EDU: How to forge your own Katana.

**bricco** · Posted On: 11/18/2006 7:52am

Ok, I was pretty caught up with the work and it took me more time to complete it but I think I did this right...
So
1) check
2) check
3) used the aforementioned technique
4) check
5) Only found tetrahydrous borax; seem to work anyway
6) check
7) check
8) check
9) didn' use any

The "sandwich" seem to hold. I'll work on it some more, then we'll see.

**bricco** · Posted On: 11/18/2006 7:55am

There, 20 posts. Please send me the schematics whenever you can, Planktime, and thank you.

**Planktime** · Posted On: 11/20/2006 10:30am

Originally Posted by bricco

There, 20 posts. Please send me the schematics whenever you can, Planktime, and thank you.

Cool I will hook you up when I am at home again.

PT

**bricco** · Posted On: 11/20/2006 11:40am

That would be awesome, if the minimum number of posts required had not been upped to, apparently, 55.

Err... is that sentence grammatically correct?

**Dirty Rooster** · Posted On: 11/20/2006 5:12pm

Yeah but, like me, you use more than the absolutely necessary number of commas.

**bricco** · Posted On: 11/22/2006 5:55am

Convoluted sentences with pointless digressions are my trademark :kermit:.

Thanks, anyway.

**DarkOwen** · Posted On: 11/25/2006 9:48am

Hey Guys, I'm a new here and this thread caught my eyes, I been trying to do a nice forge capable or working steel, somewhat I can't get it hotter enough. I think u guys can enlight me a little.

I'm using an old fashioned mud forge with a concave top.

Thx in advance

**bricco** · Posted On: 11/26/2006 5:58am

I don't know what exactly is a "mud forge", but I'll tell you what I do when confronting this problem: usually there is something wrong with the ventilation, so I try to regulate the flow.
When this fails to solve the problem I scrap the used coke on the bottom and start a new fire. If you still can't obtain sufficient heat you might want to make a new forge.
I made one from an old portable BBQ, thirty cms of iron pipe and an old hair dryer; I used a drill, a circular saw (one of those with carbide blades) and a electric solderer.

**Dirty Rooster** · Posted On: 11/26/2006 9:21am

Originally Posted by DarkOwen

...I been trying to do a nice forge capable or working steel, somewhat I can't get it hotter enough. I think u guys can enlight me a little.
I'm using an old fashioned mud forge with a concave top.

What the heck are you talking about??

**DarkOwen** · Posted On: 11/29/2006 7:07am

Mmmm well sorry I'm not native speaker so I don't think all my sentences actually made sense, but anyway Thank you bricco, now I have some work to do :thumbsup: