It might be so obvious that it doesn't need saying, but I'm going to say it anyway, to wit, these instructions are designed for an anvil that has a 1" hardy hole. If your hardy hole is larger (one of my anvils has a 1 1/4" hardy hole) the easiest way to get this to work would be to sleeve it. If your hardy hole is smaller, I would suggest forge welding the pin together, then forging it down to dimension.

After about six years of hard use, my spring fuller decided that today was the day it would finally break. A brief poking around KZfaq brought me to this video and I stayed until the end. Well done! Now if I could just get this damned coil spring to fit into the damned gas forge...

Many Thanks! Clear, concise, detailed - excellent instruction.

Really enjoyed your video! First time anyone has given inch and millimetre measures, really appreciate that. Quiet, carefull instructions, give another dimension to the forging. Thankyou.

When it comes to hammer and anvil work, this west country boy is the best i've seen on you tube, hope we see more of your work on here soon Nathan.

Thank you for a great video. A spring fuller in the fall.

If you are having trouble getting a good fit in the hardy, it's ok to cheat ! Get your welder out and run beads down between the rods in the hardy peg and either forge gently or cheat again and use an angle grinder to get the peg to fit nice and snug. This gives a peg much more likely to stay the right size and shape over time and use. Not pure blacksmithing practise, but more 'practical smithing' to get a good result quickly so you can get on with other work. Great videos to learn from Nathan - No gimmicks or music, clear voiceover and filmed with all the detail clearly shown. As teaching aids go, yours are right up there with Mark Aspery. I just wish you would do more, but understand that you are also busy trying to earn a crust. Thanks for your generous gifts to us all !

" Super great instructions Sir " You know every stroke of the job and some great information before any damages are done from inexperienced Smiths. Subscribe now thanks for great teaching. To much before they fully know. Thanks for great teaching 👍

Thank you for this video, great design. Awesome attention to detail in all your tutorials.

Thanks for the excellent video. Lovely clear instructions, well placed camera and precise voice-over.

Without doubt one of the best blacksmithing videos I have seen. Thanks man.

Nice work all hand finished great stuff 👍

I've been working my way through your videos and I've found each to be so very helpful. I'll be going through them again once I get my forge built and I'll build each of the tools. Thank you so much for your awesome instructional videos!

I know this is a late comment, but I really love your videos! You can really see the working of the metal, no blasting music or starwipe fade ins and out. :) Just good clear instructions. Thanks again for the video.

Awesome video! I love your detailed instructions! Nothing left to guessing what you meant, you say it to be safe! Thanks!!

I just finished my spring Fuller thank you so much. Nathan thank you so much for coming back after 4 years and producing that video. The tong video

The best tutorial videos out there

As always, super tutorial. I'll be making one of these fullers next. And it's always a pleasure to watch you work. Thanks!

Just finished making one and it's working like a charm. Thanks for uploading

Nice work and very handy tool there. Thanks for the video Nathan.

Neat fuller. I like it. Fun lil project... That's on my 'to do' list now

Great job Nathan

I’ve recently started watching your videos and love the details steps of the whole process. Much appreciated because I have much to learn and these videos will definitely help. Thank you!

Make sure everything is in line. If it's not correct it, if it is leave it. Honestly great advice. I've messed up good pieces trying to tweaked that last mm just to throw everything out of alignment.

Great work as always Mate 👍🏻

Outstanding video as always thanks

Thanks once again for a exceptional instructional blacksmithing video

This is a wonderful video! thank you for your time!

Nice. Very ingenious design

thank you for your time and effort to make this video is was a great help learned a ton

Thanks for this, really appreciate your content 🎉🎉🎉

I love this fuller and am going to make one.

I got to make one of those, that thing works great!

Another great video! I will be making one very soon!

Hello, great video my unknown friend! I really appreciate the attention to detail with each step. I'm coming up fast on my first year going near full time at the craft. I'm tackling more and more, and tomorrow I'm giving this a go. I already have some 1/4in coil spring in my pile so I'll use that. Should work fine I think, the fuller it'll leave will just be half size of your demonstration. Then adjust for my anvils hardy hole, I believe also coil spring will be a tad harder than mild steel, even if I don't harden it. I think. Besides starting on a mobile set up, my biggest goal right now is making tools, and honing my skill with such. The leaf lesson was great too. Gonna have to squeeze time for one that way as well. Apologizes for the paragraph, and again thank you for the uploads!🍻

Great videos my friend!

Thanks for the video! Need to make one of these soon, putting this in my reference playlist! Much appreciated.

Real nice, Ben following along a making these tools your doing, looking forward to banging this one out, as always I enjoy watching you work everything is precise and well explained thanks

super cool. Love it

Very helpful.Thanks for making this film.CheersFrank

made the spring fuller , and round punch this morning . both work well , I use the coke forge more these days , for the same reason you said , cheers mate

Very nice how to video, thank you.

I don't know if I'm the only one because I haven't read all the comments but, it would have been nice if I could have heard all of what you were saying! I could only hear about half of what was said as the forge/blower was so loud that it drowned out a lot! The video was good and as the fellow with the comment below mine says, if your Hardy hole is of a different size, that will have to be taken into consideration and changes with have to be made, accordingly! I will be making one of these for myself very soon, along with some other spring fullers for different projects! Excellent tutorial and I DID go and read a lot of the comments and I must be the only one that couldn't hear it! I even plugged in a set of earphones to see if it was my speakers and even that didn't help! Oh well, I did get it by just watching! At first, I couldn't figure out where you were going with it but, as always, Nathan, I figured it out as you went along! It gives you that extra hand, using the Hardy hole, so that you can use BOTH of YOUR hands for the work that needs to be done! Great video! Thanks for the video!

Great video

another great ,well explained video

Nice work!

Nice don't know if I could make something so intricate, but might give it a go. I want to make one for rounding reins for tongs.

Very Good! Thanks

Good Job.

excellent brother ty

I haven't set up yet either ...we can't easily get coal or coke here so going for top quality charcoal making...Jarrah is said to be best here..doesn't spit as much as other woods..no clinker to worry about and can just make a well in a charcoal bed to create any size fire i want so i have convinced myself this is the go...the charcoal making is going to be a time factor but once done a quality fire me thinks...I hear your woes on the Gas forge but I think having both would be very convenient enabling large or awkward size work to get heated conveniently on the Charcoal and smaller stuff conveniently heated without all the fuss..just turn on the gas!!

Brilliant.

nice job thanks

I don't know if it's your camera or what, but your videos show you moving that metal better than %99 of all the other videos. Thanks again for the video, i have my iPad sitting by as I try and make these tools along with you teaching! 😀

Excellent videos....I m a beggining blacksmith...currently building my wood fired forge from an old BBQ...I do a lo of minimalistic repurposing stuff from the desert.....I have a question.....did the fuller slightly bend when you were using it at the end of the video? Would you have to re-tune the fuller from time to time?....heating process over again? Thx for sharing with us! :)

Well Done thanks for sharing you skills Yours Frank

Can you do a shop tour? This is very good work.

Hello, and first off thank you for the video. I find all your presentations to be inforative and helpful. Now to my question. What is the purpose of the multiple quenches of the mild steel, my understanding is that the mild steel will not harden with a quench? Thank you.

Excelente!

Nice hammer, I have some of his brothers!

I know this is an old video, but I have a question. When making this out of spring steel, how would you heat treat the "spring" part? Leave it soft or harden and temper it?

Inventive. Don’t know why I’ve never seen one done this way.

FYI, and not trying to be a dick in any way, inch is denoted with ( " ) not ( ' ). ( ' ) denotes a foot, ( 12" ) this is in reference to your blueprint slide, which i found super helpfull.

what brand/maker is your brass rule from? Great video I need to make one.

Hi Nathan when you doing some more video's?

Nathan, wouldn’t the spring work better if it was forged flat vertically instead of horizontally? Just wondering, I might try it to see.

I made this and it tends to bent the top fuller quite a bit. Not sure if o am hitting the metal at too cold of a temp or using a stock that is too big for what I built. Anyways, it needs dressing up quite a bit and wonder of making this from spring steel would be more sturdy. What do you think?

a way to test out how you'd like a solid fule forge like mine is to dig a small hole in the ground and on the side dig a trench for your pipe to feed air in and cover the pipe up with dirt for a heat sink. try this for a while before you go out and buy a $200 to $300 forge

I'm not a blacksmith by any stretch of the imagination, but I found your video very interesting and informative. What's an example of what that tool would be used for?

nathan could you do a vid on how to make a spring swage dies for rounding 12mm round like when doing reins for tongs??? Cheers mate.

EXELENT......EXELENT........VIDEIO!!!!!!!! couldent here some of tutorial over forge.......BUT EXELENT.

Здравствуйте! удивляюсь вашему мастерству в работе с металлом, неторопливо, каждый удар обдуманный, всё чётко! КЛАСС!!! У меня такой вопрос, какую сталь вы использовали для этой обжимки? Спасибо!

That looks handy bey! I feel your hate of gas forges and awkward shapes. My other hate is the way scale sticks to the work. You don't get that with solid fuel, the finish is so much better that I'd say an unbrushed piece made with solid fuel has a better finish than a brushed piece from a gas forge. Great video.

how do you handle excess heat from your forge, shop looks inside and i didn't see any ventilation by the forge?

Nice job, any reason why you didn't forge weld the stem? I noticed you had to flatten the edges to fit the hardy hole, so to me it suggested a simple weld would have worked. Thank you.

Excellent, assuming you started with coil spring? Just seems a perfect starting point!

Ps gas forges suck 🤣 yeah but I can mess around and not burn my steel. Great video 👍👍

Water quenching spring steel is a bad plan. And you’ll want to quench the spring for better rebound. And you’ll want to temper the fullers and spring so it doesn’t shatter. But cool project and thanks for the share.

Did you find that leaving it to cool made it brittle? Or does this not really have enough carbon to matter?

Can't wait to make one

Making one as we speak

is that a 100lb bottle of propane you are using? how long would you say that lasts you?

Could you use this method to forge a spring rounding die?

Can somebody explain what bouncing the hammer off of the anvil does? And why he throws it down on its side, then picks it up and keeps going?

If you're using mild steel why do you quench it? I always thought it didn't have enough carbon to get hard. But great video really thorough instructions!

What type of steel did you use for the fuller?

Where can a person get the big, flat wire brushes in the US?? I can't seem to find anything but the small ones!

Neat

I'm wondering what sort of life have you gotten from this fuller? Should it be made of spring steel instead? I just made this from mild steel and was curious.

not being a blacksmith, just an interested hobbyist. I wonder why the fuller arms are made so long they appear to absorb energy needlessly and little length is needed to actually do the fuller. is there an alignment issue or what, to require the arms to be so long. thanks

Never mind with the question, I saw the answer at the end

Yes you are right and I am wrong I apologize

31:35...What happened to the fuller? You went to all that trouble to get the angle you wanted when making the fuller and then on the first use the angle went to shit. Worse than parallel. I'm not a blacksmith, but I'd like to learn the craft. Is there something you could have done to prevent this, or is it just a matter of fixing the fuller after using it?

I have only used gas forges, but I have never seen one that looked like that! It looks like it was designed to be portable, and thus much lighter and smaller. I'd say it's doubtful it was meant for anything larger than horseshoes.

when you coming back, mate???????

made it a lot harder than it had to be

Super of albania thekyverimaq

Quel est la Marque de ton marteau ?

I know this is six years ago but I still see people make this mistake... Just so you know, a single quote ( ' ) stands for feet and a double quote ( " ) stands for inches.

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