Blacksmithing - First Try Forging A Steel Frying Pan
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- This is my first attempt on forging a frying pan... I want to make these so I will revisit these... Wasn't too schnabby but not good enough... I will be back!!!
To see it done right check out these two links...
• How to Make a Frying P...
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Great project, don't be disappointed cause it's not perfect, it's yours made by your own hands, there's nothing better. I've made replacement sheet metal and structural parts for cars and trucks forever and it takes years(and patience, lots of hammers and handmade tools) to learn to make compound curves correctly, you have to learn what the metal will do with each hammer blow and how to correct the side effects. It's a great skill to learn. Keep the videos coming and thanks for sharing. Post a list of craft fairs you'll be attending, I'm sure your fans will come.
really cool watching something created from just a flat slab of metal into a useful item
"There's a mini bike out there, sorry about the noise.." *Bam!*Bam!*Bam!*Clang!*Clang!*Clang!*
Love it.
Knowing nothing about forging but just watching the process is rewarding enough, for me as it gets me thinking,
Personally I think Chandler is veary competent at what he dose but teaching newbie forgers is simple if you seem to make mistakes, because in the begining we all do and all will ,by showing the wrong process your actually showing it right as for those of us who are willing to learn will also think logically for ourselfs,therefore mastering ones hobbie or life skill.
And for those out there watching the easy version of this particular skill and think that thay are a master ,after a couple of succseful projects, your sadly dilusionaly mistaken,wach,look,listen,and learn think logically and take good and bad critasisam as a possative ,as this is the first step to learning a life lesson,take the rough with the smooth, don't be big headed knuckle down get on with it ,keep learning and give thanks to those like Chandler for teaching us a wonderfull skill🔨
Keeping it real. Love it, love the pan. Thanks for letting us tag along on the learning experience.
Loved it, the method is so simple any dummy with a tree stump, a piece of flat plate and a few hammers could have a real go at it. I will be one of those dummies!
Chandler may not be the best blacksmith out there, but he sure is one of the best blacksmithing teachers by having the courage to show his failures.
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Agreed!
thanks for the advice... ill start doing that :D suport the old school blacksmithing!
this is going to get him in trouble it to manny people do that
+dustin schaefer Why? That's the point of advertisement: to watch it and click on it. I'm recomending that, because that's what will give the maximum amount of money from the ads.
He could get in trouble because the point of advertisement isn't to get a click, it's to get you to engage. You're telling people to make the system think they're engaging when they aren't, and that's just as bad as watching the videos with ad-block turned on.
Thank you for this video! I'm slowly getting all the tools I need to start blacksmithing, I estimate by summer this 2022. Not easy getting everything due to my other projects taking place at the same time.
Will be using your video as reference on making a pan. Greetings from the tiny islands of Palau!
Another nice one Chandler. I am not so sure that young folks these days can appreciate the things that our Great Grand and Grand parents used. If one takes care of hand made items as this, they can be passed down for many generations. It is kind of sad because the youngins these days have grown up in a throw away World and have never experienced anything different. My favorite Bush Coffee pot is still a Blue Enamel Perk pot. Grandma had an old one on top of the warming rack on the wood stove. All Pork grease, (Bacon of course), would go into this, unfiltered and be poured into a pan like yours for cooking. In fact, for those who couldn't afford Dairy products, like butter, Bacon Grease was used instead on top of your toast. Waste not, Want not, right.
"My neighbor has a mini-bike, sorry about the noise," he said, while raining dozens of blows upon the hot steel.
I thought he said land lord
He did, he said it was his neighbor, then said he couldn't really say anything to him since he was also the landlord.
"Can you forge a mini-bike?"
to terry ashton, im 19 and i think this is incredible. i love working with wood and metal as its not only efficient and creative, but also useful and gives a sensr of accomplishment like none other when you successfully build something you can use in everyday life
I love your willingness to try new things and new techniques!😀
The thing i love about your shows is that your never afraid to take on any challenge. If it can be made from metal you seem willing to give it a go. It is very inspiring and i like learning as you learn. I have learned as much if not more from your videos than i have from my courses i have taken. As always i look forward to your next video.
Hey Chandler, what you are trying to accomplish on the side of the pan is called tuck shrinking. Check on some videos on tuck shrinking. You can forge and make different sets of tucking forks to fit your needs. Depending on how deep or shallow you'd want your shrink. You could use tucking forks in your vise, heat your stock up, and tuck shrink the sides of your pans. Tucking forks are just basically tapered rods welded together. Or you can use a stump like you were trying to use to get a tuck and shrink it. Similar to the one video you linked where the one gentleman was making tucks and hammering them out. I like to start at the edge of the tuck. Opposite of what the other gentleman's technique. I trap the tuck in the center of tuck to trap it. Then I hit on either side upsetting the metal to make it thicker giving you a shrink. So you'd hit in the center of the tuck 1, on one side of the tuck 2, and the other side 3rd hit. A 3 hit pattern up the tuck. After you get the hang of it tuck shrinking goes pretty quick. Hope this helps.
I love the fact you apologize for the mini bike noise as you bear a frying pan with a hammer.
AWESOME!!! Two videos in as many days!!!! I am happy happy happy thanks Chandler!!!
I'm just learning to use this machine,and I am sure glade to be here watching this amazing art form.
mate, I just found your videos and they're brilliant. SUBBED
All of your videos are fantastic, candid learning experiences. Thank you for sharing them!
I wish I could tell you how my great uncle used to make frying pans for his technique would be of use to you. One of which we still have, it was made about 100 years ago of iron, the thickness of the finished walls of the skillet are 1/4in thick. The handle was forged welded to the piece and the pan was forged on a anvil possibly with a special hardy, the inside was then ground smooth. The finished piece weighed approximately 5lbs. He became a smith about a decade after the Civil War, about the late 1870's, and retired active smiting about 40 years later I guess around 1919. It has been said that he could carry a #25 (that is 250lb) anvil with one hand by the horn.
I love that Chandler is smacking on one piece of metal plate sat on another, making so much noise that he has to wear ear defenders, and apologises for the noise the landlord is making on a motorbike! :-)
I love watching your videos late at night. you're great at what you do man, do what you love and you'll live happy. thanks for the videos!
Pounding like hell on that pan and then saying about the mini bike "I apologise for that noise"...
Great work btw, always enjoy watching your videos.
Great video. My grandfather was a blacksmith. Unfortunately I did not get to see his craft, I was too young back then. You got a new subscriber. Greetings from Sweden.
Sorry about the noise says the guy who is hitting on a big frying pan with a hammer :)
The way you talk to yourself, or maybe to the metal, when you're really focused reminds me of my late uncle who'd hand make wooden boats. Both of you carry yourselves similarly, though I can't quite place my finger on how.
Nice pan, Chandler. The video by Rebleblacksmith is actually mine. Jymm Hoffman is a friend of mine from up around Pittsburgh, PA. He was demoing at our Hammer-in in Westminster, MD.. The swage he was using was actually the bottom of an oxygen tank. He also does his fireplace shovels the same way.
I would be proud to have that on my camping gear. I think it's awesome.
One of my favorite channels. Always looking forward to new videos from you. Awesome stuff.
That turned out better than I thought it would. Awesome video, excited for the next one!
Very impressive video. You know your way around your forge. Your pan came out great for the first attempt. Thanks for your time.
HA! i love your little bit of insight at the end. "need a pan, make a pan. need a tool, make a tool. need a... girl friend, awwww boohoo."
Man, I wish you still made videos... miss you and the videos.. hope your still on this earth....
The only video I could find!! Thank you very much, sir!
I'd buy that pan, maybe not for 300 bucks, but i'd pay say 50 bucks for that one. Love your videos as always. Keep going like you do, we all learn along side you. Love from Norway
Beautiful! Very rustic. Great piece of functional art.
Next episode: Chandler forges a girlfriend
that would be great!
lol
An iron maiden?
Monica
Benjamin Meijer Maybe he should watch the movie "Weird Science" ane think of it as a tutorial. :P
Awesome looking Pan, as you were working it I was thinking " WOK " - and of course, most pans are cast from Iron, which is much easier than having to forge it. Now we can see why.
Well done! A shallow pan like that would be handy for cooking crêpes or pancakes. Mmm!, lemon juice and sugar; or chocolate spread; or maple syrup. Drooooool!
Hey Chandler I think your proof of concept, on the frying pan was good. But just a couple of notes, on somethings that I think will help you. These are some tips that I learned, back in the early 1990's from the man I worked as an apprentice for who did a lot of Medieval style work. Yes even including pots and pan's, as well as helmets. If you invest in a tool for your anvil, that looks like a round steel ball with a peg to slip into your anvil. That will give you greater control when it comes to forming the bowl, especially with making a deeper bowl. Now the other recommendation I will make, is using copper instead of steel for your first few attempts. This is because copper will be easier to fix any mistakes you make, as well as will allow you to make the pan with more ease. This is also good, because it was common for blacksmiths back in the medieval days to use copper, to make frying pans and pots as well as sauce pans. The last tip I will suggest is instead of using that big mallet, to form the bowl use a ball-pane hammer. That will also help make the bowl deeper before flattening it.
Cool project Chandler. I love these experimental videos, it's like learn along with Chandler!
Nice job for a first timer. Looks great goes well with you spatula and fork.
This is badass!!! And even more impressive for a first attempt! I WOULD OWN THAT PAN!!!
Chandler I thumbs up the video before I even watch it because you always make great content!
To be honest I would probably want to own pan like this because it's useful and badass kitchen tool :D
That is a nice looking pan. I would buy that pan. My wife cooks on nothing but cast iron and I love the stuff. Next time try a saucepan. I would buy the hell out of some nice 2 and 4 quart saucepans. Great video Chandler!
that's a pan and a 100% success... but I do love how humble you are but wtf man that is awesome...
Panel beater shot bag or sand bag. Make the shape without the heat and keep the bottom flat. The shrinker stump is cool but wont form to the shape like shot or sand. Came out great! Nice job! A Wok would be cool to make as well.
That's pretty impressive Chandler, the uneven edge gives it character and shows it's not just any old machine stamped commercially produced bit of iron - with that in mind, I wouldn't worry too much trying to make them perfect.
The way it started out, I've seen people use a ball on a spike as an anvil and hammer on that, as one would planish brass - not sure if steel would react the same way since brass is hammered when annealed and cold. But then, you know this so I'll shut up :)
Excellent video and a great idea, hope it makes you a bundle :)
This first attempt is actually a very good method for a shallow wok. That may be an idea for you to add to your kitchen/cookware line.
Revisiting this one. Yea too much fun. Chandler hammers it out !
Decades ago, a collegue of mine went on a smithing course, and was given a Wok (Chinese frying pan) to make. That was actually rolled into shape, rather than beaten into submission. Might be worth trying as an alternative method.
it's great to see you expand ur stock chandler keep up the great work
Chandler, I watch a guy named David Waelder on RUclips and he does occasional copper work and he made a similar dished stump for bowl forming. His dish was sculpted different and he "heat treated" the wood to harden it. He also used a ball peen hammer to make a real nice curve. He is really cool
Another good video, and a good idea...as suggested by many others, a Wok would be a good addition to your new line of products...
Nice 2 days to 2 videos... Once again man you made my day loving the content and keep it up!
A little 6-inch pan is surprisingly useful. (I had one, a long time ago, and I wish it hadn't gone missing.) And, as you point out, it would be a lot easier to heat a smaller disk.
Nice work as always . Keep the videos coming sir.
That pan is pretty slick man. Nice job on the pan and the video!
+Chandler Dickinson I'm sure you already know this, but most "high-end" pots/pans (and the copies) are 10 gauge bottoms with 18 gauge sides. And then they also can do funky sandwiching on the base with different steels for better heat dissipation, etc.
If you just had a form you could bang out a 10 gauge base and simply thin it to 18 for the sides, that would probably work really nicely for heat retention vs weight.
Anyhoo, cool idea, Chandler!
Nice pan...i like it....that would make some awesome fajitas...
for plate work it may be good to use the propane burner and set it up over some brick
Chandler
Got an idea
we can call it spaghetti damascus
imagine shavings from a drill or lathe heat and pack into a canister type damascus heat it and force the materials down into the canister. The whole time bathing it in Flux continue with adding materials until you get your desired amount. Then remove the materials from said canister or form and forge weld it proper.Never seen it done but it may give an amazing patern.
Sorry for being a little of topic but I couldn't help myself by the way does the pan cook?would like a fallow up on it .
lol dude I am already on this one... hold tight
the previous re spaghetti... ,as for the pan haven't cooked on it yet
Can't wait to see that :) Just found this awesome guys channel, subscribed :)
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That would be really dope, but questionable steel quality (unless, you only use shavings from same steels, or steel of known compositions). Also, for canister welding, the canister needs to be shut tight, so as to avoid oxidation, in which flux would help, but not enough.Canister forging is scary tho, because you have an enclosed can, you don't really know whats going on inside, and if you are not careful, you've got a bomb in your hands
always enjoy your videos, can be long at times but I understand you want your viewers to learn or understand why you do things certain ways to achieve the outcome you wish to get by using your set methods
Brilliant , I love watching your vids
Great job Chandler!! love how you are not afraid to try new challenges.
Pretty cool man I enjoyed watching you make a frying pan lol
The idea is to raise the sides. The level of dishing was fine, just hold the pan at a steeper angle so that you're working the sides down towards the middle. This forces the sides to thicken. If done fast, it will wrinkle but if done hot, the sides will thicken up nicely. The more passes you make the steeper you can make the sides.
A possible solution to getting the upper part of the pan to 'cooperate' , would be to shrink the outermost part of the rim . . .* maybe up to an inch . . . that would contract enough metal to pull it into smaller diameter at the rim. Heat up an area about the size of a quarter at a time, then give it a quench - it will shrink ! Good luck , & stay cool when you can ! !
I've been watching you since around 23k subs, man you've gone a long way, keep up the good work my friend.
I bet your crazy neighbor really like you!
nice job. I found the best oil to season with is flax seed oil. lots of info on it if you Google it. It makes the pan dark black after 3 or 4 applications. then it is almost like a non stick pan. keep the videos coming.
Hey man your videos are awesome. Keep them coming!
Big fan! I've watched most of your smithing videos, been following for over a year. I've recently decided to set up a work area at my parents farm. I looked through all your videos and didn't see this covered, and I apologise if you've covered this. But I was wondering if you have thought about maybe showing us your shop? Explaining what you find works well for you, what you'd like to change, and maybe some general set up tips. EI what type of lighting you prefer to work in; sunlight, led's, hid's, etc... Anyways, thanks for readying, keep up the excellent work, and you've convinced me to try to pick up the trade of my ancestors (I'm a Schmidt, German for Smith)!
Hi chandler the pinch and upset is called tuck shrinking it a technique used by panel beaters and coach builders to achieve curves and shape in flat sheet metal..
To make that circle in the beginning you could also tie a string to a marker and hold the other end of the string in the middle and go around with the marker. Will give you a perfect circle the radius of the string length.
Loved this project, saw on facebook you got some bacon and eggs. Should give us a short video of how it actually cooks. I know i would be interested to see it.
That would make a great camping pan!!! Make a set for camping and price I would be interested in a set.
Please make more pans! Loved this video
You should take a round piece of metal, something like the metal ring you had would work, secure it to a stand and take your metal for the frying pan and heat it up and just bend or hammer the edges over the edge of the metal ring
Awesome! interested in seeing more of these made. Great job!
Looks like a pan I'd happily use on a camp fire.
I just watched my first video of yours.....pretty cool. You have a new subscriber.
Nicely done on your first try at a frying pan! It looks like a pan you'd see in an old chuck wagon, which I think is pretty neat.
If you get more into this, you should try cold forming. Anneal the steel, and then either buy or make a shot bag or sand bag. A couple layers of burlap sack filled with steel shot or sand will do nicely for dishing. Also: Punch holes and rivet the handle on. It adds character, and makes a bond that's strong as just about anything. At least two rivets side by side, or as many as four to hold on that handle, and once those rivets are peened down, that handle won't move for the life of the pan.
You might want to look for information on raising a bowl as the process to start with is very similar to what you were doing with the stump.
Looking forward to the next video,
--Jason
09:00 Hell of a wok!
11:00 Hey, that looks like a gold pan!
22:15 Even he says it looks like a gold pan!
23:00 I am surprised he didn't say "angle of the dangle."
24:00 It's for breakfast, man! Make some eggs and pancakes!
Just pans or pots too?
i think its an awesome pan.. great vid, thanks for sharing .................................(Australia)
Coolest pan ever......no really. I see Chandler's Pans putting you on easy street someday.
Would've liked to see the handle riveted on. Nice project and excellent result for your first attempt.
The pan looks awesome!
+Chandler Dickinson - You always amaze me with your ability to see things as they could be instead of how they are. Not everybody has that sort of vision. I really look up to you in that way.
If you take some stumps and chamfer their edges into a series of gradually more aggressive slants, you might be able to just pound out pan after pan by moving in a sequence along each stump until the desired wall angle was achieved. Maybe four or five chamfered stumps would be enough to prevent the edge from warping.
Great video as always Chandler
As usual, great job! I think I'm gonna give this a go myself.
Some times when you talk it reminds me of Ron Perlman... I dont know why, but it comes to mind everytime
This could be a great beginning for a camping set.
there's enough of those sword and knife videos. finally someone makes something really useful. maybe a wok pan or kitchen knives next?
Beautiful video, Chandler.
The pan looks great.
Then you let your steak from the pan to taste.
Awesome as allways Chandler !
It looks like a good design for a camp fire skillet.