I Made A Coke Forge!
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Published 2022-11-29
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All Comments (21)
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You can feel how Alec is at home with this topic
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I completely agree that coke and stuff forges can get REALLY hot. When just beginning knifemaking, I went full blast on the air into my charcoal forge, and I literally melted not just my knife, but my pipe for supplying air as well. It's kind of amazing that something like that can get so ridiculously hot.
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Wow. Blacksmith turned Coke Forger.. don’t do drugs kids.. 😂
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Loving the more old school style videos lately! Just need a 20 part power hammer restoration series next ;)
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I was privileged to attend a two week intro to bladesmithing course in Old Washington, Arkansas through the American Bladesmith Society. The forging room was inside a barn. There were perhaps nine stations situated around a huge fan in the ceiling to suck up the fumes. In the back of the barn was a small mountain of coal. We would fill a bucket with coal, coke it out, and spend all day forging knives. That two weeks was pure magic.
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9:47 made me feel like we where back in the good old days.... hand forging
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8:30 "perfect timing, because Jamie just got back with our coke, he went to the dealer this morning" hahaha 😆 I was waiting to see if you were going to joke about the name lolo
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It always makes me happy when you leave in the little slip ups or gaffes that always happens when making something. (The grinder taking piece out of your hands or turning the piece upside down and the bolts falling out, as examples.) While I am no where near as skilled as you, it gives me heart to continue on things knowing even more skilled have slip ups and 'dumb' moments. 😆 Great project. I always pick up little tips and tricks watching your videos, even when they aren't pointed out
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Nice to see this, learned how to use a worn out 70 year old coal hand crank coal forge at a ranger station in the mountains of montana using only memory of your videos. Thanks for giving me the knowledge to make a decent knife for my dad. Hope to get back out there this summer.
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"If I didn't have this bowl, I'd have to use my debit card" Hahahaha, excellent.
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If you want to heat a small area, have you considered an induction forge? You could make it yourself. BTW, nice to see some actual forging videos again.
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As a teen my friend's dad did blacksmithing and different craft shows. We got to take turns turning the hand blower for his coal forge, which he made using the bottom of an old hot water heater. It was always a battle trying to get the right speed of air and to not burn the pieces he was working on. If my friend was given time to mess around while his dad was on break he would almost always make some sparklers, and I would try making knots. 😂
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This is the content I absolutely love. Nothing fancy here, no precision machining and CNC milling. Don't get me wrong, I like those videos too. But the thing I enjoy here is watching you make the tools. It seems to me that given a hammer, anvil, and forge, a blacksmith with enough metal can build out an entire shop from scratch. No other profession can say that. I absolutely love watching you encounter a problem, and then build the solution to that problem.
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I LOVE it when you make tools and stuff! It is like an ongoing ”setting up my workshop” type of thing! 🎉
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The videos that got me hooked on this channel are back!!!! Best episode for ages.
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Always dig your vid's about the science/basics of smith'ing and tool building. But I was looking forward to a 3 part on you making a rake... :P
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1:28 Jamie makes fun of you literally behind your back and then edits in a close up of himself doing so just to rub it in? Brave man.
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God you've finally entered the coal age, i'm so happy
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Nice to see you returning to your 'roots', as it were. Good to see someone keeping the old traditions alive, especially a young feller like yourself. I'd love to build a forge and blacksmith shop here, but unfortunately, I don't have the room. Somehow, I think blacksmithing would be a very useful trade and skill, should it be that "the lights go out" and we are forced to resort to a pre-electrified way of living.
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burning coke/coal is hands down the most satisfying thing that my eyes have ever seen. everytime i start my forge and it starts cracklin and poppin and the short flames come up and the heat starts spreading its orange glow i do the homer simpson drool 🤤 i might be addicted to it
