Todd Koch
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Forging a RUSTY Mini Sledge into a HATCHET
Today we’re taking an old 2lb sledgehammer that I had laying around and forging it into a new hatchet to use while camping! I love taking these rusty tools and reforging them into something useful, they always are a fun project and allow me to do some decent forging! Plus, I wasn’t going to use this old hammer for anything, so it was good to get a new axe and have a fun project all at once! Let me know what projects you’d like to see!
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$60 Belt Sander Full Review: is it Worth it? (Harbor Freight 1x30 Grinder)
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I've used this for two years, and I can say that the 1x30 grinder is not only cheap, but well worth the money if you modify it! There's a few things I like about this belt sander from harbor freight, and I'm going over all of that in today's video! This sander is very versatile and for $60, rather durable! I am very partial to it for a beginner/hobbyist tool, and I think it is a very worthwhile...
Forging a Kukri KNIFE From a RUSTED BOLT
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Today we're forging out a beautiful kukri knife out of a rusty bolt! I found this rusted bolt a while ago when I was hiking, and thought it would make a cool knife! It was a blast to hand forge this blade, and it was fun to experiment with a new blade type! Hope you guys enjoy this knife making video, and let me know what style of blade you would like to see in the future!
Personalize Your Projects Today | How to Make a Touchmark Tool
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Touchmarks are essential for establishing a brand as a blacksmith! This video was requested by you guys, so today I'm giving you a tutorial on how to make your own personal touchmark! This is a tool that can be used to stamp your branding onto your work, both for promotion and for authenticating your work! This is a tool that I use in the forge a ton, and is something I'd reccomend for any blac...
Beginner Blacksmithing Project Ideas: How to Forge a Bottle Opener!
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This project teaches you some of the essentials of blacksmithing and is a great way to get your start in forging! This beginner blacksmithing project will teach you how to drift, which is an essential part of many blacksmithing projects! This is also a project that is easily repeatable and sellable, and builds a lot of the fundemental skills of forging! If you have any questions about this proj...
Rusty Hammer Restoration | Reforging a Blacksmith Hammer
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Rusty Hammer Restoration | Reforging a Blacksmith Hammer
Making a Leather Sheath for A File Knife!
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Making a Leather Sheath for A File Knife!
Forging a Fighter Knife From a Rusty File
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Forging a Fighter Knife From a Rusty File
Anvil 101 For Beginner Blacksmiths | How to Find a Good Anvil to Start With!
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Anvil 101 For Beginner Blacksmiths | How to Find a Good Anvil to Start With!
Restoring my Great-Grandpa's Antique Anvil
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Restoring my Great-Grandpa's Antique Anvil
What’s been going on
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What’s been going on
Rusted Crowbar Restoration | Full Tool Restoration!
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Rusted Crowbar Restoration | Full Tool Restoration!
$120 Amazon Anvil: My Full Review After 2 Years | Vevor 66lb Anvil
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$120 Amazon Anvil: My Full Review After 2 Years | Vevor 66lb Anvil
Forged Hatchet From a Rusty Claw Hammer
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Forged Hatchet From a Rusty Claw Hammer
Making a Tanto Knife | The Japanese Samurai’s Knife of Choice
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Making a Tanto Knife | The Japanese Samurai’s Knife of Choice
How to Start Forging in Your Backyard | Beginners Blacksmithing and Bladesmithing
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How to Start Forging in Your Backyard | Beginners Blacksmithing and Bladesmithing
Forging a Knife From Scrap | Random Scrap Metal From the Mountains Turned Into a Knife!
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Forging a Knife From Scrap | Random Scrap Metal From the Mountains Turned Into a Knife!
Refurbishing a Knife From the Thrift Store | Steak Knife Restoration and Revamp
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Refurbishing a Knife From the Thrift Store | Steak Knife Restoration and Revamp
How to Forge 3 Blacksmith Tools | Blacksmithing Projects for Beginners
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How to Forge 3 Blacksmith Tools | Blacksmithing Projects for Beginners
Forging a Railroad Spike Tomahawk
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Forging a Railroad Spike Tomahawk
Old Hammer Restoration | Reforging a Chipped Cross Peen Hammer
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Old Hammer Restoration | Reforging a Chipped Cross Peen Hammer
Forge Rebar Tongs and Save Money! | Blacksmithing Project for Beginners
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Forge Rebar Tongs and Save Money! | Blacksmithing Project for Beginners
Learn Bending With This Simple Beginner’s Blacksmithing Project | Forging an S-Hook
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Learn Bending With This Simple Beginner’s Blacksmithing Project | Forging an S-Hook
Use THIS Project to Get Your Start in Blacksmithing | How To Forge a Hook
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Use THIS Project to Get Your Start in Blacksmithing | How To Forge a Hook
$80 Forge: Amazon Forge Setup and FULL Review | Mr. Volcano Hero Forge
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$80 Forge: Amazon Forge Setup and FULL Review | Mr. Volcano Hero Forge
Making a Bowie Knife | From Forge to Finish
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Making a Bowie Knife | From Forge to Finish
What I Learned From 3 Years of Knife Making
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What I Learned From 3 Years of Knife Making
Forging this rusted head into a viking axe!
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Forging this rusted head into a viking axe!
Welcome to the channel!
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Welcome to the channel!

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @lucaskuykendall949
    @lucaskuykendall949 3 дні тому

    thank you great video!

  • @Rook.G34
    @Rook.G34 9 днів тому

    Absolutely love this bro and I'm going to give it a try myself!

  • @Mo_Vet
    @Mo_Vet 16 днів тому

    I have tons of rust nails. I need to make everything except fire bricks so I can reuse everything

  • @Mo_Vet
    @Mo_Vet 16 днів тому

    I have a cattle ranch and tons of oak. I am trying to learn everything from hinges to angles of all sizes. I have a super heavy oak gate, and I need strengthen it. I want to be able to be total self-sufficient. Think like we are bake in 1880

  • @fouad2800
    @fouad2800 18 днів тому

    Hey man, I see you stopped uploading vids 9 months ago, as a young blacksmith with very basic tools I love your channel and i would love to see more of your videos. Stay at it I'm sure you'll succeed on YT.

  • @TutorMystic
    @TutorMystic 19 днів тому

    I have one of these, but it won't use conditioning belts. Do you know how it could be modified to fit condition belts?

  • @franklinmiranda8835
    @franklinmiranda8835 19 днів тому

    Awesome vid!

  • @Goy49
    @Goy49 20 днів тому

    Bla,bla,bla🗣️🤢🤯

  • @barrybee4610
    @barrybee4610 22 дні тому

    7:01 those have got to be some toasty balls

  • @dwightcimino1040
    @dwightcimino1040 24 дні тому

    Now I know how to do a quick pair of tongs . . . don't have any yet . . . but I do have vice grips (lol) Thanks, Todd

  • @AlphaOmegaKnight77658
    @AlphaOmegaKnight77658 24 дні тому

    I honestly think forging should be something people should at least experience once. I might try it myself because I definitely would like to learn and experience it.

  • @rickylahey3229
    @rickylahey3229 24 дні тому

    What is the diameter of the rebar? 12mm fine???

  • @ESly-d2u
    @ESly-d2u 25 днів тому

    I just now watched 2 or 3 of these videos back to back unintentionally...but in each video the person says they are going to show you how to make the stuff then proceeds to say that if you want to learn how to do black smithing you might need a contact a local class or some bullshit ..man this is federal advertising for university resident student recruits. 👽🤔 #FedConspiracy

  • @necromancer6405
    @necromancer6405 29 днів тому

    Fire, hard surface, hammer, and metal is all that's needed. Of course, a good mask and tongs are important.

  • @Night_Striker7
    @Night_Striker7 Місяць тому

    My neighbors gonna be pissed “Tink, Tink, Tink, Tink, Tink…..30 min….. Tink, Tink, Tink, Tink”

  • @patriciathomas3709
    @patriciathomas3709 Місяць тому

    Shoutout to the guy for xoming so far. He said 200 subs. What a feeling to make it to well over a thousand. Keep up the solid work!

  • @GrowingLittleCountryhomestead
    @GrowingLittleCountryhomestead Місяць тому

    My boys are going to love this channel. They are 11 and 10.

  • @chriswhitton2465
    @chriswhitton2465 Місяць тому

    Fantastic mate, thank you so much for this brilliant video. Rebar is literally everywhere and free 😊

  • @davehahn8767
    @davehahn8767 Місяць тому

    Great to see a video of a rebar project. Rebar is affordable, available, and durable, so I like it. Great job!

  • @jacobmckenna8282
    @jacobmckenna8282 Місяць тому

    Great job

  • @jeremyelliott9145
    @jeremyelliott9145 Місяць тому

    Great video! New sub from a 49 y.o. looking to get started. Thanks!

  • @nick39
    @nick39 Місяць тому

    Beautiful build! You sir, are a true craftsman!

  • @nick39
    @nick39 Місяць тому

    Nice job man!!

  • @That_1940s_Delinquent
    @That_1940s_Delinquent Місяць тому

    I am so annoyed that I didn’t get into black smithing earlier. I could make pretty much all of my tools for my other hobby (wood work)

  • @collinszymanski7126
    @collinszymanski7126 Місяць тому

    Thanks for the awesome review! I love been looking for a belt sander to make finger boards but I was hesitant to drop a lot of money

  • @AirsoftGuy-z8r
    @AirsoftGuy-z8r Місяць тому

    Is there a certain oil I should use

  • @IronDio698
    @IronDio698 Місяць тому

    Thanks for the advice, bud! 41 years old and taking my first blacksmith class tomorrow. Thinking my backyard will soon have a start up forge!

  • @Mushin-Flowstate
    @Mushin-Flowstate Місяць тому

    You have a new sub young man. Please keep the craft going and stay humble. Your video has made me realize I can go back to my roots

  • @dannyjones9387
    @dannyjones9387 Місяць тому

    whats the music you used in the background for this video?

  • @rob5customs
    @rob5customs Місяць тому

    Didn't watch because I'm a bit apprehensive about forging in the back yard. First, everyone would be able to see what I was doing. Secondly, if it starts to rain I'm afraid the paper would get all wet and ruin the prints.

  • @seanmyers227
    @seanmyers227 Місяць тому

    Kick ass dude! This is awesome!

  • @maxpayne3779
    @maxpayne3779 Місяць тому

    Great knife project the end result looks great. You know your stuff about forging and metal work and the handle wood finish and shape looks good. As far as I can tell you've just started bulding up your workshop and your tools and with every project you can learn to get better. One or two things thoug I noticed about the handle that I wouldn't have done this way and I like to explain why. Just to give you some tips what you can do better next time. Sorry if this sounds harsh I'm no expert and I'm no knife maker but more like a hobby woodworker watching different knife maker videos. In other words I'm just a nitpicky nerd with too much time. I've allready build my workshop over the years and accuiered new mashines and inherited used tools for woodworking. I'm not so much a blacksmith. But maybe I should start my idea of building a machete out of some lawnmooer blades I've collected instead of still watching others how they do knifes. First as one mentioned before the short tang is not the best and most robust solution. Maybe a peened bolt sideways throug the handle would have helped, but then again the hole for the bolt in the wooden handle is just another point of failure for splitting, pros and cons but I would have considered maybe a smale diamenter bolt. Better jet I've seen people welding threaded rods at short tangs and bolting them tight with a recessed nut. I've seen others chissel witherspoons in the sides of the tang, cut some edges in the tang with an angle grinder and/or rougth sanding the metal surface of the tang. This would give the tang better grip because two comonent epoxy glue doesn't like to stick to polished metal. Sooner or later and this is my theory, the metal and the wood contracts and expandes just slightly in different rates with the temperature changes and the epoxy glue could crack and peal of the metal surface of the tang. Therfore I understand why some knife makres don't rely on simply sticking glue on smooth metal. Well some methods like bolts and glue and then even boring holes in the full tang just to rougthen the survace is a bit overkill for my understanding, A rougth sanded metal on also rougth wood surface should stick together with glue. And now I feel the need to mention the thing that bothers me to see as a woodworker is the unstable wood grain direction in the handle not in the same direction as the blade. Maybe you choose the grain direction intentionaly for the looks or it was a mistake but this is definitely not a good combination with the short tang, you could do this grain on a full tang where the wood is just there to give the handle some thickness. I understand you had your doubts about the wood stability while you applied the wood stabilizer but I doubt once the knive is in heavy use while chopping the point of failure could be a wood crack in the grain direction exactly in the middle of the handle where the tang ends or the glue will fail sooner or later. I didn't see what you did to fill the cracks in your handle. But I've seen people doing all kinds of wood preperation for their knive handles. Such as soaking the wood in epoxy glue with a self build underpressure tank. This would give the wood more stability and durablility. Well sorry for the long post I just wanted to mention the wood grain issue and now I'm getting more and more ideas and maybe there is something usefull to consider. Anyway I wish you the best for your youtube channel and your blacksmithing workshop.

  • @Acts2-38
    @Acts2-38 Місяць тому

    I enjoyed the video! God bless you!

  • @thefitnesshutch8903
    @thefitnesshutch8903 2 місяці тому

    I don't subscribe easy but I have left a sub. Im 44 and I want to give this a go so I'm gonna be watching a lot

  • @estebanviniegra2510
    @estebanviniegra2510 2 місяці тому

    I'm 25 with three kids a wife and a full time job. And you have inspired me to pursue my own blacksmithing journey. Thank you very much for your free advice. Keep up the great work.

  • @brunomartins9819
    @brunomartins9819 2 місяці тому

    Can you explain why you deep it in oil after you get the shape you want ? And why you put it in the haven?

  • @sphsecond3517
    @sphsecond3517 2 місяці тому

    Damn bro I wish I’d been watching your channel 2 years ago! Love your style, keep on learning, teaching, and making dope ass blades man!

  • @BUTCHERDUCK
    @BUTCHERDUCK 2 місяці тому

    Where you been mannnn

  • @wolfgames3208
    @wolfgames3208 2 місяці тому

    Thinking of starting for my 16 bday just been looking to see how so i think this video has been a great help so thank u bro

  • @Good_Schmidt
    @Good_Schmidt 2 місяці тому

    Legend!!

  • @Acts2-38
    @Acts2-38 2 місяці тому

    Did mr volcano stop selling forges?

  • @Thrashius
    @Thrashius 2 місяці тому

    It’s a nice video. An area for improvement though: You’re hammering on the wrong part of the anvil. You should be at the far edge when putting the tapper in for the chisel.

  • @nickp527
    @nickp527 2 місяці тому

    "hitting your hand on the metal isnt very pleseant", so you've hit you're hand on burning hot metal? Please tell me it was an accident

  • @bigmd1343
    @bigmd1343 2 місяці тому

    Is your anvil cast steel, and how much does it weigh ?

  • @LAMEZ_
    @LAMEZ_ 2 місяці тому

    the handle looks very clean

  • @Everblack666
    @Everblack666 2 місяці тому

    Blacksmithing is my dream job, and I hope to get started soon, so I really appreciate the simplicity you've imbued into the beginning process for aspiring blacksmiths, great video, dude 🤘 keep up the good work, you've definitely got my subscription

  • @adamsoffgridadventure
    @adamsoffgridadventure 2 місяці тому

    Excellent work!

  • @adamsoffgridadventure
    @adamsoffgridadventure 2 місяці тому

    Good job!

  • @tobyavila7069
    @tobyavila7069 2 місяці тому

    I fw this heavy

  • @ryanedwards2021
    @ryanedwards2021 2 місяці тому

    Ahoy bud. In this video I saw you had a reambar spoke shaver on your shelf. Do you have a video on making that????