Bicks, bickirons and stakes - tool of the day
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- When talking about stakes, bicks, bickirons, stump anvils or whatever you chose to call them. The terminology gets confusing, so instead of getting hung up on the name of the tool, lets jusy concentrate on the tool itself.
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Hi. Just a thought about using those "tinner's stakes"; yes, they are called stakes and they are more likely to be built lighter than a blacksmith's bick. If you are beating on a tinner stake hard enough to risk breaking it, you need to rethink what you are doing. As a former tinsmith (handmade not by machine), not only are our hammers usually smaller, the material is much thinner and needs more finesse than brute force. It would not be the first time I used a wooden mallet and a stake to form the "tin" to avoid stretching and distortion often caused by a steel hammer against the stake. This is particularly true for the softer, non-ferrous metals like copper and aluminum. I am trying my hand at the "dark side" (blacksmithing) now that I'm retired to see how my "tinbanging" days will benefit my new found hobby. Cheers from Alberta, Canada.
Was reading one hundred years of solitude and encountered these words, “anvil and stake”. So curiosity brought me here haha😄
Glad to know I'm not the only one that buys useful looking things, haul them home, then never use them.
I think it's typical blacksmith behavior.
I do it too.
You are not alone.......lol
Yep, got lots of them, drives my wife batty!
Also guilty…though I get an immense amount of pleasure when I’m scratching my head over how to accomplish a task, have a lightbulb moment and go dig out, clean up and admire the useful looking thingummyjig in front of me. This often takes so long, particularly the initial search, that I’m left wondering why I needed it in the first place…
Still a relevant video. Thanks for posting, John!
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I am new at blacksmithing and I appreciate all of your teaching videos and I love the tool of day
Thanks
Awesome collection John! Really enjoying this Tool of the day series, hope you keep this format going! Thanks for your time, looking forward to the next one.
Ive watched the local amish smith use a stump anvil to peen sharpen a scythe...it was almost razor sharp when he finished. I try to stop by and visit as often as i can. And he has taught me a little bit along the way.
Thanks, all of this stuff is so interesting.
Awesome -Another vid from Black Bear forge -just pressed 'like' now to watch the master speak .
A couple of months after I watched this video, I found a box with 6 Dixon stakes and a base for only 50 dollars
Good Evening , John
You have an amazing collection of tools for Blacksmithing ! The fact that you can explain the use of each one is Fantastic !
You have a Wealth of knowledge , and I am so thankful that you Share this knowledge with Us !
Thank You very much !
Take Care and Be Safe ,
KEEP HAMMERING !
These videos are excellent for guys (and girls) like me who are just getting started.
Thanks for taking the time to show up the basics! I'm planning to make a fork and a hardy ASAP because I know I'll be using them. Aside from that I'll make them as I need them.
Good information, John. You are my Blacksmith Guru. I feed my interest with the knowledge you share, Much obliged! 🤠
GREAT SHOP TOOL HISTORY. Love these old pieces.
I know the tinman's stake also as a Strake. As you noted .....so many names for the tools we love to both preserve and use. Again, thanks for sharing.
They really are useful looking tools problem is there so hard to find. I have an idea on how to make one. Maybe tomorrow I will try to make one with tool steel and mild steel can’t hurt to try. Thx John for another good video waiting patiently for the next forging video thx again for sharing .....Paul..
I am trying to get a forging video up every other morning with the tool of the day videos every evening. I actually try to record one forging video and two tool of the day videos at the same time, so i only need to take the cameras to the shop every other day leaving full days in between to work on customer orders.
That’s a good idea. Sounds like you have your hands full.
So many good looking stakes made one a while ago like the first one same shape as an anvil.
Great video, I love seeing old tools
Wow that's quite a selection. Thanks for sharing John! my best friend says I'm the tool the day. Lol
The stakes you bought in one lot as you thought they would come in handy, they did but not in the way you thought. They were good demonstrations of tools of similar crafts to blacksmiths and tinsmithing where they use thin sheets the stakes are thinner, not as heavy as blacksmiths tools, but also interesting to see.
Amazing knowledge, thank you.
Thank you for explaining that using in my smithy workshop. I am also having this tools .Please explain your good skills to my favourite career.
Wow John that seams like a lot of work.
some days it seems like it and some days it goes quite smooth and I still get other work done as well.
Those are some really nice stakes. Would love to learn how to make some stakes, as I need several types..
Bought 1 of them the other day from Etsy, $14 thought I had a deal, than a 3" anvil came in the mail..lol
I have now officially seen it all!
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Maybe
Now I have to watch a video on Repousse and chasing, whats chasing....; Great Vid thanks.
Спасибо хорошая идея
Thank you for the video as always I enjoyed it
Thanks for the information!
The last one with red underneath is used in the auto body industry
Love your rerruns, Thanks
some of those looked like tools an armour smith used while videoing the construction of a suit of armour.
Traditional iron woodsplitting wedges are socketed and have wood inserts like socketed chisels (for woodworking). A piece of split resistant wood is then inserted / carved to shape. An iron ring is then placed on the top of the wooden insert. Can you show us how to make the ring and then how to get it on the wood insert? Took me forever to find vintage woodsplitting wedges, but i wanted to hear the sound of wooden maul on wooden gluts in the forest when splitting... But you often need an iron wedge to start a split accurately, right? So once I discovered these vintage wedges, I wanted them. Now I want to restore and use them, but need to learn how to make the rings and put on the rings. I presume others may want to save their eyes from mushrooming iron from metal on metal. Also save their ears. Not to mention, iron is precious and some may want to conserve it by using wooden inserts.
I have always translated bick as beak. Anybody know the correct origin of the term?
I can't confirm the origin, but beak does make sense since it resembles a birds beak
That dishing "bick" (?) that you fabricated; would that be the bottom of a high pressure tank? Also that dome shaped one looks like it could be an autobody dolly. I guess it must be the natural progression in a rookie. I find myself looking at metal objects and try to imagine if they can be used to forge. Interesting as always, John. Cheers.
The dish was formed from 1/4” plate as was the dome on the curved top. But both of the items you mentioned are reasonable options
I wonder if the tall flat stakes would be handy if you were forging small hooks out of nails so you are not bent over and have it closer to see what is happening. Just my inexperienced opinion thank you
I think you are probably correct. Just having a surface like that closer to the forge can be quite handy for smaller projects.
Man those ?quadrofoils? Look cool a demo on those would be nice.
I hope to do some for a video at some point.
John I have a bick I got from a shipyard flat on one side and a horn on the other but it is 3 feet long.
Wow
Thats goldsmiths anvil.. indian goldsmith
GOOD🌴😀😂🌼🍍🌷🌴
Don’t be ashamed of being a packrat John, in a lot of cases if it didn’t find you it would have been scrap! You are collecting and preserving history!
Tinsmithing tool?
tinsmiths work with thin tin plated material.
Mmmmm.... steaks.