Blacksmithing – Forge Welding With A Propane Forge – Can Chandler Do It
During a recent livestream someone asked if I have forge welded with my propane forge… I had not… and given the potential for future events I figured I best try to change that answer… failures and successes but here is how it went.
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Hey Chandler, please – make you life easer and make some new tongs 😀 pains me to watch you struggle with tongs that are not for the job at hand.
Power Hammer – have mercy on your hands ;)
you are the man chan! I love everything you do on this channel. let the haters hate, if they were in a situation of survival and they had those things you just made they would be very happy indeed! I can't see anyone being able to argue with these results…
11 mins in the daleks start to attack. ;)
i like that your propane forge doubles as a pulse jet engine
you remind me of an old west blacksmith
Seeing you making those links gave me an idea, though I don't know how well it would work. I was thinking that a few links of chain could be hammered so that they would lay flat and straight. Then it could be tacked down to a piece of flat stock to keep it straight and some sides welded on and all the voids filled with powdered steel. Then it would be capped off with another piece of flat stock to make a chamber for chamber welding (or it it called compartment welding? I cannot quite remember at the moment) If it is successful, after the forge welding is finished you would have a pattern welded billet with a visible chain pattern running down the length of it.
I don't know if it is even possible, but it would be cool to see if it is. I know I cannot do it with my single burner propane forge that I built out of some plumbing parts and a discarded disposable freon tank. Even if it were possible with my tools, there is no way I could do it with my very rudimentary smithing skills.
On a side note, this is the second video that I have seen today that made me cringe at the site of you putting a knife that I would love to have in my collection in a vice with the intention of destroying it!
Gratz mate :)
get an oxygen concentrator and feed oxygen into your propane flame source. it will heat the iron faster.
i can't figure out y u fought yourself because your one hell of a blacksmith
Because propane takes so long etc. one could use a MAPP gas or one of the new substitutes. Available around here in 11 lb ,25 lb, 65 lb and bigger size cylinders. The price is not cheap but if you only used it for welding ( such as making a "damascus ""sword for forged on fire {fingers crossed}) then it might justify getting a 25 pounder. Just a thought. 35 % more heat ,quicker less gas.
Mark Asprey with ABANA has youtube videos on making chain and chain-making tongs. Check them out.
I like to see you challenging yourself to make difficult projects. Keep hammering!
Wish you lived closer to Utah. I would like to share what I have learned about bladesmithing with you.
I have zero forging experience and all I know about forging comes from youtube, so I'm probably mistaken – but I would have thought the sparks are indicative of carbon, i.e you get sparks in the coal forge due to the solid carbon content of your coal fuel, which becomes excited on contact with your hot billet, causing sparks. By contrast, the gaseous carbon in your propane fuel is completely burned by the time it reaches the forge and there's no direct fuel-billet contact. I don't know much but I wouldn't expect the steel itself to spontaneously give of sparks… correct me if I'm wrong, I'd be interested to hear what you think.
hey chandler i would like to donate some money to u how can i contact u to do this
I would say add a fire brick to the front of the forge as well as remove all the excess space in the forge. as I see you are trying to heat an area 10x the sixe of your project with no heat restriction
Those gloves are just rags.
Dig the videos – propane forge near a microphone is a bit distracting though :)
You're doing fine Chandler. It's harder to get the temps in a gas forge without tinkering with the mix as you said. I use a coal forge mostly.When I do it I start with the rings closed up abit more. Get the initial tack with round to round and the top scarf. Resist the urge to flip it and hit the other side, it's to cold. It'll pop the weld. "Lesson hard learned for me." Then reflux and back to the fire and weld the opposite scarf. Then worry about blending and forging down to stock size. Leaving abit more meat in the weld area lets you smooth things up as well. Works for me. Pick and choose what works for you. Thanks for the great video's.
why would you hand forge chain? it is pretty cheap in general and wouldnt it just be easier to use an electric/gas welder to just join the 2 pieces together?
the forge sounds like a satanic turkey when it's turned down low
think that chain would pull a fat chick away from the buffet??
yep that borax loves forge linings . you don't need flux to forge weld mild steel
What do you normaly do while waiting for it to get to temp do you like just work on some other projects play some games fap a little edit vids? Just curios
Love these videos, each teaches, even the mistakes are valuable for the lesson they teach. Would reducing the size of the forge opening ( where the metal sits) force the entire heat of the propane flame to pass over the metal and heat it more effectively?
What do you charge for one of your dragon headed knives, if made from a band saw billet?
nice, always putting on practice the questions that i have on my mind.
can you show your propane burner of your forge? im trying to do one, but, i dont know if i will reach weld temp with the desing that im trying to do.
thanks a lot for share your wisdom :)
devil forge= 3rd market product.
it's made by Chechnyans what do you expect.
sounds like someone getting a chance for forged in fire?? with the stressing he has to know how to weld with propane ??
you should forge yourself some new gloves lol. but cool vid love your work. :)
Hello Chandler Dickinson admire your work having a curiosity what would that white powder play on the iron ?? Thank you End: Sorocaba, Brazil.