Blade Smith Tongs. How To Make Step By Step.
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- Опубліковано 31 гру 2019
- In this video I will be forging a set of blade smith tongs made from mild steel. This tongs are some of the simplest tongs you can making in your home forge and as a blade smith. They are also super quick forge. They tong make a great beginner project for some one looking to broaden there forge skills. If your struggling to hold your blades this might just get the tongs or you.
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You rock dude, thank you
Very good explanation of making these sort of tongs 😊😎👍
Ahh yes bout An hour and a half for you. That's 3days later for me
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Thanks Dan!!! I need a pair of this but after a couple of trys I abandoned the making.......now I know how to make it!!!!
Great work on those tongs. Getting ready to start forging a pair. Tired of welding Reed bar to my blades.
Thanks, stay sharp brother.
Good job Dan love the tongs.
Looks good Dan
Great job Dan
Nice work Dan I will have a bash at making some. Cheers for the lesson
Excellent video.
Another great informative, practical exercise - first class Dan!
You make it all look so cool and easy! Thanks for sharing and God Bless you Dan!
I just wanted to forge one of these but i didn't know how
Thank you very much,this video was right on time!!
Nicely done.
Greetings from Michigan in the States. ....Happy new year Dan. I really enjoy your naration. Thanks again and have a happy day!
Loved the video Dan
Hey, great job as always. Very good narration while you are trying to concentrate and work. Was making a video sometime back, And was explaining something holding a chisel and Wham!, hit my hand, no big deal. Never did edit in and post it though. Maybe someday. thank you for sharing this great work and technique with everyone. You are quite the master. Keep up the great work stay well and have a beautiful day. Jim
Happens more than I would like as well hehe. Thank yiu for the great comment.
Pretty cool. Might know some bladesmith's in need of this video. Thanks Dan 👍⚒️❤️😀
Very different method. Very interesting. I'll have to rewatch a few times
Excellent! Something else for me to add to my, to make list, cheers Dan.
So useful thank you for this video
I like the technique. Good job
As all was thanks for thinking of the newbys my grandson will like these ones . Hope you and your family have a happy new year .
Clean work, well presented as always. Nice work
Awesome video! Thanks for the tutorial!
You make that look easy, I'm still trying to get the 🔥 hot enough! Keep hammering!
Gorgeous as always mate
Your hammer strike and arm swing is so smooth and efficient , hope I can get it down like you do someday
I'm sure you will. Just takes a little time. Thanks for the lovely comment.
just what i need!
Oh, Dan. Simple for you. I can follow your hammer technique and understand it, but it will take a good few years of practise before I can even do that, never mind confidently say it is simple! Thank you for the instruction, I may come back to it as reference material when I am much more skillful than I am now! This is artistry rather than simple blacksmithing. I have a very competent teacher as I learn the craft, but I'm not sure even he could teach me the way to learn this. (not that I doubt his mastery, just that I fell something this complicated is beyond me no matter who instructs me)
Don't be so hard on your self. Give them ago I'm sure they will be easier than they look.
They are time consuming but easyer for sure.
@@danielmoss2089 Thanks for the encouragement Dan, up until now my smithing projects have gone very well, but my latest one ( A Dragon head poker ) has taught me i'm not nearly as good as I thought. It isn't a knock back, I'm quite happy to spend the time needed to learn the craft, it's obviously time well spent! With practice, some day I might get close to your standard, I certainly hope so!
Good fun, thank you....
oh, PS someone commented about the heights of anvil. Looks pretty well set for my liking. When they're low you can do what you were doing put the work between your legs without much damage to yourself.😳🙄😂. As well as other aspects of that height. Each Smith has their own methods and preferences as far as anvil set upetc.
Happy new year bud
Dan,
Brilliant, smooth production, great teaching, thank you. Happy New Year.
Wonderful gonna give these a try thank you!!
Happy New Year to you and yours Hope that 2020 is the Best year to Date. Be Well and Be Safe....................................Bill
Happy new year, Daniel. Nice blade tongs!
nice set of tongs sir. hope you and yours had a great new years.
Happy new years!!
And to you as well.
Thanks!
Очень интересные клещи получились. Не видел таких раньше...
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@@danielmoss2089 Very interesting tongs. I never saw .
Sorry my Russian isn't very good. Thank you for the great comment.
Bom trabalho!
Well done I have bought a set of knife making tongs and I've had a lot of trouble with them and I'm having to always readjust them ad they bend easy question am I using them wrongly while forging do I need to quench them more often to remove heat from them
Hey, that is a very nice anvil you have in really good shape. Have a 220 pound Holthaus looks very similar, Except it is slightly more crudely forged., From the factory. What an excellent anvil. Yours looks like all edges are nice and square. I find that if the outer edge or at least one edge is slightly rounded it is nicefor a slight fuller action without cutting into the metal. Also is there a way I could send a photo or two of Anvils from time to time? If so, That would be great would love to share that. Of course you do just fine with what you have you also have a nice power hammer. Stay well. Jim
it seem like very simple to make, i will try to make that!
Maybe a future vidéo on my chanel! 😉😊
Do an offset right after the boss so the material can slide past the boss for longer material or just a deeper grip👍 Very nice work as always dude. Happy New year
You need to make the hooks on the same side uf you want to do that I believe. But your very right.
@@danielmoss2089 .I see what your staying.... You screwed up from the start. 🤣
@@bentoombs o yeah so I did. Lol
@@danielmoss2089 still luv ya 🔨on!!
Nice tongs but I would like to suggest one thing. The audio is a bit hard to hear, have you thought about adding something like a Lav mic to help out with the audio? Try Rode VideoLink.
Excellent work! That anvil is sweet. How much does it weigh?
Hi Dan, nice job on those tongs.are they in the Blacksmith Bible? How can I get the Blacksmithing Bible. Can i get one?
Thanks
Hi Dan thanks for the informative videos, I would appreciate if you could put a chalk mark on one face of reins, so that one can identify which sides are being shaped in boss and nib areas
Thanks
Forgive my stupidity but you would like me to mark a part of the Tongs to show which side is being forged?
Is that what your asking. If so I'm sure I can do something like that. I'm trying very hard to make these videos easy to follow and if something like that would help I can do.
Dan the videos are great, sometimes with the heat colours and the angle it's on the anvil gets confusing, with the chalk mark on one face will help, will know which side its been turned.
Cheers
@@rodneylangton2271 ill give it ago. Thanks for the heads up.
Would truck spring be suitable to make the tongs 👌😎🇮🇪
Might be a little hard and you need to be mega careful if you get them hot. Quenching hot Tongs made of spring can be a little tricky. But could work.
How come you didn't spread the handles (reins?) a bit? It would make it easier to get a tighter grip on wider flat stock
Its would be hard if the reins where spread a part. You want the reins as close together when holding the smallest stock size the tongs are designed to hold so that you can hold larger stock more easily. The wider your grip the harder it is to hold the steel and you then lose mobility if you need to rotate the work. Tongs like these can basically only hold about a range of 6mm which can be a big deal when at the handle end. so if you make them to hold 40x5mm steel you want the reins to be apart just enough to apply pressure and be comfortable to hold. the max you could then hold would be 46x5.
great question hope that helps
Problem with box jaw is that when you have an actual knife, they don’t work real well. Those tongs are about the only style that holds a “knife” well.. thought they are pretty useless for anything else.
Друг ты наш любезный и дорогой!Ты после основных операций поковку показывай на фоне линейки,(измерительных инструментов) чтобы видеть процесс в миллиметрах, а то мы по аглицки непонимайт...Да благословит тебя Господь нужный ты человек!
TMIB ? How about, The Man in Black?
Where can I buy some of these
On my etsy in the next couple of days.
@@danielmoss2089 thank you I'll be sure to check it out. I tried making some on my own and failed miserably
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You are a talented person
Wait Dan! This style should be used properly. Grasp the blade or flat stock then hit the tongs reign ends straight down on the anvil wedging the flat stock tightly between the long nib. This actually makes them superior to box tongs. Now show us the power hammer version! I AM almost 70!
Doesn't stop them being and tong clips work great. Also box Jaws can hold a couple of size of the width of the stock. How ever they do there job and I did forget the lock thing. Sorry thanks for the comment.
Dan, I should have been fair and stated: “In my humble opinion”. Clearly box jaws have great uses. It boils down to the wiggle or fishtailing of stock between the two versions. Can we ever have enough tongs?? Oh hell no. Thanks!!
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The anvil looks a bit low for comfort.
I like it a little low myself. I have go reason but believe it or not its only an inch of the right hight. I do a lot of sticking and there is a little but of thought about completion a swing.
Good comment mind. Thank you.
Daniel, @23:00-24:00 would standing the "blade stock" up next to the anvil and driving the tongs onto the stock work? I don't think I would try it at a very high heat though, everything else would bend. Just a rookie asking questions:
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That just tends to put pressure on the rivet and causes issues with the hinges/bosses. If I could ensure the rivet, boss and rivet hole would stay in line it would be a great idea.
Tha ks for the comment.
@@danielmoss2089 , I didn't think about the rivet. Makes sense.
Did you know you can crack nuts with your bare hands? Take 2 walnuts place next two each other middle of your hand, make a fist squeeze hard one of them will crack open.
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Can’t understand. Don’t talk while pounding!
It's true, Americans and Brits are separated by a common language. 🫤