Always a pleasure. It might be nice to see your favorite female blacksmith!

Great Instruction ! Thank You !

Excellent video Mr. Moss 👍✌

love these detailed vids of basic smithing- with real skill level. Keep it up Mate!

This practical day to day stuff is great. Have a great day.

Great video, really helpfull...always enjoy seeing your vidéos. Thanks Dan

I really like your technique of using a small, narrow slitting punch to start the hole making process rather than a round punch. It really does minimize loss of material. Thanks for pointing out something to make hole punching more efficient.

Excellent video. Found this really helpful and I’ll give it a try next time I’m at the farm. Cheers for sharing the knowledge

Very nice demo. Thank you.

Anything you show is helpful . This video really changed the way I well be punching holes .cheers.

Very helpful video thank you so much. keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend forge on love the videos

This is terrific. You take the time even though you could be whipping through. Thanks.

Pretty darn awesome Dan! Thanks and God Bless you sir!

As usual another great teaching video Dan Big Thumbs Up !

Great video, I will definitely try this method soon

Hi Daniel, Your videos are very informative, I'm in the throws of setting up my own shop, I trained as Blacksmith in the Army back in 97 but time and circumstances have prevented me in getting started so your videos are helping remember some of the skills I forgot. I shall look forward to more of your videos 👍

Great video! Heading out to the forge right now! Thanks

I like your videos there always so interesting keep them coming.

Beautiful, clean work and very well explained - thank you very much! :-)

Great video, thank you for sharing

Very nice , enjoyed. Very instructive.

Always interesting to see how you do things and pick up little things I might have missed in my process. Always trying to improve. Thank you.

Very cool Daniel thanks for sharing I’d love to see some traditional jointery

love to see a bit about how you get your ideas for your artistic architectural forging it is the type of work I want to get into

Thanks! Very helpful!!

Hey, great video great job great instruction great everything! As always. Very skilled and very good manner of explanation for the beginner or even slightly advanced or possibly advanced depending on the people. Just wonderful. Thank you for sharing. Have a beautiful day or evening and be well. Jim

Fabulous video!

Awesome job sir, loving the videos. As far as a suggestion I would say keep it going through the project there are tenon's still and some of the other tips on footing things up.

Tools don't make the blacksmith, but they sure do make the job easier!

Thank you, Daniel. Been a while since I checked in. Love the video, great job. Hope all is well... Take care...

Very useful. Thanks

Very cool, and great show!! As for suggestions, do the rest, as for tennons n such. Great stuff in that. Thank Sir !!🍺😉⚒️❤️👍👍

This video was very helpful, thanks.

Thanks Dan... As usual, great vid' instructive and clear. I'd love more forge-food... Take care!

Hey Dan, thanks for the video, take care 👍

Very helpful.

Thanks for sharing

Отлично, спасибо, посмотрел с удовольствием

Nice video you did a great job. I would like to see how you make slot punches, hot chisels and drifts . Thanks have a good day

Great pure content, would love to see a series on joint samples, ie, punching 20mm square through 20mm square, Joints tensioned & riveted etc breaking each individual joint into easy to follow steps. ATB, Dave

Have you tried striking chisels, punches, stamps etc. with a soft head hammer? Just annealed low carbon steel and the blow is more even and the tool last longer. It really is impressive. It doesn't crack like brass and it's much cheaper. Jewelers use soft tin hammers for fancy stamps. Good instruction.

You mentioned upsetting after slit punching to help open up the hole. I must try that!

Really like the detailed instruction. I've punched some with poor results. Draw through is my nemesis.

As I watch, I can see one of my problem is my noster bounce about.Might get a bigger and heavy noster or use my hold down clamp Thanks it's great to see someone confident Blacksmith showing a upgrade of the right way. Daniel I thank you Sir

Great video! I should invest some time to do some proper drifts, punches and a bolster.

Thanks for sharing your process. I've had good success using coal dust as a lubricant when punching, curious if you have as well. Looking forward to the tenon video, as I will be starting my first gate soon.

Merci 👍

I day I will learn something... Maybe. Thanks dude

Enjoyed the video, have it filed for future reference. Noted that the the second color (RED) used with captions was very difficult to read as it was over the darker area (anvil) at the bottom of the screen. Maybe try a different color or lighter shade.

How about an upset shoulder mortise & tenon joint like those done on the top rails of old blacksmithed gate's

Hi Dan, I've recently gotten into your channel and I think you deserve far more subscribers than you have presently! You have a really nice way of instructing - calm, friendly and in no way condescending, but brimming with useful information. I've already picked up a lot of things from you that I hadn't heard mentioned elsewhere. I haven't looked through all of your videos so apologies if you've covered these, but I'd love to see your take on a basic forge weld tutorial, perhaps for something like a turkey's foot poker end. I'd also be interested to hear your tips for getting really clean-looking half-lap rivet joints; I've really started to favour these recently but my success rate at getting them all looking uniform is not great! Luke

Something satisfying about a perfectly formed slug.

Great video Dan. Do you always work this methodically or just for videos? I enjoy the pace at which you present tutorials and I’m curious if it changes when you’re working alone. Thanks again for the great content.

There's great holes and then there's EPIC holes.

Great video Dan! Quick question: What kind of steel did you use for the slitting punch, the drift, and the bolster plate?

Enjoyed the video however I would like to know what you do with the rounded out sides?

Danny boy, like the silent show at the end! Like "enough said "

Great Video, are the holes in the bolster the same size as the punch used or are the slightly over sized?? Thanks joe

Very nice video Is there some other simple projects you could create videos for? Your back to basics videos were very informative. Army SE Oregon USA

Nice...What material do you recommend for the slitting punch and sizing punch? Thanks

Does lump charcoal dust work the same as coal dust for a drift/pinch release agent?

My only question: At what size of a hole do you use a slit punch vs a round punch? Is it a difference in the hole size vs stock size or just a generalization (say 6mm or smaller gets a round punch and drift to size and over 8mm gets a slit and drift to round)?

I noticed that you rotated the punch 180 degrees I will try that

Have you done a video on making a slitting punch? If not, could you? All of the holes I’ve seen done have been with a round punch, but it looks a lot quicker with the slitting punch.

I have forklift tine. Steel prices have gone up. But cutting it with an angle grinder is not so simple. Any special tech to do it?

Dan Do you make your own beeswax graphite lubricant or do your purchase it? if you make it what is the formula and where do you get components

Is there any reason you couldn't have a slot punch/drift all in one tool? Slot punch that gradually tapers up to the hole size you want all in one go?

I've only ever used oval and round punches, seeing this demonstration, I kind of wonder why even bother with them? The slitting punch seemingly removes very little material and has less resistance to punching through. The ony thing I can think of right at the moment is for quite small holes where making a drift that's actually sturdy enough could perhaps be problematic.

Where do i find your etsy products(i am in canada) not having any luck finding

I like perfect holes.

I've never seen someone weld tongs, I get impatient with upsetting, so this seems like a much better alternative. Beautiful work by the way

Ok, well the thing I'm currently having trouble with is brazing in the forge. I don't own a torch, so figured I'd try it in the forge, but it did not work to plan as yet. Any tips on that front would be most useful.

Dan what happens if you don't have some of the gear you have for hole punching?

I'd like to see more forge food. Blacksmithing related, a draw knife.

Nice video as always Dan. What metal did you make your slitting punch out of?

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Do you have a video on making your own bolster plate as well as drifts and punches? That would be a good video showing how to make those tools.

I dont know, I would always use chisel plates. Either mild steel or aluminium just to reduce the risk of damaging my anvil to zero.

How bout a dragon slaying tutorial? Not enough of those on KZfaq.

The grease cooling bubbleing and smoke worrys me a bit 🤔