Forging a Campfire Tong
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- In this video, I show myself making a customer's campfire tong.
website: www.gstongs.com
email: glen03@earthlink.net
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Very nice, Glen. I think those tongs will be perfect for camp fire logs. Necessity is truly the mother of invention.
James, I can't say this will work for all of his fire log grabbing needs, but it should be do well for most. Thanks. Glen
Very nice as normal, always nice to watch you work.
Thanks Floyd. Glen
Might be an old video, but I particularly enjoyed how you mad the shape of the jaws. Thanks Glen.
Thanks for sure.
Well done, glen! It is a real treat getting to watch you make things. And, I always find it to be a learning experience. Thanks again for sharing what you know.
Christopher, I'm very happy to share most of what I might know. I don't always want to take the time to explain every step, but most folks are visual and learn by just watching. Thanks. Glen
Good job. If you put the hinge rivet further up the handle you’ll gain a lot more variance between the jaws. I have a similar pair, only for bigger logs
thanks for your time and hard work to get these videos out to us . Will be using this technique to make a set of hammer eye tongs . Much easier for me to do Glen thanks again.
Rick, I'm sure glad if this in some way helps you to make the tongs you need. Thanks. Glen
as always great work.
Martin, The one thing I can make it tongs... Thanks. Glen
Well done! Another great design and video. Thanks Glen.
Ron, Tong videos seem to come together best for me. Thanks. Glen
Making of (rivet)axis of the tongs is very convenient and the head looks nice.
Serge, Glad you like it. Glen
Finally something made in Taiwan that's a quality tool.
Actually, Taiwan has gained a pretty good reputation over the years for some quality products, maybe mostly in the tech sector. But it's hard to shake the stigma... Although I'm not Taiwanese, I'm trying my best to help... Glen
Glen GS Tongs You're doing a fine job. Yes, they have really came up in their tool quality. I actually prefer to buy Taiwan over china. I have a few brands like Tekton, grey pneumatic, and others that I recommend to people who want really good cheap tools. I was just leaving some of my Murcia humor on your channel. I'm pretty sure you're from the USA. Sounds like you have a northeastern accent. Anyway keep up the good work and your videos are awesome. Actually a little envious of your anvils to tell the truth.
That's awesome, enjoy watching your videos
Thanks for watching.
That modular anvil is just genius, so functional and in a tiny workspace like yours cuts tooling space to the bone! It does almost everything, how often do you need the horn on the London style anvil?
Hi Paul, I very rarely use a horn. But for some things I should maybe get into the habit. Thanks.
Look great Glen!! Can't wait to try them out. I'll let you know how they perform. Don't be surprised if some of the other scout leaders get in touch!!
Does your troop cook over camp stoves or the campfire? I know that many were starting to use Coleman stoves back in the '70s. The troop that I was in had one, but we cooked over the campfire. It would have been nice to have had a forged S-hook to hang a pot from the tripod over the fire. A swing away arm would have been nice too. Anyway, scouting is very beneficial for the youth and I appreciate your willingness to volunteer and help out!
Peace!
Most often we use trangia gas stoves but we usually cook at least one meal per hike in the campfire. Most often foil parcels filled with all kinds of goodness topped with grated cheese. Until now this type of cooking (30+ parcels in the fire) as well as maintaining the fire itself, has lead to hairless arms and smouldering gloves. Getting the kids outside, challenging them to do things they rarely get the opportunity to do and seeing them succeed is immensely rewarding. Now I can do it with hairy arms intact.
I do recall hamburger-ala-foil. The foil packets do best with a good bed of burning embers from a properly crafted fire. The troop that I was in i.e. 615 of Okaw Valley Council, was very active. We went on at least one hike or camping trip each month and did a high-adventure activity like Philmont every few years. It was great! I would still be involved in scouting if an accident hadn't limited my abilities. Today it is hard to get the youth off the net or away from the video games. Many have no idea what they are missing out on, which is a real shame. A few years ago I took a bunch of boys in the area fishing and they had a blast. Some of them even had fathers that fished, but never even bothered to take their own child with them. It is crazy how things have changed. Anyway, yes it is very rewarding to see the youth learn, develop new skills, and successfully use them. Enjoy every moment!
Lee, Thanks for purchasing this tong and for suggesting I make a video. Also, I really like the friendly communication (relies) between commenters. Let me know how this tong suits your purpose. Glen
Great looking tongs and useful at that! it looks easy when you do it!
I've made more than few tongs over the years so if I can't at least make some tongs look easy, well, I wouldn't know what to do... Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment. Glen
Interesting Glen! I never thought of a campfire tong and I am an Eagle Scout, but I have considered the tripod and S hooks for suspending pots over a campfire for cooking and the swing away variety used in fireplaces and campfires. Perhaps some of the Scoutmasters could benefit from something like that too. Thanks for sharing!
Jeffrey, Until Lee suggested it, I also never thought about a campfire tong. Over the years, I've made all sorts of tongs and some for odd purposes. Maybe the craziest was a four foot long tong for grabbing snakes... Thanks. Glen
Mate they are fantastic.
Super Tongs Glen. You make it look easy.
Ron, Tongs should, for the most part, look easy for me. I've made enough over the years... It's just everything else is a challenge for me! Glen
Glen GS Tongs Don't kid yourself, you do nice work
Parabéns amigo,meu nome é Edno Viana Andrade , sou Brasileiro , quero começar nesta profissão, mas tenho dificuldade para comprar uma bigorna. Que DEUS abençoe a você e sua família.
Glen: I have listened to lots of your stuff but this is the first time I have seen you. I really had you down as a tall handsome sophisticate. You are a take on my friend! lol!
Alex, I'm surprised my voice let you think that but then again, with just a voice, there's no telling for sure... Well, the cat's out of the bag I guess - I'm obviously more along the lines of short, ugly stooge... Thanks for watching.
holy smokes (almost used a shorter word!) now I know what my next tong attempts will be,THANKS! I think this is big time!!!
Good to know I may have made it to the big time! Or at least this tong video... Good luck in your tong making. Glen
profissão interessante. E esse trabalha muito bem
Yes, blacksmithing is an interesting and rewarding profession. Thanks for watching. Glen
Have you ever experimented with a set of tongs that were designed for two or more grip diameters. Near the rivet for small and farther away for larger. So the jaws might look like a figure eight when closed. The near circle could maybe grab a 2" round and the far circle a 4" round.
Someone else asked this very same questions recently - to make a tong something like a channel lock plier. It definitely would not be easy. I'll give it some thought. For the time being, I'm working on making what I call "pass through" tongs which I sometimes see here. One half is split open and the other half is inserted and riveted in that opening. Also, very difficult to make... Thanks. Glen
Don't take this as a critique please, but I noticed you and a lot of other smiths don't punch holes at a 90° angle. Still your punches holes look fine. How can that be ? (or is a camera angle thing)
This is a good question. I know I don't hold my punch at an exact ninety degree angle. Part of the reason for tilting it a little is to make sure I'm locating it on the right spot. But with each successive strike, I get it as close to ninety degrees as possible. Also, since I repeat this tilting on the opposite side, the result is usually a fairly uniform hole. Thanks for watching and for the good comment. Glen
thanks for the answer :) always enjoy your videos!
Great Job the style should work well for grabbing logs..
Todd, It likely won't work for all the logs he needs to grab, but within the range he specified, it should do well. Thanks. Glen
Damned fine, I enjoyed that.
Kurt, I'm very glad you enjoyed this. As far as blacksmithing goes, tongs are my thing. Everything else, not so much... Thanks. Glen
made cool! always on top! workshop is located on the balcony?
Yes, my work space is on my "balcony" which is actually the top floor the building I live in. So like you said, I'm always on top!... Thanks Glen
it would be interesting to see the review of this workshop. In what country is this possible?
I really enjoy your videos Glen and u do a great job on the tongs. what is the anvil your using?
Eric, The block anvils you see in my videos are my own designs which I had made here in Taiwan. I couldn't find an anvil here that suited my work style and so took advantage of the resources available and got these made. I had a total of three different styles made. Very pleased with them... Glad you enjoy my videos. Thanks for watching. Glen
Do you need to quench that punch, or can the steel handle that much heat without deforming?
It might be air hardening hot working steel.
Steven, Rebate is right. The punch I'm using here is H13 air hardening steel. It's specific for hot use - maintains good hardness at high heat and so won't deform as easily as say a standard carbon steel. I do quench but care has to be taken to make sure the business end isn't too hot when you quench or it will over harden this steel. Thanks. Glen
That is good to know. Might have to pick one up!
They might be hard to come by depending on where you are. 5160 and S7 will work as well given that you are cooling it consistently. W360 and QRO 90 is also some of the other "common" hot working tool steel as well, both of them being able to achieve higher hardness than H13.
Glen sells them, so probably would just buy from him. The collective I work at has milling machines (I understand these steels can be tough to forge), but I don't know how to use them and will trust the pros!
Your tong shape would be good for making one of those accordion log tongs.
It does seem somewhat like that shape. Thanks for watching and commenting. Glen
What do the people in the floor under you say about all the hammering.??
Len, I have multiple thick rubber mats and a wooden platform directly under my anvil and so the vibration/noise is minimum. The neighbors directly below me are a couple nice gals who know me and are very tolerable. Plus, the noise from the road is constant so it drowns out my hammering some. Thanks.
That's good, works out ok then, Thanks.
What kind of anvil is that?
Josh, Hi, that's a GS Tongs kind of anvil. I designed and had these style hornless anvils made - four in all. Very pleased with them. Thanks for watching. Glen
Is that something you sell?
tong ta tong tong tong.
Nathan, Maybe I should have a opening song - "let me make your tongs - your tong ta tong tong tongs!"
I like it when the beat goes
Duh dun duh
Baby make your steel go
Duh dun duh
Baby I know you want to show
Duh dun duh
That tong tong tong tong .