How to Build a Blacksmith Forge from Scrap @NeedItMakeIt

Uploaded October 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

In this video, I'll show you how to build a blacksmith forge from scrap... from scratch! This forge is perfect for beginners who want to learn how to build one yourself that will work for years AND on a budget as close to ZERO as possible. It's easy to build if you have a welder, and you can make it as small or large as you want.

A blacksmith forge is so handy for hardening steels and for making tools, and having one that can be moved around easily is also a great feature. In this video I build one completely from scrap, the only cost being the welding rods, my time, electricity and one dollar store paint brush. The rest of the materials I had on-hand already. The stand came from the drill press restoration I've just finished, it was not a great stand, but the completely steel top was perfect for this project. It is always fun to challenge yourself to see what you can make by limiting yourself to only what you have on hand.

I think a great feature to add later would be a hood of some kind as well as a pipe to help vent the smoke away, but aside from that and a few tweaks I'm sure I'll make over time, it works great, better than I would have expected. I'd love to make woodworking tools, knives, fix tools, make forge tongs for metal melting and in general be able to manipulate metal more easily.

My first forge was made from an old mower deck flipped upside down, mounted to a brake drum, with a vertical pipe and this same blower attached. It had rebar for the legs welded and it was horribly heavy and unstable. It worked well, but it was not safe and was hard to move around. It also looked terrible and it rusted out as it stayed outside all of the time.

Little disclaimer: working with a forge which can metal steel and heat beyond 1300C is dangerous, if you want to attempt a project like this, be safe and wear the proper PPE. This forge is for outside use only and should stay far away from your home any anything flammable.

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$Simple Ways to Make Stronger 3D Prints NUMBER TWO What happens when you do real drop tests on 3d prints? Do they bend, do they break, do they shatter? In this video well find out by testing different materials and designs at several DROP heights. Help support this channel! https://www.patreon.com/Needitmakeit I see a lot of testing videos, some of them are useful to compare materials against each other, but theyre not as useful when you want to apply them to real designs. If we want to protect something, should we use ABS? How about PETG? Or Maybe youre the PC type. I have an okay sense about each of the materials, but I couldnt tell you which material was best to protect expensive equipment, and which material could take continued abuse and not just break after one drop. This video is dedicated to doing realistic dop testing to see if we can get some real answers to those questions so we have a better idea of how to design 3d printed parts, and that we also have a sense about which materials perform the best under which conditions. In the previous video, we tested only PETG, it has a good reputation for being flexible, but it also has this other very strange property of becoming brittle and fracturing at a certain point. In this video were going to see if we can figure out the right mix of flex and strength for that material so we can use it and have the confidence that itll do the job. Which material do you think will perform the best? Check out the video for all of the details, it was a lot of fun, and I learned quite a bit. Lets just say that it isnt all about the size, there is more to it than that. Another way to support this channel indirectly is through my affiliate links (where I receive a small commission). It helps me to continue to provide high-quality content videos. Thank you for your support! NEW MIC (I bought this) https://amzn.to/3vcMKAr - Rode Wireless ME mic (Saved me about 4+ hours/vid) https://amzn.to/3NBFvZe - Mag clip (Super handy, but a little pricy) BAMBU PRINTERS https://shrsl.com/4aghz CREALITY PRINTERS https://shrsl.com/4aghy CREALITY HYPER PLA https://shrsl.com/4aghn Original Design: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4757295 #bambu #crealityk1 #3dprinting$