Daniel Macina
Well-Known Member
Howdy,
First off I am a proud ABS member and my ultimate goal is to forge all my knives. That being said I am scattered brained and always trying to save a buck. I ended up getting a charcoal forge trying to save a buck and simply put I am spending a ton of money and time cutting wood and making charcoal only to blow through it in a few hrs. Not to mention I hate using it! So instead of building the blown burner vertical forge I was going to do originally I went that route and absolutely regret it. I still have a 1 + 30 belt grinder from harbor freight that I don't like so I'm building a no weld grinder this coming week. I have not ground but maybe a handful of blades.
Now down to the whole reason I made the thread.
My plan at this point is to build the grinder and make 50 blades ready for HT then build the vertical forge to HT them. Is this a good idea or should I keep going with the forge? I just feel at this point I need to focus on one thing and expand to forging when the 50 blades are done.
Sorry if I got off topic. Like I said scatter brained.
Daniel.
First off I am a proud ABS member and my ultimate goal is to forge all my knives. That being said I am scattered brained and always trying to save a buck. I ended up getting a charcoal forge trying to save a buck and simply put I am spending a ton of money and time cutting wood and making charcoal only to blow through it in a few hrs. Not to mention I hate using it! So instead of building the blown burner vertical forge I was going to do originally I went that route and absolutely regret it. I still have a 1 + 30 belt grinder from harbor freight that I don't like so I'm building a no weld grinder this coming week. I have not ground but maybe a handful of blades.
Now down to the whole reason I made the thread.
My plan at this point is to build the grinder and make 50 blades ready for HT then build the vertical forge to HT them. Is this a good idea or should I keep going with the forge? I just feel at this point I need to focus on one thing and expand to forging when the 50 blades are done.
Sorry if I got off topic. Like I said scatter brained.
Daniel.