[TheForge] Forge Design.

[CGRAF]

Most of us have used , or are using, Coal and gas fired forges.
I am frustrated by the limitations of each.

The coal has the whole irritating the neighbors with the odor issue.

The gas forges have problems putting the heat exactly where I want it 
heating up to large an area or limiting the forms I can make and still 
insert the piece into the forge.

I have been playing with forges built to purpose out of just a loose 
pile of firebrick. This allows me to modify fire shape and area pretty 
much on the fly. It is a bit more trouble than changing the shape, size 
and intensity of a coal fire but not much more.

Anybody else out there have any thing that you have tried to address 
these or other issues with differing fuels and forge designs?


Mike Graf