You proved a couple of things in this video Neil. First you proved that we all have to start somewhere and even with the magic of editing you show that you’re no different than us. Second you proved that your forge works great and is big enough to fully heat something as long as your tongs. So definitely not a fail.
I think m8, that watching you learn is far more instructive than any tutorial you could have made. That is a yes to a lot more content like this for me.
Enjoyed the build Neil, thanks very much. I wouldn't worry about being an expert, watching you build the tongs gives hopes for others to try it using minimal tools and materials. They are a bit fine, but I have three sets in increasing size and if you look at those professional shops they have a lot of tongs of all different sizes so see them as the first of your set. Reo is generally stronger than mild steel so probably has more carbon in it and that was perhaps why it was recommended for this purpose. Thanks again.
Thanks I prefer your turning woods scraps into magic videos, Yesterday on the South African Facebook woodworkers group someone had a boot load of exotic wood scraps and wanted ideas. So the group has now been referred to your channel, here's wishing you many South African subscriptions
I love the process of your learning. Those videos you sometimes declare failures are among my favourite. Perfection is for the meek. Staying within the margins of the known is not how you became the maker you are. Please keep sharing these.
Oh oh oh!! To this new competence are you can make new fun tools! Look for DIY power hammers ... think that's gonna be right up your alley! Nice to watch your vids as always. Good job!
I always learn something watching your videos. Happy to watch you go through the learning process. Watching an expert do something they've done a thousand times doesn't show me what I'd struggle with. Thats why I love RUclips.
I learn best when watching someone, even if they are still learning themselves. Never watched a video of yours that didn't teach me something or at the very least inspire me to get over the hump of doubt. The internet can make things look so easy sometimes, especially with cut scenes, fast-forwards, and deleted mistakes. You do a great job of streamlining the process with just the right amount of explanation, while honestly sharing your experience and taking the stress out of the learning curve. Thanks a bunch. Keep up the great work!
You provide me great joy through your videos. You value learning by doing. You are honest and authentic in your presentation. You embrace trial and error, as well as recognizing the role of practice in making. And you are willing to critique your work. Thank you for another quality video. I look forward to your next one. You continue to help motivate my own creative efforts. Keep up the great work!
Yes, Please make more videos like this. I know it can be a pain in the neck to video everything - It makes you work slower etc. But we beginners appreciate your doing this for us.
May I be brutally honest? YES SIR! please continue making Blacksmithing videos, please continue making videos period! You're a great craftsman, and it shows in the videos. Explaining your fails, wins and near wins help beginners advance quicker, especially when RUclips is really the only place of learning in the area of where a student lives like me. So, goodonya! and thank you.
Neil, it doesn’t matter what content you produce. It is all amazingly wonderful and relaxing to watch. I love seeing your ingenuity with so many of the tools, jigs, and crafts that you have come up with. Yours is one of my most favorite RUclips channels. Thank you greatly.
Yes please! Learning from one's mistakes, or another's mistakes, is just as educational as learning from a master craftsman. We have a saying that when roughly translated, means: "The mosquito is enough as music, to the one that listens, A band is insufficient to the one that does not" Kind of like, "word to the wise", in English. Keep up your great stuff, please Buddy!
I’m a bit late on this comment but I would like to tell you that it’s so nice to watch your videos because of the lines “I made a bit of a mistake...” and “...but it’s easy enough to fix by...” and ...”I thought I’d give it a go!” LOVE THOSE AND SO MANY MORE!! You make the rest of us believe we can do it too! We just gotta give it a go! Keep making videos of your learning experiences! They are the best and your ever positive attitude is even better!!
Hey mate, you continue to inspire me to push my false limits and attempt new things. Love all your builds and look forward to watching. Thanks for sharing and teaching. I often learn as much from other's mistakes and hiccups as I do from flawless procedures.
Only way to learn. No real fault there Neil. As you say, just improve on the next ones. You do quite well for someone who "doesn't know what he's doing"! Keep that humility. Keep learning.
A definite YES for this sort of video. This is how we learn. I admire accomplished blacksmiths but don't see the basic mistakes they made on the journey.
I've just added subtitles to this video in a few different languages. They were made from an automated translation, if you would like to edit the subtitles to improve them for other viewers you can do so here ruclips.net/user/timedtext_video?ref=share&v=4F0P-ygBJ5M I needed tongs to hold round stock for my next project. Making them seemed like the obvious way to go. I love making tools and I also need the practice hitting hot metal and understanding what happens to it when you do that! I make no claims of knowing what I'm doing, just having fun and giving it a go! I'm planning on making quite a few simple blacksmithing tools in the near future and then using them to make cool tools. I'm not sure if that's something I should be making videos of or whether I should forget videoing and just get them made. I'm very happy to make the videos but I'm not sure if it's what you guys want to see!
Thank you for the video. It shows how we can all learn new and different skills. Typical of the shed work that a lot of Australians get up to with very little formal training. I remember my father tackling anything he thought he could do with varying esults and success. You like him provide inspiration for us all. Please keep posting whatever you are working with it is all interesting to those of us interested in life and doing.
Yes to more! What would be really interesting is explanations about what you're doing. For instance, how do you know the metal is hot enough to pound or when it's cooled off too much? How long does it take to heat up to a workable temperature? When is the metal too stretched (as you allluded to in this vid)? Teach us!
As always, I enjoy watching your videos. I'm also looking into forging and right now I'm gathering materials to build the forge. I just picked up several kiln bricks from a brick yard. It won't be long now until I start hitting hot metal to make a few knives. Building an anvil of of old railroad pieces I found.
the only bad thing about this video is you can't exactly have your "scrapwood challenge" intro music for it...but that's an easy thing to get over. i enjoy seeing the learning curve taking place...bring on more of them!
Nice Job for a first try! I think they would be very suitable for 6mm and smaller stock. Your next set will be better, your second tries usually are. I like the way you allow is to see the first attempts. It encourages us to try what we might not for fear of it not coming out perfect the first time. Thanks for sharing that part with us!
It’s always fun to watch your videos an learning is somthing we all need from time to time, so of course, show us. Maybe we learn something too. Chears.
Its always worth watching someone trying to learn new skills. I bet they last longer than you think they will. Those "delicate" tongs might turn out handier than you think.
a nice set of tongs, I was a bit worried that will all that red hot slag flying around you might have regretted wearing shorts but everything was fine in the end. I don't know about being too delicate but they look good to me.
Thanks John - glad you liked them! I like to work safely, I had eye and ear protection. With the weather being so hot at the moment, I’m happy to risk wearing shorts though. 😊
Still a better blacksmithing video compared to the one chap who can't hit two times on the damn thing w/o spending two hours talking nonsense. Keep em' coming :)
I've never thought about adding "teeth" whenever I've made tongs. Great idea and a nice touch. Your tongs may be a bit too delicate for most blacksmith work, but they came out looking very good, indeed. You certainly have the skills to make heavier tongs in the future. Those smaller tongs will prove useful on projects involving small stock that would be difficult to hold and maneuver with heavier tongs - so all in all, you do in fact have a useful tool added to your blacksmith tool collection! Good job!
If I was you I wouldn't have told anyone this was your first time at it, but I appreciate a man that tells the truth. I thought you did a great job for your first time. Keep on Cracking Mate
I enjoy every video you put out and this is no different ..I know you said you’ve just started out at blacksmithing but you look like an expert at everything you do ..great work mate 👍
Yes Neil, definitely keen to see your progress in blacksmithing. I'd like to try my hand at it one day. No idea how/when, as I have none of the necessary tools, etc. I'm still only gradually getting geared up for woodworking! But it's educational, inspiring, and enjoyable to see you at work. So keep 'em coming, please. Cheers, Seb
Thanks very much Sebastian! You don’t actually need all that many tools to give it a go. Of course if you get the bug then that’s a different matter, there are plenty of tools to add! 😊
Forging videos can quickly become tedious, but you usually have a pretty good eye for cutting to the chase in editing and putting your own clever spin on things. I'm interested in seeing what you can come up with.
I think blacksmithing is a fascinating craft. Watching someone learn it is fun, too! I really like how you unobtrusively just overlay some text with the operation you are doing.
ALL your videos are a pleasure to watch, and you're right to follow your creativity wherever it takes you. I'm stuck on my bed with a back injury i got on new year's Day and have run out of decent woodworking videos to watch.. I've watched them all..(and I'm secretly hoping you stick mainly to woodworking projects !) : )
Watching this all I kept thinking was "Blacksmith challenge, Blacksmith challenge...." HAHA. I just like watching you make stuff. Doesn't matter what material.
You proved a couple of things in this video Neil.
First you proved that we all have to start somewhere and even with the magic of editing you show that you’re no different than us.
Second you proved that your forge works great and is big enough to fully heat something as long as your tongs.
So definitely not a fail.
Glad you enjoyed it Wayne! 😊
I think m8, that watching you learn is far more instructive than any tutorial you could have made. That is a yes to a lot more content like this for me.
Thanks very much Sam! 😊
Cool idea to use the vice grips as a heat sink when you were using the cold chisel.
The vice grips were to add a bit of weight to keep the workpiece steady. It worked very well! 😊
Enjoy watching you make anything
Do what you will. All your videos are great fun.
Anything you do is worth watching.
Great video. We are all learning all the time, aren't we?
Thanks!
Enjoyed the build Neil, thanks very much.
I wouldn't worry about being an expert, watching you build the tongs gives hopes for others to try it using minimal tools and materials. They are a bit fine, but I have three sets in increasing size and if you look at those professional shops they have a lot of tongs of all different sizes so see them as the first of your set.
Reo is generally stronger than mild steel so probably has more carbon in it and that was perhaps why it was recommended for this purpose. Thanks again.
Thanks very much mate! That’s my main aim for this type of video, to encourage others to have a go! Glad you enjoyed it! 😊
Thanks I prefer your turning woods scraps into magic videos, Yesterday on the South African Facebook woodworkers group someone had a boot load of exotic wood scraps and wanted ideas. So the group has now been referred to your channel, here's wishing you many South African subscriptions
Thanks Brendan! 😊
I love the process of your learning. Those videos you sometimes declare failures are among my favourite. Perfection is for the meek. Staying within the margins of the known is not how you became the maker you are. Please keep sharing these.
Thanks very much!😊
I enjoy watching all your videos. Always entertaining.
Oh oh oh!! To this new competence are you can make new fun tools! Look for DIY power hammers ... think that's gonna be right up your alley! Nice to watch your vids as always. Good job!
I’ve thought about a power hammer build but not sure, maybe though! 😊
I think they came out pretty good!
I always learn something watching your videos. Happy to watch you go through the learning process. Watching an expert do something they've done a thousand times doesn't show me what I'd struggle with. Thats why I love RUclips.
A new series Neil? Scrap Iron Challenge.. 👍 🇬🇧
Yes. More please
I have thought blacksmithing would be interesting for many years, yet have not tried it. I enjoy someone else learning what I have not. Thanks
Any thing handmade is worth watching. There is always a chance of learning something new
I, pretty much, watch every video you do so, yes.
I always enjoy watching your videos- doesn't matter what you're doing.
I learn best when watching someone, even if they are still learning themselves. Never watched a video of yours that didn't teach me something or at the very least inspire me to get over the hump of doubt. The internet can make things look so easy sometimes, especially with cut scenes, fast-forwards, and deleted mistakes. You do a great job of streamlining the process with just the right amount of explanation, while honestly sharing your experience and taking the stress out of the learning curve. Thanks a bunch. Keep up the great work!
Yes, I really enjoyed that. It's helpful to see someone else's journey, successes and failures! Please keep them coming.
You provide me great joy through your videos. You value learning by doing. You are honest and authentic in your presentation. You embrace trial and error, as well as recognizing the role of practice in making. And you are willing to critique your work.
Thank you for another quality video. I look forward to your next one. You continue to help motivate my own creative efforts. Keep up the great work!
Thanks very much John - glad you enjoy the videos! 😊
Sure!!!! More blacksmithing!!!
Yes, Please make more videos like this. I know it can be a pain in the neck to video everything - It makes you work slower etc. But we beginners appreciate your doing this for us.
No worries Dennis! It does slow things down but I enjoy making the videos and after the great response here I’ll keep making them!😊
May I be brutally honest? YES SIR! please continue making Blacksmithing videos, please continue making videos period! You're a great craftsman, and it shows in the videos. Explaining your fails, wins and near wins help beginners advance quicker, especially when RUclips is really the only place of learning in the area of where a student lives like me.
So, goodonya! and thank you.
No worries Brady! 😊
Neil, it doesn’t matter what content you produce. It is all amazingly wonderful and relaxing to watch. I love seeing your ingenuity with so many of the tools, jigs, and crafts that you have come up with. Yours is one of my most favorite RUclips channels. Thank you greatly.
Please continue to share. We love to see you grow and inspire
Yes please!
Learning from one's mistakes, or another's mistakes, is just as educational as learning from a master craftsman.
We have a saying that when roughly translated, means:
"The mosquito is enough as music, to the one that listens,
A band is insufficient to the one that does not"
Kind of like, "word to the wise", in English.
Keep up your great stuff, please Buddy!
Appreciate you sharing your learning process regardless of how it ends up. We all get better to through doing.
Agree with most other people. Even if you don't know what you are doing on something I always learn something from your videos so keep them coming.
I’m a bit late on this comment but I would like to tell you that it’s so nice to watch your videos because of the lines “I made a bit of a mistake...” and “...but it’s easy enough to fix by...” and ...”I thought I’d give it a go!” LOVE THOSE AND SO MANY MORE!! You make the rest of us believe we can do it too! We just gotta give it a go! Keep making videos of your learning experiences! They are the best and your ever positive attitude is even better!!
Hey mate, you continue to inspire me to push my false limits and attempt new things. Love all your builds and look forward to watching.
Thanks for sharing and teaching. I often learn as much from other's mistakes and hiccups as I do from flawless procedures.
Thanks very much Randall! 😊
Only way to learn. No real fault there Neil. As you say, just improve on the next ones. You do quite well for someone who "doesn't know what he's doing"! Keep that humility. Keep learning.
Thanks very much Jason! 😊
A definite YES for this sort of video. This is how we learn. I admire accomplished blacksmiths but don't see the basic mistakes they made on the journey.
I've just added subtitles to this video in a few different languages. They were made from an automated translation, if you would like to edit the subtitles to improve them for other viewers you can do so here ruclips.net/user/timedtext_video?ref=share&v=4F0P-ygBJ5M
I needed tongs to hold round stock for my next project. Making them seemed like the obvious way to go. I love making tools and I also need the practice hitting hot metal and understanding what happens to it when you do that! I make no claims of knowing what I'm doing, just having fun and giving it a go!
I'm planning on making quite a few simple blacksmithing tools in the near future and then using them to make cool tools. I'm not sure if that's something I should be making videos of or whether I should forget videoing and just get them made. I'm very happy to make the videos but I'm not sure if it's what you guys want to see!
Thank you, I enjoy all of your Videos Please keep it up
Glad you made a vid of it would like to see how you progress on the tool making. Thanks
Thank you for the video. It shows how we can all learn new and different skills. Typical of the shed work that a lot of Australians get up to with very little formal training. I remember my father tackling anything he thought he could do with varying esults and success. You like him provide inspiration for us all. Please keep posting whatever you are working with it is all interesting to those of us interested in life and doing.
Yes, more blacksmithing!
Yes to more! What would be really interesting is explanations about what you're doing. For instance, how do you know the metal is hot enough to pound or when it's cooled off too much? How long does it take to heat up to a workable temperature? When is the metal too stretched (as you allluded to in this vid)? Teach us!
I am very interested in your blacksmithing projects. You keep me watching because you take it all on and keep it interesting.
Loved the "Thanks for Watching" switcharoo...
As always, I enjoy watching your videos. I'm also looking into forging and right now I'm gathering materials to build the forge. I just picked up several kiln bricks from a brick yard. It won't be long now until I start hitting hot metal to make a few knives. Building an anvil of of old railroad pieces I found.
Thanks Casey - good luck with your forge and anvil - sounds great! 😊
Nice work! More please👍
I did enjoy it and would like to see more of these videos! The more videos the better!!
I feel like I am on they journey with you to learn which is good.
Hello Neil
Very good job. I like it. 👍🏼 👍🏼 👊🏼 Thanks.
Martin
Glad you made this video - I for one am very interested in seeing more!
Good video. I would love to see more like this. It's fun to see guys experimenting and showing both the highs and the lows.
the only bad thing about this video is you can't exactly have your "scrapwood challenge" intro music for it...but that's an easy thing to get over.
i enjoy seeing the learning curve taking place...bring on more of them!
There’ll be a Scrapwood challenge coming soon! 😊
I've been watching your videos for awhile and I think your work is very interesting and quite well done.
I really value seeing someone's whole process, warts and all. Thank you for this.
blacksmith challenge blacksmith challenge
he strikes, gets likes, he's getting good
Pask makes more than wood!
I love this, he’d be rude not to
Nice Job for a first try! I think they would be very suitable for 6mm and smaller stock. Your next set will be better, your second tries usually are. I like the way you allow is to see the first attempts. It encourages us to try what we might not for fear of it not coming out perfect the first time. Thanks for sharing that part with us!
No worries Rick - glad you enjoyed it!😊
I am also just getting more into my blacksmithing, please continue yours with us. Thanks
If I've learned anything from the internet, it's that there are people who will watch ANYTHING! In this case, it was interesting. More Please?
I would love to see some more blacksmithing Nick! Alot of fun watching you learn !
You make the videos and I'll keep watching. Anything you want to make, I'll enjoy every moment.
It’s always fun to watch your videos an learning is somthing we all need from time to time, so of course, show us. Maybe we learn something too. Chears.
Another awesome video Mate, thank you for sharing !
Its always worth watching someone trying to learn new skills. I bet they last longer than you think they will. Those "delicate" tongs might turn out handier than you think.
I appreciate your videos. Keep them coming.
Very cool stuff, Neil. By all means record yourself rebuilding the universe. Even if it's not practical for most of us, we love watching you do it.
Definitely more, watching someone else learn and improve is always very instructive. Thanks for sharing.
I really enjoy watching your videos. Keep sharing. Greetings from Norway. 😁👍
I really dig this.
Whatever you're doing is always an enjoyable watch ; ) Thanks for sharing.
yes more of these
Very intresting video. Please make more of these.
Sorry, for my terrible englisch.
Great wishes from Germany
Pask, I like all your videos, keep it up and thank you for posting!
I'm very willing to watch and learn along with you. From seeing your past projects, I expect it will be worth while.
Blacksmithing's Good!!
a nice set of tongs, I was a bit worried that will all that red hot slag flying around you might have regretted wearing shorts but everything was fine in the end. I don't know about being too delicate but they look good to me.
Thanks John - glad you liked them! I like to work safely, I had eye and ear protection. With the weather being so hot at the moment, I’m happy to risk wearing shorts though. 😊
Any Pask video is a good video. I'd watch a video of you folding laundry while eating toast. Cheers
I have enjoyed all of your videos, woodworking, metalworking, or otherwise so hope you keep sharing.
please continue to show more
Still a better blacksmithing video compared to the one chap who can't hit two times on the damn thing w/o spending two hours talking nonsense. Keep em' coming :)
I've never thought about adding "teeth" whenever I've made tongs. Great idea and a nice touch. Your tongs may be a bit too delicate for most blacksmith work, but they came out looking very good, indeed. You certainly have the skills to make heavier tongs in the future. Those smaller tongs will prove useful on projects involving small stock that would be difficult to hold and maneuver with heavier tongs - so all in all, you do in fact have a useful tool added to your blacksmith tool collection! Good job!
Thanks very much for the encouragement, I’ll definitely try again with some heavier tongs! 😊
Nice video Neil! Thanks for sharing it with us.👍😎JP
i enjoy watching you make anything man...keep doin your do
Yes! More blacksmithing adventures please!
Yes please, more blacksmithing and/or trial-and-error!
If I was you I wouldn't have told anyone this was your first time at it, but I appreciate a man that tells the truth. I thought you did a great job for your first time. Keep on Cracking Mate
Thanks Mark! :)
stay with it, I tried about 30 yrs ago and found it interesting but got busy & never followed up. I wished now i had
I find value in most all of your videos, either educational or just enjoyment. 👍
I enjoy every video you put out and this is no different ..I know you said you’ve just started out at blacksmithing but you look like an expert at everything you do ..great work mate 👍
Thanks very much Mark!😊
I'm creating some 3D models of blacksmith tools and found myself here to learn a bit about the actual creation of them. Thanks for making this video.
Yes Neil, definitely keen to see your progress in blacksmithing. I'd like to try my hand at it one day. No idea how/when, as I have none of the necessary tools, etc. I'm still only gradually getting geared up for woodworking! But it's educational, inspiring, and enjoyable to see you at work. So keep 'em coming, please. Cheers, Seb
Thanks very much Sebastian! You don’t actually need all that many tools to give it a go. Of course if you get the bug then that’s a different matter, there are plenty of tools to add! 😊
Forging videos can quickly become tedious, but you usually have a pretty good eye for cutting to the chase in editing and putting your own clever spin on things. I'm interested in seeing what you can come up with.
I know what you mean, hopefully I can keep things interesting! 😊
I think blacksmithing is a fascinating craft. Watching someone learn it is fun, too!
I really like how you unobtrusively just overlay some text with the operation you are doing.
Keep them coming been inspired by so many of your videos
Nifty idea for the vise grips..
I'm a go for more Black Smithing vids. Its you and you are making stuff. Sounds like a good fit to me.
ALL your videos are a pleasure to watch, and you're right to follow your creativity wherever it takes you. I'm stuck on my bed with a back injury i got on new year's Day and have run out of decent woodworking videos to watch.. I've watched them all..(and I'm secretly hoping you stick mainly to woodworking projects !) : )
Great job! We want more!
keep them coming
Although I'm unlikely to get into black smithing I enjoy the videos, keep them coming.
Some more blacksmith videos would be awesome! They are so inspiring!
Great vid. Keep them coming.
Nice job and everyone has to start somewhere I like these tongs
Thanks Gary! 😊
Excellent video, more please!
Always ready to watch your vids, Neil! Thanks!
Came out way better than my last Blacksmithing project so well done!!
Watching this all I kept thinking was "Blacksmith challenge, Blacksmith challenge...." HAHA. I just like watching you make stuff. Doesn't matter what material.