why I have eventually done it because my friend let me use his space and had some cash that I could spare for starting up. Everything is so expensive and that too was always putting me back . I am fabricator/ welder full time so I thought after watching the videos that forging would be my thing and it suldynt be too hard, but most of the stuff I have made so far since I made the forge about 2 months ago did not go so well in fact I was loosing hope that I can actually do it. I admire making stuff but its completely different ball game to what I know. I have no idea about diffrent steels what steels are good for what and forging temperatures are completely new to me . I have a little knowledge from videos on YouTube but I am far away from actually knowing what I am doing. The day I have posted this question abut forging I have made one thing for my sister that is not great but I'm actually happy with, coming to Halloween next weekend I think she and her kids will like it. I am forging for a hobby and spend 2 months now setting up with as little cost as possible, I'm still not there but I'm trying to do something every weekend and just keep learning.

hello. I am wondering if anyone can help me with setting up to welding temp. The forge is running but tried to weld with it and its not happening. Im new to forging so tepms all a problem for me but I tried to blast the forge to 4 bars of gas and still did not weld the piece. Home made burners with 0.8 mig tip in them. The last pictures of the forege are at 2psi and last ones at 1psi of gas insulation all around with ceramic blanket and bottom soft fire fricks. There is picture from when i fist made the forge since then I added ceramic blanket to smaller the volume but i have tried today welding mild steel and no luck . It does not take long to heat up steel to orange temp. Maybe just over 2 min. 20201025_134231.mp4