Amazing how much you can learn in a short video . Like the spacer in the vice and the thickness of the twisting tool.

Tip #1: Wait until the train passes before trying to pry out a spike.

Your videos are really comprehensive and educative. Wish you were posting more stuff! Keep up the good work!

You've convinced me I need a spacer in my vise, and that I should be twisting horizontally. Thank you, sir!

Fantastic tips, lots of new ways to definitely make things easier

That spacer idea is great thanks Ken!

Been a big fan since I seen your stuff on black bear forge. I’ve bout a couple of your kits as well. Tongs, RR knife kits. The directions you provide is also a life saver for a new blacksmith!

So much info in one video!! Thank you!

Awesome job sir. Thank you for the pointers sir. Got so many spikes, and not enough ideas to go around. Thanks again for the input

About to try Blacksmithing for the first time. I was thinking a railroad spike knife would be a good first project. Thanks for the video I found it very helpful.

Good tips about saving your vise screw. Thanks.

Awesome just what I needed!

Good job

Good starter

Nice 👍

Awesome video man! What kind of camera are you using here?

Why the twist? I don't find it comfortable to hold. I am planning on making some RR spike knives but I am thinking keep the head and thin out just under so I can put split scales on as a handle then work the blade. How would this be for a handle?

Make my first quick rr spike tongs from your store. Harder than it looks but I pulled it off

How about some numbers...how much of the spike is used for the blade and how much for the handle and measured from the tip?

I remember when I came to you guys asking if you could offer up those spike tongs ,hope you guys have been selling them regularly Ken I could use your help figuring out the valve body system you guys run so I can make my pneumatic hammer a bit more versatile,right now I just do the basic setup like you did (foot off and the ram goes up ,foot on and the ram comes down ) thank you

You could also just use a cold spike as a spacer, right? I can't think of any reason you couldn't

Whats the best liquid for quenching railroad spike

A wireless lavelier microphone or a shotgun mic on a boom would REALLY up the audio quality of these videos. If y'all need help, I'd love to assist. - Happy customer and starting blacksmith.

For a novelty knife RR spike knives are fun to make But cannot keep or hold an edge. Unless you split the edge or split the spike and forge weld a bit of carbon steel as you would if making San Mai . And thats the only way a R R SPIKE WILL KEEP AND EDGE