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So, I have a challenge for you guys. I want you to make a sword using only copper stripped from wires. I want you to collect thousands of wires and strip all the copper wire from them and then make a knife using that material. Not sure if copper is really good for this, so anything along those lines would be sick! Love the channel and what you're doing!
@@elisha6137 why would we do that to ourselves? This isn’t Forged in Fire where we give each other ridiculous challenges just for the sake of seeing struggle
Could you try making the Kasubimaru (I think) from Sekiro? It's the main characters sword, there is also the mortal blade, but that would be a hassle with how intricate it is.
Restoring anvils looks very tough. I feel like the used prices are so high, that I am just going to buy a new one from Alec Steele when I have my new shop
My father was the plant blacksmith at the American Smelting and Refining Company's lead smelter in East Helena, Montana, for over 30 years. He would have loved to see this smith shop, with all its array of air hammers and other smithy tools. Thanks so much for this video.
This channel is something else. I’ll definitely show my pops this later since he takes an interest in this field. As always, y’all did a banger of a video.
Man. I love the dynamic in That Works, much more than I ever did with MAA:R, and that’s not to knock Man At Arms, but the style in this environment is just different. The more intimate talks about techniques, history, function, etc., the way we get to see more of Matt’s journey here, also seeing Ilya help Matt along that journey, just pure passion and good vibes all around. Love it here.
If you all ever get the chance to visit the CMA in Johnstown... Do it! They have some amazing stuff in that place. It was a treat to meet all the folks there. Great job on the build guys!
That smith shop is every blacksmith's wet dream. All those gorgeous old giant power hammers inside that beautiful building, it couldn't get any better than that. I hope you give us another tour once it is fully operational again.
I really like this kind of "functionnal restoration" ! It's pretty, it works perfectly, yet you don't have to be afraid of scratching it when you use it. Perfect level of restoration for my taste ! This is one PRETTY anvil ! :D
I grew up just south of Johnstown, seeing a very interesting piece of the local history get another chance at life is really cool. Awesome video as always
Images you can smell. My father was an engineer & metal worker and seeing all the machinery just took me back to his workshop and the smell of the machinery, metal & oil.. wow!
I live in Pennsylvania and to see a small piece of my home state to make your Channel THAT WORKS was amazing I'm hoping in a few years to maybe make a forge myself and to get an anvil that I could learn the skill of blacksmithing I find that it would be a very useful skill to learn, I enjoy seeing the work you guys do!!
Chris, thanks for sharing the journey of getting the bridge anvil functionally restored and back to work! Great job with the shims! Glad to see Pat sharing the history the bridge anvils! 👍👍👍
What an epic restore!!! The back story of this bridge anvil is so awesome. What Pat is doing in PA is amazing for the blacksmith community. And as always Chris you are the man. You matt amd illiya are alway at the top of your game always pushing the envelope to be the best at your craft. Amd thank you for doing what you do for the maker community!!!! Much love!!!!!
I think that it's fantastic that you're giving this anvil another lease on life. It now has a great home and it's going to serve you guys well for many years to come. Thank you for sharing this incredible experience.
Thanks for the love and you are right! We will be using this for many years to come and make sure it’s passed to the right person when we are done with it.
That’s pretty impressive, I’ll take a guess and say that’s probably the first time in more than 100 years that anvil has been in its 3 seperate parts! Power hammers were awesome,especially the one they walked through, what a monster!
Man that anvil is awesome...I have a 1930's Vulcan I'm about to restore and this video gave me some good info on how exactly to do it...so thank you and great job on the restoration
Loved the video and the anvil! As for what I'd like to see you make next, just follow your inspiration, and make whatever you feel like doing! I'll be there to watch!
I was just a few weeks ago back at my friends little shed where he has his hobby-forge and I was thinking to myself why I wasnt enjoying the forging as much as in my little shed, the answer was only becoming clear after a few more hours of forging my knife there. His anvil is not from hardened steel, or at least not as hard as my old and big one, I got mine from an old german smith master, now I see why it's so good, brings your hammer right up to work height after each hit, just give it a little extra and your hammer and anvil are doing their deed. Thanks for a view of those great american smith-shops and anvils... just awe inspiring, I still havent used any power-hammers and such so I can only imagine the oomph behind those. Keep up the great content guys, I always want to move some steel when I see your vids.
I said it once and I'll say it again y'all do some amazing work. very ingenuitive very good resourcing and thank you for sharing the bed about the air hardening steel to repair a with.
I work for Norfolk Southern and I worked in Johnstown for a couple of months, was there talk of restoring the big hammers to get back into working order, great video loved the history!!
I work on the maintenance side laying and repairing the rails, I run a Flashbut truck that welds the rails together, like I said loved the history and now a subscriber, Merry Christmas and keep up the great work!!
Wow. So cool to learn some of the history and how you’re keeping it going as a working tool. The Center for Metal Arts looks great I’ll need to check it out.
Thanks man! It was a pleasure to make this one happen! Smile from ear to ear the whole time editing. Going to the CMA is like a inspirational refill to the soul for us. I can’t imagine being there every day!
@@ThatWorks I have collected Germany and Italian switchblades since a kid. They are beautiful, artistic and bad ass. If you ever seen the movie The Outsiders Johnny carries a lever action shell puller that I have been searching for about 25yrs now. It is the knife that started it all for me. It had bone or antler scales and the top bolsters were made to pull out shotgun shells from old guns. One side of the bolster was for 12g and the other side was for 16g.
Yes sir.... Wow... It's so cool seeing my Home... Where I call Home. Actually in a video, and a big channel at that... I live 30 minutes from Johnstown... So wierd seeing the building and everything... People don't realize how this Country would be America, without the Industry of Pennsylvania. And what it has done....
Great video gents! As much as I want to make jokes about Chris I REALLY enjoyed this one, it was great having some footage of Pat in there too. And an H13 horn?! Love it!
Dear That Works. I just found you on youtube for the first time. I have watched you create, and I want to say that you are fantastic craftsmen, possessed of great talent and skill. If I may toss an idea at you, future project-wise, how about a klingon bath'leth or mek'leth from star trek? Or a Dak'tagh?
Awesome documentary and restoration ! Pleased my eyes (althgouh wasn't your metal bar slightly burnt at 25:16 ? I mean, I get it's for the show but seeing that overburnt piece of metal on the anvil made me giggle a lil bit)
Yakko Warner would be proud of it, boys! Also, have you thought about making some teeny tiny anvils that could maybe work as keychain decorations or Christmas ornaments?
Yo research mudfloods and Tartaria.. That building has that old signature from the ancient Empire.. Great video and thanks for the knowledge you guys give!
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Thanks to Trade Coffee for sponsoring this episode! Get yours at cen.yt/TradeThatWorks . Thanks to Pat at the CMA for giving us this opportunity to restore an amazing piece of history! What’s next? You tell me!
So, I have a challenge for you guys. I want you to make a sword using only copper stripped from wires. I want you to collect thousands of wires and strip all the copper wire from them and then make a knife using that material. Not sure if copper is really good for this, so anything along those lines would be sick! Love the channel and what you're doing!
Impressive…now for an idea on the next build the blessed katana from the anime Blood C
@@elisha6137 why would we do that to ourselves? This isn’t Forged in Fire where we give each other ridiculous challenges just for the sake of seeing struggle
@@Sweetsteel1988 we have had quite a few requests for that one actually
Could you try making the Kasubimaru (I think) from Sekiro?
It's the main characters sword, there is also the mortal blade, but that would be a hassle with how intricate it is.
So CRAZY!!! This is awesome. I love what Pat is doing and so cool to see you restore that anvil!! Very nice work guys!
Yea Pat is a one of one for sure and that shop is second to none as well!
Restoring anvils looks very tough. I feel like the used prices are so high, that I am just going to buy a new one from Alec Steele when I have my new shop
A real one right here ☝️ legendary
I didn't even know how much I needed a bridge anvil. Until now. I love it.
Right? They are awesome pieces of history!
Beautiful work guys👊🏼👊🏼
Thanks Jim!
My father was the plant blacksmith at the American Smelting and Refining Company's lead smelter in East Helena, Montana, for over 30 years. He would have loved to see this smith shop, with all its array of air hammers and other smithy tools. Thanks so much for this video.
This channel is something else. I’ll definitely show my pops this later since he takes an interest in this field. As always, y’all did a banger of a video.
Thank you! We loved doing this video and hope to do more documentary style vids soon!
Man. I love the dynamic in That Works, much more than I ever did with MAA:R, and that’s not to knock Man At Arms, but the style in this environment is just different. The more intimate talks about techniques, history, function, etc., the way we get to see more of Matt’s journey here, also seeing Ilya help Matt along that journey, just pure passion and good vibes all around. Love it here.
Thanks Ethan! That means the world to us! Really ! Truly !
That's me in the green shirt in the background at 5:18! : D Very nice job, it was a treat to see it come apart and go back together.
You were very focused that day!
I noticed that one piece with the close up... On the word. Chambersburg... Right down the highway from me
I love seeing old tools being brought back to life and given new opportunities to be used!
That is Chris’ passion
If you all ever get the chance to visit the CMA in Johnstown... Do it! They have some amazing stuff in that place. It was a treat to meet all the folks there. Great job on the build guys!
I agree! Not only visit, take a class there! Life changing !
The center for metal arts is truly something special!
Breath taking all around ! A true portal in time !
That smith shop is every blacksmith's wet dream. All those gorgeous old giant power hammers inside that beautiful building, it couldn't get any better than that. I hope you give us another tour once it is fully operational again.
That main central hammer is fully operational already! It’s breath taking. We hope to do more there if we can!
I really like this kind of "functionnal restoration" ! It's pretty, it works perfectly, yet you don't have to be afraid of scratching it when you use it.
Perfect level of restoration for my taste ! This is one PRETTY anvil ! :D
Exactly! We didnt want to make it too nice and then be afraid to use it.
Awesome restore of a piece of blacksmithing and American history.
Thank you! It really felt great doing this one
I grew up just south of Johnstown, seeing a very interesting piece of the local history get another chance at life is really cool. Awesome video as always
Thank you Nathan!!! Means a lot
Images you can smell. My father was an engineer & metal worker and seeing all the machinery just took me back to his workshop and the smell of the machinery, metal & oil.. wow!
I live in Pennsylvania and to see a small piece of my home state to make your Channel THAT WORKS was amazing I'm hoping in a few years to maybe make a forge myself and to get an anvil that I could learn the skill of blacksmithing I find that it would be a very useful skill to learn, I enjoy seeing the work you guys do!!
Thanks Seth! We are so glad to share this with people who care.
Very beautiful anvil, and the community blacksmithing project is an amazing way to use these old industrial spaces. Inspiring!
Chris, thanks for sharing the journey of getting the bridge anvil functionally restored and back to work! Great job with the shims! Glad to see Pat sharing the history the bridge anvils! 👍👍👍
THanks DW ! We did our best on this one
Your love for what you do shows in your face and the quality of your product
Very nice!!
Chris loves himself some rust !!!
Beautiful anvil restoration and nice to see a piece of history come back into working condition!.
It felt so good finally putting it all back together and moving some hot style on it!
What an epic restore!!! The back story of this bridge anvil is so awesome. What Pat is doing in PA is amazing for the blacksmith community. And as always Chris you are the man. You matt amd illiya are alway at the top of your game always pushing the envelope to be the best at your craft. Amd thank you for doing what you do for the maker community!!!! Much love!!!!!
Thank you so much Andrew! Happy new year !
@@ThatWorks you’re absolutely welcome and happy new yr to you!!🤘🏼
Comment to help the channel. Good to see some appreciation for PA and its industries that changed the world
Thank you for your support
Such a beautiful anvil pattern and such an amazing place. Thank you so much for taking along for the journey!!! Merry Christmas.
To you as well Donal
I think that it's fantastic that you're giving this anvil another lease on life. It now has a great home and it's going to serve you guys well for many years to come. Thank you for sharing this incredible experience.
Thanks for the love and you are right! We will be using this for many years to come and make sure it’s passed to the right person when we are done with it.
That’s pretty impressive, I’ll take a guess and say that’s probably the first time in more than 100 years that anvil has been in its 3 seperate parts! Power hammers were awesome,especially the one they walked through, what a monster!
You are prob correct. If I had to guess I would say about 80 years.
That is a beautiful restoration. So wonderful to see a piece of history preserved.
Thank you Drinking Buddy
Absolutely amazing job. Fixing the horn looks flawless
Love all the creative things coming out of your shope! I equally love these restoration videos. Glad to see some new life in this old beautiful anvil
Man that anvil is awesome...I have a 1930's Vulcan I'm about to restore and this video gave me some good info on how exactly to do it...so thank you and great job on the restoration
Be sure to look up exactly what it made of before welding or anything with heat
That thing is awesome, great video!
Thank you Steve
Video contains everything from my Christmas list.
I know right?!?? What at the top though
@@ThatWorks The total package. The hammers, the forges, the buildings. Looks like heaven to me.
I grew up near there. So cool to find this! My grandfather retired as a crane operator from Beth Steel
Oh man it would be great to talk to him
Congratulations on grtting such a historical anvil. That thing sure is sweet, but those power hammers, their very impressive.
More restoration projects would be cool to watch. The added history of the items is also fun to learn.
We would love to. For some reason our audience doesn’t get behind these videos as much as big builds :(
Super interesting history behind those anvils and a top notch restoration!
Thanks Karl! You are next!
Loved the video and the anvil! As for what I'd like to see you make next, just follow your inspiration, and make whatever you feel like doing! I'll be there to watch!
I love this! Thank you
Thank you !
It looks great!! Looks a lot better with the tip of the horn back on it!!!
Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
Thank you Oneshot
@@ThatWorks You're welcome and keep up the great work!!
I love seeing old beat up tools being restored and used again.
I was just a few weeks ago back at my friends little shed where he has his hobby-forge and I was thinking to myself why I wasnt enjoying the forging as much as in my little shed, the answer was only becoming clear after a few more hours of forging my knife there. His anvil is not from hardened steel, or at least not as hard as my old and big one, I got mine from an old german smith master, now I see why it's so good, brings your hammer right up to work height after each hit, just give it a little extra and your hammer and anvil are doing their deed. Thanks for a view of those great american smith-shops and anvils... just awe inspiring, I still havent used any power-hammers and such so I can only imagine the oomph behind those. Keep up the great content guys, I always want to move some steel when I see your vids.
Do it!!!
What a layout, beautiful !
It really is mind blowing and inspiring to see!
Video production has definitely improved, good work
Ty ty ty ! We are getting there! New camera time!
I’d love to see a vid with some voice over of the larger machines. Looks like a really cool place to visit.
Perhaps soon!
@@ThatWorks that’d be awesome. Just imagine all the stuff those old machines have made.
I said it once and I'll say it again y'all do some amazing work. very ingenuitive very good resourcing and thank you for sharing the bed about the air hardening steel to repair a with.
H13 I amazing stuff
Great video as always!
I'd love to see you guys take on forging and or fabricating your own sawyers anvil!
We could do that for sure!
This just popped up in my recommended, I'm from Johnstown, this is awesome.
Enjoyed it much! What a lucky anvil!!!
We will ! Every day!
You guys should do some sculpture with Chris. I'd love to see his process for making metal sculpture.
We will! For sure! We did a video way back of him making a sword stand sculpture
Awesome video! That center is cool. I wish I had something like that around me. Thanks for sharing!
It truly is an amazing place.
I live in Johnstown. That’s pretty awesome
I work for Norfolk Southern and I worked in Johnstown for a couple of months, was there talk of restoring the big hammers to get back into working order, great video loved the history!!
Oh nice! Yea Chris has been there when they ran that central hammer for an event. Crazy inspiring ! What sort of work do you do?
I work on the maintenance side laying and repairing the rails, I run a Flashbut truck that welds the rails together, like I said loved the history and now a subscriber, Merry Christmas and keep up the great work!!
That's cool! Thanks for bringing us all along, I love field trips!
We love them too and figured it’s time to share the love
That's such a cool design for an anvil, and a good functional restoration. I especially like the horn repair!
Thanks crude! Nothing but love went into this! Lots of it!
WOW, that is an awesome piece of equipment. Thank you for giving it new life. Merry Christmas and God Bless.
Thank you Bernard ! Same to you and yours!
Great episode, so awesome to see such an important place to America 🇺🇸 and a unique anvil !!!
I couldn’t agree more! We want to do more spotlights like this soon
Nice documentary. Please keep them coming.
We hope to do many more!
Wow. So cool to learn some of the history and how you’re keeping it going as a working tool. The Center for Metal Arts looks great I’ll need to check it out.
Excellent renovation, enough said, craftsmenship at its best
Thank you Tim
Nice work, guys. Great to see a piece of history saved and restored like this. P.S. would love to see that Chambersburg put back into operation!
Loving the industrial history!
Yea we felt this one deserved not then a physical restoration! It needed its story renewed as well!
Glad to be even just a small part of all this. Love the craft, the people, the history, all of it. Great vid🍻
Thanks man! It was a pleasure to make this one happen! Smile from ear to ear the whole time editing. Going to the CMA is like a inspirational refill to the soul for us. I can’t imagine being there every day!
congratulations, such a beautiful video with an awesome anvil!!!!!!
Thank you Dany!
It's so kool to think that you guys even know of this area of the world... No one knows about this area
I don't know how to put it in words... beautiful work on a piece of history, use it well. 👏
Thank you Jet! We will!
Very impressive restoration of the anvil 🥳😊😎
Thank you Robert !
Congrats on the awesome find!
Shiny... and very elegant. I did'nt think I would ever say that about an anvil.
Anvils can be quite magnificent
A great video, what an amazing piece of history. Well done all around.
Thanks dude! It means a lot to do this work and have people appreciate it !
Would like to know which hard face rod did you use? Thanks Jim Riddle.
Best video I ever seen on line.great job.
Oh wow! Thank you!
Such a beautiful piece of history, the more you know
….truly and after school special :)
Fantastic. This was incredible you guys!
Thanks brother!
great video and amazing anvil.
Thank you Hoot
Great video! Awesome story and amazing editing!
Thank you Brett! We are truly starting to figure this whole UA-cam thing out :)
I would love to see your boy make lever action switchblade knife!!!
hmmmm. sounds interesting. tell me more
@@ThatWorks I have collected Germany and Italian switchblades since a kid. They are beautiful, artistic and bad ass. If you ever seen the movie The Outsiders Johnny carries a lever action shell puller that I have been searching for about 25yrs now. It is the knife that started it all for me. It had bone or antler scales and the top bolsters were made to pull out shotgun shells from old guns. One side of the bolster was for 12g and the other side was for 16g.
@@ThatWorks please let me know if you have anymore questions or I can send pics of a few as an example
Awesome video, love this restoration
I love your power point presentation. Hahaha
Keep em comin
Uhhh thank you
Wow the size of those anvils R massive I love places like that the history
Yea everything there is huge and mind blowing
Yes sir.... Wow... It's so cool seeing my Home... Where I call Home. Actually in a video, and a big channel at that...
I live 30 minutes from Johnstown... So wierd seeing the building and everything... People don't realize how this Country would be America, without the Industry of Pennsylvania. And what it has done....
That is so very true!
I was born and raised in Johnstown. This is really cool to see!
That coffee: "I AM VENGEANCE! I AM THE NIGHT! I . . . . need more coffee!
B E C A U S E I ' M B A T M A N !!!" 🦇🦇🦇
You gosh darn right batman
I took a class there very early on a few years back. I love that place.
It’s amazing right ?!
Great video gents! As much as I want to make jokes about Chris I REALLY enjoyed this one, it was great having some footage of Pat in there too. And an H13 horn?! Love it!
Why not!? Feel free to joke about Chris all you want! Thanks for watching !
Fantastic. Maybe Chris should design and forge a working anvil for a video
I think that you are right ! It’s time !
CMA sure got a nice workshop
Dear That Works. I just found you on youtube for the first time. I have watched you create, and I want to say that you are fantastic craftsmen, possessed of great talent and skill. If I may toss an idea at you, future project-wise, how about a klingon bath'leth or mek'leth from star trek? Or a Dak'tagh?
WE have made one but not on this channel. I would love to!
Love the use of shims to add holding tension instead of welding
Yea that was actually a pain in the butt to do but it was so worth it !
Awesome job 👍
Thank you MM
A beautiful anvil, I've never seen one like it👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
“This is my anvil. There are many like it but this one is mine…”
wonderfull video with a lot of history. i would off loved to hear more from the guy from CMS. wonderfull video anway!
We will catch up with them again. They were in the middle of teaching a class and they snuck us in at lunch time for a sec.
@@ThatWorks awesome!
Excellent work, nice.
Thank you Mark!
Thats realy pretty, hard work, well done.
Ty very much
A surprisingly practical and elegant design for what is essentially a hunk of iron for smashing things on
Hunk of steel in this case but yes.
Awesome documentary and restoration ! Pleased my eyes (althgouh wasn't your metal bar slightly burnt at 25:16 ? I mean, I get it's for the show but seeing that overburnt piece of metal on the anvil made me giggle a lil bit)
Oh for sure it was!
Geat work, in all aspects. Respect, I love it.
Thank you so much !
That anvil look great. Nice job
Thanks Hendrik! We really love it!
Yakko Warner would be proud of it, boys!
Also, have you thought about making some teeny tiny anvils that could maybe work as keychain decorations or Christmas ornaments?
Yea man! We didn’t quite get there for Christmas but we will by the new year!
Sweet project guys
Thanks for watching Champ!
Awesome!! Thanks for the badass video!
You are very welcome! Thank you for watching and commenting
Yo research mudfloods and Tartaria.. That building has that old signature from the ancient Empire.. Great video and thanks for the knowledge you guys give!