Well, turns out I was right-I managed to derail the whole thing... Through a couple of grinding process errors, this knife ended up at a place where ...

Karl- Not too picky at all, I appreciate the information. I'd like to correctly label whatever it is I'm doing and knowing some more about the hi...

Yup, just the clamping ended up straightening it. The curve let me clamp a bit past in the opposite direction. I also have some brass rods that I use ...

Ed- How much play did yours have? When I used Brice's, it had a bit and he was the one who suggested I use a pillow block to help. His was mounted ...

Thanks for the help. My oven is still very much in use for the primary purpose, so adding some other insulation isn't likely to work. I think the next...

The design is a bit more unique, but I'll bet it gets the job done well. It's hard to tell the specifics on how well it fits together, but with my bas...

And here's the other one. I don't have a press yet and like to put together some low layer billets by hand. I'm getting ready to do some tomahawks a...

Thanks very much for the responses. I'm starting to wonder if I couldn't modify my current setup with a blown burner like pictured here... Would you...

I've got a bit if a dumb question... Would using a blown burner on a horizontal forge work well or not? If the burner was positioned well to swirl a...

Now to the burners. I used black pipe for all the fittings and chose to weld collars to the forge body to hold the burner tubes. A second collar on ...

I don't have a lot of good things to add as far as building a great gas forge. That being said, I decided maybe it'd be worth posting what I ended up...