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| I just reconditioned an antique, portable forge. Smith? No I can heat up iron and steel, and smack the crap out of it, and I can light up a an old file like a sparkler (oops), but I'd be generous to myself if I called myself a Journeyman. LD
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| Thanks for the notes. No I am not a journeyman. Self taught. I built my first forge from a smaller oil drum, maybe 35 or 40 gal. Cut it off at the first ring, put the ends togeghter and used an oil tank fill pipe for air supply. Found an old Champion hand crank blower quite a while back ,don't recall the number off hand. My forge I welded up and bought a good fire pot from Cetaur Forge. Has a clinker breaker in it.Wood has always been an iffy thing for me. But I have always been able to get along with a piece of iron. There is something magical about the forge fire, a piece of iron turned into something useful. "By the hammer and hand the arts do stand."
I never have been much for drinking the kool-aid.It's not in my nature.
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