New Forge

[Dutchmancreek]

I just installed a new forge today. Welded up with a Centaur forge firepot and custom hood. The old flat forge is now set over by the rivet forge and will probably be given to a friend. I lit a fire and did a forge weld just to break it in....will actually start a project tomorrow.

[Ted T]

Nice! Happy birthday to your forge.
Be Safe, Be safe!
Ted

[ThomasPowers]

ohhhh pretty!

Now to make it look throughly "used"...

Thomas

[Thomas Dean]

Sweet, nice looking job! BTW, do you have a cleaning service to come in and clean your shop!?!? Man, it looks as if you could eat off the floors. amazing.

[Phil Patrick]

I had to laugh when I read your reponse. I just emailed pictures of some work I did to a friend. They were wind chimes I just finished and they were hanging in my shop. I noticed that my shop looked like a bomb inside a huge container of scrap metal, tools , water bottles, spent sanding belts etc,, had exploded in my shop. Maybe I should clean up tonight.

That forge looks really nice. Is table(?) of it made from quaterplate? what are the approximate dimesions of it? Anyway,, nicely done!


Happy holidays all!!!!

Phil

[Don A]

Nice. Real nice. Hopefully I'm not too far behind you.

Tell me about your blower. Is it a store-bought forge blower, or a salvaged unit from some other equipment?

CFM?

Variable speed, air-gate, other?

[Dutchmancreek]

I cleaned up the shop while waiting for the firepot to arrive from Centaur...it's usually a mess, but I like it this way. Maybe I'll clean up more often.

The steel table was sitting outside my cousin's welding shop so it only took a bit of cutting and welding to make the forge. The forge area under the hood is 24 X 31 with angle iron welded around for sides. The table area in front of the forge is 16 X 31 and there is a small 8 X 31 area behind the hood to hold fire tools. Luckily, the hood fit the table perfectly.

Steve

[Seamus]

and good photo composition on the
2nd shot, near-far, etc

[Dutchmancreek]

I didn't know I had good photo composition...I thought I just stepped back and snapped another shot. Well, if it's good, I'm gonna say I did it on purpose.

Thanks

Steve

[julian]

Dutchman those Centaurforge firepots are very good. I have the X-heavy duty coke firepot and I love it, it's a real workhorse. Cool forge, clean shop too :)

[Ecart]

That's a nice forge ya got there! Makes me jealous because I've been trying to get a new forge up and running for some time now. But now you have to show us the fine work you put out with it.

[Dutchmancreek]

Don A...sorry I missed your post. The blower is an electric blower salvaged from an old heater, the same one I used on my old flat forge.I don't know the CFM. I used dryer duct to get from the blower to the forge. I had a dimmer switch type speed control but removed it in favor of an air gate to control the air volume. I also had the blower wired through a foot switch (from a sewing machine) so when I stepped away from the forge the blower would quit....it saved coal and kept me from absent mindedly burning up pieces. I needed the switch for another project and haven't replaced it yet.