Making a Chinese Wooden Box Bellows for our Blacksmith Forge
Making a Chinese Box Bellows with Mr Chickadee In this video we show the steps taken to construct a traditional Chinese Style Box Bellows from wood. This ancient style of Bellows uses a wooden carcase and multiple chambers to deliver a nice concentrated air blast to a blacksmith forge. All wood is air dried pine, cut here over the last years. Most is shortleaf pine with a bit of white pine for the piston head. Rough Dimensions as follows: Total 10 WX16 HX32 L Air Inlet doors 2 X4 Air Exit hole 2
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