I don’t take many classes at Pratt anymore, but I do keep my eye out for new class listings and workshops. One such class that caught my eye recently was a forge building class, something I could not pass up. Today was the first of two days and I’m stoked. We’re building simple 16” long tube forges. It’s a simple but useful design. The inside area has a circumference of 8” and it opens up on both ends (meaning I can heat up the middle sections of long pieces of material). Today we built a mold and cast the insulating material. These will be dried in a kiln in the next couple of days and next week we will be adding the gas hookup and fan. The only bummer about this whole thing is I don’t currently have a place to use my new forge, though I’ll make that happens someday in hopefully the not too distant future.