How to forge pick up / hammer making tongs
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- Hey Guys!
This video is part of a series of videos Alec ( / alectheblacksmith ) and I are going to make to support Brian Brazeals "tools to make tools" curriculum for this year´s YoungSmiths event at Tannehill Forge School of Blacksmithing in Alabama.
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Have fun trying it yourself and hopefully we´ll see us in Tannehill!
Yours
- Daniel
Been looking for these tongs for months, finally found someone making them! Thanks, I’ll be making very soon!
Man, put a magnet on this church bell, great job making the tongs!
This video was great!! Made my first pair of these in about 4 hours but I didnt use spring steel though. My first pair of tongs that don't look like something for the scrap pile.
Beautiful job young man ⚒
Well Done Daniel.
I enjoy watching your videos, Good to see the Younger Generation picking up an Art that is Centuries Old.
Cheers
Rex
Hallo Perry!
Thank you! I was using 5/8" coil spring from a car´s shock absorber.
Yours
- Daniel
Thanks for sharing, they are a nice set of tongs to have, and easy enough to modify the design for reaching into a gas forge.
I like to swing a huge hammer head. And hold the handle just behind the head.
That makes for some good smithing.
I see you like the " Brian method" too!
I asked him once why he holds it just behind the head. He said he only does that when he needs controlled swings. ........ but he is raising the head up to his ear.
Anyway; forge on.
this is great, i was struggling forging the reverse taper after forging the bit and boss first, it makes way more sense to forge the reigns using a forward taper first and then flip - smart!
Thanks for the tutorial. A variation on the Haberman bend I have developed uses the corner of a worn Anvil which has softened edges but a 90' profile. This corner is forced into the center of the bend, resulting in a thinned center but thick inner and outer edges. Sort of a bent I beam in section. It's a lot stiffer than the thinned Haberman.
Workin on a set now. Good video
Hey colton!
Whether you have to harden a chisel or a punch depends on the purpose of the tool. If you want to work on cold steel with it, to lay out (mark) something, if you want to centre punch or carve steel you definitely need to harden it. If you make a punch or a chisel that goes deep into hot steel, you don´t need to harden it because on the one hand the hot steel is much softer then and the tool will eventually get so hot that you lose the hardness due tempering again.
Wonderful video Daniel, thank you very much for the demo. Even recycled steel as an added bonus. Really Great Job. Thanks
Du machst immer tolle Videos. Da ist wirklich ein sehr guter Handwerker bei der Arbeit. Hoffe man sieht noch mehr davon.
Thank you for taking the time to reply, mine are nowhere near as clean as yours but they did the trick my new hammer works great
Daniel,
Fantastic video. I appreciate the effort you fellows put into this!
Albert
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Thanks Daniel. That is a very good video!
Hallo Michi,
die gewölbte Schneide verursacht einen nur sehr sehr geringen Oberflächenkontakt, daher schneidet sie bei jedem Schlag sehr tief ein und es wird auch nicht soviel Hitze aus dem Werkstück gesogen. Viele Äxte haben ja aus ersterem Grund ebenfalls eine runde Klinge. Sie erlaubt ein sehr schnelles und sauberes Abschroten.
Ich habe noch zwei, die ich nicht verwende, wenn du willst, kannst du eins zum ausprobieren haben!
Gruß
- Daniel
nice video! i look forward to the others!
nice , greetings from Poland
I think you missed the point. We all know tongs can be forged in less time and a hundred different ways. These tongs hammer home the fundamental skill of drawing which is very important and a much better use of time than say, forging a handful of leaves or nails.
Just finished my first pair! I used 3/4" 1018 however.
What is the approximate diameter of the reins? Thank you for posting. The videos you guys put on here are a real big help.
Thanks! You should end up with reins ~8*6mm
Before you harden any tool please inform yourself about the proper heat treatment for your respective tools steel. Faulty heat treatment can lead to tools cracking and causing fatal injury.
Yours
- Daniel
Cool your punch! Anytime you go into hot iron cool your punch.
I gather Brian brazeal is the best hammer smith in all the land
Well he certainly ain´t a bad one ;)
yes...yes he is
Hello Daniel!It's hard to explain how valuable your (and other youtube blacksmithing teachers) videos are to blacksmithing apprentices like myself.I hate to ask more of you but is it possible that you might give some measurements of the finished tongs? Overall length, jaw width and length and reign length? It looks as if you taper the reigns and the jaw material from about 1/4 to about 5/16 or 3/8. True?I would really appreciate the help as I would like to make them as well/accurate and funtional as possible.Thank you in advance!!Ron
i tried making tongs like this but they had no strength after each heat i'd have to fix them they bend
I know this is an old video any way you could give the measurements for how long to drawl out the reins and jaws
About 8" for the jaw part and about 1 1/2 feet for the reins.
Daniel Lea deine videos sind echt super und hilfreich, vielen dank dafür! aber benenne längen und durchmesser doch bitte in dem uns bekannten metrischen system und passe dich nicht den amis und ihren inches an, so lernen sie es ja sonst nie...
Great video. I just finished my first pair of pick-up tongs and this video was very, very helpful in doing so. However, I had some issues riveting the tongs together at the Habermann bend. Do you have any tricks/tips for readying the Habermann bend for riveting?
+nate smith Well you punch the hole and do the rivet at least 1" behind the bend. Thus there should't have to be anything "readied" about the bend...
Coil spring is hard stuff to work, especially drawing all that material out.
do you have to harden and temper chisels and punches
Hi Daniel, nice video. Why is the boss set back along the reins?
Michael Budd Thats because the material does not have a uniform thickness at the bend since I draw that bend out to form a corner.
I put the boss where the rains are the thickest. That way it isn't catching on any point.
Cheers
Now I see. Thanks Daniel.
Hello Daniel, Great work. What is the type of material you are using for the tongs?
Hello, I am about to make my own set, and I have two questions: 1) at minute 9:11 there is a nice side view just after you finished drawing out the 3" section. Do you have a gradual taper all the way to the lump, or is there a definitive length you keep it at? 2) For the lighter weight tongs you introduce at the beginning, what type of stock do you start with?
Thanks for your time and efforts! I am taking extensive notes!
--jason
It is a taper from the lump all the way until the material is between 1/8 and 1/4" in diameter. You don´t need hair precision with the length, it is much more important, that they have equal length. They should be about 7" long.
Daniel Lea Thanks!
Šikovný..
Just found you're channel SUBED👍
Servus Daniel!
Warum hast du so einen Runden Abschrot(ich meine nicht das Kehlhammer unterteil) ?
Ich meine was sind die Vorteile ?
Mit bienlichen Grüßen Michi und Stück davon
What type of anvil are you using?
Daniel, You drew out each end to what length?
I see the answer below, thank you.
Did you make that rounding hammer on the anvil at the start of the video?
I'd really like one👍
Ryan Talbot I made it, yes!
It's a nice hammer man, could you make one for me?
Daniel Lea do you make any for sale, I'd like to buy one from you
Ryan Talbot Generally yes but I'm not sure when I'll have the time for it. Price would be 200 €
Ok what's the best way to contact you?
Aha ja das hört sich Logisch an! Also dieses angebot nehme ich gerne an! ich hab ein 2,5 cm Ambossloch!
MFG Michi
PS Schreiben wir uns mal im Forum zusammen!
3hr or you have a Big BLU power hammer. :)
Pretty cool ;)
You are german right?
Yes I am!
I thought so because You`ve the same crazy dialect as me lol. By the way Your videos are great and I like the fact that even if you are young you have a lot of knowledge thx to a german Ausbildung I think (Ladmaschinenschlosser?)?
Ich habe keine Schmiedeausbildung gemacht. Ich bin Jurastudent.
Jura - harter Stoff - aber Juristen werden immer gebraucht :) und schmieden ist quasi Dein Hobby? Ich hab Maschinenbaumechaniker gelernt und bin später auf Koch umgesattelt, nebenbei baue ich Messer und programmiere Webseiten (meine Hobbies). Nun gut, will Dich nicht länger aufhalten. Mach weiter so, die Videos sind echt super und gut erklärt! :)
Andreas Holzer Ja ist eines meiner Hobbies. Danke! :-)