Building a Fancy Gas Forge with Doors!
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- Опубликовано: 19 окт 2024
- If you like this sort of thing and want to help me continue sticking it to the man : / bennettthesmith
I decided that I needed to build a new propane forge. One that is smaller, much lighter, and way more efficient. One with proper doors and safer propane plumbing. One that might just reach forge welding temperatures! And one that is a lot easier to take on the road with my portable blacksmithing setup.
So I did!
Man my wife would decapitate my head if I turned her kitchen into a knife shop!! Way to go! 😜
For forming your roof portion. If you had a couple of pieces of pipe, you could set them up next to one another, as close or as far apart as deemed fit. Then place your sheet metal on top of the pipe and strike down, allowing you to round them slightly better.
Or just lay it across a larger piece of pipe, with a bigger diameter and form the roof around that.
Don't get me wrong, i am not critiquing your build in the slightest. You did a fantastic job, truly.
I have been welding and fabricating for 20+ years now, and I still get really I spread when seeing guys like you get out there and create something amazing from an idea.
Keep up the great work, and keep posting. I've been tempted to create videos on RUclips for some time, just unsure where to start.
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One more little tip if you're interested. When setting up and fitting your pieces together. Fit them corner to corner. It leaves a perfect corner joint for downhand welding on that gauge material. It will create a nice strong weld between both piece of material, and put you in a position to be able to use either a flapper disc or a sanding disc to round your corners nice and smooth without any loss to the integrity of the build.
Just nice clean, finished corner joints.
You make such ridiculously neat shit omg
Forge looks great btw!
Nice shape for a pizza oven, thanks for the idea.
Aw man... I could totally cook a pizza in there. I've thought about building a pot holder just above the door. I could put a kettle on it and make tea in cold months!
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Blacksmith from the Uk here m8 wales to be exact just watched your log splitter press build subscribing great videos !!
Very cool m'lord!! I'm taking the bare minimum with me, to the Quadstate Quadsquad gathering, to build an on-the-fly dirtbox forge. Hope it turns out, to function, as well as yours. ⚒️⚒️👍😀
I’m sure it’ll work fine! This one is way over complicated, but I like it so much
I can attest to the fact that Sir JT did successfully complete his dirtbox forge and it worked w flying colors. Was quite the hit w several of the Smith's thru the days/ nights forging sessions. Cuddos to Drasons forge and Sprinkled Donut forge for their efforts.
🙏blessings abundant yall Crawford out 🧙♂️
Spray the ceramic wool with a rigidizer next time.. usually comes in a spray bottle, a blue colored liquid.
You soak the ceramic wool, the blue dye in the liquid helps to determine how much you have covered. A good dousing of that, then let it stand for a while. After it has stood for a while and permeated the wool. Use a torch, a tiger torch works well, but others I'm sure will do the job. Use a small flame.
Then the wool will be nice and hard (or rigid as th3 name implies). No loose fibers. Then spread on the refractory cement
Discworld reference ...priceless !
Hi Bennett. Just came across your channel. Great stuff.
You can make yourself a sheet metal brake using angle and hinges. It will chuck in on your vise, and it will bend sheet quite well, and accurately.
That sheet metal curving of the roof arch was admittedly painful to watch haha. Hopefully you've figured out the better way to do that by now but if not... I have life changing blacksmith intelligence to drop on you.
I’m happy to hear any suggestions. It’s not something I do very often. I haven’t even built a sheet metal brake yet.
Man, I've brought piles of tools for cold working metal to Pennsic before, but never a forge! Intense. :)
find some old bed frames and use them as angle iron. wire coat hangers as welding rods.
brb commissioning my very own Luggage Forge :DD
Have you thought of making a ribbon burner forge?
I have, I definitely will at some point. This one was supposed to be smaller and lighter and not require a blower. Though I’ve seen some designs for ribbon burners that are naturally aspirated, no blower required…. That intrigues me!
Pops up on screen... Suggested video "how to fix a mallet" lol
Hahahahaha!
Intriguing design. Though a bit fiddly it seemed to work out in the end. No disrespect intended, necessity being mother, fiddly being the process, your invention seems to be born and functioning. Now to the nurturing into the blossoms you desire. Lolololol
🙏blessings your way sirSir
Crawford out 🧙♂️
I swear youtube keeps eating my replies... Thats my read on it as well, works but a bit too fiddly. I plan to revamp the design again once it needs relining.
Alsoooo PLEASE make it into the luggage
I'm busy making my first forge. Very similar to yours. I'd love to know your reasoning for adding the hinge/latches?
One part practical experiment, one part for the hell/art of it.
The practical part was to allow for large items. Think like the leviathan axe I made. You could lift up the top and slide the axe in from the side.
However, I’m not sure I would recommend this design. If nothing else, take out the curves. Make it a big ol box and put a door on the side, don’t make the whole thing hinge.
@@BennettTheSmith Thank you for responding. I'm going with pretty much the same design (already cut most of the metal) but not doing doors that slide.. just normal hinge doors for me. It's my first forge and also first time welding. So I'm sure it won't be great but any forge is better than no forge! :D
Good luck with it! I'm sure it'll be just fine :)
I'm a dead man, I haven't put on my refractory cement yet. Good bye cruel world, and to hell with The Great Reset!
If you'd like a roughly 4v3', 1-1/8" thick, clean cold rolled steel plate for a welding table, I have a few extra. If you want one I'd send it to you free if you pay the shipping. Not sure how much that would cost but if you're interested I'll check the accurate weight and dimensions.
I’m definitely interested, though that shipping could be awful! Whereabouts are you located? Shoot me an email at bennettthesmith(at)gmail.com
Watch any forge building video...
None of them have a cutting torch!
I have oxy/acetylene and a plasma cutter, they're very handy though not always what I want.
If the next video is this forge being turned into The Luggage, I'm unsubscribing.
Maybe
Ok, not unsubscribing, but I will be disappointed.