Making a pair of chisels for sheet metal
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- Опубліковано 12 гру 2024
- As we look into the book "Secretes of the Forge" the first project I am looking at will require chisel cutting some 1/8" sheet. So first I thought we would make some chisels for Cutting sheet metal.
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Hi , i wach ur videos from iraq , baghdad and i lorn alot from u i want to thank u alot
I'm glad they help
You have really weird leaf springs!! LOL 😂👍👍👍👍👍
Glen Everett I had to replay that a couple times because I thought I heard it wrong. But you know what? When you have as much talent as he does, he can call it whatever the heck he wants!
John, a quick way to remove the small bends and waves in the straight rod, instead of repeated hammering to try to get it "perfectly straight", is while it is about yellow to orange quickly and tightly clamp it in the vise, rotate 90 deg. tightly clamp again, and whammo....it is straight.
Always learn something watching your videos. Luv it.
I like that you're in the habit of stamping the tools with the type of steel. I think I will adopt that practice. thanks for a great video!
Love the new type of camera control. The zoom in angles are great. Can’t wait for the butterfly. Might do one for my wife and little girl.
It's all good John. You are sharing your shop expansion with your followers. That is such a great experience for all of us thank you sir........🤠🇦🇺
John I love that dead blow sound of your anvil ! No ring what so ever ! Sorry I’ve spent the last 3months in and outta hospitals and rehab homes with knee and hip replacement and a bit of back surgery. But I’m back home now !
Hopefully you can get back to doing some lighter work soon
Good to have you back!
Glad you're home. Get well soon so you can get back to forging.
I'm just guessing that Artisan Ideas has seen a bit of an uptick in the sales of these two books. Mine are in transit. It's good that you recommend some books and I'm looking forward to making some of the projects.
I forged 4140 bar stock into chisels with the help of my pumicecrete rocket stove.
Good one John love making tools and I make most of mine from spring too. Really good steel the spring.
I accidentally made a small chisel like this. It was made out of spring probably half as thick as that. Great video. Can't wait to see the sheet metal work too.
I'm saving this one so I'll know how to make it when u do the one on the sheet metal work
Very cool. Thank you John
Why not a Plasma Cutter?
We’re Blacksmiths!
I love that line, you should use it more 😀
Thank you John!
Thanks!
Nice work.
Leaf Spring? LOL How about a video on that homemade belt sander?
I am new to forging & are interested in forging. I am going to buy your book.
If only I had a book
I like making them Square makes sense to me I seen Roy do that so it don't roll when you set it down
I'm with John here. Octagonal doesn't roll around like round tools and feels better in the hand than square tools do.
Try the octagonal with the flattened grip like mr. Switzer makes. I made one the other day and its now my favorite chisel.
Drs say I should take it easy so I bought some sheets of brass and copper so I can make Christmas things and dress up my horseshoe hearts with some pretties and not swing a hammer so hard !
Why are you still standing? Moving the wall, hand digging post holes, moving top soil, collecting bags of cement, sand and gravel, getting the cement mixer and you still have time and energy to make a couple of chisels.
Some days it does take a bit of extra effort
Ditto!
Nice video John, thanks for talking a little about the geometry. Been working alot lately on all my tooling. What books would you recommend for a variety of tooling dimensions. Been trying to find reprints of old pattern books...not much luck.
Like the chisles. I am having mouse problems, I have done a little research for forged mouse traps but found none. Do you or the viewers know of any. Thanks.
I sure don't
I have some S7 to make one of these. Quick question: what is the difference between normalizing and hardening in an air hardening steel like S7?
S7 cannot be normalized because it would just harden. After forging cool it as slowly as possible by burying in vermiculite or ashes.
Do the forging stresses dissipate as it hardens?
What was the inside your forge lined with to retain that much heat again?
The floor is hard fore brick and the chamber is ceramic wool with a cement coating
John, quick question. I made my first chisel the other day and it turned out great thanks to your tutelage. Do you need to normalize a chisel before you heat treat it? I did three times. Then hardened it. Afterwards and it works great. Is normalizing needed for coil spring, (that's what I used), or did I just do more work than needed?
Anytime you forge, grind or machine a piece it introduces stress, so it is always a good idea to either anneal or normalize.
@@BlackBearForge not to forget most salvaged springs have a lot of streses in them already fro. Their lives as springs. Ive been making some tooling from coil springs also. I was taught to normalise before and after forging.
Great, thanks.
Off topic question, I know you do some wood working too, I've probably taught 1000 people this and want your opinion. Do you think it's true that a tree that bears fruit, aka walnuts, apples, cherries and the like make good wood for handles and furniture? We exclude conifers like pine. Just that's been the old school teaching, and I want to see if you agree. If not I might need to make a reaction too all those people. Thanks John.
They are certainly good furniture woods, but I don't think they all make goo handles for swung tools like axes.
Best to use hickory or ash for swung tool handles. They seem to hold up better than the other hardwoods. Ive made some out of oak as well. Grain orientation is critical regardless of what species of wood you use.
Thanks for the info
Does that forge of yours use alot of propane? Is propane cheap where you are at?
Propane is fairly affordable here and better than coal or coke. This forge uses more than some, less than 100 gallons per month during heavy use
Hey I found something I can do as well as you I cannot draw either
Coil spring?
Right, I think I misspoke.
A iris ? Or orchid?
The project in the book is a butterfly
Butterfly, but a forged orchid would be a cool "next project"
Mr. John, what type of oil do you use for oil quenching?
It is a commercial product sold for quench oil. I don't know the brand name
Thank you Sir.
Not a leaf spring btw
Did I say that? my mistake
Black Bear Forge - lol very minor and very rare sir!
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