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Ed's right on as usual with his advice. After looking at your drawing the only thing I want to add is that its common in vertical forges with wool linings to put cat litter in the bottom instead of refractory wool as a sacrificial "insulation" to catch flux. My vertical forge I built has the...

I have a Pferd Corinox and love it. It will eat just about anything, as long as it is softer than the files hardness of 70 Rockwell C.

I see what your saying, and it is a wise move to spend your money where you need it, and to spend it in a way to gain the most for the money. I was just throwing a bunch of options out there as food for thought. The Penson torch would work on a standard oxy/fuel regulators as well as the...

While I might be coming at this from some different angles I find this topic refreshing and interesting. My family owns a machine shop, one of the few left in our area that accepts one offs and walk-ins, along with production and prototyping work. The idea of Proprietary information, and to a...

Man that's sweet looking. What kind of wood is that?

Hey C Craft, Sorry if I didn't understand exactly how small you wanted to go. If you still wanted to stick with the disposable tanks, but don't want to deal with the fiddily valves, you could get a set of Smiths regulators, for oxy/propane disposable bottles. And there are a few little torch...

I see a bunch of Airgas locations in N.W. Florida. I would go into a location and see what they offer. They should at least be able to tell you if the tanks are fill-able and what the cost would be to fill them or rent ones if they can't be filled. A oxy/acetylene or oxy/propane rig should do...

Ed's spot on. Presses of any type can be dangerous. A for example is a 60 Ton hydraulic forming station we built a few years ago, basically a big press. 8x18" cylinder, with the customers hydraulic system locked out at a lower pressure so the system would actually operate in the 20 ton range...

Amazing work, great write up, and I got to see a few more pictures of your Bradley hanging out in the background! The Brazil Nut pommel and simple but elegant cross bring the whole thing together with a really clean, functional look. While I haven't attempted any amazing looking scabbards like...

Fusion is a great product. I have fooled around with it, but I usually use AutoCad only because I am most familiar with it in 2d/3d. For CAM software I have used Mastercam, but recently I tried and switched to BobCAD/CAM. Sitting next to my father with the same drawing open on two computers, I...

I was kidding of course, your post just reminded me of some fun times.

Ed, I have watched this thread for a couple days and I think you really hit the nail on the head. I read about 5 or 6 forums a day, and I continually feel I don't post as often as I should; mainly for some of the exact reasons you post. Too often I see this trend of bad information from people...

Don't think of it as far as limiting your progression. If I have learned one thing in the last four years or so, it is that blacksmithing, in general, is a iterative process. There are no immediate right answers to everything. Think of it like this, there are two options. Option A is buy a...

Circular forges allow the heat to circulate through the forge better. Any forge with a large amount of castable refractory or hard refractory will take longer to come up to temp and normalize than a forge with insulating blanket and a reflective coating. There are a ton of options building a...

Yea, we run ours off of a 7.5 HP IR type 30 and it will use some air. I would like to see one in a CNC table. It's not in my budget for a while but I ordered ours with the CPC port in it as well for that reason.

Anthony, that is a really good plasma. I have the 65 as well that we stepped up to after the magic smoke rolled out of our old thermal dynamics cutmaster. I really like the Hypertherm. One thing I have found is it cuts aluminum a lot cleaner than the cutmaster did. Did you buy one with...

For what its worth, building a square forge can be easily accomplished with just fire brick, soft or hard. No need for the insulboard. It will also be more durable and cheaper. After spending 4 years reading thousands of threads and talking to a bunch of folks on forge design, I have come to...

That first video looks like way too much propane. I would post what size and type of burner your running, and the diameter and length of your forge chamber. It looks like you just don't have enough burner or your burner is not right. More pictures are always good.

Looks like a good anvil and stake, like you said hardly any visible wear. A flap disk on a grinder would be my first go to to clean it up. It's a forged wrought iron body with a high carbon face forge welded on top as the striking surface so try to keep as much metal there as possible. Keep the...

Welcome Aboard Nate! Check out Wayne Goddard's 50 Dollar Knife Shop, it is worth a read. Anything by Dr. John D. Verhoeven if you want to get into the nitty gritty of heat treatment. I really like Walter Sorrels videos on Youtube, and he does some forging and metal removal. As far as the best...