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Old 08-16-2011, 04:23 PM
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Originally Posted by cdent View Post
It may not be perfect, but maybe you can use hot spots in your forge to work on smaller sections of a piece at a time. Early on, it might be helpful to say put the tip in a cooler spot if it looks like it's over cooking. Just thinking your idea of a forge may change as you figure out your preferences.
Usually I run two of the three burners on low while forging, and leave it that way for normalizing and annealing. I played around and found that if I just leave one burner on at barely a trickle I can control the heat much better.

Next time I'm at the forge I'm going to try just running one burner for everything. I noticed I burned the steel a bit with two going.

Slow and steady. Right...
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