Kelly R

I’m new to the blacksmithing world and still in the process of building my forge but there is a old machine shop closing in my town that has a bunch of milling and cutting tools as well as hammer of all kinds. Can these be used to forge new blacksmithing tools or hardy tools?

Thank you for your suggestion about the gauge. I’m curious to how the burner will work in the forge. Apparently they work differently when inside rather then outside of an enclosure. It was KAST-O-LITE 30 LI PLUS CASTABLE that I used.

New to forging, welding and fabricating for about 6 weeks now. So why not go for it and build everything myself? I’m in the finishing stage of building my first forge. I made a mold of my ribbon burner and planned to cast the top portion of the forge with castable but way underestimated how much I would need. I made the batch and if was only enough to do half of the 3” I wanted. Can I just get more castable and pour it on top of the first layer to fill it up? I just added photos of the burner for now. Will post the completed system when done. FullSizeRender.MOV