Coal forge

High quality, robust, powerful coal forges at affordable prices. Each forge is tailor made to suit blacksmiths, farriers, metalwork professionals, beginners

Hi All,I've been working on this for the past couple of weeks, drawing lots of inspiration from users work on this site and others, thanks guys!Here's the tuyere, air gate and blower - thanks to Daswulf for pushing me to do it this way, it works great!The underside of the tray is reinforced with ...

There are various types of fuel you could use in your coal forge. Deciding what you want to use is usually a pretty simple process, but some people are not fortunate enough to have all options…

Mobile Coal Forge Build: Hello and a warm welcome to all Instructables community. In this instructable, I am going to show you a simple blacksmith coal forge. After being inspired from forged in the fire my interest begins in knife making as well. That's why I build this co…

How to make coal for your forge

Since I now have what is probably the smallest portable anvil on a stand - I can make an equally small portable forge. After hunting around for a suitable starting point - I found this air cylinder in a scrap yard. The cylinder is around 15" across and the neck is 4" across. I like it 'cos I can ...

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This is a coal fired Smith's forge. It has a removable insert to the fire box that will double the size of the firebox when doing larger forgings. I made this all from scrap except the blower. I use this forge to make Damascus knife blades. It has a rack for holding my tongs, and has an expandable forging holder. It re-tracks for storage and is on wheels for portability. It has hinges under the firebox for easy cleaning. I couldn’t find anything in any catalog that would suit my needs so I…

Easy to build forge for beginning blacksmiths using a brake drum or other easily scrounged materials.

The first one was fun, so I decided to leave the first one at my son's, and make a smaller one out of a 55 gallon drum, with a brake drum for the fire-pot. I just happened to have a small stove fan that would just fit onto the blower tube, and acquired another tractor…

My Simple Coal Forge

Brake Drum Blacksmith Forge: My son caught the blacksmithing bug while he was at summer camp so we investigated building our own blacksmith forge and found that brake drum forges are a very popular way to get into the hobby. We built our blacksmith forge out of a brake dr…

Hand forged candy cane. Blacksmithing with coal forge. #blacksmithing #candycane

New coal forge

I’ve burned the heck out of my brake drum fire pot and have to build a new one. Does my math look right? I found several plans online, but most seemed to be metric and not inches. I can function with metric weights, temperature, mass, and volume, but not length. I want the pot to be 13” long and ...

Fabricated Ash Dump

Brake Drum Blacksmith Forge: My son caught the blacksmithing bug while he was at summer camp so we investigated building our own blacksmith forge and found that brake drum forges are a very popular way to get into the hobby. We built our blacksmith forge out of a brake dr…