Blacksmithing Tools: Ball swage

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10 ай бұрын

A tool used to forge a sphere onto barstock. 4140 for the dies, mild steel body.
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John Rigoni
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Пікірлер: 45

@robscott4723 9 ай бұрын

FANTASTIC!!!All the way from the southern tip of Africa!

@FeatherForge 10 ай бұрын

Lovely to see someone using a press for something other than punching a hammer eye or forging Damascus. Great looking swage John. Looks handy. All the best

@rigoniironworks 10 ай бұрын

This press is Awesome and yes, it can do a hell of a lot more than that.

@swblacksmith.7445 10 ай бұрын

Iv've been enjoying seeing the press in action. Very nice job on the ball swage.

@truecockney438 10 ай бұрын

Enjoy watching this even though I don’t know what it is and I’d love to see you make a claw hammer if at all possible

@powellmrp6335 10 ай бұрын

A well-planned economy of motion and industry. Bravo, Sir. Cant wait to see how you incorporate it into your pieces. Also, congrats on working at a forge while the Houston Chronicle describes the Comfort Index as 0's and 1's out of 10 ...

@rigoniironworks 10 ай бұрын

thanks, yeah it's always rough in the summer. I can forge until 2pm then it's just too hot.

@keithspaniel 4 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@jamesperkins9833 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for this video!

@hedbergforgemetalworks7783 10 ай бұрын

Always a inspiration! Excellent work and great video! Thank you

@hammeredanvil7377 10 ай бұрын

Intriguing !

@HouseMadeUS 10 ай бұрын

Really enjoy these videos. Thank you.

@Alanbataar 10 ай бұрын

Noice! Your channel makes me want a power hammer, which is completely above my skills as a smith.

@marty01957 10 ай бұрын

Great job!

@ghzatomic 10 ай бұрын

Great job ❤

@mattsawyer2730 10 ай бұрын

Kung Fu masta. Respect.

@Vikingwerk 10 ай бұрын

Very nice!

@SchysCraftCo. 10 ай бұрын

Very nice job. Love seeing your videos. Always absolutely stunning and very clean design and video quality. Hopefully you get great use out of it for many years to come my friend. Can't wait to see more videos soon my friend. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend. Forge On. Fab On. Weld On. Keep Forge lit. Keep Making. God Bless.

@threeriversforge1997 10 ай бұрын

That press almost makes things too easy!

@rigoniironworks 10 ай бұрын

Dude... I can't tell you how great it is to have "dial in" compression. Need something forged down +/- to 1/16" no problem.

@ElderCristhian 10 ай бұрын

👏👏👏👏👏

@firenbubble 10 ай бұрын

jolie. Merci pour la vidéo =]

@MichHedberg 10 ай бұрын

very cool. Liked and subscribed

@rigoniironworks 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the sub!

@henrywhite8098 8 ай бұрын

What is that large mallet like hammer you used? I’ve never seen anything like it.

@shaungibson2033 10 ай бұрын

4 jaw Chuck is best for turning non bright stock to avoid damage.

@tokolosh11 10 ай бұрын

Nice video as always. The handle mild steel or spring steel? Thanks for sharing.

@rigoniironworks 10 ай бұрын

thanks! handle is mild.

@TheDIMONART 10 ай бұрын

I though, you are from Italy...But you are from Texas)) Rigoni reminds me italian names/surnames🙂

@rigoniironworks 10 ай бұрын

I'm an American, live in Texas. My Dads side is Italian, from Asiago.

@ericrose419 14 күн бұрын

What kind of steel is your 'positive' (the ball) made from? I tried this using a hardened chrome ball bearing and it squashed the bearing flat.

@rigoniironworks 14 күн бұрын

weird, I just used chrome and kept the dies hot and cooled the bearing between heats.

@dicksargent3582 10 ай бұрын

Did you preheat the dies before welding to the spring handles?

@erikcourtney1834 10 ай бұрын

No need to

@rigoniironworks 10 ай бұрын

No, I've never had tool steel crack from welding. If you're worried, pre-heat or slow your welding/let part come up to temp.

@kaseymathew1893 10 ай бұрын

I had a question which was answered by video's end: Is it a ball that swages things, or a thing that swages balls?

@rigoniironworks 10 ай бұрын

Yeah, you have to make an initial die to make the shape. There are other methods to create a sphere, if you look at my gambrel hook video, I show a rotational version.

@davidjuarez5263 10 ай бұрын

Homie has to get ...flashing? Is that what it's called? The extra bits of material that squeeze out in between both sides of the mold.. I caught the edit when the hot steels going in for hammering.. then it cut's to him pulling out a finished product. You gotta be real about it man.. we'll appreciate it.

@dicksargent3582 10 ай бұрын

If the proper amount of material is put into a ball die there should be little if any flash. You can see the extra material at the top of the ball in atleast one shot where it appears as a small tit. In other types of dies the amount of flash is determined by how close the preform fits the finish die. He is not doing drop forging.

@erikcourtney1834 10 ай бұрын

There is no flashing. He forged it under the hammer while rotating it piece. Basically upsetting any extra material back into itself. If he took it to the press and just squeezed it then there would be some flashing, if the exact amount of material wasn’t used and slightly preformed .

@rigoniironworks 10 ай бұрын

Yes, there are two ways to forge this sucker. You can slowly rotate, which eliminates flashing or drive down like a die forging which creates flashing. I do both. First heat I drive down, then take it to the belt sander to rough grind away the flashing. 2nd, 3rd heat I rotate until complete. *I do this because it's faster. If the tooling was bolted to the lower die then I could just rotate, but then it requires more tooling.

@Brandon-so9fp 10 ай бұрын

This didn't go well for me lol, I'm the proud owner of a pear shaped swage.

@andrewneilson227 10 ай бұрын

Steel pears are the next big thing in the metal fruit space though….

@tymz-r-achangin 10 ай бұрын

Interest material but would be nice if you learned to talk to explain some of the processes as you go along, or can come back later to edit in the narration of some of the steps/misc

@rigoniironworks 10 ай бұрын

My Patreon series of videos are longer and have me talking and explaining my tooling/process. My videos on youtube are more of an art piece/entertainment to the public.