Posted by gil on June 23, 2009
The charcoal forge was fun to build and use, but let’s face it, it takes forever to heat-up and it is pretty dirty. If I made another one, it would be more of a closed design to concentrate and conserve heat, and would have a good hand-cranked blower. So, I went on Ebay and shopped [...]
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Posted by gil on May 28, 2009
I finally decided to fire up the forge (see: Building a Forge and Making Knives, Part One), and try hammering a railroad spike into some kind of a knife. The only item I was missing was the air source. Forge blowers on Ebay are fairly expensive, from $150 to $250 average. Considering that I could [...]
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