It has been a couple of weeks since I have last posted. I've been a bit busy with things and this project specifically has taken a considerable amount of time.

I will go into further detail in the follow-up post I make sometime in the future. Usually I'd make a bunch of things and upload here and there, but this item in particular has taken a lot of my attention and has been for quite some time to the point I'd rather be doing something else.

This is going to be a forge/ tinsmiths stove combo.

It'll mostly be used for small items that can be forged and a lot of brazing and soldering.

It features two heating units, one that is being displayed more evidently is the tinsmith's stove.

This is a rudimentary charcoal heater that allows me to get soldering bits up to temperature where they can allow tin/lead solder to flow.

In the top right image the viewer can see a rather large soldering bit being cradled with the copper bit resting over the edge of the door frame. That compartment will have the floor of it lined with a half of an inch thick bed of clay to protect the metal. The soldering bits do not need to get very hot or glow, just hot enough to transfer heat to the workpiece being soldered and enough to accept a surface of solder referred to as "Tinning".

This is still a work in progress and the whole appliance is still incomplete, but I think I got far enough into the project to show what I have made so far.

The viewer may also note that there are three different appendages at the door. One on the right hand side of the image is the chain which keeps the open door from falling, the one on the left is the strut that prevents the heavy soldering bit from tipping the door upwards. The final stem will be a handle to open and close the door.

There's going to be so many rivets...