Forging a Heart - Beginner's Blacksmithing Project
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Today MADI is taking the reins to show off some blacksmithing skills she learned after taking a class.
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Maddi should do a woodworking episode where she makes a chair
Second this 😆
Possibly a stool ;p
Yeeeeeessss
I'm a professional blacksmith, and bladesmith, and I condone every piece of advice in here, one thing though, always, and I mean ALWAYS, remember, the metal is hot! EVEN IF DOESN'T LOOK LIKE IT, IT. IS. HOT!
Always good to assume everything is HOT, SHARP, and Spring loaded. As it will bite you if it can.
The rebar patterned branding on my fingers can vouch for that very important reminder 😂
Unfortunately, most people learn this the hard way. I was 18 when I started and I learned the hard way. I had a spade shaped scorch mark for a month. Ah, to be young and stupid again - ok, maybe just young.
I teach kids the basics and the first thing they learn before the forge is even lit is:
"Everything is either hot, heavy, or heavy AND hot. We DO NOT CATCH ANYTHING. Let it hit the floor, adjust your grip on the tongs and pick it up safely."
I have never been in a shop that does not have that as rule number one.
I love when Madi's in videos, its like the cool aunt visiting lol
my cool aunt lives in Florida, too - we need to get them both to move to New England LOL
Madi's wise words at 8:14 of "It's just a mess until suddenly it isn't" is a great way to think when learning any new craft.
anytime someone says "trust the process" ill think of this instead
Blacksmith on a Yoga Ball could be a great name for a band.
“Yoga Ball Blacksmiths.”
Blacksmith Yoga Bat-mitzvah, for a Ninja Sex Party cover band.
With Maddie more involved more women might start Leveling up their crafting skills.
Maddie the role model.
Does anyone else just wanna be best friends with this crew? Y’all are so likable and fun!
This episode really broke a lot of the blacksmithing myths for me. Thank you both for breaking it down so approach-ably!
A rare Madi appearance! It's cute how she did all of Clever's little quirks and catchphrases.
Chair justice for Madi!
One of these days Madi is going to build her own chair
Noob carpentry class
@@Mark-ki7ic
Nah, an iron throne
I want to see more of Madi crafting things. She adds not only a different perspective, but also a different vibe. It is refreshing. Love Clever, don't get me wrong, but a change every now and then is fun. Keep leveling up you.
Thanks for the shoutout at the end guys!
Maddi’s take over has begun! Can’t wait to see you two at Reckoning!
One it's awesome to see Maddie 2 for me. I am 50 years old and ever since I was 7 I wanted to blacksmith and learn how and I still haven't done much of it. So I appreciate This episode to thank you very much And good job mattie
It was so nice to see a *beginner*beginner project! It's always really reassuring when a genuinely inexperienced person tells you that something is easy. Especially when the end result is this great! *-*
"I refuse to give you a chair." 🤣🤣He's a scamp.
Some tips from when I started blacksmithing: Absolutely make sure your metal is not galvanaized. Look for local steel suppliers. Try to avoid using your wrist when hammering, use a loose grip and lift with your arm letting gravity pull the hammer down. When forging sprials, place the tip of the bar about a quarter inch off the edge of the anvil and slowy 'brush' the hammer across it while advancing the bar out, then flip it over and use the hammer to roll the bar back towards you. Get a wire bursh and use it often while forging to knock scale off and keep a good finish on your metal.
Considering the hell pig, I would seriously suggest grabbing a pile of bricks to lay out underneath it, lifting it up to a more easy to use height...and adding more things for heat dispersion underneath it so that you don't risk accidental damage to the asphalt underneath it. Most places I've seen forges of a similar type in use raise it up to about waist height because it's easier to use and pay attention to, less needed movement between the forge and the work area is both more work time and less space for accidental screwups
Loved seeing Maddie on the show she is a wonderful second host. Much love to the skill tree crew.
I've been having lower back pain so my husband got me a knee chair and it's a whole new world. Get Maddie one.
I’m so happy Maddy is going to be in more videos.
I love this... so glad to see Maddi more
A rare maddi appearance!
Non the less as a blacksmith myself i have to mention these tidbits of info:
Eye protection! Use it!~ unless you are very experienced always wear it while forging.
Gloves are not required but i do recommend em when you are bending hot steel and your hands are under the steel.
If you can forge a square point into a round point you can forge everything!
Use a wooden stick or hammer to shape twisted pieces, you won't get hammer marks in em unless you really try.
Great work so far! Forge on guys!
I feel like earning a chair on this channel translates to "Build your own chair!"
I have an idea for an episode that I hope you guys will enjoy:
Building a "cannon", with it being a spring loaded affair that shoots coloured tennis balls or something. I think that might be a fun project to do.
I love the idea of Madi doing beginner projects! I really want to get into crafting things for LARP, but aren't sure where to start. It's great and all to get inspired by advanced projects, but I personally am too intimidated to try those until I've practiced the basics first, so I really appreciate good introductory projects.
Great video folks. I am a blacksmith tutor and wish people would listen to your advice before coming in. Only things I will say use the anvil and hammer to make the scrolls by knocking over to a right angle over the side then brushing it back towards you. If tongues and pliers are getting hot each time you use them to put steel back in forge, dunk in water not the game of get hot and cool down but don't let it get hot. Thanks once again for amazing content.
I would love to see an episode making dinnerware - plates, bowls, utensils, etc
I've been a hobby blacksmith for about 4 years and recently I had a lot of people ask me if I teach it too. I've been considering it. I picked up blacksmithing very easily. I've been using tools and hammers my whole life. This gave me perspective on what new people experience. I was worried I couldn't fill a 3 hour class and especially not a 5 hour class. I forgot that new people aren't as fast.
So thanks for the video, it will make me a better instructor.
Some tips:
Get a wire brush to clean the top of the anvil and the work. The scale causes a rough finish when hammered into the steel.
Get or modify a better hammer for a smoother finish and easier working of the metal
Get or make some square stock tongs in a couple sizes, they can handle round, square, and flat stock
And most importantly, keep working at it. Tools can be improvised, but skills cant be faked.
I love seeing people get into this dying art form. And great job on that heart. It looks fantastic and if its flat enough, it could make a good trivet for pots and pans
Finally we get some Madi Time!!!
The time is pass due Kit! It is to late for a simple chair, we demand a Throne! for the raven queen!!!!
About some little tips, it's quite nice to have some container with water where you can fit your hand with pliers. You can temper or harden the metal or else you can cool off handle of the plires. Also it's handy to have various sizes of them, smaller for finer details and bigger pliers for handling the forging.
Recently did a short blacksmithing taster session and caught the bug! This looks like a great next project for me.
A tip they gave me: If you taper on the edge of the anvil then you can angle the hammer over the edge so it strikes the work "flat" and doesn't leave hammer edge marks.
If Maddie needs to "earn" her chair, she should do a video where she makes a throne.
I love when Madi shows up in videos. Could be a fun idea, to have Kit teach Madi a skill too!!! Could be a fun way to do one of the beginner videos that was already covered in the past.
great to see you jumping in Maddi
Great to see a Madi build, you 2 are just great to watch and the banter is always sharp but fun!!
Great job madi, they will only get better the more you keep at it, we can't wait to see what you come up with next. Congratulations on the new skill. You'll get that chair in no time.😁.
Hey Madi and Kit. Been blacksmithing for about three years now and something I find really helps mitigate the hammer getting hot is every third or fourth strike of the material tap the anvil
Madi's looking swole! Building some muscle swinging them hammers.
Yje fun thing I learned in metalworking was to not think of it as "metal," but more like "clay." With clay, to keep it soft and pliable or give it shape, you add or allow water to escape...with metal, the "water" is heat...you either add heat or allow it to escape as needed.
Woo, Maddi episode! Let's gooo
Yes!! More Maddie (Madi?)!! This was really cool. Some day I'd like to take a course on making a simple knife, so that I can use my main skill to make a leather sheath for it.
Those tongs are one of the 2 pair I have handy, and I *love* them.
Nice video with helpful, hopeful information.I see the presentation table draws certain gestures and verbalizations from the knowledgeable presenters...very good table ,you do hold your own.literally. Thanks to the both of you for sharing with us all that you do....leading us down the " path of maybe". Carry on oh talented ones...
Fun episode, like seeing your cohost (all the good misspellings were taken already) on the air again. I even got used to the bouncing after a while.
Great job Maddie!!
Your videos continuesly encourage me to keep crafting! Always instructive, funny and positive, so thank you for that. All the best from Montréal. Merci beaucoup! 😁
No joke thought this was a video from another channel I follow because Im so not used to seeing Maddie 😂 cool twist!
Definitely wear natural material clothing yes, and as Im sure every other smith in the comments has mentioned "the metal is ALWAYS hot" and "If something falls, let it fall"
I learned those lessons the hard way 🤣 I dropped a piece of rebar I had just heated and instinctively tried to catch it.
I succeeded in catching it, much to my finger's dismay (there is a subtle rebar pattern branding on at least one of my fingers)
I cant wait to have more take over!😊
This was a fun experience. It shows the different ways beginners get use to things. I also must thank them for the encouragement they give us as well as the ideas that they share. I hope I get over this bout of depression I'm going through so I can once again concentrate on crafting. I use to enjoy knitting and crocheting all the time. I also liked trying to sew scraps together so I can make my first quilt. I've got many projects half don that I've just stopped working on. I'm hoping with the example the others keep giving me I could eventually get back into things and then share them with you all.
Much as I love our man, it was a dope change of pace having Madi do this one. 👍🏻
More episodes like this please
Maddi NEEDS her own chair!
MADI DID A GOOD JOB, CONGRATS!!! YES SHE NEEDS TO BE ON MORE OFTEN
My ancestors came from Gent, Belgium. They were blacksmiths, and came to Sweden because we needed them. They wore, well, essentially dresses. Long "shirts", if you don't want to call them dresses. And they always, and I mean ALWAYS, kicked off their shoes before entering a house. Their children did that at school, and it was not something you did back then... The kids got into trouble because of it, but they only told their parents once, because the blacksmith did the same, and thusly was obviously not going to listen to any teacher :-)
My wife found a book about the more recent of my ancestors and suddenly shouted that I was in that book. I wasn't, it was just "Lill-Hampe", but he looks like me. He retired out of spite when he was 94...
I suck at blacksmithing, so I did the next best thing, writing songs, I think my ancestors would have approved, because they were a lovely bunch! And very, VERY, stubborn...
You could build a rustc fantasy LARP chair for a video to earn your chair!
They do sell square stock at home depot, though it is hit or miss whether it is in stock when you want to buy it.
I did like watching Madi craft something.
Outstanding!! Love how well you guys play off each other to make learning so much fun.
you could have her do an ep. related to the upcoming ones. like if you're doing a leather craft and it's going to have a special thing in it, like how to put in a zipper, idk, but she could do a starter project that does it first, then show it in his project that's at a 'higher' level!
Madi's back ! ! ! that is all... carry on...
The master has failed more times than the novice has tried!
It's always important to fail, because that's how we learn!
Rebar works well for wrought iron shapes and is less costly that the rod stock.
Maddie you did amazing work with that heart keep leveling up i look forward to seeing more projects on here from bolth of you
as much as I love the leatherworking videos, I definitely want to see more blacksmithing!
Excellent! Just Excellent!
Next Madi episode idea: Design and build herself a chair!
Yeah, we definitely need more Madi here.
Also bring back your little namecards! Us old Skill Monkeys know who you are but any new Tinker Tots don't! and you never really introduce Yourself, just the channel
I love blacksmithing! so happy that that Madi is joining in to! cant wait to see some of the projects that come from it and that clever is able to do with the spare time :D
Love this! You totally need a vise
months ago i tried making a troll cross, which has a lot of the same techniques, but demands more symmetry. I was locked into the idea of just using hammers, and it ended up twice as uneven as this heart project. Pliers are so obvious and yet i forgot they existed. Cant wait try again when my whitlox forge is fixed. Also looking forward to the new Clever/Maddie trade off format
Great exp and saftey tips and glad to see the working together. This is fantastic.
I can say this, in order to improve your tapering skill: the first hammer you used was a tin hammer. It is mostly used for metal sheets. Not the ideal to blacksmithing solid pieces of metal, tho. The second hammer was better, but it is the position that is wrong. Also it would be better if the hammer's striking surface was straighter and less convex than that (I advice a german cross peen hammer of at least 1,7Lb).
To taper a metal bar there are 2 ways here in Italy.
The easiest is similar to how you did it.... But by striking the metal so that the hammer forms an angle of about ten degrees with the glowing bar. Basically you have to rotate your wrist a little bit so that you can hit the metal with the angle of the hammer and not with its flat face. And if the tip of the bar you have to taper points to your right, you have to strike it with the RIGH edge of the hammer beating surface, so you have to slightly turn your wrist clockwise . This way you will push the malleable glowing metal toward the desired direction and not both directions, making less effort.
The other method for good metal thinning is to use the round horn of the anvil. position the workpiece on the round horn at right angles to it. Then you tap the hammer on the glowing metal without moving the hammer (which must tap with its flat surface always in the same place) and it is the metal bar that moves. You basically tap the hammer in the same spot while slowly pulling the metal toward you. But this second method takes some practice and very good coordination between the arms and hands.
In either case you'll end up with a nicely tapered, but bumped surface, which you're obviously going to smooth out by hammering gently with the flat surface of the hammer.
About twisting: the entire section to be twisted should be uniformly yellow or, at least, cherry red. Never with darker colors. Darker colors bring to deformations if you get it right ... cracks and breaks if you get it wrong. The color has to be homogeneous from where you want the twisting to begin to where you want it to end and it's best not to do this with blacksmith's tongs unless there are two of you doing it, one on each end. But it is generally best to use a blacksmith vise.
I hope I was at least a little helpful. Unfortunately, these are difficult concepts to express without seeing them live or at least without figures. And I'm not sure if I translated certain concepts well into English, but I hope you got the general sense.
Good luck with your uprising skills. Blacksmithing is one of the most satisfying things to do in life :D
It's fun that they have the same mannerisms.
Small correction. 4:44
That's the pritchel hole, not hardy hole. Hardy is the square one. Both are perfectly fine to use for this, though. so go with whatever's easier. :)
So what your saying is, your gonna make Madi make her own chair eventually? :D
If you are in Northern Colorado and interested in learning about blacksmithing, I recommend checking out the Hammer In event in Loveland the first weekend of June. You can check out the details at hammerin followed by a dot/period followed by info (hopefully that is abstract enough to keep RUclips from eating my comment), but it is free, open to the public, and a friendly place to observe, ask questions, and possibly even hit some hot iron if someone has free space at their forge.
Very cool project and glad to see you doing some videos!
Madi, that would an awesome cloak pin!
Yay! A Madi video! (Is it "Madi", "Maddie", "Madie", or... ???)
Oh! I know some fun projects for practicing! Leaves are great practice, and they make great gifts, or trade trinkets. (I know a few people who make trinkets to trade while larping, but so far, I'm not brave enough to larp)
Two pro tips: having water in a jug/bucket is helpful to cool a spot that you don't want to deform/bend (e.g. when doing the twist), and also using a wooden mallet to hit it after it's been twisted will help you change the shape without messing up the ridges on the twist, if you keep using a normal hammer you'll have hammer marks on your little ridges
Make a Chair! with smithed bits adn wood bits, and maybe leatheer bits!
I love that you also do episodes . I would e stoked to see more
You Rock Miss Madi! Great Job!
Great job Madi! Love hearing from the newbie perspective 😊
Woo! New DGD and new Skill tree video! Best day ever!
Ohh my gosh, just earlier today my dad and I were talking about wanting to learn blacksmithing 😱 What perfect timing :D
Nice job Maddi.
Great format guys. I love your work.
Great episode!
This is a great episode loved it
been waiting for a Maddie episode!!
This is so helpful! I’m currently dm-ing a campaign and one of the player’s character is a blacksmith. Now I can actually start to walk them through the process like they were actually there!
And YES Clever, You NEED more videos with Maddie, she's been with you long enough to be a partner in crime now, so to put it using music as an analogy, you two need to form a Duet and not to have her as just a background singer. LOVE THE CHANNEL, been watching for yrs., just wish I made the money to become a patreon.
The Apprentice is leveling up!
Have a bucket of water around to cool your tools every few minutes altho some of those store bought tongs are hardened and tempered and could crack or break if cooled, IMHO tongs are the first thing you should learn to make from mild steel. Plus before long you'll have enuf tongs to make pretty much anything your forge and anvil size will allow AND they will be MADE specifically for whatever size and shape steel you are using, so they will hold your material firmly with out wiggiling plus you'll have 2 so you don't have fool with pliers that don't really hold crap. Oh not counting your time and coal your tongs cost a FRACTION to make verses buying them, even counting your forge fuel you used making them. Plus do this long enough and you will want to forge something you can't BUY tongs that will hold what your working or at least not hold it well. Aside from the specialist tongs they are made the same just made to hold different size material of the same shape, (you want your tongs to hold round AND square bar of the same size) round bar, square bar, flat bar, flat sheets of various sizes. TLDR learn to make tongs.
so I used to work at a viking museum being in costume and like... doing crafts n stuff. and one time I was talking to two of the blacksmiths and they started discussing how annoying it is to get ahold of tools to get started in smithing. and then one of them said. "I literally bought one of those camping waffle iron tongs, and re-forged them into a normal set of tongs and it works perfectly."
I found that not only funny, but quite interesting. maybe that's something worth looking into?
Good video! Glad Maddie showed up too
+1 for more Maddi
The other skill builder I've seen is making a small leaf shaped broach. About 3' (8cm) across. Great project.