I’m getting a forge this weekend and I have a ton of broken leaf springs in my shop from work. I was specifically looking for information on 5160 and I’m glad I found your channel.
Cool Seax knife! I also save different leftovers in hope that I will need them sometimes. Sometimes it is just hard to remember what stuff I have in my stock.
Very nice work! Many moons ago when I was a carpenter (before air nailers) we were taught to "move" nails/metal with our hammer blows by pulling, pushing, or side to side movements of our hammers. it allowed us to keep on driving nails that may have bent slightly during the initial hammer strike, by pushing or pulling them in the direction we wanted them to go. we also used the technique in metalwork to cover odd shapes. I can see where it might also work in forging to move the metal where you wanted it to go. Do you use hammer blows to push/pull the metal when forging? Or do you just let the rounded face of the hammer move the metal without trying to push or pull it where needed? I tried to watch closely to see if you were performing any push/pull hammer blows, but I couldn't tell for sure.
Yup, there is a lot of pushing and pulling when moving steel. You have to get use to your hammer blows to get the steel to move where you want it to go. The more that you can focus on this, the less work you have to do later. When the time lapse's aren't going its a lot easier to see my hammer blows and how I'm swinging the hammer.
@@theriversexperience9383, Awesome! Thank much for the reply, I appreciate it! Once I am able to get started I think I can do well at that because of my prior experience. P.S. I loved the KaramBowie (I voted for it) and I'd love to see you make more of them if it is worth your time. Thanks!
Love Seax style. Clean, simple and functional. Very efficient shape.
Really neat to see such a small piece of steel grow like that !
Like the shots of the grinding from rear view thank you
I’m getting a forge this weekend and I have a ton of broken leaf springs in my shop from work. I was specifically looking for information on 5160 and I’m glad I found your channel.
Glad I could help!
Heck ya. Looks like ya got what ya wanted out of that. 🤘
Have you thought about investing in a tire hammer. About 20 hammer strikes and I was wore out. You moved it out nicely. Looking good brother.
Cool Seax knife! I also save different leftovers in hope that I will need them sometimes. Sometimes it is just hard to remember what stuff I have in my stock.
Thanks! I keep as many of them as possible because sometimes it's nice just to knock out a knife to get back in the rhythm.
I have the same problem. I know I can just write what it is on the scrap. But I neglect to
Very nice work!
Thank you Hans!
5160 isn't too easy to move with a hammer great job!
Thanks James!
You nailed it brother.
Thank you Larry!
Very nice.
You certainly picked a tough piece of Steel to move under a hammer and you moved it along way very good job Eric
Yeah I think I might have gone to the trouble to find an easier bit myself :)
Always something really cool about seeing a little piece of scrap become something like that. Nice work!
Thanks Cory! These scrap builds are fun.
I like it
You do great work.
Thanks Jim!
Excelent video!!!
Thank you!
Great build, Erick! That 5160 certainly is a tough one to move under the hammer. What’s with your forge? It’s sputtering quite a bit.
I need to redo my gas lines and fine tune the burner a bit. I'm building a new forge so it hasn't been a priority, new forge and burners.
@@theriversexperience9383 you gonna do forced air with a ribbon burner?
@@TyrellKnifeworks Yes, I figured it was finally time.
Very nice work!
Many moons ago when I was a carpenter (before air nailers) we were taught to "move" nails/metal with our hammer blows by pulling, pushing, or side to side movements of our hammers. it allowed us to keep on driving nails that may have bent slightly during the initial hammer strike, by pushing or pulling them in the direction we wanted them to go. we also used the technique in metalwork to cover odd shapes. I can see where it might also work in forging to move the metal where you wanted it to go.
Do you use hammer blows to push/pull the metal when forging?
Or do you just let the rounded face of the hammer move the metal without trying to push or pull it where needed?
I tried to watch closely to see if you were performing any push/pull hammer blows, but I couldn't tell for sure.
Yup, there is a lot of pushing and pulling when moving steel. You have to get use to your hammer blows to get the steel to move where you want it to go. The more that you can focus on this, the less work you have to do later. When the time lapse's aren't going its a lot easier to see my hammer blows and how I'm swinging the hammer.
@@theriversexperience9383, Awesome! Thank much for the reply, I appreciate it! Once I am able to get started I think I can do well at that because of my prior experience.
P.S. I loved the KaramBowie (I voted for it) and I'd love to see you make more of them if it is worth your time. Thanks!
I'm working on a piece of 1 1/8 × 3" 5160 but my home made forge isn't cooperating.