what's going on guys - today I got an exciting video we're gonna be making a mini Forge out of fire brick ooh so let me quickly go over the design that I'm thinking about because if you google search how to do a mini Forge you're gonna get literally a hundred different designs and quite honestly I'm not real sure what design is gonna work from me best but I think by the end of this video you'll probably get a decent idea how to make one and possibly how to modify one to suit your needs the best so let me show you the design that I'm thinking about then we'll talk about the bricks real quickly and then we will get the work okay guys so this is the kind of design that I've drawn up here this is what I think most people would consider the the - brick Forge design now there is another way that you can build this where the bricks are cut in half and turned on their side I think this way is going to work for me better though especially with the size bricks that I have now basically what this is is we've got a two and a quarter inch hole at one end we've got the inner burn chamber and a two and a quarter inch hole at the other end now I think this is gonna end up being a three brick forge because I want this chamber to go all the way through and if I need to I'll simply place another brick behind it to kind of block in and hold in the heat now you could if you only had two bricks kind of modify this and to keep this inner chamber it's just one piece without going all the way through but I think I want this chamber to go all the way through and kind of give me the maximum length now one thing that I'm not real sure of as of this second is I'm not sure where to place the the burner I don't know if I want to place it exactly in the middle here which will basically just be another hole that goes into the burn chamber or if I want to offset this closer towards the front of the burn chamber because when I have a smaller bleed kind of like this I don't want to have to stick this all the way inside in order to get to that Hut spot maybe I want that closer towards the front now this also gives me the option if I offset it to place another burn another torch towards the back if I wanted to do a longer blade now the bricks that were using are soft fire brick this is not the break that you pick up from your local depot or lowes are most likely any other local hardware store these things are insulating which the ones at Home Depot or not or the ones for wood stoves are not insulating compared to what these are the ones that are short of Home Depot they won't work with for this purpose you need to get insulating soft fire break I paid I think five dollars and 74 cents for these I ordered a bunch of them because shipping was the same price regardless so I ordered a bunch of these because I'm sure at some point I'll end up breaking these these are kind of like they're kind of like a hard abrasive foam they're not bricks as you would normally think they were these are rated to 2,300 degrees Fahrenheit and hopefully that should be enough from what from the research that I've done that should be plenty all right so the first thing that I think we want to do is place boost the bricks on top of one another think I'm going to clamp these just so that they don't move so now we have the outline of our burn chamber yes sir now comes the fun part the nice thing about these bricks is that you don't really need any special tools to work with them you can pretty much just take a razor blade and kind of chisel this stuff out I found it there but shouldn't be a problem in case you're wondering that last brick took 12 minutes and 58 seconds to chisel out so now what I need to do is I'm just gonna use the same method I need to make a hole the size of the tip of this and figure out exactly where I want these so maybe I'll put it at 3 inches do something like that I think I'm gonna put a burner hole here we'll try that out and then if I need to I'll put a second one here and see how that works so that actually worked pretty good I think that's perfect so we don't want to put this so far in that we block these holes here because that's our that's our air intake we don't want to block those with the torch won't light so I think that's gonna be about the perfect depth if we leave it somewhere about there yeah I guess the only thing left to do now is try it just gonna put this up on bricks here get one more brick to kind of hold it together now here's what I'm thinking and put a brick behind it help keep some of this heat in [Applause] here we go so I guess we'll let this heat up for a little bit see what this one will do this one's got a different plane pattern and it's a little more powerful all right so this is actually working pretty well for one burner I'm actually kind of surprised at how evenly we can heat this thing I think I want to add another one for the back though I think it would speed up the process the whole heating process a lot and sitting here for 30 minutes is you know waiting for something and heat up is one thing but be nice to have just a little bit of extra heat towards the back and then I think we're gonna get super even heat across the whole thing so if you're thinking about building one of these this is definitely an easy project you don't need a lot of tools this stuff chisels out super easily it retains heat well I mean it's just I don't know what else to say about it it's super easy to do it's surprisingly easy to do and surprisingly cheap I mean we're talking about let's see six twelve eighteen about twenty-five thirty dollars worth of materials here if you already have a torch the torch is free but for thirty bucks around thirty dollars you got yourself a mini Forge that you can easily use to heat treat blades I would say probably up to eight inches long so hopefully this video helps maybe it'll give you some ideas thank you for watching and we'll see you on the next one you