Thank, Dan. Tips from the best are what it takes to get better! It's amazing that three hours of pounding may not be enough to make something apparent! That's why it's called learning.
I think your doing a great Job Adam. I hope your not offended by this video its meant to help not hinder. Also I'm not the best in any why just got a couple more hours on the clock than you. Keep making videos and hows the power hammer coming on.
A question for you Daniel if it alright by you, As someone just starting out is it good enough to make my punches from mild steel or would I be better of using high carbon steel. Got leaf spring & also bearing steel oh and gear steel (am in India and where I live you can't just go and buy the stuff) The junk yard is my only source. What would make the best punches & drifts? What I am wondering mostly though is would there be a need to harden the high carbon steel as it would just loose its hardness/temper and therefore from what I understood from the video is that why you use the h13? It air hardens is that useful? Hope you don't mind the questions. David.
nice , i think its best to shear the slug out when cold if it doesnt drop out when hot too, i mean when its cold its brittle and will snap out clean man!when its hot itll just go up and down all day long on a little flap,, I especially like the comment about alec steele and short stubby tools! good work!
Great Job Dan ! Nice straightforward work ,no screwing around. As for dropping your work from time to time, a favorite saying of the man that I learned from was ,Gravity is a blacksmiths best friend.... especially when needing to get rid of tongs in a hurry ! Keep up the good work.
Hi Dan I am not normally one to comment on videos but thank you for taking the time to showcase your skills. These are great videos, I am a mechanical engineer but hope to have ago at forging in the near future so please keep on posting. Nice to see a young British skilled man producing such great items
Hay Adam your right not sure that this is the right place to talk about other peoples work. My views on the top tools that Glen makes on GS Tongs is quite complected but I would say that there are some issues with them. The tools he make wouldn't work with the way I work. None of the tools that I use have been heat treated excepted for a little normalizing. I take advantage of the quality that just forging give to the tools i make. In other words a forged tool will be stronger than a none forged tool made of the same material because you make the starting material denser through the forging process. Machined tools like Glens don't take advantage of this process meaning they need hardening and how do you take the hardness out of a heat treated tools? You get them hot and what are the tools Glen makes for? Putting holes in hot steel see what i'm getting at? I have other issues with Glens videos as but this is nether the time nor the place to bring them up. If your wanted to invest in some tooling or you want to copy some tooling i would be happy to make some tools or a video for you.
Thanks man glad you got some think out of this video. I post as often as I can so hope you can find more of my content helpful and interesting also. Thank you for the great comment.
Hay man. If your talking about the first punch I used its a type of air hardening steel called H13 and it do bad things if you quench it like explode. the second short drift normally get slammed through with the massey but im not the massey and i got carried away. Thank you for the comment Adzeworker.
Its a kohlswa and its Swedish. I was part of a redundancy in Holland last summer and found it in some ones back yard. The guy had loads of stuff in his yard would love to go back and get some more stuff cause it was super cheap. We put in the van and then drove her home.
nice job Dan. good demonstration and explanation of hammer weight vs leverage! preparing to have a go at explaining this in a video myself. keep on preaching it brother and maybe everyone else will catch on :-)
Thanks for the the comment. A shout out from a bigger youtube like your self would be nice. Really enjoy your videos as well keep you the great work also.
Daniel Moss when I make the video I'll be sure to give you a shout out. I like your content a lot and can't wait to see how far your channel will go :-) keep at it! and again great video. God bless
Thanks Roy that's ace. Hope you don't mind but i have made a video and i've asked you to do something in it. should be up by the end of today. Hope you like it man. Thank you for the kind words again.
Really well done with good explanations. I stumbled on your video right when I'm about to have some leftover h12 from another project so this reminded me to make new punches. For those who need explanation, h13 fully retains its heat treat even around 1000F, won't start to anneal until after 1500F and should it somehow go soft will harden in AIR or oil if brought to over 1800F. So even when his punch is dull red it can continue working. It could be cooled in oil but not needed and could risk a crack on a good tool.
Thanks for the great comment and cool information. Didn't know that you could quench H13. I will do some more research. I have some data sheets some where. Hope your enjoying the videos and love hearing and learning of you guys.
Should you ever need to its an interrupted quench, or quenched at 1850F and removed to air cool at 1000F. Still no point in cooling those punches in my opinion but if you get some h13 tool that doesn't take a good air hardening that's what you do. Thanks for the video, best of luck on the next ones.
Great job Daniel. The more smiths you can see and the more techniques the better.
Thanks 👍
Thank, Dan. Tips from the best are what it takes to get better! It's amazing that three hours of pounding may not be enough to make something apparent! That's why it's called learning.
I think your doing a great Job Adam. I hope your not offended by this video its meant to help not hinder. Also I'm not the best in any why just got a couple more hours on the clock than you. Keep making videos and hows the power hammer coming on.
Glad to see I'm not the only one who drops my work from time to time as well!
Drop my work from time to time? Some day my work is on the floor more than it is in the fire or on the anvil. Real case of the butter tongs hehe.
A question for you Daniel if it alright by you,
As someone just starting out is it good enough to make my punches from mild steel or would I be better of using high carbon steel. Got leaf spring & also bearing steel oh and gear steel (am in India and where I live you can't just go and buy the stuff) The junk yard is my only source. What would make the best punches & drifts?
What I am wondering mostly though is would there be a need to harden the high carbon steel as it would just loose its hardness/temper and therefore from what I understood from the video is that why you use the h13? It air hardens is that useful? Hope you don't mind the questions.
David.
I'll make a video dude. lot to cover in one comment. thank you for the great comment.
Will look forward to it. Thanks man ;)
Absolutely love your character
nice , i think its best to shear the slug out when cold if it doesnt drop out when hot too, i mean when its cold its brittle and will snap out clean man!when its hot itll just go up and down all day long on a little flap,, I especially like the comment about alec steele and short stubby tools! good work!
Just got round to watching this one. Nice! I'm considering making some better hammers and I'm digging the tooling you used. Thanks for the vid Dan!
S series steels are good for these applications. S7 is commonly used for jackhammer bits.
Great Job Dan ! Nice straightforward work ,no screwing around. As for dropping your work from time to time, a favorite saying of the man that I learned from was ,Gravity is a blacksmiths best friend.... especially when needing to get rid of tongs in a hurry ! Keep up the good work.
I was amazed at how that punch stood up to you removing it by hitting the dull red tip! Stout material for sure. Be Well Dan
Hi Dan I am not normally one to comment on videos but thank you for taking the time to showcase your skills. These are great videos, I am a mechanical engineer but hope to have ago at forging in the near future so please keep on posting. Nice to see a young British skilled man producing such great items
Dan, any chance you can sell a set of drifts/punches on your website pls. Great channel. Thanks Phil.
Dan, I'm not sure this is the best venue, but what do you think of the shapes of GS Tongs' top tools?
Hay Adam your right not sure that this is the right place to talk about other peoples work. My views on the top tools that Glen makes on GS Tongs is quite complected but I would say that there are some issues with them. The tools he make wouldn't work with the way I work. None of the tools that I use have been heat treated excepted for a little normalizing. I take advantage of the quality that just forging give to the tools i make. In other words a forged tool will be stronger than a none forged tool made of the same material because you make the starting material denser through the forging process. Machined tools like Glens don't take advantage of this process meaning they need hardening and how do you take the hardness out of a heat treated tools? You get them hot and what are the tools Glen makes for? Putting holes in hot steel see what i'm getting at? I have other issues with Glens videos as but this is nether the time nor the place to bring them up. If your wanted to invest in some tooling or you want to copy some tooling i would be happy to make some tools or a video for you.
nice to se you working on this hammereye, i like how you explained the work.
saludos desde Canarias mathias
Thanks man glad you got some think out of this video. I post as often as I can so hope you can find more of my content helpful and interesting also. Thank you for the great comment.
What type of steel is the hammer blank in this video?
Hi Dan cool that punch.
Hay man. If your talking about the first punch I used its a type of air hardening steel called H13 and it do bad things if you quench it like explode. the second short drift normally get slammed through with the massey but im not the massey and i got carried away. Thank you for the comment Adzeworker.
Good job liked it. Bad boy Bad boy Bad boy ;) he he he
What? Why am i a bad boy?
Lol! do you not watch your own videos to analyse how to do it better. count how many times you say bad boy, its funny ;)
I think bad boy spelt with an I (boi) should be a thing I do hehe. Love your video dude
Would like one of your Hammers
Nice one Dan. Where did you get your German anvil? Did you ship it over?
All the best
Andy
Its a kohlswa and its Swedish. I was part of a redundancy in Holland last summer and found it in some ones back yard. The guy had loads of stuff in his yard would love to go back and get some more stuff cause it was super cheap. We put in the van and then drove her home.
Daniel Moss nice. You don't see many in that style.
nice job Dan. good demonstration and explanation of hammer weight vs leverage! preparing to have a go at explaining this in a video myself. keep on preaching it brother and maybe everyone else will catch on :-)
Thanks for the the comment. A shout out from a bigger youtube like your self would be nice. Really enjoy your videos as well keep you the great work also.
Daniel Moss when I make the video I'll be sure to give you a shout out. I like your content a lot and can't wait to see how far your channel will go :-)
keep at it! and again great video.
God bless
Thanks Roy that's ace. Hope you don't mind but i have made a video and i've asked you to do something in it. should be up by the end of today. Hope you like it man. Thank you for the kind words again.
Daniel Moss look forward to it :-)
"alec steele is a good example of a short, stubby tool" *FUCKING RIP*
Cool
Thank you.
Short stubby tool! :-D
Donald Sayers you got it hehe
@@danielmoss2089 Very late to the party here but I had to rewind a few seconds to check if I really heard what I thought I heard. Hilarious!
you get a like and sub for calling Alek steel a stubby tool
Really well done with good explanations. I stumbled on your video right when I'm about to have some leftover h12 from another project so this reminded me to make new punches. For those who need explanation, h13 fully retains its heat treat even around 1000F, won't start to anneal until after 1500F and should it somehow go soft will harden in AIR or oil if brought to over 1800F. So even when his punch is dull red it can continue working. It could be cooled in oil but not needed and could risk a crack on a good tool.
Thanks for the great comment and cool information. Didn't know that you could quench H13. I will do some more research. I have some data sheets some where. Hope your enjoying the videos and love hearing and learning of you guys.
Should you ever need to its an interrupted quench, or quenched at 1850F and removed to air cool at 1000F. Still no point in cooling those punches in my opinion but if you get some h13 tool that doesn't take a good air hardening that's what you do. Thanks for the video, best of luck on the next ones.
Thanks man great comment and sound advice. Next video is on its way.