ElZorro99 Thank you! Yes it's a special thing to make your own tools!

I love watching black smithing videos

+Joshua Rosen Thank you!

Great! Thank you!!

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Tom Glander Thank you very much!

Torbjörn Åhman Don't you have to secure that wood on that Iron with a ring or screw on the top, so it streches there and gives it maximum of grip?

thaGkillah For top tools (struck tools) like this you don't need a fancy handle, and it's not wedged in place. Should be easy to replace and the loose fit does not transfer so much of the vibrations

This information was very helpfull! You got a very good point. One more question if I may. For example the flat part of that Iron. It looks incredibly nice (almost industrial grade), but i am asking myself how to make the surface of the flat part even more clean and flat like computer processor heatsinks without scratches. Is that even possible for a black smith?

thaGkillah A larger exactly planar surface might be tricky without machining, but you can get a mirror finish without problem.

Matthew Freeland Thanks! Glad you liked it.

tyler stiff Agreed. So entertaining.

tyler stiff im not the only one then .... looking at great stuff that i know nothing about!!

+jack arkell It is rather addicting, isn't it?!? My brain won't stop thinking about all the useful stuff I can make now! =D

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Mike Ivy It’s the lure of excellence. One knows it when one is in its presence.

KillerKane Thank you very much! It doesn't take a flatter to make one but the cleanup of the face is easier done! :)

LoadedMod94 Thanks!

was that a runescape pun

Skyrim.

Logan Kaan God bless skyrim

+Logan Kaan once I said runescape it made me feel old

Ozm8ey Plays Yep, Runescape was good part of my childhood.

:) Thanks

adam anthoni Thank you!

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The reason is because it's fucking awesome.

I'm guessing you also like digging and like the idea of hunting

+Ethen Rosas What is wrong with digging and hunting? At least I could survive if ever caught in a disaster or the SHTF scenario.

+qwerty 11716 Isn't it iron-ic, don't you think?

+Landroverdude101 If my dad works at Ford it won't be adopted in his genes. Unless there's a society where everyone with a specific gene only is able to work at Ford and thus survive unlike the people who don't, there is no such thing. I'm taking this way too seriously. Smithing is cool and it ain't my genes saying that, it's smithing itself.

damann112 Thanks!

pjsalchemy Thank you very much! "RB material"? Do you mean the clay thing?

Torbjörn Åhman You are Most Welcome! Sorry I should have said the Round Bar material you started with...ductile iron, G2 gray bar, steel?? and why that material? Thanks!

pjsalchemy Ah, ok. It's steel. For this one I used an odd custom steel which I think is closely related to AISI A514. Easy to forge but hardened it's pretty tough stuff. I got some pieces for free so... You need a fairly hard surface but at the same time tough and not brittle. Any heat treated medium carbon steel would work fine for a project like this. Gray bar or cast iron is not forge-able and the brittle properties would not work either. And for a casting to work it would have to be cast steel.

Torbjörn Åhman Thank you for more lessons. I didn't know that about gray bar or ductile iron, but should have thought more carefully. I can see from the properties of the various forms of A514 you can achieve your goal of toughness but not brittle especially for a flatter being struck by another hammer. Many years ago I build a forge from a truck brake drum and tried some small projects but never spent enough time to get solid with the techniques...been thinking about doing it again though for a couple of projects. Thanks Again!! Look forward to seeing more of your Fine work.

if you get metal hot enough, you can mild it like clay, but only once

Mercury? Maybe not.

@@idontuploadjustwatch You can even use your hands at that stage... also only once.

Thank you Gerald!

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pepr8picante I do the keyboard thing professionally so this is a good contrast to that.

Sidney Morais LOLOLOL

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Tomas Merino Thank you! You don't need a flatter, it just makes the grinding easier. If you're careful you can make a pretty flat surface with just a hammer.

I can imagine but I'm pretty new at blacksmithing, slowly gahering the tools, mostly for knifemaking but already forged a pair of tongs, not perfect but handy ^^ The thing I need the most is a belt grinder, files are slow and if the technique is bad the result won't be even, I can tell by experience lol

Cool. Belt grinder is on my list too! Quite expensive buggers...looking for a used one.

Yeah, really expensive... I'm thinking about making one myself, there's some really good over internet and you can save good money

That's always an option!

which came first the flatter or the flatter. :)

Cliff Hartle the later

You'd probably just grind it flat if you didn't already have a flatter.

You could simply put a half inch plate on top and hit it with a hammer.

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+Alberto Williams I didn't think it deserved that much flattery.

Brain.exe stopped working. Reason: mind blow

+Helsling the joke fell flat on some.

+Helsling yeah, he stressing it by using a manual flatter as well.

Aza Shukri Thank you!

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Bloodaxetheirritable Haha. Thank you!

Matthew Fraser Thanks! Yes, it forms a special bond between the tool and the maker :)

Atristiel For top tools (struck tools) like this you don't need a fancy handle, and it's not wedged in place. Should be easy to replace and the loose fit does not transfer so much of the vibrations.

Very cool!

Luis Fernando The main expense is time and effort! :D

+MichaelKingsfordGray I agree! Tools such as this have so much more worth than anything you can buy off a shelf.

+Sergio Ariel Díaz Díaz :) You just grind or file it flat.

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***** So hardcore.

Pat Cyr Thanks! It is fun, you have to try it out some day.

Not much...

So, they are pretty much useless?

William de Tempo Livre If you refer to "scale" that falls off hot steel, that's iron oxide. Can't do much with that. Theoretically you could reduce it to iron again in a bloomery furnace...

Hum... I understand

BlockBuster_48 i understood that reference!

Not a pun

:) Thanks!

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***** Thank you! The real beauty of punching and drifting a hole instead of drilling is that nearly no material is lost. It just moves to the sides, which makes it almost as strong as it were without a hole.

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Mikkel Gran Hmm, I don't know... What do you want to know?

How did you feel when Northug won the five mile? ;)

Mikkel Gran Terrible... but that's pretty irrelevant. :)

Thanks! Yes that is nice... and you can only blame yourself if they break or don't work as they should. :)

+Alejandro Arias Thanks. I don't quite understand what you're trying to do. Are you making a new part and use the yellow as pattern, but the yellow has too small rings? You need to calculate the length needed quite accurate first.

+Torbjörn Åhman Thanks for answer me. No, i need to bend the bar like the yellow template. :)

***** Ok, I would measure and calculate the length first and then form the eyes/rings on each end first, then bend the rest, I think.

+Torbjörn Åhman Thanks, i will try.

+Ishmail Vladimir - Same steps, save making the actual piece flat, instead of using a flatter you would use the face of your anvil. Consolidate heat to that specific spot and lay it face down on the anvil, strike the hammer end and it will make that portion flat.

+Ishmail Vladimir how did the first blacksmith forge his first hammer and anvil? *o_0*

+charlesissleepy The first thing mankind used.... Was rocks.... They used rocks... And as technology progressed, so did the metals used and the ability to make tools from castings and other various methods of forging. Pretty neat history if you care to look into it.

Mithaniel Marr i kind of figured but its still kind of wid to think about. Like along the lines of what would you do if you were on a deserted island. Even knowing what coud be made, how its made, and having all the materials means little without the heritage of necessary tools. You could work around a lot of things but modern tools make it much easier

How did the first blacksmith make his tongs?

+magicstix0r Ha ha.

+magicstix0r what about the powerhammer ? :p

irlrp At least minus 10000 points :)

magicstix0r Perhaps he made it for a friend or a customer? Seeing how he appears to have a complete forge (I am new at this but I know enough to know he has the basics for a small shop) to spend time making things! I would love to have a small forge to play around with.

Thanks

Oh, thank you!!

not all the time

+Haeral imperial can be more accurate at times since the spaces between the unit is bigger and i dont have to adjust the ruler as much, sides its harder to guesstimate 1m vs 1ft, metric is useful when ur drilling holes cuz den u don nid to have 2 different sets of bits, anyways are u all that bad at fractions?

+Haeral its easier to place the instrument accurately since there will be less parallax error when u have bigger divisions

+Haeral im saying you will have less parallax error with bigger divisions since the divisions are further apart so you wont misread them, i may just be a blind fuck tho

sainglain are you a dumbass because the whole industrial world uses imperial