I figure some of you have heard of the Michael Porter book about burner building. It's available on Amazon. I just got the book about a month ago, read parts of it half a dozen times, and then built the 3/4" burner. Fired it up this weekend, seemed to work well in my limited experience.

Last night I bought the fittings to build the 1/2" burner that Porter recommends for brazing. I've never brazed before, but have read a little. Anybody have experience brazing with a burner like this? What can you tell me about it?

What have you brazed in your knife shop? I'm thinking at least of threaded ends for stick tangs, and some external parts on my forge body. What else?

What else could you use the burner for? Definitely drawing back the spines of knives, I'd assume. What else?