Josh Rachita: Keyhole Spatula
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- Опубліковано 24 кві 2022
- Josh Rachita is a talented journeyman smith, having interned in Colonial Williamsburg. In his travels, he forged an 18th century spatula in my shop.
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Well done 👍
Thank you!
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Very beautiful job guys!!! At the most cool and clean workshop at UA-cam!!! Very enjoy to see you forge so beautiful things from a piece of metal , greetings from Greece.
Thank you !
very beautiful job. Hopefully you get great use out of it for many years to come my friend. Can't wait to see more videos soon. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend. Forge On. Fab On. Weld On. Keep making. God bless.
Thanks Jared!
WOW! Gr888 job josh!!! Love that Sahinler power hammer!! 🤩
Very nice. That deserves a makers mark.
For sure. Josh is a talented smith.
Buen trabajo
Good job congratulations, greetings from Buenos Aires Argentina
Thank you!
Nicely done Josh, you have good hammer control. I use a similar method to make back scratchers. In fact, your spatula design would make a nice back scratcher with minor modifications.
Thank you very much! Haha, I’ll have to make one!
Very sophisticated work, congratulations!
Thank you!
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Nicely done! Very cool to see that come out of a short piece of flat stock.
Thank you! I think so too
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Obviously well done, telling of the hours he has put in and the training he has had. But John -- I'm guessing that while it was a real treat to host Josh, I doubt that you actually learned all that much. You have already shown us the fruits and mastery of your training and practice.
My thinking is, everyone has something to teach you. From time to time, I will film journeyman smiths, when they stop by the shop in their travels.
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Very clean. Great job! What was the original/starting stock size please? Thanks!
Thank you! I think it was 7 1/2” of 1/4”x1”
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Thanks!
Is that a Sid Richardson scout ranch T-shirt?!?!
Yes it is! I was hoping someone might notice. I first learned to blacksmith at Sid Richardson in the summer of 2012. The shirt was kinda an homage to that experience.
I spent many a summer there and Worth ranch. Many years before you, haha!
@@xx-ns7bv Very cool!
Thanks for the video but I have a question. What is the difference between using the hydraulic hammer and pounding away with your own strength please?
Thanks
I used the power hammer to rough the stock down to a dimension I needed for the handle once the blade was made. That was really just for speed of work rather than anything else. I normally do this all by hand in my own shop. These style spatulas were forged by hand in the 18th century so I replicate that as best I can in my work.
@@joshuarachita9265 Thanks for the reply. I find joy in watching you guys at work.
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Nice work, but why is your anvil so far away from the forge?
I have two. The one he's using is for students.
@@rigoniironworkswhat type is that students anvil? Looks good
Hi, I bought it here in the U.S. from "old world anvils". They are affordable Czech made, imported.
I've heard many people say not to rest the thumb up on the back of the handle like that as it apparently can cause injury. Now, obviously I don't know if that's legit. Is there any merit to that claim? I've always thought I had more hammer control with the thumb up, but I've resisted it after hearing that it can cause problems. Regardless, beautiful work!
Thank you! I have a habit of using my thumb on top or really more on the diagonal of the handle when I need some extra control like you said. I try not to do it when I am hitting very hard. I’ve seen some blacksmithing manuals suggest hammer with your thumb on top but I’ve also heard what you said about it causing injury.
Rebounding hammer can break your thumb if you're hitting very hard. For light blows it provides some extra control, as you've mentioned. I do it all the time. 😉 But better not with heavy hammers and heavy blows.
@@joshuarachita9265 Thank you so much for your reply, and great info. Makes perfect sense when you put it like that. Thanks!
@@AMBOSS_Silesia Thank you! That's a great explanation!
With the thumb on the handle you strain your wrist more which can cause problems over time like tendonitis and such. For short times for more control its probably not a big problem but for hours a day over many years you will get problems.
The waisted section in the middle seems to be superfluous.
And it may be to some degree. Colonial era ironwork, especially kitchen utensils, is often highly decorated. I think of it as similar to designs and logos we wear on our clothes or put on other objects we use. The decorations make things more personalized and unique. I would argue that the waisted section adds a lot of aesthetic interest to the piece by breaking up the lines of the handle.