Glen, I watch for each new video notification you send out, I really enjoy watching you work with hot steel and the tools you make. Your style of black smithing is forgiving and easy to follow along, the way it should be. I have never been disappointed watching your videos. Thanks for educating and entertaining us..

I enjoy watching your videos. There is always new things to learn everyday. I was a Horseshoer (farrier)for fifty six yrs.Now at seventy two yrs old I still enjoy working in the forge and blacksmithing. keep up your good work, Thanks

Keep working the forge the way you do and I will never leave man. I've learned a LOT from you. You've gotten me unstuck from so many projects. I respect your work and content.

Glen, Just keep doing what you have been doing , as long as you are staying true to who you really are,,, That will truely reflect your own personality . In my opinion there is nothing wrong with the way that you are presenting the craft to us that are retatively new to the craft. For me personally I tend to be like a sponge, adsorbing all of the information that I possibly can, Thank You For Sharing !!,...

Thanks Glen, I like this style cross, I usually give mine a ballpeen finish for aging affect then wire brush with a brass wire brush but I like this change up you did👍

probably what I call a breathe in breathe out thing,nothing can survive only breathing in or breathing out of course...I watch as much as time allows and certainly appreciate what you have taught me,but there's work issues, family issues,etc.Hoping you don't let minor things bother you too much,and best of everything!

Hey Glen, I look forward to all your videos. Also enjoy using the chisel, punches and tongs you made for me. Keep them coming. Bob in Arizona

Guilty. But in my defense, it’s been that time of the year and family and travel have taken the time I usually spend on channels like yours. I enjoy your work because you don’t yell and rush things. Don’t change your style, don’t change methods just do more of the same, and beginners like me will continue to learn and appreciate all your efforts.

Simple , thoughtful, elegant, as always. thank you

Glen, I watch my share of blacksmith fabrication and hot work videos and yours is by far one of the best. Lots of great info always and a pleasure to watch how you can do so much in a small space. Keep up the great work.

Excellent work as always Glen. Keep posting videos, I'm not going anywhere. Thanks again.

no problem Glen , with the cross you do know definitely a 'work of art. Good luck Glen!

Yes great advice.. I did not have the blade torqued enough. plus the Elbow in close to the side Helps.. Thanks as Always..Snow in Forecast here in Michigan... Lol

I have watched many of you videos but this has pushed me to finally subscribe. I have made several crosses now and love the idea of the folded in cross arms. I'd like to see you finish the hot cut cross and compare it to mine. Thanks for the great video and keep up the good work.

Nice work, it's nice to follow along with you designing on the fly!

Awesome job. I'm not going anywhere. I enjoy the videos and your sense of humor.

Beautiful Work!!!!!!

Awesome video as always, thanks for the inspiration....I'm going to go out and try this one when the snow lets me.

I enjoy your videos and I like your hammers. You have a beautiful style in your finished products. Keep the vids coming.

great as always hang in there your stuff is fantastic as old guy beginner I learn a ton from you thank you for your time and hard work!!!!!!

I watch every time, Glen is the best, but recently, I noticed something happened to my KZfaq. ..some/many videos will not play...that I would think would have... so it might have 'not been playing, for other viewers. not sure what happened.... anyway, thanks glen for all your efforts...

Looks fantastic great job, really liking this cross even better than the first one you made keep up the great work.

Love your work man truly inspirational, to think I got here from a basic how to sharpen a drill bit video keep up the great work

I learned something new thanks for sharing with us. Awesome

No idea what is up with your view and subscriber count, but I watch every video! Thanks for all the work!

Good stuff Glen. I'm still listed as a subscriber at my end and had this video promoted when it was released, as usually happens with subscribed channels. There seems to be various glitches with YT, which occur now and then. Comments appear and disappear on some videos, view numbers often change and so anomalies with subscriber numbers isn't a surprise either. It isn't good though, for hard-working producers and I can imagine how it may dent morale. Thanks again for the upload.

Complimenti Glen , originalissima quella croce ! Un abbraccio e buona serata

Very nice. Thank you.

I'm still here glen, hopefully it's a KZfaq issue and you get it worked out, for me part of the allure to your channel is that your an American halfway round the world making this work which I believe would make some pretty good video content by itself, also have learned some great techniques from you

Hey Glen I'll be hanging around I admire your work and videos, Funny I just made 12 split crosses a day ago there very basic 5/8 x 5/8 stock, I ran out of railroad spikes plus the fact spikes take me quite a bit longer. Keep the faith,cya chuck

Man you got the most polished looking anvils of any blacksmith i ever saw on you tube....lol Some day you should do a video on how you keep them looking like that

how do you keep the hacksaw blade to stay nice and center in the metal.. mine after about the 1st inch

i learn,something new from all,ypur vids,please dont stop posting them

Great work I like the look of it and man your hot cut worked amazingly. I have also lost a considerable amount of subscribers recently so it must be another KZfaq fault as it's happened before but I fully agree with you it's not good considering we are small channels and seeing a loss of subscribers makes it feel like all the filming and editing effort we put in goes to waste it's such a shame. Anyway bud keep the vids coming 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

When I make these, I usually cut the arms and the top to a shorter length. I make a lot of these from rail spikes. I flatten the head so it stands on its own and make the cuts. For the cut coming from the bottom, I have to make a 45 degree cut just past the head of the spike to detach what will be the top arm. Hard to describe in print, but fairly easy to do with a cut off wheel and hacksaw.

Muy inyeresante,gracias por compartir

I'm here to stay Glen. I enjoy your work and learn something all the time. Piss on youtube.

always enjoy your videos

I've noticed KZfaq changed the format of the home page somewhat which sucks I may add. Not sure if that has anything to do with it. But I enjoy your videos as you know. Keep up the great content. Love the tools you made for me!

What kind of anvil do you use and does it lock together or are the swedge inter meshed. I would like to have one like it.

love your videos

Hi Glen. Another Dynamite video! Not sure what the deal is with your subscribers and views but I have been a subscriber for some time and have watched all your videos. I like your attention to detail (maybe you have a little OCD I know i do) but I think that adds to the quality. Two thumbs up friend and best wishes.

Nice technique, and well explained. Well, I'm still there. I hope, I will never disappear. I won some subs in the last time. Greetings from Germany, Edgar

You got a sub. Thanks, that is so cool got to go and make one now :-)

Sweet nice work

Great video very cool

-Glen Sorry to here about the youtube hick up .Just to say great job on the cross I like it and by the way I wont be going anywhere. You come up with some amazing ways to do different things and that is what makes your channel interesting for me. Not to tell you what to do but fyi Bladesmithing is good for views ? It doesn't hurt to try different things ya know Picture it you could do Bladesmithing to highlight your progress into it and still do the artistic type as well but the Bladesmithing is real hot right now.But Anyways you do great work and it is nice to see someone who loves the craft put forth some amazing things. Good luck and cant wait for the next video. Sincerely, Martin Moldovan

How do you keep the saw cuts to stay in the center with the hacksaw. mine always veer to one side???

Hopefully it's just a glitch, I enjoy your work. I could see using this technique with larger stock and bending short 90 degree legs at the tips for a trivet. Keep your chin up

Have you played around with how wide you can get he split before it gets unstable? Could do a cool folded cup holder with that middle hole being where you put your beer or whatever.

Besides the glitch, you should also push for more likes in your vids - they make a difference getting you into the trending lists which helps pick up even more subs. Theres a chrome plug-in to auto like vids, definitely a good add on for viewers since paging down or dropping full screen to like a vid is a pain. Hope you get your sub base back up - don't let youtube get you down!

Keep it up, we're watching.

Do you make the anvils to sell? I think enough have asked that would be willing to buy. Just starting to learn and will self teach as I go as well as learn from video. I am looking at used tools as a starter, but why not make some of those classy anvils for sale...just sayin

Nice idea. Thanks for another one for me to try. Quick question, why did you decide to settle in Taiwan?

Very nice job thanks for letting me be a cyber apprentice

I am not a blacksmith but I Love watching your vids (U R 1 of only 4 smith's I Subscribe to) (I also love Big Dog Forge, Chandler Dickinson, an 1 other) I love how you explain things so clearly. I was wondering if you were Making a traditional church type cross, could you just cut 75% and 25% instead of 50/50 and have a head start on the bottom leg being longer? I Love those bent knee tongs you made, to me that shape just makes perfect sense! Thank you for all the vids, I honestly wish my retirement income would allow me to donate to all 3 of my favorites.

A couple months ago I had to resubscribe to your channel, you just disappeared from my list. Not sure what is the cause of the issue. I don't mind if your videos run long, I enjoy your work! Your hard work is appreciated.

Glen, you could easily use the same concept to create a trivet or a candle holder. Now I do not know what happened to your subs and views, but I had noticed that KZfaq had unsubscribed me from several channels that I have followed for years. Plus I noticed a few weeks back as I was going through my subscription feed and would click on a video to view it that the subscription button underneath the video was red, which indicates that I was not subscribed. I thought that was odd since the video was in my subscription feed, so I went to the channel page to double-check since it may have been an error with how the page loaded and it showed the same thing. Checked my feed and the video was no longer listed. This tells me that KZfaq had introduced an error into their system with the last update and will now check my subscription status prior to leaving a channel or video page. I wonder how many I had missed and tend to think most people wouldn't even notice it. I have also had two videos show up in my feed that I had no interest in from channels that I never heard of. Not sure what to do about this. Anyway, it is nothing that you have done. Be well my brother! Peace!

Tell me more about your anvils. I like those. Who makes them?

Hey Glen, cool little project, I think that will be one of the things I try next. I really like that T-shirt, do you sell them? Im also thinking about investing in some of your tongs and handled tools, is the shipping reasonable to Canada? Thanks

I don't know if you have heard about it since this video but there is a glitch with KZfaq in that when someone subscribes and then unsubscribes, the unsubscribe is counting as 2 in the system. I don't think you have really lost anyone and I think they should be sorting it out. There is actually a guy that has made a game of it and I think he currently has something like -1500 subs.

Glen your step angle of your cuter has a place but for this cross seems to be to aggravish damage the limb. Maybe just my likes but just what it is.Love your handles.Like your guiliten tooll. I can't spell, I still trying Thanks

Very nice great job,,I'm not going anywhere..

Make sure you check your google plus settings, I have been hearing about other KZfaq channels have the same kinds of trouble and it seems there are issues related to google plus

You worry too much. Good videos don't get too long. You make good video.

Did you say you were from tonawanda??

KZfaq being KZfaq . still watching

if you make another one could i suggest splitting the tips on two and rolling them over in a little scroll pattern, or if you get really fancy in a fluer de lyse if i spelt that right. I think that would be an ornate way to make the two sides shorter than the top and bottom. You haven't lost me as a subscribee

"Grandadisanoldman" who is a prolific uploader whose channel I also watch, has recently discussed KZfaq glitches. Don't really understand if it's a similar issue. Then on "Darbin Ovar" woodworking channel, today a subscriber was complaining of not getting her notifications of new videos when uploaded by Linn. Seems like there are a few bugs in the system at the moment, rather than a downturn in viewer activity.

In regards to the whole KZfaq thing, I have noticed that KZfaq unsubscribed me from a few channels that I hadn't been watching in a while. I suspect that this is part of the problem but I have also noticed that certain channels where I watch every single video weren't showing up in my feed so there are definitely problems. A lot of creators have had to resort to using Twitter and Facebook to notify everyone when a new video is posted.

This seems like it would be a good way to make a trivet as well. You tube must have removed some accounts, I find it hard to believe that 10%of your viewers left in the last week. Is there anything you miss from the states that you just can't get in Taiwan?

Those traitors.... Your real fans stay with you Glen!

There's getting to be more competitions maybe? kids like Alec steel have millions of subscribers

by the way there has been a subscriber glitch going on where viewers are being auto unsubscribed for no reason. Skallagrim has had similar issues

I made a video yesterday on forging my first attempt at a cross and it was a fun project!Mine didnt have the hole though because i guess i didnt cut into the other cut, but i did punch a small one in so it could be a on a necklace ( a lil heavy but oh well lol)

Could have been peoples accounts getting removed for various reasons. But I think I had some likes on some of my videos drop as well. And that was from like 3 to 1 or 2 lol.

do you sale your tongs

If who ever unsubscribes me today, I'll be back tomorrow. I'm not going anywhere. Sorry for the loss of sub's and views. By the way, very cool cross. I might try an angle grinder with a thin cut off disk and see how that works out.

Why are you living in Taiwan?

I've 'lost' 1300 views in the last couple of days....

Good video put me in for the hammer.

Don't talk so much, just do what it is you're doing. The words and explanations just get in the way. Not hatin' you asked in the video, and that's my suggestion. Too many smiths want to talk.