[TheForge] Forge Design.

[CGRAF]

center pointing up hmm.
I've been using a weed burner from the side to good effect. A more 
conventional burner from the bottom might have merit

Mike Graf

On 4/10/2015 11:50 AM, Ries Niemi wrote:
> A very common approach to this, for many years now, has been to build a flat table, with a firebrick top, with a burner located in the center, pointing up.
> Then, you construct a custom, "Igloo" shaped forge for each specific job. If the job needs a tunnel, or a circle, or an L, you build up firebricks accordingly.
> Of course, a forge like this is less efficient, in terms of heat loss, than a fixed shape with doors and Kaowool wrapping.
> But it is infinitely flexible, and many professional smiths I know use this technique for unusual jobs.
> You can stack your firebricks to enclose just the part of a bigger piece you want hot, for example.
>
> ries
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> 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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