Making a Prospectors trowel - digging tool for metal detecting
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- This prospectors trowel doesn't involve much forge work but its an interesting project. I really like the way the turned apple handle looks on the digger. This will be used for metal detecting.
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It's so refreshing to see a bandsaw blade being used without the word "Damascus" popping up. Oh crap, I just did it
It's an honor to watch heirlooms being created. It will be priceless to your grandson. Thanks for sharing this on your channel!!
that has to be the most love I've ever seen put into a diggy thing.
I sure hope your grandson loved it, such beautiful work there sir!
Saw blade steel! I work with it every day. I sharpen them for a living. It will ruin tools. I like it better as a trowel. Nice job.
Very very nice , made with grandads loving hands. Thanks for the video
Very nice gift.
Here is a little tip I learned dealing with epoxy in blind handle holes.
I picked up a bunch of medicine syringes like you give liquid meds to kids with.
You can draw the epoxy up in them, place a small brass tube, or plastic straw on the end and inject the epoxy Inside with little mess.
Hope your Grandson enjoys using it. Never know when a treasure might be found!
Good suggestion, thanks
Great project, not all blacksmithing is all blacksmithing!!!
That's a beautiful trowel John I've used several trowels since I started detecting and yours is excellent you should started making them to sell in your Etsy shop they can be quite expensive but I would recommend making the bar going up the handle a bit thicker as they can take a lot of punishment and it's usually the handle or the tip of the them that have a tendency to break keep up the good work Simon
Awesome video John I'm sure your grandson will love and be proud you. God bless
wonderful gift! Very well done
That's a hell of a bandsaw blade!
Wow!
That they are
That was awesome! I am a metal detector, I will say that is the best looking digger I've ever seen!
Thanks
That's one hell of a bandsaw blade!
Excellent job, I'm sure your grandson will love it. 👍
Hope he finds lots of treasures using his grandpa’s gift. Nice job John.
Great job John. I too enjoy making things rather than just buy/order them. They’re mostly appreciated more I believe but I get the satisfaction. Looking forward to more patiently. Cya soon~
I for one enjoy your less blacksmithing videos as much as the heavy blacksmithing videos. You are an amazing teacher and I enjoy all of your content.
Thanks
I do a little metal detecting myself and to have a digging tool that I personally made sounds like a great project I can see in my future.thank you John for your awesome talents and the great ideas you present to your viewers,you sir are truly gifted and talented..
What a super Project John. Your innovative nature to re-purpose stuff into usefull items with ingenuity and creativity is TOP CLASS. You have wood turning skills too that we would love to see more of. Thanks for all you teach us guys out here in the world.
It's always satisfying to know you have made something useful for the Grandkids. And your woodworking skills seem just fine.
Thanks
Jim Humphrey John always says he is no expert but it always looks like he really knows what he is doing.
@@tomcarlson3244 Yea and he also claims not to be a master Blacksmith too. 😊
Great gift grandpa John :) it didn't show in my inbox but showed in suggested viewing, so I can only guess that utube might let the cat out of the bag, either way that's a mighty fine tool may he find years of treasures with it :)
I think UA-cam had a hiccup
Looks great John, he should many years of service from it, and the pride of knowing it is handmade.
I really enjoyed the change of pace with the wood working. I don't think I've ever thought of a ground digging tool as beautiful before but that is certainly a lovely tool. Those have to be the biggest and most insane wood working tools I've ever seen, I assume you make them yourself. As always John great video and I look forward to the next.
Good looking shovel and handle. For mixing epoxy I use Great Value 2 oz plastic water cups and popsicle sticks. Its easy to vigorously stir and less likely to make a mess.
Its good how the two trades come together. I miss using a lathe, but there hasn't been much call for one in our shop in the last few years, too easy to buy premade stuff. Love the video, nice job!
Cool gift! Accompanied with the video of grandpa making it. Priceless
Very nice job on the trowel. Nice to see some O/A welding (or brazing as it appeared to me). Not many people are doing it these days except brazing on cast iron.
It was welding, brazing would use a softer rod such as brass. I use iron based welding rod
@@BlackBearForge OK, thanks for the clarification.
Hey John.. I never got an update on my notifications today.. I found you this time buy just hitting the youtube button to see what was there.. and there you were 8 hours ago..ooooo the squeak of the file gets me..and now the original tig welding.. Nice job John.. your the man that can do anything...;-)
UA-cam doesn't seem believe you actually want to see the content from a content creator when you go through the trouble of clicking subscribe.
Seems like a glitch in the system on this one. Hopefully its all back to normal for tomorrows video
@@BlackBearForge yeah.. I just found some comments and a new video in my upload bell that it didn't tell me was here.. UA-cam has made some changes that have not exactly had the bugs out yet I think.. But soon I am sure!
Missed this video somehow, it was super nice with all other handcrafting!
That's an awsome versatile tool John great job great video. Thanks again
Found your channel today thanks to Randy Richard’s recommendation. Very happy I did! Subscribed and looking forward to more of your excellent videos👍😊
Welcome to the family
actually cutting roots is quite often needed when swinging around the ole beepy gear.
Thanks. Hopefully this will get the job done.
@@BlackBearForge I'm sure it will. Hopefully the young man will find something that will just make his day, and he'll look at the thing you made, and the thing he found with it, and treasure them both.
Thanks for taking the time to do this for all of us, and to talk with me today.
👊😎
I was going to suggest this also. I think you did another quality item, no surprise there.
Merry Christmas.
very nice job I'm sure he will love it
Reminds me of a foldable tool I carry in my jeep for emergencies. The Himalayas, riverine area, muddy. I use the tooth end to cut roots of river grass in order to lay out a mat in front of the tyres. Except it has a pick at the other end.
Nice trowel,
John, your Grandson ought to get good use from this trowel! I got my first metal detector in the early-to-mid '70s and still have it -- it still works fine. If i was going to change anything, I'd make the "saw" teeth finer for sawing roots rather than hanging up on them. But the design really depends on the type of soil he will be digging in. Thank you for sharing.
Awesome work saweet
Excellent job!!! I have made similar tools for use and drilled my hole through the wooden handle just small-town for the threads to bite into the wood and epoxy resin,nor glue was even needed~ Merry CHRISTMAS!
sod yes and small roots
I Blacksmith and metal detect! That trowel is spot on! Fantastic craftsmanship , very impressive!!
Thanks, I appreciate the feedback. You would probably know what the purpose behind the flat back is then. Just a hand guard or is it something more?
Yes the flat back is a hand guard, I feel that it also adds extra strength; it allows the treasure hunter to better position their body & arms over the top of the plug/hole they are digging. Thank you for all the amazing Blacksmith videos over the years. Huge inspiration!!
Inspiring, as always! Next, forging a hori hori trowel? Similar, but lots more forging.
Thats not something I am familiar with, I will have to look it up.
You are definitely an artist, I wish we were closer, I would have asked and paid you to make one for me.
Excellent video and product as always. My only addition would be to tell you that turning wood on the lathe shares the same steps as blacksmithing in ways. First square, then octagon, then round. As you demonstrated square corners can be cut round. It is however easier and faster if you cut 45 degree angels on the squares first via table saw or band saw. This makes the square an octagon, then the lathe makes it round. I love the comparisons. Please keep up the videos as I learn a lot from them. Perhaps my next trip to Colorado I could see your shop in person.
Great skills
Another cool video John. Love all the different camera angles at the lathe.
Thanks
That original blade is scary big. impressive
Very nice
Very NICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's a beast of a digger; it's awesome to see how things are made, I just subscribed!
Thanks for the sub!
Thanks for sharing the making of this with us. As a user of these types of tools I would caution users when using these serrated type digging tools when digging artifacts or items of value as these teeth can soon change a $200. coin to a $2. by scratching items up or breaking glassware. Cheers, Billy in Canada
Ahh, the hazards of posting Christmas gift videos before Christmas. Hope the surprise wasn't ruined for your grandson. Nice trowel.
I don’t think he watches UA-cam, so hopefully he didn’t know
Great handle from a guy who is not an expert with the wood lathe! Great video.
Great handle for "not being qualified to tell anyone about lathe turning'. Love the video
I resort to sand paper to clean up the piece way more than a more skilled turner would.
Nice job. I like the style of handle. Looks 18th century. I just finished a digging tool myself tonight but it's a bit more crude than yours!
Hello John
Thats a very niche Video
Your Grandson can be proud to have such a Granddad👍👍
Making this tool Shows very good
Your skills in metal and wood 👍
Work.
Go on with your work its very inspiriering and usefull
Good bless you
Yours Frank
It would be a pretty good beginner project
buen trabajo MISTER
THANK YOU , THAT WAZ A LOVLEY WATCH,. REGARDS RICHARD IN U.K.
Awesome job, John! I think he will love it!
Thanks
Nice job John, although when you put the bolt in there I was expecting a recessed nut in the end of the handle. Would love to find some of that band saw blade.
Very cool!! Looks like you could also use it as a bayonet....... which is probably as close to knife making we will ever see on you channel! LOL I think your grandson is going to love it. Have a very happy Christmas 😊
Your friend is very lucky to have someone as skilled as yourself for a friend. Great job. If only off-the-shelf products were made with the same care and pride in a job well done. Merry X-mas to you and yours.
Lucky boy your grandson!
Very good!!!!i like You work!!!!
this looks awesome. I can hardly wait.
I was watching the Christmas festivities from Beulah this morning while waiting for the 6:00 a.m. notification and it didn’t come. So I watched all the holiday cheer and when it was over, here was the video: made my morning. BTW John, I really “dig” this one 😎👍👍
I wonder if UA-cam is having notification issues.
I don’t know. It hasn’t even shown up in my inbox
I'm sure he'll treasure it.
Was that cable you used to friction burn those lines in with ?
Just a piece of wire
thanks
ps ...Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Merry Christmas
You need a bigger gouge John. Darlington, South Carolina
a magnet as well rare earth magnet so that nail or any ferrous metal will stick that you keep missing the find
Good sugestion
that thing is fricking sweet, will you be my grandpa? haha
Started to look like a short sword breaker.
This is probably an obvious n00b question, but what did you use to finish the blade/get that patina on there? Was that just as-is after the last wirebrushing?
Johnsons paste wax applied just hot enough to melt
@@BlackBearForge Thanks!
He will cherish it. I hope he finds a gold coin or any pretty piece of jewelry.
I'm guessing pennies and rusty nails. But one must hope for something really cool
Where in the world did you find that chunk of old bandsaw blade? (And how did the teeth on one side get that worn down before someone replaced it?) That is too cool to cut up for stock. You should just hang it on the wall.
It came from a saw mill in the Pacific Northwest
Ah, yes. Cutting a band saw blade with a band saw blade. How poetic.
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This video showed up in "Recommended," but not in my subscription feed, even though I'm still subscribed. Strange
I wonder if thats why the views are down this morning.
@@BlackBearForge It's happened to me a couple of times before, but this is first time it's happened on your channel
I had the same issue.
I never got a notice of this video, just found it by going to your web site and there it was. Was interesting that you have a wood shop in the basement, what else are you hiding from us?
What your making looks very much like a Japanese hori hori. The name translated means 'dig dig.'
Needs a much stronger tang.
I feel a little cheated that I didn't get to watch a 24 hour video of glue drying.
Maybe I should live stream it
have a good xmas & good new yers from 811welding &sandblasting
Why do people have to mention the worst holiday season a pagan season at that? When it was so pleasant not hearing that pagan sound
you talk way too much just show what you do then your video is great
I take the time to explain what I am doing and why to help those that want to learn. The majority of my viewers have requested that format.