Great! We've been getting frustrated at the dirth of good tweezers and I was wondering about forging a pair. Good tip on upsetting the bend, I wouldn't have thought of that.
I would love to see you forge these again in a future video with a bit more detail.I'd like to see the full process of how you went about doing the finish work and putting the spring tension in. I'd like to also see how you went about tempering them too.
That is a nice project but a terrible video. Back then you could only post short videos on UA-cam ( and they took 2-3 hrs to download) so you had no choice but to fast forward a lot and leave stuff out.
@@df-intheshop330I'm going to forge my own soon and just follow the steps I can remember that are worth remembering and let my ability as a blacksmith carry me the rest of the way through. The most important part of the video, in my opinion, was that upset you put into the 1 inch isolation for the flared portion.
+David White The final details are done with a file. This project shows how the smith would go about forging 90% of the shape to minimize the amount of benchwork ( stock removal ) required to finish a piece.
Fantastic! Great job.
Great! We've been getting frustrated at the dirth of good tweezers and I was wondering about forging a pair. Good tip on upsetting the bend, I wouldn't have thought of that.
That's really cool! Of all the blacksmithing videos I have watched, I have never seen anybody forge tweezers.
Cool channel!!
I would love to see you forge these again in a future video with a bit more detail.I'd like to see the full process of how you went about doing the finish work and putting the spring tension in. I'd like to also see how you went about tempering them too.
That is a nice project but a terrible video. Back then you could only post short videos on UA-cam ( and they took 2-3 hrs to download) so you had no choice but to fast forward a lot and leave stuff out.
@@df-intheshop330I'm going to forge my own soon and just follow the steps I can remember that are worth remembering and let my ability as a blacksmith carry me the rest of the way through. The most important part of the video, in my opinion, was that upset you put into the 1 inch isolation for the flared portion.
very nice...thank you
Sturdy enough to pick a small dog from a man's calloused hand.
Hi sir do you accept tweezer die for punching machine?
Did you forge in any of that detail midway down or was that all done by stock removal?
+David White The final details are done with a file. This project shows how the smith would go about forging 90% of the shape to minimize the amount of benchwork ( stock removal ) required to finish a piece.
You say that you tempered to a blue. Does that imply that you quenched them first to harden? Thanks.
That's right. Blue is how you temper springs and it looks good as a finish. See my heat treating videos for the full process.