Do some blacksmithing and make your own nails and other small iron parts. Thanks go to Len Cullum for the original article in MAKE, Volume 18.
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Could this rig be modified so that the brick laid long ways so that longer objects could be heated? Like say, a long billet of steel that could be hammered out into a knife?
A real forge being about 1m (quite big), this is just a deciforge in length scale. Even in volume-scale, it is just a milliforge…
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