Forging a punch / pritchel
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- Опубліковано 17 січ 2016
- A quick video showing the making of a pritchel. The process is the same for a punch just stop sooner! #GaryHuston #Blacksmithing #Farrier #ASMR #Horseshoeing #Fabrication #Ironwork #Hoofcare #welder #repairs #horse #farriery #engineering
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Can’t wait to watch more of your videos. I was just hired as a blacksmith at Fort Boonesborough State Park in Kentucky. I owned a forge years ago but am out of practice. These will help me brush up on my skills by the time I start in a couple of weeks. As it’s a living history museum, I’ll be wearing period clothing and answering questions from tourists while performing blacksmith skills. I recently retired.
Just wanted to say thanks for the videos. I have watched just about all of them now and love it when new ones come in. Video production is bang on and the pacing is perfect. I find watching the vids incredibly relaxing and the information is presented with elegant sufficiency. All the best for 2016.
love your videos Gary, always informative and accessible, you do a great job of demystifying it all! It always amuses me to think of you there, in your garage, making all these silent gestures towards a piece of hot steel so you can add your voice-over later. Must look like a madman!
great vid! thank you
Well done!
Hi Thanks for posting your video's they are very interesting. I'm In Manitoba Canada now, but guessing from some of your local videos, I grew up not far from you at New Mill /Tring. we have a forge here we shipped to Canada when we left the U.k., it was a double that came out of the metal work shop from Mortimer hill school Tring when I was a pupil there in about 1986, before we moved to wales. My Dad and uncle got it for 10 quid I think, and cut it in half, and welded legs at the new ends. My uncles half is in Devon now and i think he uses his to make ornamental things .ours has not been set up since we got it, but has been used with a vice bolted on it for welding and heating stuff with a cutting torch. But as I'm getting older I fancy setting it up and trying to make some of the twist and fancy handles and stuff you and some of the other guys I follow show us. Regards Robert
Fellow Manitoban? I also forge iron and have been for some years. If you want any help setting up depending on where you are I could help you out.
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Allan keys are usually made form an impact resistant steel, would they make a good edge steel for an axe?
I've been enjoying your videos. I'm sure on one you asked for suggestions on things to make?
I recently got into welding and made myself a 'rocket stove', I'd like to see you make one and put your own spin on it!
It's just a big piece of box section cut and welded on a 90 with a shelf in the front for the fuel to sit on and air to go under.
I've always wanted to make one but like the stove thing in a previous video, it will get made then just sit and take up room in the shop! I might have a go though.
I think that's a problem I will have soon! I'm thinking of making a second one but might end up giving it away. I've seen on the internet people have made miniature ones but I'm not convinced they work as well
To make punches I use old buck rakes in America every farm will toss them try the scrapyards they are amazing steel and they heat treat well
Gary, what caused that crack to develop? Thanks for another good vid, I'll never get tired of you repeating the basics! Keep it up!
+SKW Bushcraft im not gary but i think that the crack developed because the pritchel is usually made of harder and more brittle steal, therefore being conistantly hit by hammer coused it to crack up, it also culd been coused by temperature diferences , because the tool gets hot when touching red hot metal aswell, and than just cools of in air, wich makes it a bit more brittle after each time it cools of , or temperature difference culd even start forming cracks.
what he said
I hate these cheeky blokes with all their wonderful equipment!
(Looking left, then right, nobody looking, hit Subscribe)
Where is a good place to find old allen keys like this?
I'm surprised you need to ask! Yard sales, boot sales , junk shops, second hand tool shops, your grandfathers shed... Need I go on?
If I was making a punch for cold material, (I need one to punch bolts out of railway sleepers) how would I heat treat it?
That's a difficult one to answer properly as it depends what steel you are using. Let's say for argument sake it's a medium carbon steel. I would harden it as normal then temper it at brown.. Give it a try and see how it goes. If it's too soft try dark orange, too hard go towards blue.
Thanks Gary, when you say temper it at brown, you mean carefully heat it to a brown colour? Great and informative vids mate!
+Duncan Noel yes, as in most f my other videos..
Thanks mate!
Is it possible to reforge old metal,or does it get to a stage of non reversible
Not sure of your term "reforge", in the case of this pritchel it would need completely fire welding back together which is not really practical with high carbon steel. Far easier and cheaper to just make a new one. When I was at college as a forging exercise we had to fold a horseshoe in half add another half and forge the whole lot back into a solid bar then make a new shoe. Doable in mild steel and a great forging exercise but totally impractical for everyday.
garyhuston OK. Cheers
makes a great masonry punch....funny how the word "pritchel" is no longer used.....old english im sure....prickel...!?
Couldn't you reforge the old pritchel back to working order or would that just be a waste of effort?
Not really very practical, trying to forge weld high carbon steel isn't easy. Just not worth the effort. Easier to just get another Allen key!
+garyhuston Fair enough, good video by the way, it's always a pleasure when there's a new one :)