How to Bend Thick Metal Using a Propane Forge - Kevin Caron
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
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From www.kevincaron.com - Artist Kevin Caron shows you how he bends 1" solid steel stock using his propane forge ....
It's the beginning of September in Phoenix and just not hot enough for artist Kevin Caron, so he decided to fire up his propane forge. Actually, he is working on a large outdoor sculpture called Desert Dancers that has led him to bend the 1" x 3/4" solid stock to make the sculpture's metal frames using his propane forge.
Kevin Caron has a steel bar in the forge that is hot, so he pulls it out of the fire and takes it over to his workbench. There he fits the red hot metal into a jig.
Then Kevin Caron explains how he made the male mold that he is bending the bars around. After cutting out the mold, he welded the 1" thick metal mold to another 1" plate of steel to give himself room to work around the mold and not run into his workbench.
Then he welded THAT piece of metal to the workbench so he would have a firm, steady base that would let him bend and hammer without having to worry that the mold would move.
He bent one piece of metal to figure out exactly how long he needed to cut the straight bar stock, then figured the angle he needed at each end to bring them together in a point.
Next, Kevin Caron measured out 1" from the edge of the mold and drilled six holes, three on each side of the mold. He then made pins, or dogs, to fit into those holes. As he bends his 1" thick piece of metal around the mold, these pins help him lock the metal in place.
The piece of metal is hot, so Kevin Caron pulls it out of the forge and use his hammer it, then hand bends a section, putting in three pins as he goes.
Then he uses a large crescent wrench to bend past the center top of the form. The metal then goes back in the forge. The process is repeated.
While the piece is heating a fourth time, Kevin Caron explains the importance of laying out on the workbench just the tools you need in the order you'll need them. When you are working with heat like this, you want to make the most of your time and stay safe, too.
The metal is ready. Kevin Caron seats it in his jig, then uses two blacksmith's hammers to bend the last section. Finally, he heats both ends of the metal one more time and uses the hammers and then a clamp to bring the two ends together.
"Not bad for an amateur blacksmith," says Kevin Caron.
He shows one of the pieces of 5/8" thick glass that will fit into the frames. Kevin Caron made the mold that the glass company used to pour the glass. There will be about 58 pads in the entire sculpture, which is 7 feet tall and 12 feet wide.
Kevin Caron gives a special shoutout to Rodger and Jason LaBrash at Grizzly Iron, a blacksmith shop in Phoenix for all of their wisdom and advice on this project.
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Well, you might want to hang around another moment to see Kevin Caron's latest great idea!
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I was a Shipfitter for General Dynamics and worked on the first Trident Submarines and in Training School we had to make a fireplace grate as a test to see if we could form Metal and its still in my fireplace nearly 40 years later! Thanks
I looked at it again and I'm still impressed.
Thank you!
Impressive!👍🏼
Kevin, love watching your skills in action.
Thanks for watching and posting !
So impressed with the project. Combining the different mediums of steel and glass in such macro dimensions blows me away . Great learning curve to witness it. Thank you.
Nice old school blacksmithing Kevin. You really managed to get the shape of that perfect and with no warpage. That's going to be a cool looking sculpture when done!
Another amazing masterpiece Kev! Thanks for sharing with all of us.
Thank you for watching and posting Kevin! Always great to hear from you.
Good job on your blacksmithing Kevin. Tooling is very important. Thank you
Thanks, it was a fun part of this piece but sure am glad it's done. Way too hot for that type of fun!
Good job Kevin.. Always interesting to see what you're working on.
Outstanding instruction. i learn so much from you every video.
Thank you!
That is pretty great, Kevin - THANKS!
You are welcome! Thanks for stopping by and watching.
Nice video there Kevin you sure do make it look really easy.
Thanks, I had a lot of practice before we shot that video!
Oh yeah. Better in cooler weather.
Brilliant!
Thanks for watching and posting.
Looks like it going to be a really fine piece and this was a real fine vid.
Thanks for watching and don't forget to give me a like please!
Nice work kevin
very nice, i have a setup 4'x4' table for welding and bending made from perforated sheet steel. its 1/4 in holes on 1/2 spacing 1/8 thick, i have 2 sheets separated by 1/2 in spacers to give more stability to the pins.
Nice design, Kevin.
Awesome work man. You're inspiring me!
I appreciate that!
Amazing work thanks!
great video
Cool stuff!! Keep em coming 👊👍👍
Thanks for watching!
Thanks, KEVIN - You are the best!
One thing though, sure wish I could put a compound curve in 16 guage (Yipes!) sheet steel. I neet to make a large bird body, about 3 feet from beak to tail and 16 guage is required. It's a little past the capability of my english wheel, which is fantastic on anything thinner. Maybe a "dishing stump" and a weed torch?? Nobody I can find is showing such a crazy thing on YT.
Seriously, any ideas to share? Thanks for being one of my long time YT mentors.
Get or make a sandbag and get a plastic hammer. www.eastwood.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=sandbag
Should work for ya!
@@KevincaronSculpture THANKS but Really?!
Maybe (ummm...definitely) I overthought the idea of doing that. I DO have a nice leather bag AND a monster 48oz polyurethane Trusty Cook bossing mallet, and it never occured to me to try those. Dumb, right? I will try that first thing tomorrow, Sir. You are the Man!
WOW - I HOPE YOU'E GETTIN PAID GOOD - THATS SOME SERIOUS WORK AND REPETITIVE - WOULD NOT WANT TO MAKE 50+ OF THOSE
Was a fun piece to create but not something I would like to do in the summer ! Thank you for watching and posting.
This is a winter project!
OH yeah!!!!!
Well, I appreciate that. Something about a forge, and Phoenix just go together. Just FMI, about how much gas does that little forge use per hour or something? I imagine it's a load more economical than using a flame. Also, just between us large muscled guys - I've always wanted to beat my work.
I can get about 5 full days out of a 100lb bottle with this forge. The coal forge that is outside burns through about 50 lbs a day. Thanks for watching!
56 custom glass pours! Guess it isn't a spec piece. Hope you show a picture of the finish piece, should be remarkable! Watch those infrared rays please.
Definitely a commission! But the glass was not really that expensive. Might have to do a few more steel and glass pieces. Thanks for watching.
Nice !!!!
Let me see: only 57 more to go... Thanks, guys!
Oh no way. I Live in Arizona too!
In phoenix near the airport.
Kevin I love all your videos. I've always wanted to start a business up like that but my problem is maybe you could do a video on how to charge somebody something like that I wouldn't know what to charge a customer to build something like that. I can already see a new video in the works thanks for your time
Take your material cost + expenses + the hours you worked (with the hourly rate you want to earn) = item price tag.
Nice work homey !
Were any peyote buttons involved in the design process ?
You know me too well!
Kevin, thought I'd watch the whole video before commenting. Would it have been easier to heat the bar with oxy propane as you go rather than keep putting it in the furnace?
Nope, would have been much harder. Cost more to run the rosebud for that length of time and a lot more work keeping it hot and moving along the mold. Remember that the mold, 1 inch plate and the 1 inch table top are all sucking the heat as fast as you put it on there.
Aloha Kevin, another great video. I wonder what it looked like when placed down with light on it at night.
Have to try that some day.
I guess I can buy a 1" plate to work on and weld up a jig and bend the bars for my 3 point lift
Whatever it takes to get the job done! Thanks for watching and posting.
Couldn't you get an oxy/ace torch and heat it up and bend it as you go?
Tried it with a rose bud but it takes too long to get hot. Forge does it in half the time.
Isn't propane slightly higher btu's than acetylene
Not sure to tell the truth.
Kevin ,how much gap do you have around the glass as it fits inside the former leaf,,and how are you holding the glass in ?
1/8 inch gap and silicon to hold it in.
If he told you he'd have to..........
Douglas Alan lol if he told me ,he'd spare me the trip of looking for myself next time up in Phoenix 😉
Kevin Caron, Artist ahhhhh ,,I was thinking you were going to tig in some small L brackets and sandwich it.😊
Rtv is awesome!
Look like rain drops.
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Kevin, the safety peeps Will be after you,
But at least you ain't afraid of hot hard iron.
Oh well, won't be the first time!
It's supposed to.
Just Tig fill it.
Hi Kevin - Hitting a hammer that is case hardened with another case hardened hammer scares me
I hear ya!
Uramurkin Call 911 !
you could have used thinner material, easier on yourself?
But would not have looked "right" on the finished piece. I was ready to cut them out of a sheet of 1 inch plate by the time I got the last one done! But the cost was way out of line.
Nicely done but please stop abusing the adjustable wrench's movable jaw- turn it around. Thanks.
Yeah, but the angle is better this way. Besides it's a beater wrench. Just for this type of work. Think I spent a whole $10 on it at a yard sale.
Tests have been done both ways on adjustable spanners ,,
Old wives tale .
Even with a very long cheater they Hang in a very long time