I always enjoy these voice over style videos. Your commentary is just so entertaining and contains so much insight into the processes you're using and why you're doing things the way that you are. Super useful for general learning. If you're concerned about matching the bolts up with their respective holes, You could use a numbered punch to mark each hole and it's bolt. So put a punch mark by the #1 hole and the same mark on it's bolt head
I'm in agreement with you on all of those points. As a kid I loved "Wordless Workshop" in a popular magazine prior to the digital era, but I HATE when a video is done without commentary but they decide to put in techno music or random royalty free tracks! I've learned a lot from most of the channels I watch, but I can't watch too much of hot glue holding parts to make a very simple item and that music.
@@mcshawnboy Amen to that shit. I cannot stand to be watching a Video with that Techno Crap being played. It is ridiculous. I watch these to learn stuff, not because I wanna be at a Rave. Lol
If you want to apply wax to a project you should get a breakfast warming tray to heat up that item. The temperature is low enough to open up the pores of the steel and the wax soaks into the metal and forms a rust-resistant layer. This is good for axes and hammers and any kind of steel tool. You can put as many coats as you would like on it. The wax dries up quickly so if you are working on multiple tools you can cycle through them until you figure they have been coated enough.
Love the channel! There are allot of channels these days that are unscrupulously trying to make money or get free tools by reviewing and recommending products. I really appreciate when makers recommend good products. Please let us know when you recommend a product if you paid full price with your own money or it was sent to you or whatever we should know. Its great what you are doing and thanks so much for sharing!!!!!!!!!!!
That 1" X 2" is available in Hardox (brand) hard plate for bucket repair. This would be good for more complex shapes, and would last forever like your tank guillotine will. I think I have everything in stock to build my own, but I'll wait until it's not 117 F outside. Awesome tool project!
There is no surprise to making good tools that will make it so much easier for you to Smith. That is the point many guys miss. Great work with focus. Peace and stay virus free too. VF
I made mine as well, except yours makes mine look like Bambi. Apart from all the cool tools I like the way you narrate with a voice over instead of trying to talk over the production noise. Well done.
Have you considered adding a spring to the top and a catch on the top tool bar so that between blows, the tool opens... like a regular hardy hike fuller tool?
I saw a self ratcheting screw driver the other day. It gave me an idea for a powerless drill press. Mod an arbor press to work with a self ratcheting screw driver and bam, self ratcheting drill press. You should make one.
@Dennis Young So I've not done much fab work since I was younger and working in the trades but still unable to buy pricey tools not used as much to pay their keep. Working as an erector was golden 'cuz they'd deep pockets! Being clueless of even the existence of this piece of kit I was wondering if an HD square column like from high rise buildings could that be a more accurate framework? Do 45 cuts to make the C-SHAPE just thinking.
I can't afford to buy one of these or buy a welder, But I can forge one I think, and I need one badly because I don't have a striker to help. I'm going to float a bit of an idea, let me know if you think it's good or crazy... Forge wrap-eye guides, weld them to the side plates using the anvil bridge to support it, rivet in the spacers with big dome head rivets, Rivet bottom spacers to a base plate so I can give this thing its own stump... What do you think?
I've bypassed this video more than once not having any idea what it was but I appreciate it now that I've seen it in action! My best friend is married to an Afrikaner woman and young adult son and his dad is a big Bushcraft bladesmith in South Africa from what I understand. My friend didn't grow up with knives and guns and feels too intimidated by them. His family is close to done with 3+ years of legal entry if the good Lord is willing before the end of the year. I've been talking with the boy and he wants to do smithing here and I am getting items to help put together a small shop for him to ease the transition from the bush with large game animals regularly in contact with you. His mom has sent me pictures of her with giraffe, zebra, elephant and others being the manager of a guest lodge just outside of The Kruger National Park area called henk van rooyen area with her place with a fence on Crocodile River from the park. Do yourself a favor and just look at the pictures of the area. Recently a round trip from Dulles Airport was $1500 economy and lodging is the normal $100+ a night most places in the US if you add in all of the taxes and fees. So he and I will be learning together with his progress.
I'm deeply impressed by your knowledge and dedication, but honestly believe this project is over-engineered. Just my opinion as a smith, but not a welder or machinist. It will do a great job, but a smith is happy with a lot less tolerance because he will be happy to adjust by eye later in the project. I'm sure you will use it great advantage in your own projects and I won't even try to pretend that my projects are anywhere near as complicated or impressive as yours! I just like to hit metal with hammers and am pleased if it comes out useful!
What about adding a spring to lift the die and a tether to keep it from launching itself out. That way you put your piece in hot and hammer down never having to lift the die
I liked the end where you were talking to the camera, as opposed to most of the video with the voice over. Yes, it was very informational, and accurate, but you seem much more accessible as a human with the face time. But either way I enjoyed the video. You definitely spent way more time making yours than I did mine, but yours looks a lot better too!!!
Whohooooo Chris, that is one hefty awesome guillotine tool! - :) you wouldn't believe it, we just designed one similar to yours to be lasercut - I'll let you know once it's finished :)
I wonder if that company is going to have to change its product name. Excellent work. I noticed 8 people gave this YT a thumbs down. What? Are they like professional naysayer? For crying out loud! WHATS NOT TO LIKE?!?
It was quite an education watching you make this, and to see the thoughts, careful planning and precise execution that went into this project. Did you use grade 8 or higher bolts in attaching the pieces to the guillotine, and were they tightened to any particular uniform torque value? It seems similar in some ways to the old thousand pound power hammers that took up a huge amount of space in the blacksmith shops of yesterday. For your device, would a simple foot-pedal activated, air-powered cylinder(and possibly a return spring) mounted inside the frame that would quicken the process of raising and dropping the guillotine be of benefit when hammering hot material, so that you had both hands free to control that material.
Hey Mario where's your Brother.... Hey Chris the beard disappears and you look like Mario of the arcade game fame. Great job and it works flawlessly . The video was done great too . Talk or see you soon . Stay well your family and you my friend
What eye protection is required when uesing a plasma cutter. I have seen a lot of people on UA-cam not using any. But I see your uesing a automatic welding mask, what settings are you uesing. Thanks for your help 👍
I use my welding hood and set it to shade 5. It keeps my face from getting sunburn and from any rogue sparks. I also have clear safety glasses on underneath the hood
Dope! I was wondering what your insta was. I built a version of your post-vice/striking anvil for my shop at work and wanted to thank you! I'll tag you and send pictures tomorrow Love your channel, thanks again!
A ferramenta parece ser muito boa e certamente será útil, mas você fala excessivamente e afasta o interesse de quem assiste. Eu tive que desligar o som.
Just turn the volume down. I find Chris does a good job of letting us in on some of the motivation for the methods he’s using and about materials, etc. You’d miss a lot if this was purely tool sounds / classic Diresta style.
I continue to be amazed at what people make on UA-cam. No idea about black smithing, yet this was well worth watching!
I always enjoy these voice over style videos. Your commentary is just so entertaining and contains so much insight into the processes you're using and why you're doing things the way that you are. Super useful for general learning. If you're concerned about matching the bolts up with their respective holes, You could use a numbered punch to mark each hole and it's bolt. So put a punch mark by the #1 hole and the same mark on it's bolt head
Also. What happened at 9:31? It looks like you stopped just before you finished your cut. Was there a reason you had to stop?
I'm in agreement with you on all of those points. As a kid I loved "Wordless Workshop" in a popular magazine prior to the digital era, but I HATE when a video is done without commentary but they decide to put in techno music or random royalty free tracks! I've learned a lot from most of the channels I watch, but I can't watch too much of hot glue holding parts to make a very simple item and that music.
@@mcshawnboy Amen to that shit. I cannot stand to be watching a Video with that Techno Crap being played. It is ridiculous. I watch these to learn stuff, not because I wanna be at a Rave. Lol
If you want to apply wax to a project you should get a breakfast warming tray to heat up that item. The temperature is low enough to open up the pores of the steel and the wax soaks into the metal and forms a rust-resistant layer. This is good for axes and hammers and any kind of steel tool. You can put as many coats as you would like on it. The wax dries up quickly so if you are working on multiple tools you can cycle through them until you figure they have been coated enough.
i will build this tool for me...thank you for sharing with us...great work
Love the channel! There are allot of channels these days that are unscrupulously trying to make money or get free tools by reviewing and recommending products. I really appreciate when makers recommend good products. Please let us know when you recommend a product if you paid full price with your own money or it was sent to you or whatever we should know.
Its great what you are doing and thanks so much for sharing!!!!!!!!!!!
Nice addition to your shop. Thanks for showing how it is assembled.
Chris, very cool new tool. I could see this same design becoming a arbor press.
Very nice bit of kit...a well made version with lots of scope for changes later
That 1" X 2" is available in Hardox (brand) hard plate for bucket repair. This would be good for more complex shapes, and would last forever like your tank guillotine will. I think I have everything in stock to build my own, but I'll wait until it's not 117 F outside. Awesome tool project!
Kevin Sellsit very cool! I’ll have to look into that and get some!
I’ve had success hardening A35 mild steel dies with SUPER QUENCH 🤙🏽⚒🔥
A suggestion, groove areas to be welded. then grinding flush leaves more weld. Nice build.
There is no surprise to making good tools that will make it so much easier for you to Smith. That is the point many guys miss. Great work with focus. Peace and stay virus free too. VF
I made mine as well, except yours makes mine look like Bambi. Apart from all the cool tools I like the way you narrate with a voice over instead of trying to talk over the production noise. Well done.
who knew? super Mario is a great tool maker!
Hahah glad someone caught that!!
@@MakeEverything lol keep working man. you are a great maker. i'm a big fan. be safe.
Looking very study Sir.
I built on lighter and having some issue with mine
Thanks for showing Sir
Awesome work Chris! 😃👍🏻👊🏻
Have you considered adding a spring to the top and a catch on the top tool bar so that between blows, the tool opens... like a regular hardy hike fuller tool?
I have! It would be a really nice addition!
Fantastic tool and makes beautiful indentations. Great job!
That’s a nice job a very handy tool great..
Nice build for such a small [ guillotine ] tool
Man, that must be so satisfying to make your own functional tool that works so well.
Bonus: it's got a great look too. 👍
Rouverius thank you! It’s a really good feeling!
Smart wearing the respirator.
Is that the original drill press chuck key
Or is that modified
Looks awesome
Great video, and some awesome ideas for more guillotine tooling. Keep up the good work
In the words of Darth Vader...Impressive, most impressive!
I saw a self ratcheting screw driver the other day. It gave me an idea for a powerless drill press. Mod an arbor press to work with a self ratcheting screw driver and bam, self ratcheting drill press. You should make one.
Nice Build!
Nice build sir.
Nice work !
Dig the new stash Chris!
I know they're only cheap import blocks but ahhhhhh my eyes, hammering the 1-2-3 blocks at 16:33
Very cool device!
Some half hound dies would be great too! Convex and concave.
What is it with you and Cremona and the Mario Brothers mustaches? Great video!
In 100 years someone will restore that.
Who else watched this without knowing what a blacksmith guillotine tool was?
Such a useful tool!!!
I came looking for one.
@Dennis Young So I've not done much fab work since I was younger and working in the trades but still unable to buy pricey tools not used as much to pay their keep. Working as an erector was golden 'cuz they'd deep pockets! Being clueless of even the existence of this piece of kit I was wondering if an HD square column like from high rise buildings could that be a more accurate framework? Do 45 cuts to make the C-SHAPE just thinking.
Really well thought out design. Good job ad usual.
I can't afford to buy one of these or buy a welder, But I can forge one I think, and I need one badly because I don't have a striker to help. I'm going to float a bit of an idea, let me know if you think it's good or crazy... Forge wrap-eye guides, weld them to the side plates using the anvil bridge to support it, rivet in the spacers with big dome head rivets, Rivet bottom spacers to a base plate so I can give this thing its own stump... What do you think?
buen trabajo, ponle un resorte para que te levante la pieza que golpea, saludos desde mexico
I've bypassed this video more than once not having any idea what it was but I appreciate it now that I've seen it in action! My best friend is married to an Afrikaner woman and young adult son and his dad is a big Bushcraft bladesmith in South Africa from what I understand. My friend didn't grow up with knives and guns and feels too intimidated by them. His family is close to done with 3+ years of legal entry if the good Lord is willing before the end of the year. I've been talking with the boy and he wants to do smithing here and I am getting items to help put together a small shop for him to ease the transition from the bush with large game animals regularly in contact with you. His mom has sent me pictures of her with giraffe, zebra, elephant and others being the manager of a guest lodge just outside of The Kruger National Park area called
henk van rooyen area with her place with a fence on Crocodile River from the park. Do yourself a favor and just look at the pictures of the area. Recently a round trip from Dulles Airport was $1500 economy and lodging is the normal $100+ a night most places in the US if you add in all of the taxes and fees. So he and I will be learning together with his progress.
Gosh damn, this thing is a monster! I love it, great work!
Great video. You really need a metal lathe. Thanks
dale jones thanks! I’ve got a few!
Beautiful tool.
I'm deeply impressed by your knowledge and dedication, but honestly believe this project is over-engineered. Just my opinion as a smith, but not a welder or machinist. It will do a great job, but a smith is happy with a lot less tolerance because he will be happy to adjust by eye later in the project. I'm sure you will use it great advantage in your own projects and I won't even try to pretend that my projects are anywhere near as complicated or impressive as yours! I just like to hit metal with hammers and am pleased if it comes out useful!
nicely done
Both amazing builds. I’m in the process of making my own. Slowly but it’s coming along. Angle grinder and hack saw. 3/4 in plate. Lol.
Very nice work. We posted your video on our homemade tools forum yesterday, credited to you of course :)
So where do I find this Homemade Tools Forum??? I gotta check that out.
NICE ONE, WELL DONE. REGARDS FROM THE U.K.
Fantastic can I buy one from you???
Ever think about welding some rivet sets to the top dies so you can use a rivet gun instead of swinging a hammer?
What about adding a spring to lift the die and a tether to keep it from launching itself out. That way you put your piece in hot and hammer down never having to lift the die
I liked the end where you were talking to the camera, as opposed to most of the video with the voice over. Yes, it was very informational, and accurate, but you seem much more accessible as a human with the face time. But either way I enjoyed the video. You definitely spent way more time making yours than I did mine, but yours looks a lot better too!!!
Whohooooo Chris, that is one hefty awesome guillotine tool! - :) you wouldn't believe it, we just designed one similar to yours to be lasercut - I'll let you know once it's finished :)
He turned into Super Mario at the end!
thats so useful , great educational and very interesting video`s well done young man !
I wonder if that company is going to have to change its product name. Excellent work. I noticed 8 people gave this YT a thumbs down. What? Are they like professional naysayer? For crying out loud! WHATS NOT TO LIKE?!?
Dude that’s bad ass
What cam are you using ? What setting is it on ?
You can make any tool if you have every tool
It was quite an education watching you make this, and to see the thoughts, careful planning and precise execution that went into this project. Did you use grade 8 or higher bolts in attaching the pieces to the guillotine, and were they tightened to any particular uniform torque value? It seems similar in some ways to the old thousand pound power hammers that took up a huge amount of space in the blacksmith shops of yesterday. For your device, would a simple foot-pedal activated, air-powered cylinder(and possibly a return spring) mounted inside the frame that would quicken the process of raising and dropping the guillotine be of benefit when hammering hot material, so that you had both hands free to control that material.
Awesome
Awesome I’ve been wanting to make one for a while! Maybe this will inspire me to finally do it lol
This vid just populated my UA-cam. 2022...
What is Black Wax?
Black wax is a rub on compound that blackens metal and also protects it. Sculpt Nouveau makes it, along with other special metal finishes
nice job
The awkward walk away after embedding the axe in a stump in your intro gets me every time. Nice build broski
I love it to. Please never change the intro
Great tool, 0utstanding tool
Also, loving the mustache :)
Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude!
Looks like a manual power hammer!
Brad Thayer it’s so useful!
Hey Mario where's your Brother.... Hey Chris the beard disappears and you look like Mario of the arcade game fame. Great job and it works flawlessly . The video was done great too . Talk or see you soon . Stay well your family and you my friend
dang i was totally not expecting a guest appearance by mario
What eye protection is required when uesing a plasma cutter. I have seen a lot of people on UA-cam not using any. But I see your uesing a automatic welding mask, what settings are you uesing. Thanks for your help 👍
I use my welding hood and set it to shade 5. It keeps my face from getting sunburn and from any rogue sparks. I also have clear safety glasses on underneath the hood
I’ll take one. $100 cover it?
Dope! I was wondering what your insta was. I built a version of your post-vice/striking anvil for my shop at work and wanted to thank you! I'll tag you and send pictures tomorrow Love your channel, thanks again!
Muito chik
Top 👏👏👏👏👏
ARE YOU STILL SELLING THEM
Might want to shave that stache. "Mom did you see that guy with the wierd mustache riding around in that van?" Said in jest.
Charles Treadaway hahahahahah!
That is the most overdesigned guillotine tool I've ever seen (outside of industrial forging applications)! Good job on that.
You should have preheated it, your welds would have more penetration.
👍👍👍👍looks great!!
it's all about the money! (Amazon)
Why 7/16 bolts?
notice the ''LL'' in GUILLOTINE !
Are there any drawings for this I would like to make one
Excellent Work!!! Awesome tool maker!!!
Question where can I get lesions on how to weld? I live in Cape Coral, Florida. Zip 33909
That band saw didn't look home made...Daaaaaa!!
Snij boven een water bak scheelt een stuk !!!
A ferramenta parece ser muito boa e certamente será útil, mas você fala excessivamente e afasta o interesse de quem assiste. Eu tive que desligar o som.
Stupid high speed playback completely spoils the video.
👍😎👍
i moustache u a question 👍🤙
Fullering dies!!!
YOU FAILED THE ELECTROLYSIS CHEMISTRY TUTORIAL.... RIGHT ?
I GUESS YOU ALSO MISSED ELECTROPLATING, ANODIZING, AND POWDERCOATING SECTIONS..??
Dude, lose the Stash.
less talk would be good for me.
Just turn the volume down. I find Chris does a good job of letting us in on some of the motivation for the methods he’s using and about materials, etc. You’d miss a lot if this was purely tool sounds / classic Diresta style.