Forging Display Hooks
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- Опубліковано 15 лис 2024
- Today in the shop I'm spending some time practicing my forging by making a set of display hooks. These will be used specifically to hang and display several special firearms in my brother’s father in law’s office. This is an easy and fun project for new and experienced blacksmiths alike. We hope you enjoy, and are inspired to try in on your own.
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As a blacksmith working my way up, I love that this video shows that you can get a lot done with very little. I enjoyed your unique way of getting this done. This shows the public that even small-time people in their small shop at home can start blacksmithing with some simple tools that you can create on your own. Its stuff like this that inspired me to begin blacksmithing a few years ago. Keep it up.
Thanks Heyden. I’m always happy to hear how our vids have inspired others.
Real nice way to showcase the rifles with a cool nod of traditional blacksmithing to blend the two items together. Great job mate.👍
One thing to think about is raising your anvil up quite a bit. Youre doing a lot of bent over work which will catch up with you!!
I also love how quiet it is too! Well done, great work!
Really nice work. I’m starting this too but you are further along by far. I’m horrid at it and slow but like everything else I’ll hopefully learn this. Really like it. Such a wholesome craft.
Really like the way you explain your work. To the point, straight up. Nice work too. Thanks
Nice project. Really like your little forge. Just shows you don't need big bucks to get started in working with forging of tools, knives and art projects. Thanks.
Nothing like creating things in the forge of fire.
Glad you enjoyed yourself. Awesome!
Well done - glad to see the end product in use
well done, thanks for taking the time and effort to show us this video....
Well done Sir. A really good practice for speed and accuracy is to make Nails. My Grandpa was a Blacksmith, amongst other professions, and he made me make Nails by the hundreds.
I’m surprised he didn’t forge nails or at least bolts heads to make them look old.
Awesome definitely gonna give this project a whirl
Oh, something else to consider gor next time, is to hot rasp or file the "horns" at the top to remove any sharp edges from the cut.
Nice job! BTW, if you dip the scroll part in water right before you bend the hook, you can avoid the chance of deforming the scroll.
The hooks look great!👍 that little forge really kicks. Awesome video as well. Look forward to the forge build 👍
Thanks! It has really done a good job for me over that last several years. Especially for knife making and heat treating. Anything under 5” works great, but...there are so many cool BIG knives to make, and other forged things I want to work on, including axes. It will be a great addition to the shop once it’s all built. Hopefully done by next Sunday. Thanks again.
The Art of Craftsmanship never was a big knife person till I started making them. 😉 Big knives are fun! Looking forward it it!
@@TheArtofCraftsmanship hopefully your catching some of that build on film. Just positive you got a ton of people wanting to watch lol.
Blessed days sirSir, Crawford out
Nice project and video. Thx...
Time to grind the top of your hand held hot cut so chips will not become missiles when struck hard . The cross peen on your hammer should be rounded and blunt so when your are spreading metal you won't leave deep marks . Your Mom told me about your channel a couple of weeks ago . Also you can hot file metal with a worn out rasp to get rid of rag after splitting . Nice video Sir.
Nice! got me inspired
If you quench the the scroll when you pull the piece out of the forge you can bend the hook with no fear of distorting the scroll. Surprised you didn't punch and drift the holes instead of drilling them, I would have enjoyed seeing that.
I enjoyed watching this video!! R and W ,RANDY
I love how your new TAOC drawing looks like an axe (or hatchet).
Elizabeth Moseley thanks Bets! Me too. Did you watch the making of video?
Love your channel. I thought you would have forged the hole and made some classic nails to attach the hooks.
Wholesome
What did you put on it, when it was cooling down at the end?
Boiled linseed oil.
Found your channel yesterday and instantly subscribed. What pound anvil are you using and where did you get it. Looking to start a small set up like you have.
That's cool what's the best place or how to go about getting finding the tools and anvil tools.
The hammer and anvil he is using came from Harbor Freight for well under $100 total. People will bash the HF anvil pretty heavily, but, as you can see, it will certainly work just fine for a beginning blacksmith.
Is that a bell system mall it looks like one I work with for 37 years at the phone company.
Are you referring to my hammer? If so, it is not. Just a HF 3 pounder. The ball peen is an old 1.5lb that belonged to my great grandfather. Thanks for the comment.
nice job! Is that a harbor freight anvil? and if so how is it? I was thinking on getting one.
It is, and it does the trick. Definitely low quality, as far as anvils go, but for the price, it’s better than nothing.
With much respect to the content creator here, you would be much better served by going to the scrap yard or local machine shop and buying a 3+ inch thick drop of plate or bar stock, and embedding it into a stump. The HF anvil shaped object is lightweight and brittle cast iron, and won't hold up to hard blacksmithing use for long. An 8" thick chunk of scrap steel, however, will last you forever and will work about as well as a real anvil. If you can find a 6" thick round bar a foot or two long, you've found a real prize that even professional smiths would envy.
Barring that, get the biggest hammer head you can find and stick that face up into a stump. The majority of blacksmithing in history has been done on a little stump anvil like that. And barring even a hammer head, get a drop of railroad track.
Edited to add: Please don't take what I've just said as disparaging to the content creator or anyone else who has the HF anvil shaped object. It is definitely not my intention to run anyone down. I am merely saying that superior inexpensive options exist with a little hunting. The Harbor Freight ASO will work, it just won't work as well as a lot of other things, and it'll eventually break or dish out sooner or later.
I agree 100% with Barry Snell. All of the options that he suggested would work great. Thanks for the feedback and advice.
@@barrysnell6775 thanks for the advice.
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Interesting. Um answer me this, if you gave the mild steel a proper heat treat, wouldn't it harden up to a degree? Not the hardness of better steels of course, but seems to me the laws of physics apply, it would have to harden to some degree.
When you buy mild steel, in pretty sure it comes as hardened as it can be. It will never harden in to a usable blade of any sorts.
@@carsongoodman5581 I don't think that is the case. Can't be. I'm no metallurgist, but IF you head it up and cool it rapidly, it would simply have to get harder. Hard enough? well that is the question. Hard enough for what, a sharpened edge on mild steel even that hasn't been treated in any manner will still cut, but just not for very long. Hell a plastic toothbrush handle sharpened to a point will still kill if you shank somebody with it in the right spot. I think it would harden, but be so brittle it would be of little use. Also would depend on how much you work it, as you hammer it, you're working in more carbon.
You asked a question and can’t take an answer.. look it up smartass
@@carsongoodman5581 your answer cannot be correct. Flies in the face of physics. Mild steel is NOT hardened when they make it, you said it was as hardened as it would get, that's simply not true. I used to work at a steel mill, I know you're wrong on that point. It's cooled slowly, in fact it's still hot hours and even days after its made. I suggest you get your facts straight.
toot tall you’re a real know it all dumbass.. listen to any steel worker who says MILD STEEL DOESNT WORK FOR CUTTING BLADES. maybe it gets a little harder but there’s a reason they call it MILD.
Great hooks, am going to make me some.
But you need to dress the striking face on your cold chisel. That thing is dangerous.