What Tim is doing here is so much harder than most can realize. Even very experienced blacksmiths and forgers can fail at this process.

Tim, I really appreciate you including the failure shots on the attempts at the weld as it is something that can be very fiddly and its reassuring to see even someone of your skill it can take a few tries. Thank you.

Tim that came out great! I can hardly tell you how encouraging it is as a newbie blacksmith to see someone with a lot more experience like yourself struggle through learning a process, I could see myself in those shots where you are fumbling for your hammer, dropping the work, trying to smooth out your workflow. Makes me feel better about not getting it right on the first try! Just gotta keep trying!

"I'm out of half inch round bar." Proceeds to make some out of scrap! Some impressive forge welding on a small surface area. Nice lap joints. "I don't have any short bolts." Proceeds to make some just because he can. Fascinating as always. Keep the forge lit, eh! 🔥

All those failed attempts and not a single hammer thrown. You are a man of tremendous patience. Well done Sir!

Alec Steele: “let’s try to do something within our skill range and fail spectacularly” Timothy Dick: “let’s try to do something at the edge of our talent and succeed while learning.”

Great stuff, Tim!!! Trick I picked up early on in my journey was using a big thick piece of plate to preheat your anvil. Really helps when you're working in the cold or welding small pieces. The anvil doesn't wick as much heat away as quickly.

I worked in a metal shop and to help us locate our tools on a workbench, or some such, we would spray paint the tool a high visibility colour. Otherwise they would just blend in with all the other metal in the shop. 🤘🦊👍

Have more faith in yourself. You’re awesome at what you do. It’s why we all want watch you

That is an ridiculous amount of work! Great job Tim. I can't believe how hot that is!

I love how the metal is sparking because it’s so hot even before you hammer

Alldays & Onions, Birmingham. my Grandad might have made parts of that forge. Great to see new parts added. Lovely job.

Thank you so much for this. That’s me, in the forge. Dropping stuff, searching for my whatsit, frantic energy. You made me smile.😁

Awesome work Tim, its always great to see people in our trade push the limits and learning more. My only suggestion is when forge welding bring the anvil a bit closer. Might help the process. keep the forge lit brother!

I really like this “just because I can” approach to making stuff :D

I’m the same way every time I get a weld…. Did you see that!?! But nobody else in the shop. Lol still feels damn good 😊

Such a nice crisp ring sound on the rail piece when you centre punched it

Hell yeah! Forge welding is so damn interesting and finicky from what I've seen of the few blacksmiths I watch!

I love how you squared the tops of the bolts 🔩

My 2nd favorite Canadian KZfaqr! AVE will always be top but you're definitely number 2

Tim, this is where Iron Mountain Flux comes in handy. That stuff is amazing for tacking, even at super low heats. Great video and love your thought process, brother.

It certainly looks the part and works as intended. The failure attempts show what it takes to get it right 👍 Maybe you should make a soap stone holder next! John Rigoni has a nice design or Dan moss has a more traditional one 👍✊️

Timothy my wife really liked the candle 🕯!

Looks great. Nice to see the Titanium Hammer is still your go to hammer.

The square heads on the bolts looks great.

Very cool project, and I love watching you mastering the old drop the tonger forge weld. Something that helps me when I’m building a piece for a client and it needs to be right the first time is to scarf the pieces for a traditional weld then align them and tack them together with the mig welder. The forge welding incorporates the mig weld back into the parent stock and having the pieces pre positioned eliminates the frustration and material loss of multiple attempts.

Love the look of the tong rack. Flaws make it better to be honest. It shows it was hand done. Btw a little industrial 30% vinegar sprayed onto that rack will help it to rust up a bit faster to match the forge.

Good job I really feel for you now we all have a substitute for the one legged man in the ass kicking contest forge on

Had me on the edge of my seat like a hockey game... you can do it eh' 👻 I only weld and forge weld damascus. Watch enough of my buddies try to scarf weld. That forge scale will give it mad strength.

Like all crafts, scarf welding takes practise - you had the knowledge, the tools AND the courage to make it work! Congratulations, you just added another tool to your tool box. Well done 👍🌞👍

That is definitely a challenging weld to do great job!

Geez what a short window to get it hammered together after taking it out of the heat, I suppose it starts to scale up immediately. I’ve never tried that sort of forge welding end to end like that, gonna have to put that on the list. Great vid brother 👍

What a great video Tim. Thanks for the Squarespace information. We are looking to set up a web site so I will take this to the guys

It wouldn't be so damn difficult if you have a helper in the shop. I'm impressed how good this hanger looks and how you menage to make it alone. I have this feeling, only guys with blacksmith experience understand how difficult was the task! Great job Man!

Good job Tim I am happy for you that's a hard weld to make

Love it! and so amazing to see some one that is so far down the path (from me that is :) ) still learning & sharing! also Love the Punch! ROFL

Awesome! Definitely some old school skill.

Awesome to see you try something out of your comfort zone and push yourself. I just changed careers and got a job as a welder and feel out of my depth every day! But it keeps getting better/easier.

I’ve been watching your videos for the last few months and it’s so fun watching you beat in metal and make cool stuff. Ive been a glass worker for the last 6ish years so it’s really cool to see similarities in the way heat base is applied to pieces being joined and seals needing to be worked into each other but it’s seems like glass is all thinking and small delicate adjustments; while metal seems like a more balanced act between using force and thinking about the material needs to make solid and visually appealing items.

The tong rack turned out great!

Nice work! I watched a video that taught how to fix your hammer handle. Soak it in antifreeze instead of water and it won't shrink again.

I am amazed at this process, weld done

with a punch like that... I wouldn't dare have any of that type of ammo in my house! LOL Nice work on the forgewelds!!

I was so frustrated with you as the welds failed to stick, and I was so happy when they did! I have yet to achieve a weld and it's killing me

I love your enthusiasm my guy! Keep on keepin on!

Forge welding can be really tricky, you did great and the final piece looks phenomenal! Great job!!

So as a farrier, I would recommend using iron mountain flux instead of borax. You can forge weld at a much lower temp and get cleaner welds it's amazing!! However you did great on this project! Neat look!!!

The rack turned out awesome Tim , But wear are all the tongs mate . My last forge weld attempt ended up on the welding table , Cannot beat the Mig welder . Cheers. 👍🤠.

Here's a cool idea. A hands free borax dispenser. Foot pedal causes a trickle of powder. Hopper to hold the borax above and a catch basin to catch the excess for reuse.

For what it's worth I think it looks good man... good job.

Loved this one.

I think it turned out freaking awesome!

When you do a "tong drop" weld practice laying out the pieces a few times before you give it a go. It will help with the confidence and process. Please try ot i have over a decade of experience doing this and it stil helps me out everytime.

Fantastic! Great job Tim

Looking good man!

looks good Tim!

absolutely beautiful work

You crack me up buddy!! Rack is awesome!!

That forge weld looks pretty awesome! Great job!!

Tim! thanks for the update on the candles!! hope my order goes through before they sell out 😅

Nice job Tim. Looks great

Super awesome great work 😮

Forge welding still looks like actually wizard style magic to me and I can't wait to be good enough and have good enough kit to even attempt a forge weld. That rail came out looking awesome and I've seen someone with a similar forge who has a rail on the hood as well. It looks so cool when they are both full of tongs and other tools. For me, that would mean I have 1 rail for each of my pairs of tongs 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I did say that I'm a way's off being able to try a forge weld.

Awesome! Time to forge weld something! Thank you for the inspiration.

It was nice to watch. Nice job, man ;)

Worked for iggesund tool for 25+ years, I AM NOT A BLACKSMITH, I'm a machinist, but we have several blacksmiths. They could/can forge weld any metals. Idc if it was copper and titanium, or steel and gold...if we needed it, they could do it.

Looks freakin awesome!

Very nice video this week. Can't wait to see more videos soon. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend. Forge On. Fab On. Weld On. Keep the Forge lit. Keep Making. God Bless.

Nice job on those welds, like anything the more you do it, the better you get!

Tim, great job! I find if I play with welding whenever I'm working at the forge I can stay in practice. It helps alot and you can create usable stock from your scraps as a bonus. Again great job! The rack looks professional and compliments the forge.

I recently just had my first successful forge weld, I know exactly how you feel!

Very nice Congrats on forge weld Looks great Army SE Oregon

I feel a floating table near the anvil would be a good place put tongs etc so you don't drop tool as often or more like not had to pick up tools off the ground so often

Thoroughly enjoyed that Tim. It looks great. Well done for persevering. Love that .50 cal centre punch too. So much so I've decided to make a 20mm cannon round version. All the best

you the man great work

Coal forges are pretty awesome!!

Great job.

Good job ! This weld technic can look easy but sooo hard. Try it to make forging tongs !

Pretty freakin cool is right! Awesome job

And that's why people thought blacksmiths had some sort of magical ability - being able to take some random lumps of iron, reshape them, and join them together to make something elegant and useful. Magic indeed, but the magic of human skill.

Every time,Tim i forgeweld something i always practice my movements COLD. Then one comes "prepared" to the anvil.Use that swage you used later, for your first tackweld and it will be much easier. Again Kind regards from Belgium.Blacksmith Filip Ponseele

Scarf joints are so weird, but when it works it works.👍

Very nice!

really super impressive to see you forge out that entire thing. Most everyone else on youtube would have squared things up on the bandsaw, or gave up forge welding way sooner. Cool to see it done! I feel like you could have used an extra pair of hands though! those pieces kept moving on you when you were tyring to weld them!

Good job

Pretty sweet

My first forge weld (that worked) was on 1/4 inch bars. I got so frustrated from losing my heat. I moved my anvil to right next to the forge. Mind you my anvil is only 60lbs.

Most Awesome!

Nice!

Great forging. (You make forging Great again)

Perseverance 👍👌💪

Looks great.....hey!

Awe cool my anvil and stand is Alldays and Onions

I’ve got the same goal Lol 😂 it’s frustrating indeed!!

Fantastic work. Just got my hook in the mail, it's awesome. Still trying to figure out where to put it.

Dood. Looks shmexy. You can be kinda hard on yourself, but I suppose that is par for the course for those who excel at their crafts. Watching the learning curve was fascinating and much appreciated. I visited a forge that had a foot actuated hold-down contraption on the anvil that acted like a third hand, particularly during forge welding and punching holes. Worth considering? I don't see them used much but seemed like genius.

I recommend getting some Iron Mountain flux.

Nice work! I would advice to put the anvil closer to the forge so lose less time and heat.

Nice job on the forge welds. Are you self taught at forgewelding? In the old days when forgewelding was the only way to weld, the smiths had the advantage of a hands on teacher, of watching and seeing exactly what it looked like etc. Plus with some of the larger and trickier welds there was lots of labour around to hold things together, no need for a drop tong weld etc. I thought I was OK at being selftaught at forgewelding, and then in 2001 I had the opportunity to be Bob Patrick's gofor at Caniron and boy did my skill ever take a huge leap, just watching from 3-4 feet away seeing exactly how the hammer was held how hard (or light) the blows were. And like anything, practice practice practice.

I want one of those bad azz punches.