Lending new meaning to the term red-hot

Roger just finished a new knife, which I shall feature on my other blog here shortly. Not the knife in his forge shown here....he was using it as a heating element to heat his quenchent.
When he uses his forge he has it in the open door of his shop...it really heats up the place....these pictures just do not capture the heat radiating from it. Though they are better if enlarged.
Here he is getting ready to submerge the knife blank to heat his quenchent.
All his friends bring him steel...he likes 1095 series leaf-spring steel to make them. He does the knife from start to finish.

He also made the gas forge shown here...I have another post about it but have to get the pictures uploaded for it again.

A new use for broken down shopping carts

A new use for broken down shopping carts.

Roger did dig this shopping cart out of the dump. He had to make it sturdy enough to hold this gas forge. He built the gas forge from 10 inch pipe--not sure of the particulars. He got the plans off the internet...it uses propane to heat with. With it being on this cart it is easy for him to roll it outside while it is being fired, and does not have to wait for it to cool down to bring it back in once he is done with firing it.

It is lined with Kao-wool--at least I think that is what it was called. The bottom where he lays the knive blades to be tempered is lined with fire brick.