How to Forge Tools: Tongs without Tongs

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  • Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
  • One of the first tools that every new blacksmith needs is a good set of tongs, but the question becomes, "How do I make tongs if I don't have any tongs yet to hold the steel?" In this video I will show you how to make your first set of tongs in a way that you don't need any tongs to hold the material.
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Комментарии • 18

  • @briancarl5566
    @briancarl5566 Год назад +2

    Nice video - new subscriber. You are making good content, keep it up!! 👍

  • @everyzig3146
    @everyzig3146 10 месяцев назад +1

    10/10, video maker successfully usurps the power of god.

    • @northernforgeblacksmith
      @northernforgeblacksmith  10 месяцев назад

      Thanks! I want to provide information to new smiths so they don't have to figure out things the hard way like I did.

  • @sjtaylor128
    @sjtaylor128 Год назад +1

    I just stumbled across your video. Nice job. Have you tried fullering those inside corners and drawing out thr reins?

    • @northernforgeblacksmith
      @northernforgeblacksmith  Год назад

      I have done them that way in the past, but I've found that somethings it gets hard to find somewhere to hold it when I get to the middle of the reigns. If you want to see how that would work though, check out my video on twist tongs. You could take the method I used in that video and work on either end of a longer bar to do exactly what you are describing.
      ruclips.net/video/RycNklh0x1I/видео.html

  • @VRplay86
    @VRplay86 Год назад +1

    Don't forget to ask people to subscribe 😉. You should have double the subscribers with how many people watched your videos 👍🤓

    • @northernforgeblacksmith
      @northernforgeblacksmith  Год назад +1

      I appreciate the complement! I'm working on improving my outro for upcoming videos instead of the abrupt endings.

    • @VRplay86
      @VRplay86 Год назад

      I enjoy all your videos 👍🤓👏👏

  • @martinnovotny7507
    @martinnovotny7507 Год назад

    I want see,hammer without hammer😉😁

  • @andremendez7521
    @andremendez7521 Год назад +2

    Thank you so much for this video I just made my first tool thanks to you. Next comes a knife
    Also this took me about 7 hours to do over the span of three days

    • @northernforgeblacksmith
      @northernforgeblacksmith  Год назад

      Good job! Once you get started it gets easier. I have a pair of tongs made some years ago that I remember took me 2 weeks of 2-3 hours nearly every day before I finished them.

  • @mountainwolf1
    @mountainwolf1 Год назад +2

    Good idea thanks for sharing from this foundation you could make any pair of tongs you need with just slight alterations.

    • @northernforgeblacksmith
      @northernforgeblacksmith  Год назад +1

      Thanks! This is going to be an ongoing series on how to make a variety of different tongs. I just figured I should start at the beginning.

    • @mountainwolf1
      @mountainwolf1 Год назад

      Brutal thanks keep up the good work and forge on.

  • @Afro408
    @Afro408 Год назад

    Nice idea and it works. 😊👍You know that little step, between the anvil face and the horn? That is soft and is for doing exactly what you're doing on the wobbly and moving mild steel plate. The smith would hold any long narrows piece between his thighs and hot cut. 😉

    • @northernforgeblacksmith
      @northernforgeblacksmith  Год назад +1

      yeah, I know the step of the anvil is a softer spot so you don't damage chisels when cutting. I use it sometimes, but on this project I didn't want to try and keep it balanced on the step and didn't have a lot of extra material for holding with my legs.