The Japanese Fuigo Box Forge Blower

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Mon Mar 30, 2020 2:39 pm

Built this Fuigo forge blower today, going to build a forge to go with it next.

Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDBzWOp ... e=youtu.be

Grizz · Post by **Grizz** » Mon Mar 30, 2020 2:43 pm

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

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Mon Mar 30, 2020 2:46 pm

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.

GunnyMack · Post by **GunnyMack** » Mon Mar 30, 2020 2:58 pm

Except now you need some little kid to operate the pushrod so you can 'beat the snot out of steel '

M. M. Wright · Post by **M. M. Wright** » Mon Mar 30, 2020 3:24 pm

That is so cool! I need to build me a forge but at my age I don't need another project.

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Mon Mar 30, 2020 3:26 pm

Thanks fellers, Ron i don`t need one either but it was so neat i had to make one.
Someone is going to have some cool chit when i`m gone.

gamekeeper · Post by **gamekeeper** » Mon Mar 30, 2020 3:27 pm

Ingenious.....

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Mon Mar 30, 2020 3:46 pm

Thanks GK, going out to round up some stuff for the forge and tomorrow build a table for it.

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Mon Mar 30, 2020 5:20 pm

Made a forge pot needs a little grinding and legs yet.
Table tomorrow.

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Tue Mar 31, 2020 10:36 am

Got it all done and it works great, only have wood chips in it for the vid.

Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY-DUXy ... e=youtu.be

AJMD429 · Post by **AJMD429** » Tue Mar 31, 2020 11:22 am

Now that looks cool.

Didn't know it was a Japanese thing though.

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Tue Mar 31, 2020 11:58 am

Thanks.

http://islandblacksmith.ca/2015/06/why- ... x-bellows/

Grizz · Post by **Grizz** » Tue Mar 31, 2020 12:36 pm

AJMD429 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 11:22 am Now that looks cool.

Didn't know it was a Japanese thing though.

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...

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Tue Mar 31, 2020 1:25 pm

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.

Bill in Oregon · Post by **Bill in Oregon** » Tue Mar 31, 2020 4:29 pm

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!
You and Norma take special care of yourselves as you are precious people.

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Tue Mar 31, 2020 4:32 pm

Thanks Bill, i`ll have to fire it up with coal one of these days and make something.

Old No7 · Post by **Old No7** » Tue Mar 31, 2020 5:48 pm

Awesome work Pitchy!

Add some tubing and a feeder for oxygen -- and you're in the ventilator business!

I'm not kidding... Seriously!

If I "need one" and they don't "have one", I'll tell my son to make one up in my shop and keep me breathing.

Old No7

piller · Post by **piller** » Tue Mar 31, 2020 6:57 pm

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.

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Wed Apr 01, 2020 5:41 am

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.

.45colt · Post by **.45colt** » Wed Apr 01, 2020 9:15 am

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.?

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Wed Apr 01, 2020 9:21 am

Thanks, that would be cool.

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Wed Apr 08, 2020 10:14 am

Did a little more work on the new forge set-up this morn, was a job getting the bark off that oak stump.

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Wed Apr 08, 2020 12:25 pm

Also made a stand for the post vice.

piller · Post by **piller** » Wed Apr 08, 2020 12:46 pm

Looks like you are ready to make just about anything out of steel that you can think up. Cool!

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Wed Apr 08, 2020 12:52 pm

Thanks piller, i don`t do a lot of blacksmithing but like to have at least one operational just in case bad times.

OldWin · Post by **OldWin** » Wed Apr 08, 2020 1:33 pm

Very cool. Good skills to possess in these times.

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Thu Apr 09, 2020 12:42 pm

Thanks, put a little paint on it today.

Grizz · Post by **Grizz** » Thu Apr 09, 2020 12:51 pm

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.

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Thu Apr 09, 2020 12:53 pm

Thanks Grizz, i`m trying to make this set-up more portable, i like it.

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Thu Apr 09, 2020 3:56 pm

We went out and forged ya a spring Grizz, PM me your address and i`ll send it off.

Grizz · Post by **Grizz** » Fri Apr 10, 2020 1:39 pm

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.

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Fri Apr 10, 2020 1:57 pm

Your welcome, it should work it did on my vice.
Will mail today.

Grizz · Post by **Grizz** » Fri Apr 10, 2020 3:53 pm

Pitchy wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2020 1:57 pm Your welcome, it should work it did on my vice.
Will mail today.

thank you thank you !

hondo1892 · Post by **hondo1892** » 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.

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Sat Apr 11, 2020 5:57 am

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.

I`ve never had that happen with any type blower, weird.

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Sat Apr 11, 2020 9:47 am

Made a flapper clean out door that will release any pressure build ups.
Also made a adjustable tong support.

Grizz · Post by **Grizz** » Sat Apr 11, 2020 12:19 pm

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!

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