The Japanese Fuigo Box Forge Blower
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The Japanese Fuigo Box Forge Blower
Built this Fuigo forge blower today, going to build a forge to go with it next.
Video
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Re: The Japanese Fuigo Box Forge Blower
Very Nice! I plan to build one someday. I'm using a gas forge now, but I have a hand crank blower for the charcoal/coal fires...
Something relaxing about heating steel until it's plastic and beating the snot out of it
Something relaxing about heating steel until it's plastic and beating the snot out of it
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Thanks Grizz, i have a huge billows i made and a hand crank blower on my forge i use but this is unique so will make another forge using it.
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Except now you need some little kid to operate the pushrod so you can 'beat the snot out of steel '
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That is so cool! I need to build me a forge but at my age I don't need another project.
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Thanks fellers, Ron i don`t need one either but it was so neat i had to make one.
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Ingenious.....
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Thanks GK, going out to round up some stuff for the forge and tomorrow build a table for it.
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Made a forge pot needs a little grinding and legs yet.
Table tomorrow.
Table tomorrow.
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Got it all done and it works great, only have wood chips in it for the vid.
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Re: The Japanese Fuigo Box Forge Blower
Now that looks cool.
Didn't know it was a Japanese thing though.
Didn't know it was a Japanese thing though.
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Re: The Japanese Fuigo Box Forge Blower
they pump air on both strokes, and it doesn't require much force to work it. there is a vertical version with a pump handle arrangement to run the piston up and down, like a barrel pump sort of, a more compact arrangement.
Itinerent smiths would travel around doing ad hoc metal work, sharpening blades I suppose, and fabricating.Their few tools fit inside the box. the side blast facilitated making a fire with a couple of rocks on either side of the coal bed. Viking smiths did the same side blast thing with bellows for the air supply.
this is a great project Pitchy. Makes me want to play hookey and play with the hot stuff...
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Thanks Grizz, the original had glass plates around the plunger board to make it slide smoother this one is a little stiff yet but i`m sure it will wear in.
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Re: The Japanese Fuigo Box Forge Blower
Very kewl beans Lenn! I have seen those forge blowers used in Japan by master swordsmiths to run the forges the used to forge Samurai blades. Very effective!
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Thanks Bill, i`ll have to fire it up with coal one of these days and make something.
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Awesome work Pitchy!
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A forge and some knowledge were put to good use during WWII. My Grandfather was a Blacksmith, and he repaired a lot of stuff during the war. Farmers couldn't just go buy parts. If it broke, it had to be fixed. My Dad remembers helping his Dad fix and repair plows and things back then. Not everyone made knives or swords with a forge. Pitchy, your ability to make things is the sort of skill that made this Country so great. Forge welding to repair stuff may become a big thing again if the worst predictions about this virus come true.
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Thanks guys, piller ya give me to much credit i`m not a very good smith just play around Gobbleforge is a good smith and wish he was around more posting his creations.
I am going to make a couple improvements today on it so the air boards for lack of a good word slides more freely.
I am going to make a couple improvements today on it so the air boards for lack of a good word slides more freely.
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That thing is so cool , it put My feeble mind in overdrive , All I can see is the forge being setup by a small stream and the operating rod driven by a waterwheel. just like early gristmills. I bet it was done hundreds of years ago.?
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Thanks, that would be cool.
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Did a little more work on the new forge set-up this morn, was a job getting the bark off that oak stump.
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Also made a stand for the post vice.
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Looks like you are ready to make just about anything out of steel that you can think up. Cool!
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Re: The Japanese Fuigo Box Forge Blower
Thanks piller, i don`t do a lot of blacksmithing but like to have at least one operational just in case bad times.
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Very cool. Good skills to possess in these times.
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Thanks, put a little paint on it today.
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my post vice is missing the flat spring, and someone put a big valve spring on it, which is a pain. so "someday" my post vice gets a standard flat spring AND a standard bench mount. I like your setup on the stand too.
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Thanks Grizz, i`m trying to make this set-up more portable, i like it.
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We went out and forged ya a spring Grizz, PM me your address and i`ll send it off.
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Woah! That's awesome Pitchy.... sri I didn't see it sooner, been wrapped up with the jobs...
Thanks for doing that, it's amazing.
Thanks for doing that, it's amazing.
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Your welcome, it should work it did on my vice.
Will mail today.
Will mail today.
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Re: The Japanese Fuigo Box Forge Blower
Pretty neat, but I would probably blow it up. Some times when I start out with green coal and really get the fire going. If I stop cranking my blower I blow up my flex hose that's connected to the blower and it needs replacing. The first time it happens to you it can cause you to loose a load in your drawers.
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I`ve never had that happen with any type blower, weird.hondo1892 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2020 9:58 pm Pretty neat, but I would probably blow it up. Some times when I start out with green coal and really get the fire going. If I stop cranking my blower I blow up my flex hose that's connected to the blower and it needs replacing. The first time it happens to you it can cause you to loose a load in your drawers.
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Made a flapper clean out door that will release any pressure build ups.
Also made a adjustable tong support.
Also made a adjustable tong support.
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Re: The Japanese Fuigo Box Forge Blower
that looks really good. I have a pipe tweer I can use in a ditch when I need to heat up big truck springs, and longer stock. the tweer fits into a small wash tub when I want that setup, otherwise it's propane for me. I can heat treat better in a propane fire vor some reason I don't get yet. Still sorting it out!