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Mauro Fiorentini Forum Moderation Offline Forge your future with the hammer of your mind! Posts: 3442 Ancona, Italy. Gender:	Re-building a Medieval forge. Jan 2^nd, 2011 at 10:29am Ok. I begun yesterday. I'm making the bellows now, and I'll post pictures of the work-in-progress. It will be fun because I'm using recycled materials, stolen from building yards or landfills. It MAY stink a lot, but hey, it's a forge, it must do a very dirty work Stay tuned! Mauro.
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Rat Man Slinging.org Administrator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 13682 New Jersey, USA Gender:	Re: Re-building a Medieval forge. Reply #1 - Jan 2^nd, 2011 at 3:49pm In that I know almost nothing about it, I'll be very curious to see how you make one from scratch from recycled materials. This is very interesting stuff.
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Reply #2 - Jan 2^nd, 2011 at 4:15pm

Yes! I've got a small (very very small) cellar in which my daddy used to work wood... there's just a small corridor and the walls are full of tools and shelves.... it was very dirty when I inherited it..... it took me a week to clean it..... and now it's full of garbage again Cheesy

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this forge will serve me during Medieval re-enactments... I belong to a Medieval archery group, we recreate the life and jobs of lower class between 1270 and 1330..... since we're in need of a forge, I must make one that can be easily transported! But the group's president is my Medieval Archaeology teacher, so we want the forge to look as much historical as possible! So there's the models I'm basing mine on:

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this is a XIVth Century miniature of a bellows (and it's transportable as he's holding it Cheesy

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This is a XIIth Century relief of an ironsmith's shop.

There're some others but posting them would be too boring; I've taken models only from my Region and covering a period from 1000 to 1350.
It will be a medium sized forge in which to forge arrowheads mainly, and then short swords and caps, and tools such as scissors and similar.
I'm so excited!!
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Reply #3 - Jan 2^nd, 2011 at 4:53pm

STEP ONE: the bellows!
Yeah! Those're 2 planks fixed toghether! But this will be the lower part of the bellows, and it will be fixed to that small table frame. But it will be possible to remove it, because I'm going to use the forge outdoor and don't want the wood to take a single water drop Cheesy

I hope to make the frontal part tomorrow!

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(planks are from the building yard, the frame was once a table placed in my condominium's garden, but after 20 years all of its wooden planks got rot. And I took the frame).

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Mauro Fiorentini Forum Moderation Offline Forge your future with the hammer of your mind! Posts: 3442 Ancona, Italy. Gender:	Re: Re-building a Medieval forge. Reply #4 - Jan 3^rd, 2011 at 7:09am More pictures! Uploaded with ImageShack.us Cutting the iron pipe! Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us The lower part of the bellows and the frontal part fixed toghether! I hope to prepare the upper part tomorrow! See you! Mauro.
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Reply #5 - Jan 4^th, 2011 at 2:44pm

Done! Today I've challenged the cold and I've finished the bellows!
Here are the pictures...

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BOO! Here's my Bellows Mask!!

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Here I've made all the wooden parts and have sewn the leather pieces toghether; I'm fixing it to the wood with small nails.

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And here's the finished bellows in its iron frame (which needs to be cleaned)!

Making the bellows took me about 9 hours; I haven't used any mechanical or electric power, except when I had to make the three holes in the wood (one for the pipe and two are the valves). It seems to work fine now, now all that I've to do is to modify another forge. New pictures coming!
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jlasud Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Programming stones Posts: 2358 Transilvania Gender:	Re: Re-building a Medieval forge. Reply #6 - Jan 5^th, 2011 at 6:52am Looks like It will be some effective bellow Mauro!It surely will blast the coals and iron to white hot.
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Mauro Fiorentini Forum Moderation Offline Forge your future with the hammer of your mind! Posts: 3442 Ancona, Italy. Gender:	Re: Re-building a Medieval forge. Reply #7 - Jan 5^th, 2011 at 8:46am I hope... it seems to me that it does not produce so much air, but I have to try it out, my prehistoric bellow didn't seem so powerful to me, at first, but I've melted iron with it........
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wannasling Tiro Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 39 Gender:	Re: Re-building a Medieval forge. Reply #8 - Jan 10^th, 2011 at 2:03am Thought this might interest you.
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Steven Interfector Viris Spurii Offline RaptorIsAsRaptorDoes Posts: 2101 Austin, Tx. Gender:	Re: Re-building a Medieval forge. Reply #9 - Jan 10^th, 2011 at 10:35am Box Bellows? http://www.anvilfire.com/bookrev/kapp/oriental_box_bellows.htm
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Mauro Fiorentini Forum Moderation Offline Forge your future with the hammer of your mind! Posts: 3442 Ancona, Italy. Gender:	Re: Re-building a Medieval forge. Reply #10 - Jan 22^nd, 2011 at 10:00am I've tested my forge the 17th! It works great and heat the iron very fast; I've just to practice myself with it to get the better performance! I'll resume this topic as soon as I'll use my forge on a re-enactment contest! Greetings, Mauro.
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