{"id":213,"date":"2018-01-18T20:00:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T20:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.legacystudioproductions.net\/knifemakertraining\/?p=213"},"modified":"2018-01-21T00:05:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T00:05:06","slug":"installment-2-of-building-a-vertical-welding-forge-wip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacystudioproductions.net\/knifemakertraining\/2018\/01\/18\/installment-2-of-building-a-vertical-welding-forge-wip\/","title":{"rendered":"Installment #2, Building a Vertical Welding Forge (WIP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the 2nd installment of building a Vertical Welding Forge.<\/p>\n<p>Finally got started pouring the new welding forge today. I&#8217;ve never built one this large&#8230;..so it&#8217;s &#8220;learn as I go&#8221;.\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1\" title=\"Smile :)\" src=\"https:\/\/knifedogs.com\/styles\/default\/xenforo\/clear.png\" alt=\":)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At first, I wasn&#8217;t going to put a steel floor in it&#8230; but figured \u2013 since it&#8217;s likely going to take a forklift to move this one \u2013 it might be a good idea. I&#8217;d hate to see all that castable pop out of the bottom and end up as a pile of rubble on the shop floor!<\/p>\n<p>I gathered my mixing tube, castable, water, and homemade tools for mixing and getting the castable in place. I put a thin layer of castable in the bottom, then added 5 fire bricks as &#8220;filler&#8221; to save as much castable for the walls as possible. I spaced the bricks, filled the gaps, then put about a 1&#8243; layer over the top. Now it&#8217;s going to be about a week of cure time before I can position and install the burner holder, followed by building the interior forms, and then, hopefully, I can &#8220;fill &#8216;er up&#8221;. <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1\" title=\"Smile :)\" src=\"https:\/\/knifedogs.com\/styles\/default\/xenforo\/clear.png\" alt=\":)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More to come!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bbCodeImage LbImage\" src=\"https:\/\/image.ibb.co\/dBU9LQ\/weldingforgebodyfloorpour.jpg\" alt=\"[\u200bIMG]\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bbCodeImage LbImage\" src=\"https:\/\/image.ibb.co\/hjb0S5\/weldingforgebodyfloor1.jpg\" alt=\"[\u200bIMG]\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bbCodeImage LbImage\" src=\"https:\/\/image.ibb.co\/g6Zn75\/weldingforgebodyfloor2.jpg\" alt=\"[\u200bIMG]\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bbCodeImage LbImage\" src=\"https:\/\/image.ibb.co\/nnqS75\/weldingforgebodyfloor3.jpg\" alt=\"[\u200bIMG]\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the 2nd installment of building a Vertical Welding Forge. Finally got started pouring the new welding forge today. I&#8217;ve never built [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edseditorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacystudioproductions.net\/knifemakertraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacystudioproductions.net\/knifemakertraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacystudioproductions.net\/knifemakertraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacystudioproductions.net\/knifemakertraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacystudioproductions.net\/knifemakertraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/legacystudioproductions.net\/knifemakertraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"https:\/\/legacystudioproductions.net\/knifemakertraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacystudioproductions.net\/knifemakertraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacystudioproductions.net\/knifemakertraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacystudioproductions.net\/knifemakertraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}