[Greyfox76]

Hey everyone I finally got a homemade coal forge completed. I was using an old lawnmower blade for my steel, after cleaning it up with a wire wheel. Everything was going fine until, I got it a little hotter than I wanted (probably welding temperature) started to hammer some more to shape the tang it started to crack and break off. Had it been a small piece that would have been fine, but it was almost half of the tang. Little disgusted, little discouraged, but still confident. Does anyone know if I might have been doing something wrong or was it maybe just faulty steel. Any ideas for future was thinking leaf springs or if i can get my hands on some railroad spikes i would like to try those. I have very little money to be spending on this and most of that is being burnt up with the coal. Would like to do some forge welding just don't think I'm to that point (I haven't even got a knife to quenching yet.)