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I'll get out there tomorrow and take some pics... The wife and I pulled everything out of our storage room today, went in and built shelves and carried everything back in and organized it. So needless to say I am a little pooped right now... Basically Josh, I'll tell you what I have got planned with the gas forge... I was given a large propane bottle about 5-6ft tall, approximately 16-18" in diameter, and I cut a 24" piece out of the center. I plan on welding on 4 legs to it and I will close off the back. (I figure that it will be more than large enough for doing any size knife I need, anything larger such as a sword, I will just do outside on the conventional forge) I am planning on using 2" Kaowool blankets inside and then coating the blankets (I have narrowed my coatings down to two but can't remember their names at the moment) I will install light weight fire bricks to line the bottom of the forge to give me a surface to lay my items on. I will utilize two burners like you have mentioned, but the only difference is my forge will be natural gas (since I have a natural gas line next to my shop) so I will have to have forced air attached to the burners in order to get up to temperature. I have came up with a pretty good idea that will be portable and will attach to which ever forge that I am using. My friend gave me a gas leaf blower that is no longer working and I took it a apart and salvaged the squirrel cage out of it along with the shaft. I will build a frame and mount a 1hp electric motor to the squirrel cage (Not really a squirrel cage, but I hate to call it the air maker lol) I will attach it to which ever forge I am using with some type of flexible tubing (maybe some hose off of a large shop vac etc..) I will have a trap door built into each of the forges that I can open to decrease the static pressure on the line and decrease the amount of airflow through the forge without having to have a motor controller to reduce motor rpms... To be honest, I would think that you could find a bad large propane cylinder such as I have and you would not need the fire brick. The 2' Kaowool would easily line the interior and you would not loose any heat. I think the hardest part of the whole plan is going to be grinding down the 1 1/2" square tubing in such a way to where they fit snug on the round cylinder for the legs..