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Fascinating and lovely. So Damascus is primarily a cosmetic choice? Blacksmiths get respect as valued craftsmen - and also because they're insanely strong and they have all the sharp things 😄

You should consider more than PSI for efficiency, since those burners likely use the same overall volume of gas. If you have a hose at 100 PSI flowing at 50 gallons a minute and a 50 PSI hose at 50 gallons a minute, they're both the same volume but one has a higher flow rate. I'd try putting your tank on a bathroom scale and see how many pounds you use per hour compared to a Venturi burner, since that's really the fairest and easiest way to do things. Forced air should be more efficient though since you're able to adjust from reducing to and oxidizing flame, whereas a Venturi burner is a super reducing environment with lots of unburnt fuel. There's pros and cons to reducing vs oxidizing, but reducing makes less scale and is better for forge welds/reactive alloys, and oxidizing is good for maximum heat/sacrificial material like a canister. You should generally be able to tell just by smell, as the reducing should smell a bit like propane whereas the oxidizing should smell really hot and dry.

I made a body for a sword forge at least 2 years ago and didn't finish it because of the ribbon burner. Currently I use my old forge burner in my furnace and hooked up to a shop vac, and I'm able to melt steel if I'm not careful. Eventually I'll finish that forge by making burners, but for now using forced air in a regular burner is fine for my casting needs since I haven't made knives in a while

What kind of blower do you have/use?

Very interesting thanks

Very informative so thank you for sharing how to

Well done, nice new forge.

In my procrastinating about building forced air burners (because it does cost a bit more than compared to a venturi) I did find air-blowers and neck-down components from of all places: Hyrdroponic stores Apparently they use them to move stale and hot air out of greenhouses and there's a fair variety with the kind of CFM which suits these burners. Mostly because for those of us not in the USA, it can actually be harder than you think to find something that's both 220V AC and not made of Chinesium that will stop working and explode your shop. Just something for those looking to make one

I have a ribbon burner forge and i feel like it doesn't quite get hot enough. My venturi forge seems like it gets way hotter.

This is very satisfying. It's almost like every cut is just one cut replayed. If that makes sense.

Did you build that forge setup yourself? 😊

I see in some of your shorts videos here on UA-cam you answer questions , can you tell me the reason I see people adding ground black pepper to some of their billets , tia , love the channel btw

I recently got my hands on a hardwood called greenheart and I think it’s one of the coolest woods I’ve used, I think it would be cool as a knife grip

Very nice looking scales, I didn’t realize people used box elder for anything. We always kinda considered them a junk tree around here.

That is beautiful. I'd love to have a chefs knife with a handle made with that...

Why did you call them petty?

Where did you get the reducer for the blower

Picked up my 8” Sharpal 162N sharpening stone on the recommendation of Outdoor55 and NOT disappointed! 😊

Beautiful!

I remember being a kid and my dad would give me the brass guard and pommel pieces to file down and polish

That is very attractive Elijah , is it your build?

Nice

Excellent instructional video. Appreciate the step-by-step narrative. Thanks.

What size hole/tip is the gas running through? Cheers

Nice setup! Loud blower though. 🫤

Первый раз вижу такой узор на лезвии ножа. Мастеру моё уважение.

What are you sanding? Doing 65 hrc 10v my needs are different than carbon steels. I haven’t found a sandpaper that didn’t handle my Windex. Another tip, I use armor all glass cleaner without ammonia. It lasts a lot longer. Windex evaporates super fast

This was the one!!

I just got one too. Haven't used it yet but planning on breaking it in today. It's definitely a lot nicer than my other $20 stone I found out about it from outdoor55 as well

gostei, o seu processo de forja.

This was prolly one of the cooler builds back in the day. It was fun

Bladesmithing is something I'm interested in but only occasionally mess with, I mostly just do basic stuff like firepokers, leaves and hooks to build up my skills, I also don't have a bench grinder which means I have to hand file or angle grind my blades both of which are less fun to me than forging so videos on metallurgy aren't very useful to me right now, hope it works out for you though

very nice, and well linked I was half way through the second replay before I realised I was watching the same heat over again. Well timed editing and I'm looking forward to seeing it finished

Fire forge FF BFK. “ big *%cking knife)

Love your videos! Always wanted to forge and watching your videos really makes me want it more.

You gotta change the title name lol. The notification pops up and looks like its going to say forging san mai nak...(naked?) Thatd be pretty risque haha

Thanks for your initial impression video’ Two months in, may I ask what you impression and usage of the stone is?

arent you scared of the tiny molten metal sparks to go into your eye? or is it impossible For it to happen?

Here's the first Metallurgy Monday video: ua-cam.com/video/HzGFhFMZbgU/v-deo.htmlsi=OiscBokfyS8s_K6u

My guess is access, I’d be willing to bet most watch through the app on their phones and the join button doesn’t show up anywhere you’ve listed on the mobile app you have to open the channel in a browser, which if you open the browser on your phone it tries to reroute you to the app. Makes it difficult to sign up and took multiple attempts to even be able to get to where I could join.

There’s nothing in the playlist from what I can see. I’m not super tech savvy, so maybe the issue is access?

Nice

For a big blade made out of that blade steel S35VN, it did super good and keep up the good work. 😳👍

Amazing pattern!

Here it is! ua-cam.com/video/HzGFhFMZbgU/v-deo.htmlsi=9aGhI3jKjpOf1IBp

Nice!

Making a knife in honour of a cold snap? Just so American. Just build a knife FFS!

Yes! I’ve been wondering about this for a long time. Thank you, can’t wait

Is 52100 a high carbon steel?