I love that you blacksmith in short pants.

Finally somebody did the easy way

How many guys who have welded find themselves closing their eyes or squinting when you see a guy in a video about to strike an arc?

I have never seen that "Anchoring" Technique before. Thanks for sharing.

These are wonderfully made videos - thanks for taking time to set such clear shots! So interesting to see the methods used, very clever and effective techniques.

The steps shown in the video were clear and easy to understand. I now think I may be able to make the spring swages I needs. Thank you!

Very good video editing! I absolutely love the soundscape of smithing - my childhood neighbour was a blacksmith hobbyist and this reminds me of him.

Very methodical yet simple, thanks!

Very nice work! Your editing technique is also entertaining. Thank you! Looking forward to the next video as well as making a swage like yours!

Dear Torbjörn, as usual another excellent instructional video. That concealed fixing is truly neat. Cheers.

thanks for turning me on to this video! I learned alot Grant

Love all of your videos Brother!

I am a Master Cabinet maker and a Wheel Wright. I started when I was 9 years old and maintained my skills while serving in the U.S. Marines. After retirement from both vocations I put away my uniforms laid down my weapons and sold my cabinet business in Los Angeles and moved to a place where if there are three cars on the road it is considered a traffic jam and there by news worthy. I have been watching your vedios and I think I got the steel bug, so I have bought a few Anvils and a Vice. I have made my Forge, so please keep making those vedios. Yoou are an inspiration and a supeb artisan.

Love your videos there amazing

I like you videos to much special in morning, when a I m drinking coffe, Tnx.

your vids are never boring ..

great work.. ive had quite a few "aha!!" from watching your videos

Personally i love watching the hardening process

Another awesome video i see some more tools i have to make i rather make them than waste money buying them then you know what its made of and have great pride in making a quality tool qreat work fellow smith

Hello, im going to be forging a spring swage soon, what was the middle measurement for the bend? 60mm and 30mm center then drawn out to about 100mm? great videos also! giving me a lot of ideas and knowledge on how to do it all !

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That anchor is nice..... seems like if you drilled it to the same size as spring it would be a bit more snug. Especially since when you heat the block it would expand and then contract down on to the spring after punching it.

I'm curious if this method is better or just quicker than hot swaging the bar into the dies? Seems like this is more accurate and reliable.

Movie producers could save so much money purchasing gun sound effects, just head over to a blacksmiths shop and record the power hammer and speed it up!

Torbjorn did you aneal the "spring", or quench? also on your heat treat did you quench into water or oil? thanks I'm learning so much from these videos.

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what kind of temperature or color would some one need to add the springiness back into the steel ? and does it need quenching and or tempering ? thanks man ! i loook forward to your reply. ps......great videos

espetacular o seu trabalho!!!!com quem voce aprendeu a fazer? aqui no meu país esta arte esta desaparecendo,é bom ver que alguem mantem vivo algo que nasceu com o homem e nos definiu como civilização

Great video. What are your thoughts on putting two different size holes in the same swage?

next time share the heat treating id be interested to see what coulers you use for the spring and also what steel you are using.

How feasible is it to make or use something like a spring swage without a power hammer or a drill press? If I ever do manage to get started blacksmithing (not exactly practical in a small apartment), it'll probably be pretty small scale. I doubt I'll have access to high-end power tools. Could the dies be held in a vise or clamp and a hand drill with the appropriate bit(s) be used to bore them out?

Hi Torbi, it´s me again. I would like to know, how to forge a dies for the hole in the anvil for cutting off hot iron. You show a dies which has a rounded upper rim (edge)....and excellenty works for cutting off. I need also to make one...manually.. Tack pa förhand :-)

Can you show how the leaf swage is used on the power hammer? I can't seem to get the swage to work.... THANKS!

I'm no blacksmith but wouldn't a locating dowel and corresponding hole align the two halves of the die with perfect accuracy on closure? Just a thought

Interesting way of fixing the two blocks, for a moment i thought you were going to pressure fit the round stock into the holes by heating it up and hammering it in, so that it bulges out and then pressure fits in the hole, this way looked interesting but i was actually somewhat disappointed you had to pull out the welder in the end. Am i to assume this is not a traditional type tool? and only used since the time welders would have been available?

Not having done this before and maybe very wrong I would have done this differently , forge weld the handle into the dies while forging a 12 mil bar into a 10 mil drilled cavity ?

Nice work. I am not a blacksmith but I can tell the difference between something that is well built and something that isnt. I would have figured that you would have just welded the ends of the round stock to the blocks, or at most, drilled them in a little and welded. Drilled, grooved and peened and then welded? That joint will never be a failure point. the finish is nice too. It could have been serviceable and a whole lot more rough looking, but you made it look nice, which is a mark of a good craftsman.

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I have a question. When you heated up the swage block to receive the tong part of the spring, why did you not heat up the tong as well? If you had put a hot tong inside the hot swage block wouldn't they sort of weld together as you hammered the bits of metal into the narrow bit you filed to grip the tong better? Wouldn't that create a much stronger join as they both cooled? I'm not a blacksmith, but it was a detail I noticed and wanted to know why you left the tong part cool while the swage block was pretty hot.

How far up and down could you use the die to round with? 15 mm to 10 mm?

How did you heat treat the ends, with oil or water???

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where did you get the cross pein hammer at 9:44 ?

dude u have fucking sharp tools! n1

Bom dia! Eu gostaria de saber falar inglês para entender melhor o que você faz... parabéns!

What if instead of the groove and punching the blocks in to it you just got the tip of the bar and the block to forging temperature, put some flux in the hole and upset the bar inside of the block. It would look a lot nicer and be easier I think =)

Why not just chamfer the round bar and full weld from the beginning?

Have to ask - what's the point of going to all the trouble of filing a groove, hammering it in etc. when you just go and weld it anyways? Why not just weld it period instead of all the extra work?

I have been appreciating your videos lately for many reasons. I especially like the rhythm of hammer blows, the "rests" in between striking, and the way you set your hammer down when you are almost finished with what you are doing even though you're going to pick it up seven more times to make adjustments. Whether by hand or otherwise, there is a distinct pattern. Weird, I know. But, I can't help that I hear it. That's more about your other videos, though. This one, however, might be a "game-changer" for me. I have avoided spring swages. I have not gotten much use from the ones I have purchased or made before they broke. This video has given me an idea as to why that has been. And, it's so simple that I'm almost embarrassed. All of the spring swages I've used have had the spring butt-welded to the dies. Maybe, that's okay for a powered hammer with guided dies. But, I don't have one😔 🙏

Don't you tempered?

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what is the hardening process

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02:12 RIP Headphone users.

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The high pitched squeaking is caused by your work piece being too far out from the vice. Move it in next time to avoid vibrations and that sound.

какой же это блексмитинг..сварка, дрель болгарка...

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Прости , не знаю твоего языка. Но , делить видео на части это инструмент жулика.

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