Anvil Hold down
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- An alternative hold down, it uses a slight spring in it to wedge itself in the hardy hole. #GaryHuston #Blacksmithing #Farrier #ASMR #Horseshoeing #Fabrication #Ironwork #Hoofcare #welder #repairs #horse #farriery #engineering
Gary, I really like your videos and the format in which they are presented. You focus on the work at hand & explain your reasoning for the material & tools used. Direct and to the point. Thanks for your videos!
I really like watching your videos. You explain things really well. Keep them coming.
Great vid. You are right. The one I made, I thinned a bit further up and it increased the amount of spring. It seams to hold much better.
Cheers!
Always seems so easy for the master,
Thanks Gary
You bet
Thank you. I am just getting started as a hobby. These are great vids and great projects .
Great Videos Gary!~ Thanks for sharing your expertise!
It is a pleasure to watch someone who KNOWS forging, not back yard want to bees.
I have made several of these. I make mine to fit the pritchel, use stock just smaller than your hole. Bend the top just past 90 to about 95 to 100 deg. make the corner square then a S bend to the face of the anvil. Harden the sq bend for spring and enjoy. The sq corner is easy to hammer down on then a tap on the standing leg to loosen.
Ask a dozen smiths how to do something and get two dozen ways that will work!
Great job! Thank you for the video.
Awesome and simple holdfast. I have been meaning to make a set for my woodworking bench and had thought of using the massive roubo style but this seems alot easier then have to upset the corner for that style. Peter ross made one on the woodwright workshop. I think the shear weight of the hold fast would set itself withouta hammer strike. Great video
Nice! This looks like it might be a really good first project.
I love it, it looks rather nice!
gave a go at making one today ,,turned out great looks and fuction went to quench it droped it in the tank forgot about it got it out then tried to use it lost all my spring got to damn hard lol had to make another thanks for videos keep them coming
Great vid, as always!
Wow what a great concept! We have recently started a gas forge(we have some videos on our channel if anyone is interested) and this will be a great addition to our tools. Thanks for the tutorial Gary!!
Always appreciate your videos. Thank You for posting this.
Snows on it's way out, here. I'll have to give one of those a shot. Good vid!!
Great video mate thank you
Well done!
I will be trying this soon. Thanks for the vid!
Really nice!
Thanks for the comment. I can't see any point in making something you can buy at Wickes for a couple of quid!!
Quick and slick!
That is so useful - Thanks
I love it great job I think I will make one
very cool thankyou
Best of luck, Hereford was where I went!
fantastic
Great work you do ! Would like to see how you would make a ball pin hammer or simpler a bricklayers hammer if you have time ,thanks ..
I thought exactly that when the piece shot off and hit me in the jewels!! ;o)
Nice!!
Actually snowing right now! 4:05 PM Missouri time, but won't last. I've had almost 3 feet this month! nad almost 0 the rest of the winter!
Very nice..i gotta make one
thx!
I tried this out with half inch square, holds tight but doesn't come out as easily as yours does. I'll try it again with 3/4 inch round.
I'd like to see how to make some tongs.
yours looks cooler than mine
Me and a friend yesterday made a rams head like you did in one of your videos. It was the first time for me to make something like that, and my friend hadn't even forged ever. It turned out surprisingly nice! But early that day I made a hold down like yours. I got two of them already when I bought my anvil, but they always seem to jump out of the hole, so I made one like in your video, but again,same problem. It seems so easy just one knock and it's stuck, but it doesn't, what am I doing wrong?
I will make one of these, you always need any help you can get especially as a beginner.
MORE snow!
After that useless comment, i need to try making one of these. Thanks!!
Wow that anvil is awesome!! Must have been fun to move tho lol
Yes it was, i moved it to where it is now on my own!
@@garyhuston At my age, I'm wise enough not to try moving that on my own ..... fortunately my son is 22 stone of gristle, bit like a 2 legged forklift.
We are both used to dealing with heavy objects and we had no problem moving and setting up my 450 lb anvil. Levers, wood blocks and a bit of forethought and canny thinking involved
@@bigoldgrizzly I did it by rocking from side to side and putting blocks under it until I could slide it over.
@@garyhuston Same here - works a treat.
Just bought a Brooks 1 1/4 cwt and surprised to see a 1 1/4" hardy and a 1/2" pritchel. The hardy suits ma as all my current tools fit, but the pritchel seems a bit too small for a decent holdfast. I really do like the extra thickness Brooks allow for the heel. Most others seem a bit light in this area.
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Watch my tong video!
How does he get his anvil so quiet or did he just turn down the audio of the video
If you search through my videos and look for “quiet anvil” you should find out how!
Hi mate how do you get it right so that your anvil is so quuet if you strike on it
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Or if you have it already installed or you're not able to build a base like that, the best thing you can do to silence it is put a magnet (the ones in the back of speakers for example) in the horn of the anvil, it's amazing.
I have a 68 kg anvil and it was like a bell, with this I can barely hear it.
What lenth was it gary
Not sure what i started with but after drawing out the overall length I cut it to is about 16 inches but it doesn’t really matter.
хорошие вещи делаешь , а клещи как делать есть видео
what make is that anvil Gary thanks in advance
+Lee Needham, Brooks.
thanks Gary been and bought 1 today from a farm kinda regret it because I'm sure it's cast iron doesn't have that distinctive ring
is this high-carbon or springsteel?
Neither, just mild steel.
how to make a blacksmith"s tongs?
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its a lot more than 200 lbs!
what type of steel?
mild
I found 1045 works really nicely too, basic shafting steel and quite springy even unhardened.
I keep meaning to ask the size of your anvil but for some reason I never get round to it. ;)
+Ron Miller dimensions or weight?
153 KGs. At 7:54 it is on the side of the anvil
back your help it woke
Great job.
I just bought an anvil. A couple of hold downs will be my first project.
I can't believe at 70 years old that I'm starting another hobby.
Good for you! Go for it!
do are where go back on the steel .din it help
Weight. That was a stab at humor...doesn't always work.
+Ron Miller 153kg or 3CWT
first
Why would you need to hold DOWN an anvil, it seems like a 200 pound piece of steel could hold it self down XD
did you even watch the video
Too much talk
Turn the sound off then dick head!