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lunakim
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1d ago
Burned through 40 pounds of coal in 3 days because my forge blower pulley went bad
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spencer_dixon39
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1d ago
Am I the only one who quenched a hardy in old motor oil and got a finish better than my quench tank
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blake_bell29
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1d ago
Warning: I switched from coal to propane in my forge last month and the fire scale situation surprised me
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the_tessa
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3d ago
Just learned a coal forge can hit 3,000 degrees and I've been running mine way too cold
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owens.ben
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4d ago
Spent $110 on a pyrometer after 3 months of eyeballing steel color and I feel like a fool for waiting
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river_davis
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4d ago
Switched my forge from coal to propane last March and my whole shop changed
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the_jana
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6d ago
Tried my new belt grinder on 12 railroad spike knives, my 20 year old bench stone beat it on the plunge lines
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jadew63
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8d ago
Spent 3 months forging cold and my hammer was the problem, not my arms
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laura189
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9d ago
Burned a railroad spike on my first try and the boss hung it on the shop wall
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kelly_nelson95
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10d ago
Warning: I was about to scrap a hammer head until I tried a 220 grit flap disc on the eye
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alexw75
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12d ago
Just tried quenching in used motor oil on a 1084 blade, and now I can't decide if it's better or just different
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mark361
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13d ago
Unpopular opinion: the old guy at the swap meet was right about my coal fire
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hannahs45
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14d ago
My forge welds went from 50 percent fail to almost none after I swapped one thing
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margaret_kelly55
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15d ago
Two years of fighting my forge welds, and a $12 fire brick finally fixed it
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kelly153
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15d ago
Can we talk about the guy at the feed store who said my forge was "too clean to be real"?
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