Rowan, you bet I watched all of the video! I was glued to it. I'm a 53 yr.old beginner. I've learned so much from you and a few of the best Blacksmiths on RUclips. I'm very blessed to be able to learn from the best Blacksmiths and Bladesmiths in the world. I have an advantage, as I've been a Master Welder for over 35 years and have a good understanding of metallurgy. this video was one of the best because it encompassed many aspects of the craft. I only wished I learned blacksmithing very well before I became a welder, I think it would have helped me become a better welder faster. but I am going to love the rest of my life mastering blacksmithing. next will be learning to use Metal lathes and machining.
I'm a retired nurse with absolutely no interest in blacksmithing but I love watching you create things. Bingeing (sp) on your videos is so much better than anything on Netflix. Thanks. Love too your aside comments and humor.
It probably won't mean anything to you but I've been smithing off and on for 25 years and I'm very impressed with this project. One of the apprenticeship items we had to make was a chain with shackle and swivel, yours is very good.
Nicely done, Sir. Good craft. Good hand work. Good skill ... and you even poked fun at yourself for dropping your work, too. I fully agree with Torbjörn Åhman. Good teaching, clearly spoken ... proper English is far better for instruction than the vernacular terminology that my home country folk insist on using, though that lingo is all familiar to my ears. So, thank you for that, too.
I managed to endure the vid, lol. Style of presentation, technique of demonstration, and obvious mastery of the craft earned you a new subscriber. On to tongs, fire management, victory, etc!!
+Tim Cunningham No worries :) There certainly are plenty of techniques. No worries, I enjoy doing it. Probably the last time I spend a whole 6 hours forging a filming though!
Nice video. I worked with marine navigation buoys and they were secured to the sea bead with 4 tonne cast steel sinkers and 32 mm chain and had similar swivels below their bridles. This video has given me an insight into the process involved in their manufacture. Thanks for sharing your knowledge
I made it to the end and enjoyed every bit. So many great examples if techniques and process planning, which all made sense once shown. Thanks for the videos, and such good instruction for us peasants without power hammers. :) I now have many to go back and watch, promoted by your shameless plugs.
+Stan Tilton No worries :) It was suggested to me that I make a video of the swivel shackle being made as it shows so many different techniques. We had to make one at college.
Fantastic! And useful for any type of swivel/shackle/chain work. When doing any rivet type work I find heating it up then moving it while quenching it in water works great for giving it smooth movement.
Decihexagon is the term for a 16-sided polygon. :-) Enjoyed your video; looking forward to more. And yes, I watched to the end: 10-mil bolt and two binding nuts.
Great video Rowan - really helpful and loaded with tips and tricks. Thanks for sharing your uber blacksmith know how - video and editing made it a pleasure to watch through its entirety. Cheers!
You keep saying that this or that is boring..... Nothing doing... You do great work, and excellent videos !!! Thanks so much for sharing from NH USA :))
Excellent work. I was wondering from about 10-minutes in, why you didn't leave the weld-link unwelded until after you riveted the swivel, though...looked like it would have made hammering the rivet a LOT easier...but I've never tried to make a swivel, so it may bind the swivel if you go trying to weld AFTER you rivet...causing more 'adjusting' than what you encountered.
Very nice job..!! I would love to make one just like that one. I think that instead of bending the eye to hammer the rivet I would use a bar with a concave end ( to give form to the head of the rivet ) and rotating the eye 360 degrees while hammering.
More than 6 or 8 faces is a POLYHEDRON. You are welcome. Thanks for the video. I learned so much and loved watching to the end. After this, I will be subscribing.
I know this is a two year old video, but a very late thank you for this. It was fascinating to watch and very educational. I very much enjoy the way you approach making videos like this, with pre-shot forging footage and calm narration. I find it far more valuable than some other formats I've seen as it just fits the way I, personally, learn best. Also, a 16 sided polygon is called a Hexadecagon, on the off chance it actually matters to you and you haven't looked it up in the intervening two years ;)
+R.L. HEARN No worries mate :) I enjoy explaining and showing how I do stuff and I don't need to swear to do it (not on-camera anyway!) so your grandson is safe!
Hi, Just to say thank you for the upload, and I have subbed. Terrific work and care taken to ‘finish’ this piece with the hammer, rather than leaving it of the file when you have finished. Take care mrbluenun
Can you forge weld a gun barrel over a mandrel? You sure make the work look easier than it is. The Sutton Hoo chain video was fabulous. My neighbour has a shop named Sutton Hoo.
Very instructive, I say! I learned that it is a good habit to warm up the whole workpeace when you need it to stay hot longer - like when welding. As opposed to a lot of crap out there, you obviously have the grip on it - may I ask where you educated? May I give you a practical hint: When you drive a hole, taper the chisel in the rear end, then you can drive it right through the hole :D
+jens-erik langstrand I trained at Hereford at the National School of Blacksmithing. You are right, I should taper the back end of the drifts.... It is just pure laziness on my behalf that I don't and I don't really have any other excuse lol.
RowanTaylor I would love to though I would need to work up my skills before I attempted a project of that size. I've only forge a few trivial items so far.
C'est beau à voir tant de maîtrise de la forge.,c'est comme un artiste qui crée de rien ce qu'il imagine.,avec ses propres mains,pas un coup de marteau n'est inutile ni perdus.,chacun apporte à l'œuvre un peu de l'âme du forgeron.,👏🏽👏🏽 Bravo .,c'est un plaisir pour les yeux de voir comment étape après étape l'objet prend forme et vie ,et ont attend jusqu'à la fin pour voir simplement l'objet qui est créē.,les forgerons sont des créateurs et des artistes,ils sont les seuls à ce servir des quartes élément naturels,le feu,l'eau,l'air,et la terre.
it is a brilliant college - go there and if you are willing to learn then they will teach you. I went through the tech course rather than the Ba course as I am creative enough anyway and the tech course will teach you to make the tools you need. I had some of the best times of my life there and wouldn't be where I am now without the help of the tutors :)
haha, yes it is still in use but showing its age, lol. I have one welded to a hardy stump somewhere though may be easier to make another than to find it lol.
By saying 12mm round, do you mean a diameter of 12mm. A radius of 12mm or as it seems to imply but does not look like in the video the circumference "round" ?
Terrific job. This has been more interesting than knife videos for me any how. Loved it.
Your skill and your wry humor make even a 35 minute video worth watching
Rowan, you bet I watched all of the video! I was glued to it. I'm a 53 yr.old beginner. I've learned so much from you and a few of the best Blacksmiths on RUclips. I'm very blessed to be able to learn from the best Blacksmiths and Bladesmiths in the world. I have an advantage, as I've been a Master Welder for over 35 years and have a good understanding of metallurgy. this video was one of the best because it encompassed many aspects of the craft. I only wished I learned blacksmithing very well before I became a welder, I think it would have helped me become a better welder faster. but I am going to love the rest of my life mastering blacksmithing. next will be learning to use Metal lathes and machining.
That was bad ass.. first time I ever subscribed to a channel after watching just 1 video
great job man. never apologize for using every tool you have.
I am very fortunate to own two well over 100 years old . Made by a local Blacksmith .
Thank you for a very educational video
I made it through the entire video......and wanted more. I will definitely be checking out your other vids, thanks again for sharing this.
I'm a retired nurse with absolutely no interest in blacksmithing but I love watching you create things. Bingeing (sp) on your videos is so much better than anything on Netflix. Thanks. Love too your aside comments and humor.
It probably won't mean anything to you but I've been smithing off and on for 25 years and I'm very impressed with this project. One of the apprenticeship items we had to make was a chain with shackle and swivel, yours is very good.
You are very talented. Thanks for posting your videos. Look forward to more.
Nicely done, Sir. Good craft. Good hand work. Good skill ... and you even poked fun at yourself for dropping your work, too. I fully agree with Torbjörn Åhman. Good teaching, clearly spoken ... proper English is far better for instruction than the vernacular terminology that my home country folk insist on using, though that lingo is all familiar to my ears. So, thank you for that, too.
I like your videos a lot. Thank you for not having annoying music.
You are an artist AND have a soothing, informative narrative that makes watching even more entertaining. Great video.
+PatrolOfficer161 Thanks mate :)
I managed to endure the vid, lol. Style of presentation, technique of demonstration, and obvious mastery of the craft earned you a new subscriber. On to tongs, fire management, victory, etc!!
Well done, sah ! Even as a crotchety old Yank machinist, I can still recognize talent when I see it ! Kudos !
I made it to the end, wow there are a lot of techniques that go into this. It was awesome to watch. Thank you for taking the time to film and explain.
+Tim Cunningham No worries :) There certainly are plenty of techniques. No worries, I enjoy doing it. Probably the last time I spend a whole 6 hours forging a filming though!
Nice video. I worked with marine navigation buoys and they were secured to the sea bead with 4 tonne cast steel sinkers and 32 mm chain and had similar swivels below their bridles. This video has given me an insight into the process involved in their manufacture. Thanks for sharing your knowledge
I like the work and I love your banter!
Wow thats the most interesting blacksmith making something i have seen in ages, i thought he's never going to make that surely!! Great job!!!
I made it to the end and enjoyed every bit. So many great examples if techniques and process planning, which all made sense once shown.
Thanks for the videos, and such good instruction for us peasants without power hammers. :) I now have many to go back and watch, promoted by your shameless plugs.
I am a blacksmith from N.C in USA great video keep hammering!!! Andrew Soots
What a great worker you are!!!!
Very nice project. Great work, thanks for sharing.
+Stan Tilton No worries :) It was suggested to me that I make a video of the swivel shackle being made as it shows so many different techniques. We had to make one at college.
Look at that 8 years later watched whole thing 😊 thank you
Very informative. love watching your work. Please continue, I'm learning allot. Thanks. Cheers, from across the pond in Arizona
Fantastic! And useful for any type of swivel/shackle/chain work. When doing any rivet type work I find heating it up then moving it while quenching it in water works great for giving it smooth movement.
Great project!
+Torbjörn Åhman Thanks a lot, Torbjorn! Means a lot coming from you, mate :)
Thank you so much for taking the time to make these videos. I watched two so far and they are very interesting and educational.
+Stuart Sinisi Thanks Stuart and you are welcome. I enjoy making them and people seem to like them so I'll probably be here a while :)
Thank you for creating this video! I will re-acquaint myself with chainmaking now...
Watching for the second time,awesome.
Nicely done, thanks for taking the time to make this video, always interesting to see different techniques!
Nice job. Thanks for the video. I did watch all the way to the end and I, for one, would watch a video about making a cotter pin. :)
I got to the end.
14 smiles, 3 chuckles and a subscribe.
Nice.
J.
You sir are bloody amazing and you have great skills. Love all your vids and even my wife enjoys them as well. Thanks from Canada.
I think you're one of my favorite youtube blacksmiths.
+MrOrangeOrchard thanks mate. I have had a few dislikes and negative comments now so reading this one really made my evening :)
I'm glad to make your evening, and keep the jokes up, They're great!.
Decihexagon is the term for a 16-sided polygon. :-) Enjoyed your video; looking forward to more. And yes, I watched to the end: 10-mil bolt and two binding nuts.
Great...excellent video and commentary...this really helps us learners! :)
Great video Rowan - really helpful and loaded with tips and tricks. Thanks for sharing your uber blacksmith know how - video and editing made it a pleasure to watch through its entirety. Cheers!
Love your work mate from Tasmania Australia
Excellent professor !!!!!!!
You keep saying that this or that is boring..... Nothing doing... You do great work, and excellent videos !!!
Thanks so much for sharing from NH USA :))
+Chris Rohrer Thanks Chris :) I have come to realise that I have a short attention span!
I always enjot your videos! I learn SO much! Thanks!
Great bit of work thanks for filming it.
+thornwarbler no worries, mate :)
I'm at the college and about to do a swivel shackle, yours looks fantastic!
I subscribed. I will spend some time watching the rest of your videos. I will look forward to your next.
made it to the end! very interesting. ive never attempted anything like that. still a beginner.
Excellent work!! I love this stuff. Well done!
Love your work, only wish i learned when i was younger.
hexadecagon!
Been working my way through your videos, fascinating stuff
awesome video and awesome work!! I watched every minute of it and found it very interesting
+Hot Iron Art Thanks for enjoying it and for sticking through 'till the end, mate :)
no problem
wow what a great video i really like that you narrate the video after you make it, because it make it so much easier to her what you day
watched with facination kudos to ur skills
Excellent work. I was wondering from about 10-minutes in, why you didn't leave the weld-link unwelded until after you riveted the swivel, though...looked like it would have made hammering the rivet a LOT easier...but I've never tried to make a swivel, so it may bind the swivel if you go trying to weld AFTER you rivet...causing more 'adjusting' than what you encountered.
Useful to tow or LIFT a vehicle! Thumbs up.
haha, indeed :) ... only small vehicles for lifting though.
Nice work and instruction.
Awesome skills (again)👍🏻
Very nice job..!! I would love to make one just like that one. I think that instead of bending the eye to hammer the rivet I would use a bar with a concave end ( to give form to the head of the rivet ) and rotating the eye 360 degrees while hammering.
Amazing work, very informative, keep it up
Great video, and I made it to the end! Thank you! )))
impressive work !! ... great video!
Very cool. I need to make one for my tractor.
Nicely Done.
hexadecagon is a 16 sided polygon..... I Love your whole series. I'd love to work with you if we weren't on opposite sides of the pond.
Great skill a true artisan.
I loved every bit of it and would love to see the coder pin part
More than 6 or 8 faces is a POLYHEDRON. You are welcome. Thanks for the video. I learned so much and loved watching to the end. After this, I will be subscribing.
cool , , great piece ,
Great vid. I think you have let yourself in for more longer vids. Watch all like everyone else will. Great thank you
+Mark Lambert *sigh* but they take so much effort, lol :D If people watch it until the end then I may do some slightly longer demos such as this one.
Skill.......pure skill!!!
I'm impressed.
Great piece of work. Thanks for taking the time to share that.
+OrionsAnvil Thanks mate :) Took a whole day to film rather than just a couple of hours. I'll not be doing something this big in a hurry again, lol.
You rock Sir!
very nice job
+driveheronman Thanks mate, it is very much appreciated :)
+RowanTaylor credit where its due Rowan , what part of the UK are you are you busy at present
I know this is a two year old video, but a very late thank you for this. It was fascinating to watch and very educational. I very much enjoy the way you approach making videos like this, with pre-shot forging footage and calm narration. I find it far more valuable than some other formats I've seen as it just fits the way I, personally, learn best.
Also, a 16 sided polygon is called a Hexadecagon, on the off chance it actually matters to you and you haven't looked it up in the intervening two years ;)
Your right I do need to see the rest of your video's. Thank you for your time to explain and Grandson friendly.
+R.L. HEARN No worries mate :) I enjoy explaining and showing how I do stuff and I don't need to swear to do it (not on-camera anyway!) so your grandson is safe!
great video
nice video mate .
16-face-a-gon lol nice. replay enjoy watching your work mate. nicely done
+Ollie Woody Haha, yeah, still not looked-up the proper word. Glad you enjoy it :D
no entiendo nada de lo que hablas! pero entiendo lo que haces. saludos de argentina. son muy buenos los vídeos que haces.
Wonderful! Many thanks. I have the attention span of a gnat but watched the whole way through. Harry
“I think you should watch all my videos”.....I have Rowan....I think three times now....always in hope that one day you will return to us....
Hi,
Just to say thank you for the upload, and I have subbed. Terrific work and care taken to ‘finish’ this piece with the hammer, rather than leaving it of the file when you have finished.
Take care
mrbluenun
Can you forge weld a gun barrel over a mandrel? You sure make the work look easier than it is. The Sutton Hoo chain video was fabulous. My neighbour has a shop named Sutton Hoo.
i subscribed right after you said ''i have a power hammer deal with it''
Very instructive, I say!
I learned that it is a good habit to warm up the whole workpeace when you need it to stay hot longer - like when welding.
As opposed to a lot of crap out there, you obviously have the grip on it - may I ask where you educated?
May I give you a practical hint:
When you drive a hole, taper the chisel in the rear end, then you can drive it right through the hole :D
+jens-erik langstrand I trained at Hereford at the National School of Blacksmithing. You are right, I should taper the back end of the drifts.... It is just pure laziness on my behalf that I don't and I don't really have any other excuse lol.
Thanks . I watched it all, I said to my self "how is he going to hammer that " just before you did. LOL
Nice work. Just for the record, a sixteen sided polygon is called a hexadecagon.
Fantastic!
+eviltwinx Glad you like it :D Are you going to have a go?
RowanTaylor I would love to though I would need to work up my skills before I attempted a project of that size. I've only forge a few trivial items so far.
+eviltwinx well if you have any questions, ask away mate :)
C'est beau à voir tant de maîtrise de la forge.,c'est comme un artiste qui crée de rien ce qu'il imagine.,avec ses propres mains,pas un coup de marteau n'est inutile ni perdus.,chacun apporte à l'œuvre un peu de l'âme du forgeron.,👏🏽👏🏽 Bravo .,c'est un plaisir pour les yeux de voir comment étape après étape l'objet prend forme et vie ,et ont attend jusqu'à la fin pour voir simplement l'objet qui est créē.,les forgerons sont des créateurs et des artistes,ils sont les seuls à ce servir des quartes élément naturels,le feu,l'eau,l'air,et la terre.
very nice.
Did you get any cracks between the shoulder and tenon?
Great vid!
If we don't hear from him after he has a big anvil on it, we will know.
What did you think of the college? I'm looking into go there and just wanted a professional's opinion. Thanks for the video and any replies.
it is a brilliant college - go there and if you are willing to learn then they will teach you. I went through the tech course rather than the Ba course as I am creative enough anyway and the tech course will teach you to make the tools you need. I had some of the best times of my life there and wouldn't be where I am now without the help of the tutors :)
RowanTaylor Wow thanks I've heard a lot about it and all of its been positive thanks for the info and keep the great videos coming.
"I've got a power hammer. Deal with it." XD
+berrieds I have to have something over you hammerless peasants XD
MADE IT TIL THE END....... SUPER COOL :0)
Good video, although disappointed by the lack of the cotter pin.
ello sailor! That looks familiar!
The old spring fuller still lives!, lol mine died ages ago!
As always fab video :D
haha, yes it is still in use but showing its age, lol. I have one welded to a hardy stump somewhere though may be easier to make another than to find it lol.
By saying 12mm round, do you mean a diameter of 12mm. A radius of 12mm or as it seems to imply but does not look like in the video the circumference "round" ?
It's ok 12mm diameter so a 10mm bolt will fit. Should of watched until the end before asking. lol
Awesome informational educational video experience Y'alls need to make that pin thing instead of using the bolt
Crappiest vice ever seen but I like your content very much.
Thanks for showing old-style without powerhammer
Excellent, new subscriber, cheers.