[TheForge] Portable Forge

[Ben Barrett]

Jerry, do you have any interest in building a simple one?
Most of the forges I've seen, seem horribly over-priced, like a $500 wrench.

Car/truck/trailer wheels/rims work well for the base of the fire pot,
and unless you need something that is pretty and/or "authentic"
for demo purposes, you can hobble together a forge that will work
great for *very* cheap.

If you don't have the energy for it, but have some space & time, and know-how,
you could setup a local project day, for other smithies & wanna-be's, to
all bring some suitable scrap and learn about building forges together...
from which you can end up with one  :)

best of luck,

ben

PS - as for blowers, a friend just "upgraded" to a classic old vacuum cleaner,
it TOTALLY BLOWS.  I mean it works great, yeah.  Old fireplace air-blowers
might be a good choice too... oh, and if you're scrapping up a blower, you
might have better luck simply exhausting some of the airflow, if it blows too
much, rather than trying to hold back the air (which just strains the motor).


On 7/2/07, Jerry Smith <jerry_smith at anvilsandinkstudios.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I was thinking about get this forge:
>
> http://www.centaurforge.com/prodinfo.asp?number=PORTFORGE
>
> It's $369.00 and UPS able.
>
> If some one has regular forge and is not too far from
> the Wheeling WV area, I would consider buy it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jerry