[TheForge] Re: starting blacksmithing

[Jeffrey Polaski]

I hope you don't get rid of your coal/coke forge entirely... I have a
propane forge that really like and use almost exclusively, but I still
wish I had a coke forge for upsetting and some other things. The problem
with upsetting using a propane forge is that it gets the whole piece
hot, and not just the ends. 

I was thinking that I could just stuff the stock in a hollowed-out
firebrick with the end poking out, so maybe it's not such a big deal...
But I haven't tried it yet.

Also, it would be nice to have a coal/coke forge so I don't feel like
such an idiot trying to forge with it at CBA events. 


Jeff Polaski
Research and Graduate Studies Webmaster
University of California, Irvine
http://www.rgs.uci.edu/
949.824.6363

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Subject: [TheForge] Re: starting blacksmithing

When I started to blacksmith I used a Coke forge. I lived In
Phoenix,AZ. It 
has lots of anti- pollution  laws there. I  liked the  coke forge but I

finally got a propane forge and have liked it ever since.  I can  put a
load of 
steel  in it and keep  it hot and work the  pieces as they get hot
without 
having to worry about some "Pollution Cop"  knocking on my door for
adding smoke to 
the air. Plus I can turn down the  heat to keep my pieces hot and not
having 
to worry about them getting  to hot. The propane forge will hold heat
for 
awhile if I shut it off and is  ready to work in about 5 minutes.
Best part of it I down get coal dust up the nose or lungs. I don't  like
or 
want Black lung disease.
 

Ike 
Pan's forge
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