The Smokehouse video comes out next week!

At some point down the trail, your self-sufficient homestead could make for a fascinating living history site. You have the blacksmith and forge, kitchen and oven, livestock pen, wood shop, well etc. Your team of pioneers are outstanding folks. Thanks for sharing this living journey of education and appreciation of those who have gone before us creating what has become OUR living history.

A trick to preserving the metal and also making sure the hinge will operate smoothly is after the finished product is ready for completion is to heat the item up to just dull red throughout and then to either quench it in oil or melt beeswax all over it and let it cool and wipe it clean. It will basically season it like cast iron cookware. Another tip is when you have to file your work is to hot file it. It removes the metal MUCH quicker and saves your files teeth as long as you keep it cool.

I could watch Brandon all day working at the blacksmith shed. Looking forward to more videos from the Homestead.

It's amazing how so many talented artists and educators have congregated to form Townsends. Each one is a such a find!

I study in a medieval building where a lot of hand-forged hinges and other components are still used, lovely to see the process to make them in the first place! I no longer have a forge but I do some coppersmithing so I may try making a small hinge for a little trinket box or something

The progress is outstanding Jon and Co.! Looking forward to the final result, the homestead is starting to come truly alive

Brandon's presentation style is so pleasant and clear - always, always interesting. Thank you, Townsends! Really excited to see that new smokehouse you guys have been working so hard on building!

I still love that bellows. You guys did such a great job on that.

I really think you have a amazing crew there at Townsend.I could watch any of you do nothing but fold paper and still enjoy the video.Thanks for bringing us along.

Watching craftsmanship like this is absolutely mesmerizing. Thank you.

This guy has serious skill in everything he does.. Townsends is the OG KZfaq channel

The level of skill you all posses always, always amazes me! I love these videos!!

A man within a forest, just showing some simplistic blacksmithing. Extremely informative and to the point. These are the videos that more people need overall when explaining things. Just direct and to the point. Also the process explanation is nice and welcoming.

My grandpa was a blacksmith. I love watching these to think about him. Thank you!

Always a pleasure to watch a craftsman at work. It gives me a great appreciation for how things were made.

I like how Brandon made the forks for the hinges and using the whole width of the stock to go in between the forks will make a strong hinge. Thank you for the well done video.

"Beautiful day" Blacksmith's humour!

Wohoo!!! SMOKEHOUSE! very nice hinge work. Gonna set up a small forge out back, you all have inspired me! Love these videos with Brandon. Keep up the fantastic work everyone! The new music is incredible, please tell me there will be a cd. Oh my gosh and the dog jumping! 😂😂

Never thought it would be so awesome to watch somebody make a hinge. However I found it rather fascinating. Thanks for sharing this video and keep up the great work.

Another fantastic video, I don't know if KZfaq does awards for these but, these videos are so good I wish you could do much much more. No BS, just great content. Thank you Mr. Townsend.

Great project and nicely done! A good final step: heat the hinge up to a black heat, and then rub beeswax over it, (if it smokes a lot it is just a tad to hot) this will help protect the metal from rusting, and add some lubrication to the hinge pin.

Congratulations on 2 MILLION Subscribers!

Blacksmithing videos and building videos are some of my favorite!

Yet another wonderful video from the Townsends. A joy to watch. Thank you.

Most people do not realize how time consuming most tasks were back in the frontier days.

this was super relaxing. love how it started snowing at the end. y'all work on an american fantasy land!

Brandon. Well Done!!! It's a privilege to watch someone as skilled as you are. Kudos!

Jesteście najlepsi i dajecie tyle inspiracji z twoich wspaniałych filmów 👍

Nice hinge, the best thing about these blacksmithing videos has to be the wonderful sounds of hot metal being worked. It's musical, even the roaring, breathing fire and the sizzling quenching can't compete.

Good job. Blacksmithing is an art.

Those hardy tools are so important!

Townsend is about to hit 2 million subscribers and 1000 videos. It would be really neat if your thousandth video was a celebration of both of these milestones

The snow is flying. Many years the day after Thanksgiving for us meant rain. Many times all day rain. But not this year. I hope you all had a happy Thanksgiving. 😄🦃🍗

lol i love that outro, "i think everybody should give this a try" like we all have a smelter or whatever

🦉John - You emit humble wisdom, don't stop digging and spreading. Thankyou 🦉

More content for the weekend! I am truly thankful.

Nicely demonstrated and explained. Thank you.

The anvil I worked with was smaller. My brother got the 300# Swedish anvil when we sold my fathers shop.

So cool! Such a wholesome channel. This channel and Primitive Technology are my two favourite escapes from the modern world.

It has been awesome sharing y'all's channel with family & friends during these holidays!! Thank you all so much for such enriching and just down to earth content.

I could just go to sleep to these videos

I love how Brandon''s opening here looks like he's about to offer me a quest for some fabled musket or sword.

Pine tar might be a good coating for the hinges. Carburize it onto the metal like you would season a cast iron skillet. I use pine tar for most of the hardware I make when doing blacksmithing, myself and it lasts a long time and is easy to recoat.

I really enjoyed this, very much. It's nice to see how different trades, and projects were done in the 18th century, in North America. Cheers!

Awesome Brandon. Love watching the blacksmithing vids.

Townstarts more like it. Thanks for all the videos and positive content.

Video 999! Can't wait for 1,000!!

We are impatiently waiting for the smoke house vid

I love watching the blacksmithing videos and can't wait to see the smokehouse video 😍

I’m always conflicted about the blacksmithing videos; I know I’m going to find them fascinating anytime I hear the gentle guitar and Brandon’s excited yet even way of teaching, but I also know I’ll only enjoy half of the video cause I’ll be asleep for the rest.

Thanks for the fantastic content! Your videos have inspired me to start building my own cabin.

Those are great looking hinges for a rustic smokehouse and will last for ever!

I'm so hyped to see the full smokehouse build video.

Well done, Brandon!! We hope to build a forge at our house and try some blacksmithing. Love the Townsend videos!!

This is absolutely amazing guys!!!

A joy to watch and listen to as always 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

I'm not a blacksmith, nor do I want to be...but I could watch this all day! Thank you, I really enjoyed that!

For a young fella recently started out, you're coming right along with your skills. Big difference between the oven door handle and this hinge and other recent work. Keep the cold ends out...

I love this channel. Thank you for all you do.

Awesome! I love the forging!

Thank you. Happy Thanksgiving. God Bless and stay safe.

Brandon went from the silent blue guy following John around to the very pleasant presenter who only speaks when necessary.

Nice video, and nice time to be reminded of you guys!

I'm loving these blacksmith videos.😍

Woo-hoo! Happy 2 million subscribers, guys! Congrats! :)

Happy holidays!

Great job! It looks amazing.

Good evening from Syracuse NY brother and everyone else thank you for sharing a history live video

Lovely stuff as always

I've made my own hinges for a couple of projects already. It's nice to make stuff yourself

I’m always a big fan of the blacksmith videos😸

Judging by the holes in those gloves, there ought to be another leatherworking episode some day.

Smoking bison myself this evening! Good luck to ya from the far north! Nothing better than creating useful things with your own hands

Wonderful work

I love it! Outstanding!

I watch forged in fire all the time , only problem is , very limited use of what they do. This was very enjoyable and informative. Thank you.

Nice work, Brandon!

Your channel really appeals to my lizard brain, it keeps telling me to cook things over open fire and build things in the forest. :)

Excellent work! 👍

It’s always easier to work with a piece of long stock than to try to hold it with a pair of tongs.

I like this method. Thanks for sharing.

Love these videos

Probably won't get to do this myself, but you look so warm in the smithshop.

Love the homestead !

This show is getting completely unhinged!

Great video!

Great stuff!

Way cool relaxing watching this

Great job!

I really enjoy the content you guys put out. You show us the skills and abilities people need to, not just survive, but thrive. If you were to take some of the top income earners in America and put them on your homestead they would most likely be less than worthless contributors to the homestead. I enjoy that you're content is making us rich with what is REALLY important in the long run.

Great job

When you were talking about the cold anvil sucking all the heat out of your piece (Thank you thermodynamincs...) I wondered. Would a frontier blacksmith in this situation ever pre-warm the anvil, maybe by building a little fire on it?

I used to dabble in blacksmithing a bit. I want to get back into it and try some more difficult projects, but I have two main problems. The first is I need to either find or make some kind of jig to be able to file a consistent edge on the knife blade I made before I can finish that project. The second one is difficulty finding material. I can use rebar from the local hardware store for some projects, but I haven't been able to find stock steel anywhere. The hardware store doesn't have anything suitable for making knives with, and all the places I found where I could order it online were geared towards industrial use. I couldn't find anywhere to get the steel I needed that didn't have a minimum order of half a ton or more.

I always learn something new with the blacksmith videos. I would love to forge with you sometime. I would also like to build a forge like yours to go in our little blacksmith shop we use for demonstrations to school kids. We have one brick forge with side blast. It's fashioned after one to make wagon wheel rims.

nice work!

Adulthood is about getting excited over hinges being made the olde fashioned way.

Hope all of you had a great Thanksgiving!

Great tutorial!

Well done thank you for the video