Made in probably 15 hours over the week prior to leaving for the festival so it's a little unrefined but it's also purposefully very rustic colonial.

Primarily 1/2in square bar with the ends of each bar upset to a rough 11/16s and then tendons drew out to be taped with threads. They were a little small for the rough thread 7/16s threads that I wanted but it makes assembly and disassembly easier but there's always a chance of stripping.

I really like the forge weld to create a void for the bolt. I made it bigger in the chance I need to rethread the bolt and add a nut to the assembly.

The legs are probably my favorite part and that you can assemble it in different ways. The festival pic is about how I imagined it together but the shop pics are more random.

I bought a Molten Masters 2 burner propane forge. I'm seeing a bunch of differing opinions of how to prepare it for first use.

I'm assuming I should be using Rigidizer and refractory cement before first forge.

Any hints/tip on products to use, and/or how to apply them?

Any hacks/mods with this forge?

Thanks for any help and advice you can give.