I was looking at getting a propane forge anyone run one of these or have opinions on a good forge. i am gonna buy one and don't wanna waist money on junk thanks.

 

http://www.thermalartdesign.com/bladesmith-2-forge

That depends: are you going to be forging wall hooks, swords, window grates, or railroad axles?

Without knowing what you plan to be working, it's hard to say if any particular forge will be good for you.

Little bit of everything, forging knives, forge welding, hardy tools and gonna try a hammer head and wanna learn more. 

The hearth is awfully deep for a general purpose forge.  I bought one for a project and it's about 2.5"-3" deep, which is a bit of a heat sink.  If you're welding damascus for hours on end, that might be okay.  Otherwise, it's a bit expensive.  It's an otherwise okay design, although I'd pile up bricks at the end to cut down the heat loss.

Yea I was thinking welding some angle iron and using fire brick. I just want something that will last awhile and be fairly easy to maintain.

You should have no metal inside the forge, it will just burn away.  Fire Brick is a heat sink, therefore effecting the efficiency of the forge.

Check out the attachments at the Forge Supplies page at www.WayneCoeArtistBlacksmith.  If you want to be doing forge welding pay particular attention to the Ribbon Burner attachment.

Let me know if I can help you.

Wayne

This forge and burners are exactly what jcornell described it as. It is just okay at this price. If you want more than that, you need to pay a whole lot more money, or build your own.

Welcome aboard Shadygrove, glad to have you. If you'll put your general location in the header you might be surprised how many of the Iforge gang live within visiting distance. 

If you've been an Iforge subscriber any length of time you probably already know what Mike or I would do for a propane forge. We build our forges pretty much from the ground up. Building your own forge isn't that hard and no, you don't need to have a welder or special tools but you DO need some basic shop skills and tools.

There's nothing wrong with buying tools and equipment, in fact there is a lot to be said in favor of buying. Time spent building a forge and other equipment might  be more valuable to you practicing blacksmithing, especially if you lack some of the handier shop tools.

The forge you linked us to isn't really much but probably fair for the price but it's pretty limited in what it CAN do. The design is only ok and the construction is mostly obsolete where fire management is concerned. It has a nice shell and the burners look ok.

 

I would like to say something nice about this forge, because it is innovative, and the builder is obviously trying to build a quality product; well that's it; I've said everything nice I could...

making your own is not hard if you follow one of the designs on IFI and for the cost of that forge you could make a better one including buying all the tools you need to do it.

the forge is good for a ready made one.

people I would recommend on here include frosty, mikey and wayne coe, all of them  ( and more ) know a lot about gas forges,

here are 2 questions for frosty....

if you had all the tools to make a simple T burner forge what would the cost in materials be?

if you had to buy the minimum tools to do it as well what would the cost be?

So can someone tell me a great quality propane forge I can buy that I can make knives with and blacksmithing tools.  

So are you only interested in ones that sell in Australia or South Africa or central Europe or...

Welcome aboard Sharpe, glad to have you. If you'll put your general location in the header you might be surprised how many of the Iforge gang live within visiting distance.

Have you Googled propane forge makers? What do you consider a great quality forge? How much can you afford? How good a blacksmith are you? 

I'd like to suggest you take a class or two, learn basic blacksmithing and basic bladesmithing. With a little experience you'll have an idea of what YOU need. As it sits we can't answer your question, we have less idea what you need than you do. I'm not blowing you off but without knowing what you need how can we answer your question? 

There are a LOT of high quality forges out there, take a look around and get back for opinions about specifics.

Frosty The Lucky.