Homemade Blacksmiths Forge
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 พ.ค. 2011
- I show a working progress how to build a homemade brick blacksmiths forge. It turned out to work well to heat steel and other metals up, I was able to blacksmith a or forge a small scroll (first attempt) to test the forge. Constructed from bricks and I show you how you can make your own, using a blower for the air supply to help fire the coal powered forge which were actually can you use briquettes. Quick easy and cheap to make your own forge for blacksmithing and perhaps make a few items or handles for other woodworking projects. woodwork woodworking woodturning woodturner shop woodshop workshop anvil diy
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this is soooooo simple most guys ramble on and on forever thank you!!!!
I am writing a novel and this demonstration helped me greatly with research for an apocalypse scenario. Thank you and I am enjoying your videos.
I am definitely making one of these. I've dreamt about making swords for a LOONG time. Thanks for showing us your design :D
Have you made any swords?
A kid actually making a blacksmith Forge instead of begging his mum to buy one store bought, or sitting inside plating video games and getting 300 pounds.. Good job young man, you should do well in life, ignore the ignorant negative comments.. If you can find a short section of train track somewhere you'll have a nice little anvil..
+John Stern I have never seen a forge in a shop in england
I'm 17 I make everything
Ignore the negative comments? The concrete stones cant take the heat and will just break.
store bought forge? is that in the same aisle as the armour or the frozen pizzas?
Vince Lombardi No, it's is the sword aisle
You need an enclosed top on the forge to keep the heat in and also get the temperature of your furnace higher than it is with the open top. In open-top furnaces, there's a SHIT TON of heat escaping rapidly, as heat rises. With a closed-top, you retain and harness much more heat, which takes less time to heat up your metals and allows you to heat metals with higher melting points. Also, as you probably learned in this experiment, never use brick or stone as an anvil. Even the most solid cinderblock doesn't make a good anvil. The heat from the red-hot metal makes the stone/brick/block much weaker and can sometimes crack the stone with nothing more than the heat. Brick already breaks super easily and shouldn't be used to hammer on.
i started with a stone and that worked well i just needed a heavy one that wouldnt crack or crumble
It's difficult if you don't have a metal top for it as brick and cement erode rapidly under the intense heat produced by the forge
Best forge I have came across yet.
Good job man. keep it up and you will go places. I from American and proud of young ppl curious to learn.
thank you for putting this video up, i do re-enacments and am a blacksmith. This will allow me to make a portable forge that will allow me to make my wares at the faire. Thank you so much, and good job on the forge my friends.
med all misunnelse, ian
I know this is an old vid but its not bad for beginners. If coal or charcoal is hard to get in your area you may look at a gas forge. Keep on forging.
@louiseleu this is definitely a good idea. If I were to use wood exclusively I would buy or make something like the Whitlox "V" shaped forge though. That seems like a very efficient solid fuel forge concept. I would also probably invest the time in making charcoal. My gas forge comment from 5 years ago was just a suggestion for people that may not be aware of other options. Forge by any means necessary 😉👍
Hey I really enjoyed the video.Picked up a few ideas for my own forge.Send more videos as this is the essence of what is fun.
Great Job Young man, Your Dad an Mum should be very proud of the Gentleman they are raising correctly. .. From one Southern Gentleman to an English one, nicely done sir...
this is great keep going this is were it all starts
i'm so glad that i'm not the only 14 year old one, who wants to build a forge
Thanks man. This video have that one detail that other forge DIY videos doesn't have.
From what I've seen of you im impressed. Dont let size fool you. Iknow guys who are 120 lbs who can take on anything. Your doing great young man.
this is probably the best video I've seen for a diy forge, good on ya mate.
im glad to see a kid getting into these crafts at a young age. I starting wood turning when i was 15 im 24 now and in those years practicing i now can make beautiful wood turnings. Lately ive been wantng to start black smithing, but im living in a temporary house and need to wait till i move to a place ill live for a long time. Also i dont have the money atm for it. Hope you become a master. good luck
A sledgehammer head makes a good anvil for knife making and other small projects.
jeffrey jacobson Thanks for the advice!
jeffrey jacobson I use railroad rail myself
If you havent yet got an anvil you can always just go to a railroad track and see if theres a spare peice on the side and take it
makes a great anvil.
that's government property. I wouldn't advise doing so.
Don't steal. The government hates competition ;) Don't be stealin' that steel..
+fabram211 If you're smart you won't get caught. Besides when you live beside tracks it's not too hard
generally if its just lying around its fine... they wouldnt use a short piece anyways... i took some railroad spikes that were lying on the side caus i cant find square bar anywhere...
I did this worked great 👍
Great vid, Alex. Nice to see something different, so don't worry that it wasn't woodworking! Keep up the vids.
I love your uninhibited improvisation. You're awesome bro.
Nice anvil
Good on ya mate, well done.It's encouraging to see young people like yourself using your brain and having a go. Excellent.
Now 2021 still getting on with forging lads, great job there , well done.
You can drive an axe in a log and use the backside as an anvil. Large pieces of steel are hard to come by. A large sledge hammer in a vise works well.
Well done guys.
You might find some small pieces of railway track and other usefull items at a steelyard which sells scrap. Also, a recycle center which takes in junk might have something you can use. One easy idea for a small anvil is a 16 to 20 pound sledge hammer head - mount it vertically in a piece of log or timber with the striking face up. The ancients as well as some primitives used a piece of hard stone for an anvil - something such as granite.
That was great fun. Thank you both.
Good job. If you have no refractory firebricks, I find that lining the inner wall with clay, helps prevent 'normal' housebricks from prematurely failing when the heat is 'cranked up'..
You achieved some really high temperatures in that forge! Great job!
nice i love how you made it look nice but simple too (not counting the airflow system), all i ever see online is rusty brake drums hairdryers and steel pipes and giant scrap heaps for smithing areas
love it! yes most bricks explode if you heat them like that, you may need special heat resistant bricks if it gets much hotter or you keep it on for a long time :)
Nice! Now i know how to build my new forge :) thank you!
Great job!
Well done lads it's fantastic to see young fellas doing this keep going mate your family's must be very proud it realy is great
its Peter Crouch and Michael Owen! Cool video boys
All goo things come to those that are willing to try, It nice to see you do it because I have some bricks out of a storage heater that I'm thinking of making a forge out of.. Good job!
this was better then the wood working videos.
I loved hearing “ it’s nice and sturdy” and “it’s on skateboard wheels” right after eachother haha good job though guys
Nice work with the items you got
Well done young man 👍
Nice work!
quite clever for your age, i believe that you shall prosper in any line of work you decide to get into.
thats awsome i am planing to make one
I wish i had thought of doing that when i was that age. lol Nice work. I would love to see more.
thanks so much i have been making a forge for months now and i just needed a steel bucket
and a improvised crucible. i have also seen some of your videos, your awesome. back to my previous point I LOVE YOU. I do a new thing like every 2 months often something to do with engineering and i was desperate to blacksmith and now i can (saving up for an anvil :D)
Good job! Thanks for making the video.
really nice work guys
Liked and subscribed, you two are smart asses ( and funny), but evidently not dumb asses. Nice to see young people actually trying to do something constructive. Keep it up.
Great Job man!
well done!
great job!!!
you are really inspiring me to build one
Great video dude! This was the video I needed to see since I made my own forge out of bricks and had some shitty designing going on. Thank you!
It shows you have quite the talent for invention. Very impressive with a great future ahead. Keep up the adventurous spirit.
good job....very inspiring
well done young gentlemen
Brilliant. Well done.
The next Fred Dibnah, well done
Great job. This just gives me a lot of ideas. I had an idea pop into my haed as I watched this video. This would be a great way to make hooks for a hat/coat rack. thanks for the idea now of to the shop.
hey man that was great loved it it really helped me and keep it up
cool stuff!
nice,well done,it's pretty good
Nice work. I love your accents and the short guys flanny, can you please do some more videos with this in it?
thanks for the video!! very informative
Nice video mate!
Nice job , I your videos are always good .
Like the South Dakota shirt, as its my home state, and your channel.
Not disappointed at all, loved it.
zippymanyay has some good advice, you don't need the sides so high.
Enjoy your new craft.
Good job! It's a forge none the less.
This was so excellent, right on! Make a permanent one and see how much you can improve on it! Measure how hot you can get it! So cool. Make a viking battle axe.
You are goooooood at that
what i use for my anvil is an old railroad piece called an I Bar...it works really well and ive used it for a long time and it hasnt bent or broke yet..the I bar is only about 10 inches long
Nice!
Nice work :-)
nice furnace man !
they are some special bricks that you can use to make a forge. those bricks are the same that you would use in a chimeney
Nice thank you
Nice forge. The main thing people need to realize is it's not hard to get iron and steel hot enough to work for low strength applications. If you want hardened steel for tool and knife edges though, you need to go all out and get that steel to a bright yellow heat rather than red. This followed by proper quenching and tempering is what produces the desirable characteristics for good knife/sword/tool steel. If you're just making decorative hardware, hooks, nails, latches and things, then this sort of set up will work just fine.
Very nice. I modified an old wood stove to serve my purposes lol. An old piece of railroad track would make a nice anvil, You can find it laying along the side of the tracks after they do work most of the time. Just be sure to ask your local railway dept if you could get a bit of it. I use a piece of 8- 10 in by 8 or 10 in square steel tubing I picked up at a scrap yard myself. Rings like hell though your neighbors might not like it very much lol Best of luck with the smithing ^_^
I lost my shit when Dan got in the picture, I am 6' 3" though, so I know the feels dude xD
Nice vid man :) keep it up
I agree with BigKame09, I was heating a galvanized pipe aka washing line pole hacked up lol, I was using it as a melting pot in my pressure stove forge/furnace I built and the inner of the pipe started glowing a green and yellow colour and had quite a peculiar smell. So i would be careful when heating/melting metals not just because of burns because of toxins to.
Nice
Mate Lovely ta hear an English Accent on here, really like your video 😁👍
Thanks for the heads up about that, worth being very careful. If people did want to use it however, just light it up outside and let it run for a while. It will easily get hot enough to burn off all the zinc.
Alex
Good work lads, it's a rare trade and not easy to master. Strongly recommend you stick with it.
Find a train yard, one that has left over pieces of rail. And ask if you can have a piece of rail. A short piece of trainrail makes a good anvil and the ones here in the states are rounded on the edges so it works good, and the piece was free here. And you can mount the train rail upside down and it is flat. They sometimes have short pieces of rail 12"-24" inches or half a meter. And dont forget the metal scrap yards, they have lots of things you could use for blacksmithing.
be carefull with how long you cover the air inlet on the dust colector. the air flow keeps the internal bearings cool. the motor has its own fan & should be fine. If you're not completely covering the inlet you should be good. Great to see young people using creativity. Keep fueling your curiousity and have fun!
best thing to pick up to use as anvil is a piece of an old railroad track it will do very good
@baconsoda
Well I actually fed the pipe into a wooden box which fed the blast upwards. This prevented it from melting because on the first run ash did falll through and burn small holes. It also works better now because less air is lost.
Nice idea lad. Might need a few more bricks for your mate to have a go. lol
Bien Alex. Seguro que esto es el principio de un buen herrero
i used a hairdryer it works but its not the best for bigger forges
i would recommend a leaf blower
thats what i use and if your lucky you get one you can regulate
the problem is you would need to make some stuff for it so it wont melt but its what i did and its a very good forge
it works for me so i hope it helps
Don't see why not, if you can attach the air scource bellow a grill is very similar to some commercial forges. Not sure how long it would last but it would be worth a go!
Thanks for watching, there was no plan bellow, there is no reason why you couldn't though. A small amount of dust build up around the pipe but I most of it was stopped by the stones bellow the coal but above the wire mesh you saw.
Alex
You need to create a lid out of brick plates and if you decide to use this kind of forge drill 1" holes into the back brick plate you could, and i suggest you use. It'll give it more heat, contain the flame, and sustain it more.
There are fireproof bricks available at most hardware stores. They are relatively cheap and degrade slower than standard red brick. Good video mate!
Cool video m9
Pls make more Videos on forging and blacksmithes!
thats an amazing forge. i came here expecting nothing but wow that was amazing. you would be a good blacksmith if you had a hunk of steel to blacksmith on