New Gas Forge

[Oldknfmkr]

I built my first gas forge for knife making almost 10 years ago and it's still going. I have been doing more smithing projects and the small forge was really limiting me. Been having to use my O/A rosebud way too much.
When I built my knife forge, I used 2 burners and soon found out that was overkill. I removed one and plugged the hole, so I had a burner. I had an old 11gal. air tank with a pin hole leak, so I had a body. Scrap metal shelving to make the ends.
I have helped 3 other guys build gas forges and kept all the leftover material. The 1" Inswool was 6" to 8" wide and about 24" long pieces. I had about 6# of Satanite and small amounts of ATC100 and Plistix 900F.
I cut the ends of the air tank and ended up with a 12"x14" body. I used my hydraulic jack to make an oval shaped cylinder. Cut some of the shelving to make the ends and a tray for soft firebrick sliding front door.
I ended up with an interior oval approx. 9"x5"x11 1/2". About 460cu/in volume. To give my venturi burner a little boost, i used a small squirrel cage fan I found in a dumpster years ago and some 2" vacuum cleaner hose to provide extra air.
All comments and questions are welcomed.
Mike

[Hawken50]

  Looks like a winner there Mike.

[crazell]

Sweet! Thanks for sharing..

[texasranger]

nice forge, now lets see some of what you made in it.

[cward]

nice forge. but i agree with texas ranger. lets see some samples of your work. send me the items and i will grade and test them for you.LOL
all kidding aside , looks like you did a good job!

[Ranger]

Great job! I love to "repurpose" stuff too. Nothing more satisfying than to make something needed and useful from stuff laying around and found. Great forge!!!

[Red Badger]

Sweet - one of these days I will have to make a gas forge... as soon as I learn how to use the coal ones!

[Oldknfmkr]

Thanks for the comments. I am just getting started in blacksmithing, but have been forging knives for about 9 years. You can see my old knife forge below the new one.
I have been making simple blacksmith items like trammel hooks, S hooks, folding trivets, camp fire sets etc. Nothing special.
With my limited income, re-purposing has become a way of life. My wife calls it junk collecting. I even saved some 1/4"x1/4" cutoffs of 1084 knife steel and made these.

[gordy]

     Great job on the forge=======and the knives. Thanks for shareing your project and talents.