Glen, very nice job on the new design. Just a suggestion for the short upper die problem. Just cut a half moon notch on the top die holder of the tool for a little area to use a a finger grab area for the upper die. Nice job as always with all your videos. TP

I really appreciate you showing us the process, it feels like I learn more when you are developing a process rather than just demonstrating a tried and tested technique. Thanks Glen.

Gotta love those moments where you look at something and think, "Oh yeah... I'm a blacksmith." Happens all the time.

Nice design change, I think the pipe idea will work great. You could weld on a striker face to the short top die to add length. Thank you for sharing your tool.

I’ve heard you mention Mr. Hodges and other supporters several times in the past. From a deadbeat viewer too poor to help... thank you for keeping GS Tongs up and running.

I like watching the inventive process.

I recommend hot filing the inside of your pipe guides. its what i did when i home brewed 3 guides myself. keep up the great work.

I like the new design of the guillotine tool. Looks like something I could fabricate myself and that's why I like your channel so much .

try a vinegar soak for 24hrs after youve forged the pipe to shape, you may remove enough scale that the dies will fit.

Always enjoy your thought processes and learn from you!

First off, been watching and lurking for quite a while. I've always enjoyed just how clean and refined all of your work is. Thank you for sharing and keep making all the goodness!

A great, simple to make guilllotine-tool. Yours and Mark Aspery are for me the winning ones. Lots of crappy ones for sale and expencive. Kind regards Blacksmith Filip Ponseele

Im a bit conserned with the tool bending. I managed to bend my guillotine tool to an unusable state. Personally i would go back to the oldest design to combat that and would just pay more for shipping. Your gilloteen tool is by far the cheapest ive seen and comes with dyes so i dont think itle be too bad on the customers. I am also conserned with mushrooming and recomend lengthening the top fuller a bit.

Heard about a big train crash in Taiwan this morning, and my first thought was "I hope Glen and his family are safe!"

You could just drift them over a bolster plate, that will allow more of the drift to get in. Maybe also run a file a few times on the inside?

Good work as always. We featured this video in our homemade tools forum this week :)

If the top die was an inch wider than the bottom die, you could raise it with the workpiece and slide the workpiece into position, freeing up the hand you were using to raise it. Try it.

Maybe flip your pipe blanks over as you drift and drift from both directions like a hammer eye.

I love mine - thank you Glen!

You could also relieve the corners of the guides with a dremel tool.

Great stuff!!!

Need to improve the drift a little, even if it means making a specific shaped one with slightly larger corners to more replicate the machined tool shape to get better corner clearance. Then you don't need to relieve the die corners. Thanks Glen.

very creative. looks good.

I like the tool.. I kinda wished I had an anvil with a hole... If it were me, I d like to see a retainer for the lower die. A set screw or welded nub, a punched in dimple.. something to retain the lower die as you pick it up, and not have it fly out.... I could see in a more calculated fabricating movements of an item, the need for a full anvil face or to revert to use of tool and just to pick up the set and out goes the bottom tool flying about, loosing your heat. hopefully not in a critical moment....

the yellow flakes coming off of the pipe make me think there's zinc in the pipe. be careful

Hello, be careful with those pipes they look galvanized and the fumes can cause metal fever when you take to much of it, some blacksmiths got really sick of it, even died, but great video !

Hi Glen, maybe get a single oversized die made to shape the pipe around

what radius is the DOM -OD ? they both look very creative designed tools ..great video Glen

It’s a very good.

Man oh man if you only had a fly press. I know you love tai pei... And i am sure the stock for tongs is crazy cheap there, but surely coming home to America would benefit you business-wise as far as shipping costs and product availability

I'd think if you did the initial shaping of the pipe guides, your machine shop when mill them to final dimension for a fraction of the cost of milling the entire thing

the fiirst pipe didnt work because the metal shrinks as it cools , so even tho your drift fits in the finished product wont

Hi Glen. Have been on your website and what you do is art👍. Can I buy since I live in Denmark. Lars

Have you considered purchasing or making a broach to cut the internals of the pipe?

Хорошая работа ! Звук удара по наковальне глухой и мне интересно из какого металла она сделана ? Привет из России !

Looks like there was zinc on that pipe. Not good.

Love the design, How do I order one?

Never mind, I found your website.

is this the style you are currently selling? Your site shows a different style.

What do you use for die material?

Why not just use square or some other profile tube and weld 2 peaces to the third?

Why couldn't a person add washers under the bottom die to make it taller

What was the pipe size?

Its pronounced "gilloteen" not "geeoteen", the letter L is'nt silent!

Very lazy smithng.....