[TheForge] Forge Design.

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Helmut Hillenkamp has done some interesting gas forge design variations including a removable dome with tho burner over a table of firebrick, or a top  that brick clamped together to fit the job.
Before he died, Dave Brooks, being perpetually broke, was forming up small, 2 piece,  purpose built kao-wool  forges with burner port to fit the individual joints in a massive gate he was building.
John Fick had built a forge where the mixed air/fuel rose up from a bottom multiport burner,  through a bed of high-alumina, refractory marbles that he buried work in, with a dry stack firebrick top.
And don’t forget charcoal.

On Apr 10, 2015, at 8:01 AM, CGRAF <adveniam at att.net> wrote:

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

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