What brought me to this series of videos was looking at my collection of auger bit & saying to myself "these bits must be the work of a Smith, now how did he do that?". Thanks for the demo!
Awsome! Love your channel. So many people are about knives and weapons. I love how your channel is more about making tools and traditional blacksmith work.
Great video, this project (as many others on your channel) really shows the importance of knowing how to move the metal and anticipate its moves. It's really all about the process, the steps Thank you
I really appreciate this and your other forging videos. Finally, someone making simple tools, and showing all the steps and considerations. So far in just three videos of yours, I've seen metal scraping, file making, and screw cutting. It was difficult to find demonstrations, let alone instructions, for any of these a few years ago. So thank you! Also, it's particularly wonderful that you got Steve Carell to narrate your videos. :D
It creates stresses within the metal that cannot be corrected by the heat treating process. Too much stress and the steel will crack or warp when you try to harden the tool. These cracks may be visible or they may be just below the surface and cause the tool to fail during use.
I had to look that up. lol From the pictures I could find on google the spurs do seam to be set up the same way. I used this design mainly because having the spurs facing down would get in the way of filling the lead screw
What brought me to this series of videos was looking at my collection of auger bit & saying to myself "these bits must be the work of a Smith, now how did he do that?".
Thanks for the demo!
Awsome! Love your channel. So many people are about knives and weapons. I love how your channel is more about making tools and traditional blacksmith work.
Great video, this project (as many others on your channel) really shows the importance of knowing how to move the metal and anticipate its moves. It's really all about the process, the steps
Thank you
Wonderful approach
I really appreciate this and your other forging videos. Finally, someone making simple tools, and showing all the steps and considerations. So far in just three videos of yours, I've seen metal scraping, file making, and screw cutting. It was difficult to find demonstrations, let alone instructions, for any of these a few years ago. So thank you! Also, it's particularly wonderful that you got Steve Carell to narrate your videos. :D
Another great video!
Thank You for your patience and energy to continue upload such great and informative content!
GREAT SKILL SET !!! THANKS FOR SHARING
I like your voice and how you explain.
Why can't you forge spring steels at lower temps?
It creates stresses within the metal that cannot be corrected by the heat treating process. Too much stress and the steel will crack or warp when you try to harden the tool. These cracks may be visible or they may be just below the surface and cause the tool to fail during use.
Would this bit profile of the cutters correspond to a Scotch pattern auger?
I had to look that up. lol From the pictures I could find on google the spurs do seam to be set up the same way. I used this design mainly because having the spurs facing down would get in the way of filling the lead screw
Do you file a screw on the end, or does it work like it is in the end of the video?
next video I'll be using the file I made in the first video to cut the lead screw as well as heat treating the auger bit.