home made forge

**celsoari** · Sep 8, 2018, 01:07 PM

how a made my forge:

greetings from Brazil

**rossbotics** · Sep 9, 2018, 01:26 AM

Very good Celsoari, looks like thats going to work just fine, are you going to make knives ? or what is your purpose for the forge ?

Thanks
Doug

**old_toolmaker** · Sep 9, 2018, 03:47 PM

celsoari,

Interesting video and nice looking project! What a great way to make a small forge!

**DIYer** · Sep 12, 2018, 07:27 AM

Thanks celsoari! We've added your Forge to our Forging and Casting category,
as well as to your builder page: celsoari's Homemade Tools. Your receipt:

Forge by celsoari

tags: forge

**wizard69** · Sep 12, 2018, 01:03 PM

Excellent video! Love the reuse of the handles.

**PJs** · Sep 12, 2018, 01:42 PM

A fine build Celsoari! Looks like a fine burner also...is it homemade also? Brought that leaf spring (5160) up to nice temp in fairly short time. Looking forward to see what you build with it! Thanks for sharing your fine build!

PJ

**celsoari** · Sep 12, 2018, 05:58 PM

yes, the burner is homemade. TThere is another video in my channel on YouTube showing its construction.
thanks
greetings from Brazil
Celso Ari

**celsoari** · Sep 12, 2018, 06:01 PM

Originally Posted by rossbotics

Very good Celsoari, looks like thats going to work just fine, are you going to make knives ? or what is your purpose for the forge ?

Thanks
Doug

104/5000
My purpose is to hardner pieces in the workshop, but also in the future I will use for knife. Thanks for comment.]
Greetings from Brazil
Celso Ari

**marksbug** · Oct 2, 2020, 05:19 PM

great work!! Ive been wanting to build a furnace so I can cast some aluminum stuff.

**Crusty** · Oct 2, 2020, 06:36 PM

I've got my furnace working fine too though mine is intended for melting aluminum mostly. I can bring a loaded 6# crucible to melting temp in 14 minutes and that's good enough for me. However, I have intentions of casting some iron in the future and so I'm currently working out a design which will reach that temperature, and furthermore I want it operate less expensively than propane which I'm currently using so I'm working on a design which will burn used motor oil because I can get buckets of that free. I bought a scrapped Kia engine at the junkyard for $40 and I've already broken it down and cast it into 57# of nice casting aluminum ingots and today I've been making a metal flask to try my hand at lost foam casting of new pulleys to upgrade the drive on my drill press. Look into oil burners if you want to go hotter or do it cheaper, they can be ridiculously simple to make.