Three leg stand with forge weld

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3 жыл бұрын

Forge welding a three legged base looks more difficult that it is. A base like the one shown here is great for a variety of blacksmithing projects from a fire tool stand to candle holders.
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@radarreally2110 8 ай бұрын

I have been having a great time watching your videos. Really enjoy trying to figure out how you're going to wind up with a finished product before you start and I have been wrong so many times. Its a ton of fun.

@charliespickler4244 3 жыл бұрын

Hey John, I can't thank you enough for posting this video when you did. I have been struggling for about a month now on how to make this very base. I am making a 14th century floor standing candle stand with that very base out of half inch square stock. I have been having nightmares about how I was going to forge weld three pieces in the coal forge. Your simple solution (and I would imagine period solution as well ) just made my life monumentally easier. I thank you sir and thanks for doing what you do.

@BlackBearForge 3 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped

@shweppesmojito4353 Жыл бұрын

Great video. Really like how simple methods you use, make such beautiful items (like the leg bend on the piece of pipe). Appreciate the effective commentary while sharing your deep experience and insights on the matter. Hope your elbow feels good!

@BlackBearForge Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

@robertcutburth3745 3 жыл бұрын

Great job John, fired up my new Chile Tabasco one burner forge today, far better quality than my other , the say you can forge weld with. I haven't quit got forge weld down yet, don't think I was getting hot enough, Thanks for the video John.

@jimmysblacksmithing462 3 жыл бұрын

Hey good day or evening, just ran across this video this morning drinking tea. Very well as always you are quite the master. Thank you for teaching and sharing this with everyone out there. It's a real pleasure to listen and watch what you do. Very professional to say the least. Keep up the great work and thank you again. Stay well and have a beautiful day. Jim

@BlackBearForge 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you kindly

@frankgaletzka8477 3 жыл бұрын

Hello John That is a nice Video and i have learned from your work Thanks a lot for your skills you share with us Have a good week and i am looking forward what you have in mind Best wishes Yours Frank

@BlackBearForge 3 жыл бұрын

Many thanks!

@codytradingcompany7798 3 жыл бұрын

My main forge Is an induction and the price is very reasonable considering($1200-1500 maybe a lot Les if you gamble with an eBay model.). My small scale unit can liquify -3.5 lbs of copper which is serious amount of heat all for less than 40¢ in electricity. My machine is the same some companies sell for 4K you just need to shop around.

@ranchrachel 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for being utterly delightful, wonderfully decent, and exceptionally informative!

@NeilGraham.I.M.F 3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant tool you welded up at some point in the past for aligning Tri legged fixtures

@johnjude2685 3 жыл бұрын

My wife will enjoy it next spring for her flowers and I'll try to get the forge weld Sir, I thank you for the teaching.

@harrisonmantooth3647 3 жыл бұрын

This video was very interesting and informative. That stand has many possibilities. It's nice to see a usable object made, by hand, from a piece of flat iron. Watching this video made me want to step back in time to my metal shop. Thanks again for demonstrating a Forge Weld. Stay safe and well John. Stan

@AskDaddyjoe 3 жыл бұрын

Good work this base could be used for a lot application's thanks for sharing and great forge weld .

@jeffgrier8488 3 жыл бұрын

Seeing this stand reminds me that i really need to work on my forge welding so i can make a project like this!

@g.j.9556 3 жыл бұрын

I like the bigger projects break up in to smaller videos. It makes it manageable for an amateur Smith like myself

@andrewjaye2981 3 жыл бұрын

Finished the video. Love how you formed the legs over the pipe for consistency, I also love that you took the time to provide us with three different camera angles in between heats. You put a great deal of thought into your production, and It really sets you apart from the rest. Thank you.

@demastust.2277 3 жыл бұрын

John could we please, preeettty please, see another tour of your scrap piles?

@TheBottegaChannel 3 жыл бұрын

Cool stand. I'm turning in to see what it's going to be used for next week. My top three guesses are: 1: a full on metal Christmas tree 2: a giant pot stand used for cooking 3: a blacksmith's coat rack

@djb341 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip John. I usually make my tripods by drawing down and splitting, this looks a lot quicker.

@ako456 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you John for your courtesy to say measurements in millimeters for us Europeans and others!

@andrewjaye2981 3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic video, I'm only 7:29 into it but couldn't wait to comment. I love the idea of making practical, yet out of the ordinary, items like this stand. Makes me want to run out to the shop! Ok now I'll finish watching. Thank you!🖤

@shortfuse43 3 жыл бұрын

John, I like the three-legged stand. Your video makes it much easier to fabricate. You really like to keep us in suspense on the next episode! A hint, if I might, on getting the legs spread out equally. With the three arm thingy you retrieved with the ladder, draw a circle radiused from the center about out where the legs on the stand should be. Stand it on that and you can eyeball if they are equidistantly spread.

@nathanlundell1616 3 жыл бұрын

Always a pleasure to watch u.

@gurvinderkau1e5w18 3 жыл бұрын

Forge weld was pleasure to watch.Using round pipe for bending was cool idea. Cant wait to see wat it is going to be used for!!!👍👍🔥🔥🔥

@Seelenschmiede 3 жыл бұрын

And again, I learn a lot! Thanks for this excellent video 😊

@SchysCraftCo. 3 жыл бұрын

Very nice project. Looking forward to see the results of the other parts. John keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend forge on

@Edwinthemountainman8454 3 жыл бұрын

Howdy great job stay healthy 😆👍👍👍👍👍👏👏👏🔥

@matthewb8229 3 жыл бұрын

*Whack* (dammit!) - are we related? I will confess, when using a hammer, I also utter "what the f..." a lot.

@TheWoodsmanMilling 3 жыл бұрын

I do that when I'm running a chainsaw.

@yurishnirman3847 3 жыл бұрын

Me as well, hammer, wrenches, shower...

@yurishnirman3847 3 жыл бұрын

Me as well, hammer, wrenches, shower...

@douglasfathers4848 3 жыл бұрын

I have not made a stand like this one yet , but John you make it look so easy mate.(:

@thecreativecraftingtable8658 3 жыл бұрын

Nice professional artwork as always! It is a pleasure to watch your videos! Your videos made me to start blacksmithing and i learned a lot of basics watching them.😀

@Redneckemtb 3 жыл бұрын

Looking forward to it, John!

@willsouthdakota5153 3 жыл бұрын

Great video. Glad to see you again.

@carsemonkey1 3 жыл бұрын

Great video as always

@hannemannironworks1651 3 жыл бұрын

Looks great John!

@ThiagueraPlay 3 жыл бұрын

You are a amazing inspiration to me, i'm starting forging with coal in a ground forge and learning with your hints too!

@johnnydrummond8738 3 жыл бұрын

What PERFECT timing!!!! I am making companion sets and was at the stage of making feet-THANK YOU John

@Dfrantz87 3 жыл бұрын

That pipe trick is next level brother!

@mtyson9004 3 жыл бұрын

Very nice John! Thanks and God Bless you sir!

@BCM1959 3 жыл бұрын

Simple design yet very nice.

@tobyjo57 3 жыл бұрын

I was doing a poker and fire rake today for a friends Christmas gift and thinking I've been missing your videos for a while then when I came inside and seen you posted this it was a great finish to my day. Yet another superb educational video John with so many aspects to learn and osberving the tools you have made and use in differant applications...Thank you John.

@lowellsewell3192 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks this was great!

@OmahaLasse 3 жыл бұрын

Well, my life and crafts took a twist last week as I got diagnozed with a brain tumor. Operation due day after tomorrow and after that I will know what the effects will be. Happy to have these basic and intermediate level core skills to look at after the surgery. Sadly no time for me to go to my shop for a week or two al least. Spentthe whole week leading to today in it though, as I still could. Hope that I will be back there soon enough too..

@mitchstephen5491 3 жыл бұрын

Good luck and I hope everything works out for you.

@Seelenschmiede 3 жыл бұрын

Ey get well soon mate :) best wishes for you!

@OmahaLasse 3 жыл бұрын

Operation went well, nothing lost there. Now the radiation therapy has been on for 3 weeks, one week left. After that 6 months of chemo. And blacksmithing all the way if I can. Tis far I have been able to, happy to say.

@Seelenschmiede 3 жыл бұрын

@@OmahaLasse good to hear! Get well soon!

@kevindaley2251 3 жыл бұрын

I need all of your wonderful knowledge 👍👍

@jeremiahjohnson1325 3 жыл бұрын

John love the coal forge I've been trying to learn to maintain the fire can you show more of the iron being heated how much air from blower maybe a short

@BlackBearForge 3 жыл бұрын

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@johngunn7087 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent content- as usual !! Thanks, John.

@BlackBearForge 3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@saintends7302 3 жыл бұрын

It’s so cool seeing how used your anvil looks

@olddawgdreaming5715 3 жыл бұрын

Great job John, I’ll wait for it to all come together next time. Thanks for sharing with us. Fred

@mikehodges6598 3 жыл бұрын

I just made my first full fireplace set and was thinking of designs for the stand. Thanks for the design of the base!

@erikcourtney1834 3 жыл бұрын

Induction forges are amazing, wish I could constitute spending that much for one. I’ll stick with my gas and coal forge for now

@SpecialOrder_937 3 жыл бұрын

I use a coal forge , simply because I’m not a fan or trust worthy of gas ( mainly because of how clumsy I am 🤣🤣 I’d no doubt forget to turn it off and then light up a smoke and blow my self up 🤣🤣)

@jeremybender7483 3 жыл бұрын

im ill but i think i did some forging well pouring either way i really enjoy your videos best on the web on the subject

@im4dabirds 3 жыл бұрын

Blacksmith boomerang!!

@heathworsley8347 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful work John I once made something similar with eighth inch by inch and a half basically cold with nothing but a hand-held propane torch. It was not all that easy to get things straight

@georgewohl1126 3 жыл бұрын

That was sweet

@cerocero2817 3 жыл бұрын

I'm very interested in the topic of induction forges for the blacksmith's workshop. I think if you got one owerful enough it should be viable for a profesional even on thick stock. Maybe after hoarding a bunch of jigs and coils it could even be economically competitive. It will have it's drawbacks, but it also offers no noise, no startup, doesn't spend any fuel while not in use, can heat work without moving away from the anvil (this could be vey useful for small stock and forge welding) and with the right coil you can heat stuff anywhere, perhaps even better than with oxy-fuel. I may invest in one some day to try. Recently saw a video from DF in the shop where a three leg stand was made from a single bar by bending one of the legs around and welding it into the center before cutting it into two so you don't need to do a drop tongs weld.

@johnjude2685 3 жыл бұрын

Okay I will be back next week ( I always check back every day) Thanks

@k3xtxhamradio930 3 жыл бұрын

Nice work rush lamp perhaps...

@markmoreno7295 3 жыл бұрын

I watched the whole thing. I am thinking maybe a medevial device found at your local haberdashery. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving.

@robertkatena8876 3 жыл бұрын

I'd like to see you make a 20 pound sledge hammer.

@Zogg1281 3 жыл бұрын

I love that moment after you get the pieces up to welding heat, you line everything up and give it a few quick taps and finally pick everything up as one piece instead of two. It's like majic yo me STILL and somehow it still doesn't seam possible!! I'm hopefully hoping finish re assembling my forge soon and it should have more then enough heat to achive my first forge weld. It almost had enough heat before I dismantled it, but now with a slightly larger gas inlet I am very hopeful 😁 Thanks for sharing this, I'm wondering if you could get it into a gas forge with a few gental courtesy bends 🤔 or I could stand the forge upright and balance the piece on the front of the forge. As heat rises it could work 🤔😅👍👍

@publicblacksmith9467 3 жыл бұрын

amaizing ... love from pakistan .

@marcerivest6204 3 жыл бұрын

Nice job, l think that you may have done this before, maybe once or twice.

@521cjb 3 жыл бұрын

Several millennia ago when I was in grade school, we had a stand like that holding up the American Flag.

@matthewmerrick4452 3 жыл бұрын

I can see other uses for this weld. I'm thinking trivit.

@mishamish3610 3 жыл бұрын

Удачи!

@brysonalden5414 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Lots of good info here. Do I see a "Stand of the Week" in your future?????

@marciomarceneiro6123 3 жыл бұрын

Como e o nome do produto que vc usa para soldar?

@azizbekakbarov7738 3 жыл бұрын

Жуда зур..👍👍👍

@bernardleighan3218 3 жыл бұрын

John, what was the tool you used to cut the legs to length? I have not seen one of those before. Thanks for the video and God bless you.

@AllodialTitle 3 жыл бұрын

Metal shears.

@BlackBearForge 3 жыл бұрын

Edwards shear #5

@mickdog2 3 жыл бұрын

Did you burn the apron?

@stefflus08 3 жыл бұрын

Love your videos. Wouldn't it be more prudent to scarf the sides of the short piece end?

@BlackBearForge 3 жыл бұрын

4:15 shows making the scarf on the short section

@stefflus08 3 жыл бұрын

@@BlackBearForge Aye, where you scarf its end rather than the sides which will blend with the other piece.

@dkami732 3 жыл бұрын

Hi John. Great video. What kind of tongs were you using at the end to hold the stand while you adjusted the leg using the guide?

@BlackBearForge 3 жыл бұрын

Box jaw tongs

@TheJohnbarks12 3 жыл бұрын

Where did you get the little mini square from

@BlackBearForge 3 жыл бұрын

Are you referring to the hook ruler that was cut down from a square? I buy the squares from McMaster Carr

@leedeal7301 3 жыл бұрын

I was wondering what kind of gas forge you have Thinking about getting one

@BlackBearForge 3 жыл бұрын

It was made by Chili Forge

@amazoncustoms1604 3 жыл бұрын

Does christmas tree fell on floor how fast without Water.? Here Finland we have tree in Water. Merry christmas for all

@BlackBearForge 3 жыл бұрын

We place trees in water as well. So this won't be for a tree

@MarkATrombley 3 жыл бұрын

John - You posted this on Patreon but I can't see a video link there, just text.

@BlackBearForge 3 жыл бұрын

After the third try, I think its finally working

@EXARCWithGrandpop 3 жыл бұрын

Newbie questions. I have been watching a lot of blacksmithing video and everyone seem to be working indoors. How save is it? I have a large walk out basement, can I make that a safe place? or is that a bad idea? Can the fireman side of you direct me?

@robertwhitney2232 3 жыл бұрын

What you don't see in all the videos on blacksmithing, is the smoke that is created by the coal fire and fire hazards, not to mention the carbon monoxide poisonings in your living quarters. Personally, I think a stand by it self building, with a lot of fresh air is the safe thing to do.

@Seelenschmiede 3 жыл бұрын

You definetely need to have a very good chimney to get out the stuff Robert mentioned. The rest depends on the materials your basement is build out of.

@EXARCWithGrandpop 3 жыл бұрын

That makes sense. I was originally planning on forging out side. With winter coming I though I could get a way with starting inside. Thanks guys for your replies.