Weekend Project: $30 Micro Forge

Weekend Project:  Micro Forge


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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4 thoughts on “Weekend Project: $30 Micro Forge

  1. Iceman086 says:

    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?

  2. loonquawl says:

    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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