{"id":1326,"date":"2015-05-17T23:56:29","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T22:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/?p=1326"},"modified":"2015-05-18T03:03:29","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T02:03:29","slug":"metalworking-forge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/metalworking-forge\/","title":{"rendered":"Metalworking Forge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am constructing a metalworking forge to make a small knife.<\/p>\n<p>I am planning to use fire cement and bricks to make the frame of the forge, and a 2 inch steel exhaust pipe tube with a 12v fan for air.<\/p>\n<p>I will be using regular coal or charcoal for the fuel.<\/p>\n<p>I am planning to use Damascus steel to make the knife, I should be able to get the forge hot enough to melt this type of steel.<\/p>\n<p>The most difficult part so far has been finding the parts to build this. I have had to make educated guesses as to how powerful the fan needs to be, how long and how thick the air inlet needs to be, how much fire cement I need, etc etc. I think trial and error is common in homemade forge building, however.<\/p>\n<p>I will post updates as I progress in this project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am constructing a metalworking forge to make a small knife. I am planning to use fire cement and bricks to make the frame of the forge, and a 2 inch steel exhaust pipe tube with a 12v fan for air. I will be using regular coal or charcoal for the fuel. I am planning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inventions","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"aioseo_notices":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1326"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1329,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions\/1329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}