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Blacksmithing - Forging a nail
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- Опубликовано: 30 май 2014
- Quick and simple blacksmithing demo.
In this video I show how you can forge a nail using a nail header.
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I have been a carpenter and cabinet maker for over 50 years, what a treat to see a nail forged. All these years I have taken nails for granted, buy a couple pounds of them, waste a few from misplaced blows of the hammer, tear something down to remodel and throw a few out with the trash, it didn't seem to matter. I recently pulled a few shelf supports out of an antique cabinet from my father's old radio shop and found them attached with hand wrought nails, I saved them knowing that they had value. Thank you for reminding me to find those nails and attach them to a backing and frame them for display in my shop.
Great!
No wonder they used to burn the cabin down to save the nails. Great video.
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And they had to make the iron!
Actually a myth
oh
My great great great grandmother was a nail maker from the age of twelve until she was in her forties. I wonder how many nails she made in her lifetime? Probably a million or so.
Wow! That's impressive!
Avg was 60 an hour.
120k a year, x 30 ish yrs, 3.6M ish... 40 hrs a week.
@@stevesyncox9893 She was probably working 70+ hours a week. Nail making was a brutally tough business in the industrial revolution.
Thank you for spending so much time to share your craft! The smithing is awesome enough, but putting it together so well on camera - amazing. I loved watching the work that went into laying down the new power hammer, too. The way you made the replaceable bolts was brilliant. If everyone built things with an eye toward their future maintenance, maybe we wouldn't live in such a throwaway culture.
Lesardah Thank you!
Thanks for making this video five and half years ago. I just found it and love it. I'm a metal detectorist and I find old square nails and have always wondered what goes into making them. Thanks again.
Cool!
Same. I'm hunting an area now that must have been a blacksmith shop during the Civil War.
One of the best finished nails I've seen, lots of skill... thanks for posting!
Really wish I learned this in high school. Thanks for the vid bro
MN-14 never too late to start.
MN-14 Look around for local blacksmith's or local organizations that help promote blacksmithing. They love to show others how to do these things and keep it going.
You still can never to late for a new skill..
Wish I'd watched this years ago--I didn't know about bending the stock at the cut to keep the point out of the fire while heating the head. It's these little tricks which make the technique work well! Thanks!
You made that seem so easy. One of the best examples I've see.
Nailed it! Love the super light tool.
I like your way of drawing out the nail on the edge of the anvil. Very neat and controlled.
Very nice work. From the apparent ease with which you did this, it appears that in days of old, this would have been the job of the apprentices.
Your channel is definitely one of my favorites. I’m learning blacksmithing from my dad and just did my first ever project which was, of course, nails. Took 20 heats but didn’t turn out too bad! I’m documenting the learning process on my channel. Now off to forge lot’s more nails and continue to improve!
Cool, thanks and good luck!
I've just watched your channel, Clara! Thanks for sharing your learning process.... your father has serious skills, he made that nail looks so easy, and the final result is outstanding!
all the work, all the adjetives one puts into his product makes the house a work of art
the take a few moments to make, but I love the "old fashioned" look!
this is such a nice video! i love how clear it shows every step, and how much craftmanship goes into it! this video was used in one of my archaeology classes to show us the process of how nails are made, and it made me so interested in blacksmithing! thank you for making this video and sharing it! it is very useful for us to analyse the nail we are given to describe including production process traces :)
Cool! Thank you Nina!
That was a simple demonstration. Not everything has to be extravagant with lots of steps and detail. Thank you.
Thanks
Great video, thanks. Over the last few years doing up our old house I've seen a lot of hand forged nails. Nearly all the one's I've been dealing with have been headless though as they were used for floorboards. I imagine making a few nails is quite enjoyable but making them day in day out must have been a hard life.
CNCtrl Thanks! Yes, everything was hard work back then. It's staggering when you realize how much work was put into everything...
Brilliant video once again. Thank you Torb. Your nail header is a piece of art on its own. Looking forward to your next one!!
Now that's a nail!! I can watch this all day.
Always a treat to watch. You nailed it!.......... um....... I'll just go now.....
Great video , best one I've seen on nails yet ! Thanks
Nailed it ;)
You, Sir,
are the one, who
in fact,
nail'd it
That's cool, I was wondering how you were going to make the head. That's a nice little jig.
Thank you! I'm reading a series of books where this one character is a blacksmith, and I didn't quite understand part of the description of how she made the nail. Once I actually saw you using the nail header, everything made sense.
Ok, great!
1:57 Swear to God I only hear jingle bell, when iron been hit.
one down 99999 left to go
with my last name bein Naylor (derived from ‘Nailer’, aka a nail smith) i found this video to be interesting in that it’s p much like what my fam of a long long time ago would be doing :^) not a job to be underestimated or brushed off! who made the nails that have kept historic buildings pieced together for all these years? nailsmiths!
I'd always heard the reason early building methods relied on pegs/dowels instead of nails was due to the expense of nails. I never really thought about what went into making nails in pre-mechanized production, but now I completely understand the expense. That's quite a bit of work for a single nail. That was a good video and a nice product you forged as well.
Indeed. Thank you.
Torbjorn I already told you but would like to emphasize it again, impressive talent, excellent quality hand work!
;) Thanks!
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nicely done. that is a nice tool for forging the head.
Very clever movements!, Its a pleasure watch how expert hands build them.
now Imagine a medevil blacksmith having to make a city's worth of nails. (hundreds per house)
Precious things :)
dadragonfire outdoors I recall watching a TV show and the smith was making nails. he couldn't be as efficient as he wanted to be since he only had the one hardy hole. but I think he said he would be expected to make some astronomical number like 1 every minute. is that even close?
It depends on the size of the nail of course but I have heard numbers of up to 100 nails / hour, by hand, back in the days...
One other thing I heard as you moved from frontier home to frontier home you burned down the old house to reclaim the nails.
Cliff Hartle Yes, I have heard the same thing, but I think that's a myth to some extent at least.
Very nice demo.Thanks for showing the way to make nails.
Thanks
Как всегда прекрасное видео,с 3 минуты-романтическая изюминка.
You have the most blacksmithy name I've ever seen.
:)
Beautiful and very clear video! I tried is myself for the first time last Monday, it took me 5 hours to forge 18 nails......... :-)
Ernst Muskens Thanks! Good work and good experience. I bet the last ones went pretty smooth compared to the first...
Torbjörn Åhman Yes indeed. And the biggest problems were to get the correct thickness of the nail and keeping the head of the nail in the 'middle' of the rest of the nail.
Ernst Muskens Yep centering the head is not easy, but on the other hand it doesn't matter much if it's a bit off. It's hand made after all.
Wow. I know I'm a few years late to watching this video, but I love your channel, and that nail and header turned out really nice!
Thank you! Never too late :)
that was fun to see . no bitching .no talking abut little
Timmy's long day no wife rant in the back drop. and just the tools and things we needed to see Respect Brother. we could hang out for a week end buy the fire with hammer's and beer.
:) Thanks!
Love your videos
I have only just recently subscribed to your channel and am slowly working my way through your videos. Aside from the fact that you make a very solid and attractive nail, (among other things) I noticed that while forging the nail you work with the anvil in the opposite orientation than I do, and which I have been led to believe is the norm. Your radius edge is on the near side while I have always forged with the horn left and the radius on the far side. I can, however, very clearly see the advantage, at least with nail making, of having the radius on the near side and drawing out on the near side, as that makes forming that shoulder pretty easy. That shoulder appears to be what makes it possible to forge that nice thick and symmetrical head.
Although I already said it on the fireplace tongs comments, let me reiterate how great I think your videos are. They are probably the best instructional videos on youtube, at least for someone like myself who already has some experience under his belt. I have been banging away, mostly on my own, for the better part of 23 years, though because I do not have very extensive formal training, I have probably advanced my skill set much less than one might expect during that time. Your videos are great for me because I already have the skills to execute this stuff, I just need to see the technique.
Scott Rich Thank you! The orientation of the anvil is mostly a personal thing. I work both ways if needed. With the horn to the right like this has one advantage and that is you can leave a hardy-tool in place when you work on something on the face without risk hurting your hand on it (if you're right handed). You should have radiused edges both on near and far. I had to grind down some damage to my edges so I have different radii at some odd places, but it works ok.
I'm mostly self taught myself - I think the key is to challenge yourself with new projects and not to be afraid to fail. Failure is the best learning experience :) Keep banging!
Torbjörn Åhman I was teaching a beginner's blacksmithing class this morning and before my student arrived, prompted by your videos, I put a radius on the near side of my anvil as well. I am going to start working on your near side drawing out technique in the next few weeks.
In the last year or so I have started making bottle openers for craft beer drinkers here in the U.S. These are people who may spend as much as $20.00 U.S. on a single bottle of beer so $60.00 pr $70.00 bottle openers are not out of the question for them. I used the proceeds from a couple of beer festivals I sold at to purchase a brand new anvil, so I am fortunate to get to put radius's where ever I want them, rather than having to work around the damage done by previous owners. After having worked for the last 15 or so years on a 100 year old Peter Wright anvil, it is really a treat to be able to work on something with a flat face and good edges. Your anvil is in very good shape compared to my Peter Wright.
Scott Rich OK, nice!
That is a nice nail header design!
Excellent Video , That is how a Blacksmith , makes a Nail !
Thank you for this Video !
Take Care and Keep Hammering !
Thanks Larry!
My 7th and 8th gen great grandfathers were both Meister Nagelschmied. ⚒️
Cool!
I've seen a lot of your videos, but this is my favorite. :)
:) Thanks
Very precise and to the point. I shall be at this soon!!
Thank you
Bags from Australia
Saludos desde Uruguay👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
that was cool I have never seen a nail header
Great demo, thank you.
I like this video . Some thing new to learn .
Thanks for teaching me.
i was honestly kinda disappointed when you didn't nail some wood at the end of the vid
:)
"working as hard as a nailer" and "Hard as nails" also comes from this hard process of pounding nails.
Awesome work!
Really good nail...
Thanks for this interesting and informative video.
Nice job
beautiful!
Beautiful work!
I love this ,thank you so much.
Thank you for this demo!
Great Demo thanks
Tyx I wanted to know how to forge
Hello from Italy, im your very fan , your work is very fantastic. Sorry for my language .
Thank you!
I work at at an old military fort historic site (1868-1894). We recently had winds take part of the roof off of one of our old historic buildings, built in 1892. From looking through the wreckage, I noticed all of the old original nails laying around everywhere. None of them had the round head, like yours. Could this have been because they just didn’t do that last step that you showed?
All of the square cut nails I’ve seen had rectangular heads on them.
Picking them up today, it made me curious of the process that goes into making these nails. I thank you for this lesson. I am subscribing and I plan on watching more of your content as well. Take care and keep up the good work.
Interesting. To me it sounds like early machine made nails! I think the actual term "cut nails" refer to just that.
Torbjörn Åhman they look exactly the same as what you have here, just with square head
You could be right and they are just machines nails
I just referred to then as square cut regardless of if they are made this method or other lol.
If the roof dated from 1892 then the nails were certainly cut-nails in the correct sense, i.e. nails that had been cut from sheet-stock (not bar or rod) by a mechanical shear, striking at an angle across the width of the sheet. This would give a nail with a rectangular section. If you have an example in good condition, feel the edges and along two of them will be a slight burr, from the stroke of the shear. Roofing nails would have a rectangular dog-leg head. For other uses different head-shapes were struck or die-formed.
Thank you
Super Arbeit.....aber jetzt kann man sich vorstellen welch ein Aufwand es war im Mittelalter Nägel her zu stellen und eswegen nur sehr wenige verwendet wurden.....vielleicht gibt das einigen Leuten zu denken die mit Nägeln nur so um sich werfen, wenn ihr sie selbst machen müsstet !!
Amazing
im satisfied of the noise
Always wondered how they were made.
What hood and exhaust are you using? It looks like it works extremely well! I’m also curious about how you made the nail head tool. What size is the square, and how did you make it? Thanks for such a great video!
The header is here - ruclips.net/video/Qpy2by9if8A/видео.html
That's crazy, but still love finding those nails
Id love to see someone build a home from scratch, forging every nail.
That would be an interesting video.
fine job sir!
Nice!
Wish I had a hundred. Awesome for use and display
That is awesome!
beautiful
Очень хороший учитель. Всегда его ролики смотрю.
А он показывал как у него вытяжка горна устроена?
Jesus thats alot of work. Thank God for automation lol
Oh, is that what you were making. Thanks
Nice job !!
That's a pretty big nail. Small is often harder
What if I don't have the head tool? Could I use the straight face tongs to hold the nail and hammer the head there in the pritchel hole?
Don't think that will work so good... make a simple tool, just drill a hole in a plate! It doesn't even need to be square, but it's pretty easy to drift a round hole square with a squared tapered bar.
Interesting....wondering if it can be done for bronze rather then iron.
I guess so, but bronze is mostly forged cold and regularly annealed. Not sure hot to go about it
nice !! dude you can make a nice box and put like 20-30 forged nails in there stacked nicely . people would buy them for sure ! people love forged anything .. these nails can go for a dollar each easily ! hand made anything gos for much more . yes people will say why don't you just go buy 100 for like 5 bucks . but the people that will mostly be buying thee nails would be fans of forged things . especially renaissance fans . plus these nails are much better then an ordinary nail. if you want to build something with an authentic look to it like from the renaissance times then you want these nails ..
Thanks!!
Very cool
Great
Ibland behövs fortfarande handsmidda naglar: för restaurering.
Jag såg en video av ett fartyg som restaurerades, tror jag från Norge! De använde handgjorda spikar och skruvar!
Sometimes hand-forged nails are still needed: for restoration.
I saw a video of a ship being restored, I think from Norway! They used handmade nails and screws!
Manchmal werden handgeschmiedete Nägel noch gebraucht: für die Restauration.
Ich habe ein Video von der Restauration eines Schiffes gesehen, ich glaube aus Norwegen! Die haben handgefertigte Nägel und Schrauben benutzt!
very nice
Inspiring
I could see ancient blacksmiths do this in a few movements, rather than 1 at a time they do like 5
nice
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but what fuel are you using?
Here I'm using coal!
Makes a person thankful that it is so easy to be able to go to the hardware store and just pick up a box of nails when needed. Don't get me wrong I love this and think it is great but sure would be a pain if you had to make or have made all the nails you needed. :) I also have to say I checked out your web page and you have some very nice pieces there, I really like your work.
+woodturningjohn Thanks! Yes, it put things in perspective.
That's why they used to burn down houses and barns to reuse the nails!
doggonemess So they say...
Traditionally what thicknesses of nails were produced? This one seems very thick. But could hold larger pieces of wood
I would say whatever was needed! In general the iron used for nails back then does not compare to modern steel in regards to strength so they needed to be a bit thicker.
Cool.
that was cool!