The BEST DIY FORGE BUILD For $150 ?!? (Using the Frosty T burner in forge welding)

[@djspinningblades]

Austin makes great knifes and blades he could prob make almost what ever you want

[@JustinTopp]

I’m over here forge welding with a hair dryer charcoal and a hole in the ground haha. Love the forge. I’m building one like it but with a forced air burner

[@FireCreekForge]

Cool! Thanks for watching.

[@keithjohnson281]

The forced air model will use less propane

[@connormarsh2535]

How do you source your charcoal?

[@djspinningblades]

fire creek Austin is my friend on fb ty man im gonna start forging when I get my own house

[@RandyCooper85]

Those bricks expand and dont like being bolted together. Id suggest adding springs to your bolts to allow it to flex a bit. Learned the hard way with my ht oven.

[@xqsmebut]

Do you have another video with the air control?

[@FireCreekForge]

yes it's in the forge and burners playlist

[@RoscoPColetraneIII]

Get some Zircopax (zirconium oxide) from a pottery supplier. Mix it with colloidal silica to whatever consistency you prefer (I recommend thin pancake batter). Paint it on the inside of the forge. It will seal it and also improve efficiency a little. It isn’t about improving efficiency. Those soft fire bricks still need to be sealed. Once you’ve fired the forge, paint the outside surface of the bricks. Then it’s sealed and good to go. Soft fire bricks are ceramic fiber mixed with kaolin. But the kaolin never binds all of the ceramic silica. Seal them.

[@FireCreekForge]

Yes, for sure seal the soft stuff and ceramic wool. These aren't the soft felt board type stuff that I think you're referring to, but insulating fire bricks.

[@tbkustomknives8907]

What psi where you running the burner to forge weld?

[@FireCreekForge]

15 psi usually

[@steelheadforge4661]

Could you build this forge but extending it to make it a two burner for longer pieces?

[@FireCreekForge]

You bet, I don't see why not. I also just made a little hole in the back of this one to fit longer pieces in, but of course the amount that is heated is the same. Thanks for watching!

[@opaldoesmagic]

Hello! I just built this exact design with a T burner and it's working pretty great. However, mine doesn't seem to be getting nearly as hot as yours. Mine only gets to an orange temperature, and I've been running it at 30 psi. Any tips as to how I can make it hotter?

[@FireCreekForge]

If you contact me on email from my website with a video or photos of your build i will try to troubleshoot it for you. Thanks for watching!

[@benlallier1721]

A couple of questions from a newbie. I built a very similar forge and can’t get my steel hot enough. How many PSI are you running at and how long does it take for your forge to warm up to get forging temp? Any help is appreciated. Thanks

[@FireCreekForge]

It does take a while to heat the forge up to where you want it. For welding I ran it up to 20 PSI, but for general forging much less should be sufficient. There are other factors, like burner tuning, do you have doors on the forge, etc. I saw an improvement after I added some hard fire brick to the floor of the forge, it holds heat better once heated up, and makes the space you are heating a little smaller too. Thanks for watching!

[@rondangeli4175]

did you later seal the bricks with itc or some other refractory cement?

[@FireCreekForge]

Nope, never did. has worked great

[@col925]

Hi how is this burner going after a years use. Is there anything you would change ?

[@FireCreekForge]

The burner itself is great, I have improved on the forge body, talking about that here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gnzCeamZbKqEepY

[@keithjohnson281]

You need dark glasses to look into your forge about the color of burning goggles 4 or 5 shade.

[@belakormos6895]

what heat-resistant material is brick?

[@jnhook8086]

Guaranteed the most expensive part, all the brass fittings and valves. Otherwise cheap and effective, thanks for the video

[@billflint3369]

I am making a forge some what like yours. Did you taper the hole in the firebrick for your flair? If so what angle did you use?. I was planning to use a flange attachments to mount the burner to the forge. Thanks for the video's for our education and entertainment

[@FireCreekForge]

Hi Bill, thanks for watching! In the 3" thick brick I made the hole about 3/4" on the burner end and about 1" on the interior side. I'm not sure the exact angle. I've not found a flair attachment to be necessary so far, sometimes it actually makes the burner not work, depends on the exact build I think.

[@billflint3369]

@@FireCreekForge it was suggested to me to put a hard surface on the bottom for a wear plate. The bricks are soft.

[@FireCreekForge]

@@billflint3369 you bet, I actually added some hard fire brick for that purpose. It is cheap, tougher, and holds some heat better, too.

[@connormarsh2535]

Where can i get the brick?

[@FireCreekForge]

eBay is about the best place I've found.

[@connormarsh2535]

Dern. Im not much on shopping online. Tsc has hard brick here but not much. Can i make my own maybe?

[@protapch]

Bro i need help.....can i make it with lpg gas my from india ....n i m blacksmith.... Plz tell

[@nardusellis655]

Hi....I wonder if you can answer a few questions. I'm sure you have more experience and knowledge. The 3/4 pipe going to forge...is there a difference in effectiveness from a 8 inch land 12 inch pipe. The position of the tip...how and where is the most effective depth. Greetings from South Africa

[@FireCreekForge]

Hello! I've been to Jo burg and stuff! The tube itself should be 9xD; so a .750" tube should be 6.75" long, or about seven inches. Thanks for watching!

[@allbeit582]

What type of bricks did you use ? Your link doesn't work and I need to buy in Australia anyway.

[@AustinMuellerHandmade]

I forgot I held the ground for you while you welded, ok yeah this wasn't possible without me lol

[@FireCreekForge]

totally man!

[@tiredcreekironworks8123]

Soft fire bricks ,sold at...?How much were they?I'm still in the materials gathering stage of my build...

[@FireCreekForge]

Check out the link in the description, i have some of the materials listed. Thanks for watching!

[@tiredcreekironworks8123]

@@FireCreekForge yes sir ,thanks.

[@Chris-zn5is]

Hey I just built a similar forge and first time my bricks have multiple cranks after running for maybe 10 minutes, is this normal, this is my first forge. Also does your burner shaft get hot? Mine is a slightly different but very similar Venturi design and the shaft got pretty hot. Thanks.

[@FireCreekForge]

Keeping everything straight and true will help keep the bricks from cracking too badly, but mine did too. I think its unavoidable to some degree just because of the expansion. The burner tube shouldn't get red hot or anything, will get pretty warm though.

[@Chris-zn5is]

@@FireCreekForge yes it wasn't red hot about 500 degrees at the base and the top maybe 100, I could still touch the top, did your do anything to the cracks? Mortar then it anything, and thanks for the quick response

[@FireCreekForge]

@@Chris-zn5is i haven't measured the temp on the burner tube, but that doesn't sound too unreasonable... Haven't done anything with the cracks, doesn't really affect it

[@djspinningblades]

also you got a new sub

[@FireCreekForge]

Thanks for the sub, and for watching! Yep Austin is a great guy and talented bladesmith for sure.

[@vtbn53]

That design looks remarkably like my electric furnace! Has worked well for me, but I am going to convert it to gas as, when I built it we had the lowest electricity prices in the world, and now we have the highest thanks to the AGW hoax.

[@MrGregggleziii]

Spending 3-5 hours to make this is not cost effective when a simple two burner forge is 150-175 usd on Amazon.

[@FireCreekForge]

I haven't seen one built this way for that price. The ones on Amazon won't last as long, but whatever works best for you

[@ManiacInTheShed]

That music is hell annoying, had to stop watching