Your best bet is to look up and call ceramic/pottery supply places in your area. Most sell the light fire brick you're wanting for the 1-brick forge. Good luck.

Jeremy

Michael you might check pottery suppliers in the area. Fire bricks line the inside of ceramic kilns and some people make their own kilns. They might have fire bricks for sale.

Brion

Excellent! Thanks guys

From one Michael to another...

Google search for "Refractories Dallas Texas". You'll find a local Harbison Walker refractory dealer (4585 Mint Way) and many others. You should be able to find a dealer that is close that you can call about the high heat soft bricks. My local Harbison Walker dealer handles Satanite as well as ITC 100 for lining gas forges which you can ask your local dealer about when you get that far.

Thanks! I read about the ITC 100 and wondered if it was as good as they claim. Looks like I can get a brick and line it for a good price. Maybe I can get that rolling this weekend.

On a side note, I looked up at that address and it's about two blocks over from where I am sitting right now at work. Pretty cool

On the ITC 100 note, I feel that it's worth the cost (depending on what you want to do). I first built my gas forge and lined the kaowool with regular refractory cement-didn't want to fork out the $40.00 for the ITC 100. The forge worked, but I ended up wanting to be able to forge weld, so I went back and got some pyrometric cones. Turned the forge on and let her go for a while and that darned cone never bent over, meaning I didn't reach the temp for the cone (2345 degrees). Got the ITC 100, scooped some into a dish and thinned it down to latex paint consistency, and painted it on over the already applied refractory cement. My forge now gets over 2345 and I have a fair amount of the ITC 100 left. Initially, I didn't realize how much surface area it would cover and that I'd thin it down to use. Just my $.02 <img src=' http://www.americanbladesmith.com/ipboard/public/style_emoticons//smile.gi f' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />.

Good luck to you.

Jeremy

I looked around and found something that you might want to look at Michael.

Get on you tube and search "How to build a better forge" it should be the first video to pop up.

The guy takes an old propane bottle and drills some holes in it to make a GREAT forge.

If you are going to be using propane for your forge it should not be hard to get a old propane bottle.

I highly suggest this video and I hope it helps you. <img src=' http://www.americanbladesmith.com/ipboard/public/style_emoticons//smile.gi f' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />

I get my firebrick from a local masonry company. ABC Block Co. They don't have an office in Texas, but a similiar company in your area should carry it.

Well I went Friday to pick the soft bricks up before work. I got there and the guy had misunderstood me. He has hard bricks as singles but the soft only sell in boxes of 12 at around $54. That's 1/3 of a full forge so I'm just gonna have a buddy weld me up a forge. Im glad I looked into this stuff though because I found out about the ITC 100 which sounds like a great product