@@Don69420 well as the son of a crack head I've seen my mom cook up , she's got a designated spoon for it . Puts coke, baking soda and a couple drops of water. Heat turns mixture to a "rock" . Chemicaly alters the coke making it smokeable. I'm 26 and will personally never touch the stuff
@@Osama-Bon-Jovi-01Can confirm, s what I've been doing. More so kitchen knives than daggers tho. Looking at it now, probably wouldnt recommend knives if u wanna practice your forging, cuz with a knife youll probably only spend like 20% of the time it takes to finish one actually at the anvil, a lot of it goes into sharpening it instead. Still good practice of course, but different part of the process, mainly.
It’s actually kind of hilarious how accurate that is. Yes literally just repeat something enough times until you’re great at it and you’ll have plenty of experience
@@The_Bird_Bird_Harderthere is no soup, with no bowl. What is soup, without a container? A mess on the floor. Jokes aside, prehistoric humans ate raw meat off animals with no utensils. You’d survive without a spoon.
I see a ton of young guys always underestimating the value of doing the same thing over and over. It really let's you hone in on a bunch of skills, identify shortcomings and work on your gaps.
That's awesome... I absolutely hate pressed steel cutlery with their sharp edges that are so common these days. I have to use silverware because old cutlery is beyond superior (plus I have autism so my brain has these ridiculous needs 🤣) so it's really cool to see this craft isn't lost and others out there are making amazing things like this for themselves and others. 😁
Solingen makes a great variety of stainless steel forged cutlery. They are famous in a 1000~2000 mile radius specifically for their knife forging (which after the war transitioned more to cutlery than just knifes).
Fellow autistic blacksmith here, why not make your own! I've always gotten a real kick out of being able to use stuff I made myself, and being able to brag about others using my work aint half bad either!
@@TheSpeep I'm soooo nearly doing it... But I know my typical ADHD trend to pick up new hobbies like they're gonna out of fashion so I'm trying to finish those I've started before I move on 🤣🤣 This will definitely eventually be happening though 🤣🤣🤣
I don't like these flat designs too. I want a round grip, you have way more control over it since it extends to 3 dimensions instead of 2. (Of course its still 3 dimensions, you know exactly what I mean). On some modern eating knifes everything is sharp except the blade.
I've always wanted a set of iron utensils. One's that scream hand made. I think having the tool marks and each piece being slightly different is pretty cool.
I'm guessing there's a sort of post that they slot into the holes of those anvils. The post definitely is rounded at the top. Put the flat spoon on top of the rounded post and whack it until it takes shape.
Awesome! I'm working towards retirement in my self built cabin and although I believe I'm skilled at woodworking I'd also like to be able to forge my own tools and nails etc and be one step closer to everything I own being self made. I need to start learning blacksmithing and welding asap haha
I'd love to see this guys silverware drawer. It's probably filled with dozens of metal spoons of varying quality. The early ones are probably pretty rough, and you can almost line them all up and see his progression as a blacksmith and a craftsman.
I like the ornaments. That doesn't look like it can fit much liquid in it. You seem to be skilled with the anvil. My favorite metal spoon design is Kaj Franck's Scandia Dinner Spoon. It's cup is the most pleasurable for soups. I wonder what kind of embossings it could have if it was handmade.
Have you ever made a grapefruit spoon? It literally has teeth on the front to dig into grapefruit. My mom had a set. Its like a teaspoon maybe a tad thinner/narrower.
ngl i didn't even know blacksmiths were still a thing.... its awesome to know though! (its a really cool profession in my eyes that im super interested in)
I've mostly been doing kitchen knives in the few years since I've started, for much the same reason: I like to make stuff I or others can use. I must admit though, for the amount of other work that goes into it as well, a knife may not be the best project to specifically practice forging. Youve kinda got me wanting to try a spoon now...
You got it wrong right off the bat. I learned from a very talented, humble, and unknown blacksmith. I'd honestly call him a master. So, when I started out he told me to diversify and make as many different things as possible. Doing the same thing repeatedly isn't learning, that's homework or a warm-up. Making different things, you are constantly learning new things. I made Arrowheads, knives, spoons, tools, later on even some cross-guards for bigger projects, and by the time I got back around to making another of the first item I had ever created, the difference was noticeable. It was visible to such a degree that you would not guess that the older one was even made by me. That took about two weeks, and I improved an intense amount in that time because I was dedicated and enjoyed it. I usually see the smiths around the online, public, and youtube sphere claiming that it took them ages to "get good." It doesn't have to take you that long, and really the thing these people are forgetting is to just wing it. Do what you think you need to based on those around you. Watch a master work, then replicate him. Plan it out roughly, cut the pieces to shape, scale it all, guess work the amount of metal you'll need based on weight, content, how much of a buffer you'll need, how thick you need certain parts to be. In no time, you'll be making spoons, and everything else, and skipping steps that you previously had to do but no longer have to. Personally I was proud of how good I got at quenching. I was working with all different shapes and so it was much easier to learn the patterns of where warps will appear and in what metal under what conditions. I got amazing at quenching to the degree that I could (and probably still can if you put me back in front of a forge) quench anything perfectly.
I'd cook only the finest crack in this spoon
@@Don69420 that appears to me, to be exactly what a crackhead would say, sir
@@Don69420 you can cook about any chemical my man, it's for shooting up, it isn't drug specific.
LOL
@@Don69420 well as the son of a crack head I've seen my mom cook up , she's got a designated spoon for it . Puts coke, baking soda and a couple drops of water. Heat turns mixture to a "rock" . Chemicaly alters the coke making it smokeable. I'm 26 and will personally never touch the stuff
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So making 2000 iron daggers in skyrim is somewhat accurate...
👍 yeah
Omg it all makes sense now
Neat me to the daggers lol
Like making a thousand steel daggers to increase your blacksmithing in skyrim 😂
Exactly like this
Lmao, tbh if I got into blacksmithing I'd probably spend a lot of my time making knives 😂
@@Osama-Bon-Jovi-01Can confirm, s what I've been doing.
More so kitchen knives than daggers tho.
Looking at it now, probably wouldnt recommend knives if u wanna practice your forging, cuz with a knife youll probably only spend like 20% of the time it takes to finish one actually at the anvil, a lot of it goes into sharpening it instead. Still good practice of course, but different part of the process, mainly.
It’s actually kind of hilarious how accurate that is. Yes literally just repeat something enough times until you’re great at it and you’ll have plenty of experience
I love it when a game exploit unironically replicates real life
They say that the pen is mightier than the sword but both the wielder of the pen and the sword would starve to death without a spoon.
or just eat with their hands 🤷
@@MyUnquenchableThirst Soup
Actually no I suppose hands can do that too just not well.
The person with the pen could take out the insides and use it as a straw
@@The_Bird_Bird_Harderthere is no soup, with no bowl. What is soup, without a container? A mess on the floor. Jokes aside, prehistoric humans ate raw meat off animals with no utensils. You’d survive without a spoon.
It looks amazing.
Ikr
this has made me want to do metal work more than any knife.
That’s great to hear, I’ll be putting out longform blacksmithing videos that aren’t knives
@@nate_weiss_ you're always preaching about making your own tools. Maybe a few videos about that?
Right?
Ay yo can I have some blacksmithing skills?
"Only a spoonful."
It was iron daggers for me. I maxxed out smithing in like an hour
I see a ton of young guys always underestimating the value of doing the same thing over and over. It really let's you hone in on a bunch of skills, identify shortcomings and work on your gaps.
"Strike while the iron is hot"
Yeah... because otherwise it's cold forging which does terrible things tot he steel.
I’ve started carving recently and am starting with spoons
That's awesome... I absolutely hate pressed steel cutlery with their sharp edges that are so common these days. I have to use silverware because old cutlery is beyond superior (plus I have autism so my brain has these ridiculous needs 🤣) so it's really cool to see this craft isn't lost and others out there are making amazing things like this for themselves and others. 😁
Solingen makes a great variety of stainless steel forged cutlery. They are famous in a 1000~2000 mile radius specifically for their knife forging (which after the war transitioned more to cutlery than just knifes).
Fellow autistic blacksmith here, why not make your own!
I've always gotten a real kick out of being able to use stuff I made myself, and being able to brag about others using my work aint half bad either!
@@TheSpeep I'm soooo nearly doing it... But I know my typical ADHD trend to pick up new hobbies like they're gonna out of fashion so I'm trying to finish those I've started before I move on 🤣🤣
This will definitely eventually be happening though 🤣🤣🤣
Might want to stop using old silver ustensils. Silver poisoning is harsh as fuck
I don't like these flat designs too. I want a round grip, you have way more control over it since it extends to 3 dimensions instead of 2. (Of course its still 3 dimensions, you know exactly what I mean). On some modern eating knifes everything is sharp except the blade.
Forge a large deep spoon for soup portioning now that would take a really good blacksmith to make. Also would be one hell of a video!
It’s comin up!
i loved it
Love your philosophy of making usable projects :)
For me it's bottle openers, but spoons sound like a great idea
If only I liked benchwork like you! Never regret it but always dread it.
Super slick man! I'm looking forward to some long form content, as I'm sure others are as well. Cheers from Victoria BC 🍁
Can never have too many utensils too, let alone selling em.
That's a really nice spoon, great job.
I do enjoy a good spoon
A good rusty spoon is sure to increase your iron level.
Good job! Nice vid
I feel you bro. Started blacksmithing and wanted to make things that have a use
The mighty spoon!
I've always wanted a set of iron utensils. One's that scream hand made. I think having the tool marks and each piece being slightly different is pretty cool.
I have never even thought about making a spoon, might have to give it a try 🤔
Great way to practice forging and sheet metal forming. Also nice being able to use what you make
@@nate_weiss_ yeah mate I've only been forging knives in winter for a cpl years, so I need something like this to practise cheers ✌️
Man, your telling me that making thousands of iron daggers in skyrim is really how you master blacksmithing
"You have to make a lot of the same project"
Sounds like grinding in a videogame.
Making knives on an anvil would be fun. Especially if you did all the over the top Damascus for butter knives.
Beautiful work 👏 👌
I see you have played knifey spooney.
Beautiful I love your spoon
Ye' has wisdom of the forge
Spoons are such a great project. Great for fairs, people buy them in bulge and they can be quite intricate to make.
I liked the handle
I love this.
Daaaang that’s a perfect basting spoon or soup spoon. 😮
Very nice work!
Very cool man, been wanting to learn this for a while.
That is awesome! Maybe do a video on how to get started on blacksmithing?
How do you put the curve in the spoon? Also how do you go about making forks? Very interested
I'm guessing there's a sort of post that they slot into the holes of those anvils. The post definitely is rounded at the top.
Put the flat spoon on top of the rounded post and whack it until it takes shape.
Great stuff!!
I love the forge Mark's on the utensils.
I’m shore we would all love them waiting u forge helps hone my hammer work
That’s a beautiful spoon
I like the sipmle design on the handle, makes it look very classy
When this guy is out of spoons he just makes more. He's unstoppable.
That is a very nice spoon, well done
Nice spoon 👍
My hungry ass could never be a blacksmith
I like making spoons too, and agree that something useful is better than something decorative
When you make something useful decorative, it makes it all the more personal
If i had this spoon, it would be the only one i use. It looks truly amazing.
Will also be one of the more interesting DIY Christmas gifts your family members have ever gotten
I started with making spoons too! I always used to joke that spoons were my passions
Awesome! I'm working towards retirement in my self built cabin and although I believe I'm skilled at woodworking I'd also like to be able to forge my own tools and nails etc and be one step closer to everything I own being self made. I need to start learning blacksmithing and welding asap haha
I'd love to see this guys silverware drawer. It's probably filled with dozens of metal spoons of varying quality. The early ones are probably pretty rough, and you can almost line them all up and see his progression as a blacksmith and a craftsman.
Make one with a wooden handle and neat floral designs on it
I like the ornaments. That doesn't look like it can fit much liquid in it. You seem to be skilled with the anvil. My favorite metal spoon design is Kaj Franck's Scandia Dinner Spoon. It's cup is the most pleasurable for soups. I wonder what kind of embossings it could have if it was handmade.
Have you ever made a grapefruit spoon? It literally has teeth on the front to dig into grapefruit. My mom had a set. Its like a teaspoon maybe a tad thinner/narrower.
Wow that’s awesome!
These minimalist spoon is too good
We always joke that the cat must melt down our forks when there are none in the drawer but tons of spoons. You must be his spoon guy
ITS BEAUTIFUL
Skyrim level resetting be wild 😂
Plus, making a matching set would probably further improve your skills
Spoooon man! Forging iron with his hands
ngl i didn't even know blacksmiths were still a thing.... its awesome to know though! (its a really cool profession in my eyes that im super interested in)
It’s so beautiful! Your work is very tasteful ✨
That’s good looking metal.
I like that, thats way cool. :D
i mean if u gave a person the spoon it would be the coolest spoon in the drawer
Sick bro!!
Spoons are amazing in general you are doing great
great spoon!
A good spoon is an amazing thing to have
Spoon is the best utensil hands down.
I really gravitated towards iron daggers at first however dwarven bows are way better
They make great presents
That fucking spoon looks amazing
I love your channel
Damn, that is a fine spoon.
Nice
I've mostly been doing kitchen knives in the few years since I've started, for much the same reason: I like to make stuff I or others can use.
I must admit though, for the amount of other work that goes into it as well, a knife may not be the best project to specifically practice forging.
Youve kinda got me wanting to try a spoon now...
Are you selling a set of these spoons? Because I want some! Looks so good
Make tongs. Tongs to fit every shape of steel. Bottle openers are fun too but you will be using the tongs you make to make new things.
That's awesome! What kind of steel do you use?
That’s very nice man
"make me a sword!" Lol, have a spoon.
You got it wrong right off the bat. I learned from a very talented, humble, and unknown blacksmith. I'd honestly call him a master. So, when I started out he told me to diversify and make as many different things as possible. Doing the same thing repeatedly isn't learning, that's homework or a warm-up. Making different things, you are constantly learning new things. I made Arrowheads, knives, spoons, tools, later on even some cross-guards for bigger projects, and by the time I got back around to making another of the first item I had ever created, the difference was noticeable. It was visible to such a degree that you would not guess that the older one was even made by me. That took about two weeks, and I improved an intense amount in that time because I was dedicated and enjoyed it.
I usually see the smiths around the online, public, and youtube sphere claiming that it took them ages to "get good." It doesn't have to take you that long, and really the thing these people are forgetting is to just wing it. Do what you think you need to based on those around you. Watch a master work, then replicate him. Plan it out roughly, cut the pieces to shape, scale it all, guess work the amount of metal you'll need based on weight, content, how much of a buffer you'll need, how thick you need certain parts to be. In no time, you'll be making spoons, and everything else, and skipping steps that you previously had to do but no longer have to.
Personally I was proud of how good I got at quenching. I was working with all different shapes and so it was much easier to learn the patterns of where warps will appear and in what metal under what conditions. I got amazing at quenching to the degree that I could (and probably still can if you put me back in front of a forge) quench anything perfectly.
That's awesome, I'd buy utensils like this
that's a cool spoon , might be a little heavy but cool
From now on you will carry the honourable title of "spoon smith". Wear it with pride.
After all, what good is the world's best blade when it is used by a man who hasn't eaten properly in long time
Beautiful work
Nice spoon
Also good for scooping hearts out.
That’s awesome
420 comments before I wrote this. Nice spoon 🥄
🫡
Is a nice spoon
OooOo can you do a set with a hammered metal finish?
So now I'm wondering if you'd sell me a spoon
Spoon-knife! Confuse your enemies!!!