Simond Store Blacksmith's Forge with Hand Blower for Knife Making Blacksmithing Forging Tools Equipment - Vintage Style Coal Forge Furnace with Pedal Type Handle

I use this along side my propane forge and while both have singed my hair pretty badly, I’d say if you aren’t looking to be fighting the fire, don’t use something like lump charcoal. I’m more of a coast efficiency man, so I’ll just let it burn me. All and all it’s constructed great and works perfectly. I mounted mine onto an old stool (totally not thinking it through when mounting something that would reach a few thousand degrees on wood) with some steel and screws, works good. This is perfect for smaller projects, but if you lean it on something or lay your metal on top of a massive mound of coal you could get bigger ones to work, just make sure to bring a shield, the air out put throws sparks up if you’re using lump coal. Seriously, if you don’t wanna get your hair burnt, holes seared into your pants no matter how many you have on, or have a make-out session with flying sparks, use some cleaner coal like coke. It’s more money, and I’d rather suck face with something burning my lips than spend an extra 20-30 dollars, but if that’s something you don’t wanna do you can get better coal.

If you're expecting a highly finished piece of first-world industrial craftsmanship, this may not be for you. However, if you want a very portable, effective, tiny forge that fires up quickly for small projects, demos, etc. this thing is the nuts! Will easily reach welding temp (for smaller projects), can double as a cook stove with the folding pot supports, and otherwise, handy enough that one could (almost!) backpack with it! Obviously, not a forge for swords, gates, felling axes. and may work some mods to it after more use but this forge definitely will fill a niche for me. (Have been smithing since the 1980's and have several modern and historic-type forges of varying sizes).

my only real issue is the product doesnt really come with anything to mount/stabilize it. if you have long sturdy screws and a decent log; or a good stool and some clamps you should be fine. the first rope i stabilized it with melted and when the basin is given freedom to move its dangerous and difficult to spin the crank fast enough to raise the heat.

When product arrived, it was well packaged and arrived before expected. When we opened it, the item was broken by the round piece where the fan attaches. There was even a broken separate small piece. It was clearly obvious that it was painted over to try to hide the defect. The fire pot is steel but the adapter pieces are not. It was definitely brittle, and not attached to the fire pot, and it leaves a big air gap between the adapter piece and pot.

It's a small and functional crank forge, not super expensive but not exactly high quality. Had the crank in mine lock up permanently after a few months of infrequent use, but while it worked it was a fun little forge.

Purchased for my son for his birthday. We bought smithy coal last year and thought we would be able to buy a forge. The ones we found were so expensive and in poor condition. I found this online and thought it was a good price point to see if this would be a really hobby or a passing interest. We put it together, loaded it with coal and fired it up. With the blower on it he was able to get some square rod hot pretty quick. He made a S hook and another hook for holding hanging baskets.

When I opened this up, I thought is this a toy? I put it together added some charcoal and yeah, not a toy. A bit of a learning curve, new to blacksmithing but add enough charcoal nice and steady on the blower and you can get yellow heat in just a few minutes on 3/8" round bar. Still learning but this is a good little starter forge.

I purchased this forge for my home shop. I honestly didn't expect very much because frankly it wasn't expensive and I think it may also be made in China. So, my expectations weren't very high. I just needed something for some small blacksmith type projects. Well boy was I fooled. This is an old style hand crank forge. It isn't very large at all but when you get this little powerhouse going, you'll have heat for days! It works amazingly well. I just wish the forge bowl was bigger but aside from that, for a small home forge, you won't go wrong buying this little monster. I was very pleasantly surprised and I'm sure you will be also.