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willow_garcia•20h ago

Two smiths in my shop argue about coal forges vs gas, and I'm stuck in the middle

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casey393•1d ago

Pro tip: drawing out my hammer eye punch on the grinder instead of the anvil cut my blank waste in half

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dakotacraig•1d ago

Thought those $8 induction forge bricks were junk, then I ran 40 feet of rail spike in my garage

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mia52•3d ago

Hot take: I swapped my coal forge for propane 8 months ago and I'm not going back

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wendy_park76•9d ago

Thought a $40 harbor freight anvil would be junk, but it got me through 6 months of learning

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noranguyen•10d ago

Hot take: a belt grinder is not a beginner tool, and the guy at the hammer-in in Ohio who told me otherwise wasted 8 months of my learning

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paulw63•11d ago

Why does nobody talk about coal forges vs propane when you live in town

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jamienguyen•13d ago

Shoutout to the old timer in Akron who got me to stop wasting coal on cold steel

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uma_webb28•13d ago

Serious question, why are people still quenching 1084 in motor oil when parks 50 exists

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vera_lewis•13d ago

Update: My coal forge ran 14 hours straight on Saturday and the clinker almost killed the fire

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the_drew•15d ago

Just realized my anvil's ring tells me the ground under it better than the ground itself

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karen_hart•17d ago

Showerthought: took me 3 weeks to figure out why my forge kept cooling down, it was the ash dump

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paulm95•18d ago

Appreciation post: I thought the old guy at the Ohio swap meet was full of it about quench speed

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masonm85•19d ago

TIL a guy at the Asheville forge day nearly lost a finger because he skipped one step before quenching

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luna589•19d ago

Update: I quit using WD-40 as a rust remover after an old timer showed me his 40 year old anvil

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