Awesome! I've watched your vids constantly. I am a beginner blacksmith. Just when I got my shop set up this spring, my stage 4 colon cancer returned. I just finished my 22nd round of chemotherapy 2 weeks ago and the cancer is gone. I watched your videos while I was sick and in bed from the chemo. You helped keep the spark alive in me, even though I could hardly strike a hammer to steel all summer. Have you ever made any tomahawks from a ball peen hammer? I bought some cheap Harbor Freight hammers, gonna try it. There are a few RUclips vids, but I'd love to see you make one! Thanks for sharing your awesome talent, God bless.
Very nice work. I am very impressed by your ability to hammer with either hand. I also like that you demonstrate welding without flux to show that it can be done without the level of mysticism that most new smiths apply to it. I've learned much from your videos. Thank you for making them.
Very good anti blindperson counter measures. I think I want to see more of you making stuff out of rail spikes. I honestly enjoy making tools out of them.
As always I am amazed at the apparent ease you show when making things. You did solve a problem for me. The forge welding of railroad spikes. I wasn't getting them hot enough or hitting them hard enough I guess, lol. Great video, very inspirational.
+Greg Neighbors Don't hit hard at all. Heat is the number one key to forge welding. Just hit moderately at high temps and don't forge it once it cools even the slightest.
it's a wonderful thing to see such a young man be a master of this ! seriously considering it as a hobby learned to weld and fabricate but this is a art for sure !
An old guy I used to work for could hammer nails with either hand, I'm left handed and my right hand is very uncoordinated with a hammer, either with nails or on the anvil.
Great work, Joey. I particularly like your using the welder's goggles. That must really help seeing the metal and welding it when at the brightness of welding heat. I have some and might try using them next time I forge weld something. UPDATE: Shortly after posting this, I learned that "welder's goggles" and associated glasses, lenses, etc. are for filtering UV radiation. Forging fires and heated metals emit primarily infrared radiation, not UV, therefore welders goggles act only as light reduction like sunglasses. To protect against cataracts and IR eye damage, use lenses specifically designed to filter out infrared (IR) radiation.
Great job Joe. A lot of work and good example of welding. I think today's learning smiths are assuming to often our steels can't be forge welded. Thanks for the demo.
Sehr tolles Video Joe! Zeigt wie man mit wenigen Mitteln echt beeindruckendes machen kann! Ich hätte es schön gefunden, wenn du gezeigt hättest, wie du das Band (collar) gemacht hast!
It's so weird seeing someone swing a hammer left handed. Being left handed, I've simply learned to "flip" what I see so that it makes sense to me. Your videos are very good. I love the way that you've taken Brian's stuff and incorporated it with your own experience.
ben garbutt Not really, only 277 pounds. I have visited Refflinghaus and they sell a 1236lbs anvil. On my facebook page you can find a picture of me with the 1236lbs Refflinghaus.
Very nice project, I enjoyed the vid. Good job on the fire welding, you have some great skills. I subscribed and looking forward to the next video! All the best, Matthew Slovakia
You are very creative and innovative, and your videos are quite entertaining. I was curious about your process of making the band wrap. Do you take measurement, or eyeball it? Could you maybe make a video getting more in depth with riveting/banding? Thank you.
Joey ,Are you a Full time Blacksmith ? , I admire your Forge welding skill I have trouble with forge welding but since seeing your videos i have had successful forge welds ,
Beautiful work Joe. Just a question...at 15:12 the square bar has a nice sharp shoulder that you dressed & upset in a bolster. How did you start forging this shoulder? Did u use a spring fuller? Keep up the great videos :-)
Cheers. It's made the same way as you see in that scene. Simply taper the end slightly and then upset it in the bolster plate. Just like as if you were forging a hardy tool. This will give those shoulders. I don't have a striker to employ and a smithing magician/blacksmith's helper I still haven't found usefull enough to make one myself.
Nice job, I was wondering how to do that a few hours ago! Helpful and well done, as you usually do. I love the variety of tools needed, how many are homemade? Thanks!
Thank you for the compliments. The only things I can't forge myself are: The anvils, forge, block brush, and the leg vise. The rest of the tooling: the hammers, tongs, punches, bolster plate, cone hardy, etc. I forge these myself. The hammers, tongs etc, you see in this video have been forged by me.
I'm new to this but very much interested ! I have to say didn't know you could weld like this ! This guy is great ! how many years have you been doing this may I ask !
+the shadow people Thank you. I have been doing some stuff in forging since I was 9 on my own, no parent or relatives in metalwork. I am 21 now and 20 in this video.
***** In English they refer to this as a "collar" or somtimes even "band" or "strap". But usually collar is the word that is used for it. I made this by taking a bit of stock from the spike and forged this around a bar that is the same dimensions as the arm and scroll.
Should have mentioned which one in the question xd I mean the first one. Doesnt look much, but you can do quiet a lot of forging with it. It`s because of the handle`s lenght ?
The rounding hammer weighs 2,5lbs. Getting to move metal is all in technique. A heavier hammer could move more steel. But it all comes down to technique. There are many times I use a 10lbs hand hammer or maybe a bit lighter in the 3,5 to 5lbs range.
ben garbutt 2 horns are more versatile than a single horn anvil. It provides more surfaces and shapes to work with you'd never find on a single horn anvil.
Awesome! I've watched your vids constantly. I am a beginner blacksmith. Just when I got my shop set up this spring, my stage 4 colon cancer returned. I just finished my 22nd round of chemotherapy 2 weeks ago and the cancer is gone. I watched your videos while I was sick and in bed from the chemo. You helped keep the spark alive in me, even though I could hardly strike a hammer to steel all summer. Have you ever made any tomahawks from a ball peen hammer? I bought some cheap Harbor Freight hammers, gonna try it. There are a few RUclips vids, but I'd love to see you make one!
Thanks for sharing your awesome talent, God bless.
how are you doing? Any luck in your forging?
Very nice work. I am very impressed by your ability to hammer with either hand. I also like that you demonstrate welding without flux to show that it can be done without the level of mysticism that most new smiths apply to it. I've learned much from your videos. Thank you for making them.
Very good anti blindperson counter measures. I think I want to see more of you making stuff out of rail spikes. I honestly enjoy making tools out of them.
Nice forging!
Yes indeed! Bravo!
Clean work! Thanks for sharing! :D
Thank you for showing how it is to be done. Really appreciate your video !
As always I am amazed at the apparent ease you show when making things. You did solve a problem for me. The forge welding of railroad spikes. I wasn't getting them hot enough or hitting them hard enough I guess, lol. Great video, very inspirational.
+Greg Neighbors Don't hit hard at all. Heat is the number one key to forge welding. Just hit moderately at high temps and don't forge it once it cools even the slightest.
7 years late, I'm glad I saw your work. Awesome
it's a wonderful thing to see such a young man be a master of this ! seriously considering it as a hobby learned to weld and fabricate but this is a art for sure !
Joey I have been black smithing for a few years thank you for your videos i enjoy them very much they inspire me
Beautiful! Very skillful blacksmith with imagination and two right hands!
Fantastic! And with three spike, incredible way to show off. Thank you for sharing.
you are one of the only two people I've ever seen that can use a hammer effectively with either hand...I find that amazing and enviable.
Thank you.
Who is the other one?
An old guy I used to work for could hammer nails with either hand, I'm left handed and my right hand is very uncoordinated with a hammer, either with nails or on the anvil.
Beautiful bracket! So well done!
You make it look easy! I like to see techniques used to transform metal from stock form into ornate pieces. Keep the videos coming. Thank you.
Great work, Joey.
I particularly like your using the welder's goggles. That must really help seeing the metal and welding it when at the brightness of welding heat. I have some and might try using them next time I forge weld something.
UPDATE: Shortly after posting this, I learned that "welder's goggles" and associated glasses, lenses, etc. are for filtering UV radiation. Forging fires and heated metals emit primarily infrared radiation, not UV, therefore welders goggles act only as light reduction like sunglasses. To protect against cataracts and IR eye damage, use lenses specifically designed to filter out infrared (IR) radiation.
Great job Joe. A lot of work and good example of welding. I think today's learning smiths are assuming to often our steels can't be forge welded. Thanks for the demo.
Very beautiful work!
Joey, you are an amazing smith, and this is absolutely beautiful! Fantastic project!
I'm new to forging but watching your vids inspire me. Incredible work!
Wow I need to practice more. Well done!
Absolutely beautiful work bud. Always a pleasure watching you work your magic.
well done...love your work...outstanding skill
Very nice work Joe.
Impressive piece! Nice work. Also impressed that it appears you can hammer with either hand effectively! Way cool.
Thank you, Dan!
Excellent performance by a true creative craftsman. Thank you.
"if i can do it, you can do it!"
you're awesome man!
Best Hanging Basket idea ive seen good work
Very nice work.
Beautiful! Nice to see you 5year old video. ... ⚒🎅🏻👌🏻🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮
Nice work, Joe.
Amazing work, as always, Joey.
that was just... absolutely amazing
Sehr tolles Video Joe! Zeigt wie man mit wenigen Mitteln echt beeindruckendes machen kann! Ich hätte es schön gefunden, wenn du gezeigt hättest, wie du das Band (collar) gemacht hast!
That is wicked awesome forging i love the work you do
amazing you are a true craftsman well done
Awesome job Joey!
Nice work Joe!
It's so weird seeing someone swing a hammer left handed. Being left handed, I've simply learned to "flip" what I see so that it makes sense to me. Your videos are very good. I love the way that you've taken Brian's stuff and incorporated it with your own experience.
Mooi gemaakt. Onlangs beginnen met smeden leuke variatie en wat uitdaging om zo'n variant te maken
More than just a little bit of awesome. Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful work!
6 dislikes, how? Such fantastic work and skill, only the like button required. Very well done on a fantastic piece.
Pablogogo, this also makes me scratch my head & try to imagine who these people are & why bother watching .
I'v notice alot of these videos have 6 to 8 dislikes..? must be the same dipshit's that think they can do better...
That was some nice forge welding.
Nice work.
Very creative.
Very nice. Darlington, SC USA
This looked fun. Thanks for the helpful videos.
Very nice Sir.
Stunning work, I love it.
Another masterpiece! Nice job mate!
Beautiful Joey.
Acabei de assistir o seu vídeo. Você ainda era Um menino. Parabéns pelo seu trabalho.
Very nice! Great skill!
Well Done Sir! Well Done....
Goeie werk Joe. Inspirerend
This was just ingenious! Awesome forging, keep it up :)
That is a big ass anvil!
ben garbutt
Not really, only 277 pounds. I have visited Refflinghaus and they sell a 1236lbs anvil.
On my facebook page you can find a picture of me with the 1236lbs Refflinghaus.
Thanks
love it!!! greetings from brazil
This is the best! Favourite BS clip.
Zo Hoefnix ;-)
Dat is een knap staaltje (haha, no pun intended) smeedwerk wat je daar gemaakt hebt.
RR spikes make great spoons.
Very nice project, I enjoyed the vid. Good job on the fire welding, you have some great skills. I subscribed and looking forward to the next video!
All the best,
Matthew
Slovakia
This is incredible!
Nice work,thanks for sharing.
Blacksmith H.Blankenborg
Sweden
Very nice
Nice work!
Well done.
Just brilliant!
Thank you.
beautifully done a pleasure on the eyes.
You are very creative and innovative, and your videos are quite entertaining. I was curious about your process of making the band wrap. Do you take measurement, or eyeball it? Could you maybe make a video getting more in depth with riveting/banding?
Thank you.
i could watch this foever
BEAUTIFUL!!!
Amazing, like allways! Please, can you show us how to make collars? Your technique seens to be perfect!
Greetings from Capão do Leão, south Brazil!
Joey ,Are you a Full time Blacksmith ? , I admire your Forge welding skill I have trouble with forge welding but since seeing your videos i have had successful forge welds ,
thanks a lot comrad.хвала брате
make two, would be bad ass curtain rod holders.
Beautiful.If you don't mind my asking, how would you price this item for sale?Thx
Beautiful work Joe. Just a question...at 15:12 the square bar has a nice sharp shoulder that you dressed & upset in a bolster. How did you start forging this shoulder? Did u use a spring fuller? Keep up the great videos :-)
Cheers. It's made the same way as you see in that scene. Simply taper the end slightly and then upset it in the bolster plate. Just like as if you were forging a hardy tool. This will give those shoulders.
I don't have a striker to employ and a smithing magician/blacksmith's helper I still haven't found usefull enough to make one myself.
That is awesome!
Awesome video!
How long did the entire project take?
Thank you for the compliment!
About 10 hours.
in this video you are striking with your right hand ive noticed in recent ones you use your left hand. making a rose injury ??
I am ambidextrous.
Nice.
Nice job, I was wondering how to do that a few hours ago!
Helpful and well done, as you usually do.
I love the variety of tools needed, how many are homemade?
Thanks!
Thank you for the compliments. The only things I can't forge myself are: The anvils, forge, block brush, and the leg vise.
The rest of the tooling: the hammers, tongs, punches, bolster plate, cone hardy, etc. I forge these myself.
The hammers, tongs etc, you see in this video have been forged by me.
That's fantastic. :)
I'm new to this but very much interested ! I have to say didn't know you could weld like this ! This guy is great ! how many years have you been doing this may I ask !
+the shadow people Thank you.
I have been doing some stuff in forging since I was 9 on my own, no parent or relatives in metalwork.
I am 21 now and 20 in this video.
WOW!!! Beautiful work you are a very talented smith! Were those shade 5 lenses when you were doing the forge welds?
+978mikeyg Thank you vor your compliments.
Yes, they are shade 5 lenses to be able to look inside the forge.
Joe how did You make that little clamp?
*****
What little clamp do you mean?
I mean that little square element which You add at the final stage to connect the the spiral to the arm.
*****
In English they refer to this as a "collar" or somtimes even "band" or "strap". But usually collar is the word that is used for it.
I made this by taking a bit of stock from the spike and forged this around a bar that is the same dimensions as the arm and scroll.
Okay thanks Joe.
amazing!
how heavy is this hammer?
Which of the three hammers do you mean?
Should have mentioned which one in the question xd I mean the first one. Doesnt look much, but you can do quiet a lot of forging with it. It`s because of the handle`s lenght ?
The rounding hammer weighs 2,5lbs. Getting to move metal is all in technique.
A heavier hammer could move more steel. But it all comes down to technique.
There are many times I use a 10lbs hand hammer or maybe a bit lighter in the 3,5 to 5lbs range.
Damn your good!
nice
Very, very nice.
echt gut
Why the 2 horns?
ben garbutt
2 horns are more versatile than a single horn anvil. It provides more surfaces and shapes to work with you'd never find on a single horn anvil.
I think I'll look into getting a 2 horn anvil then, thanks
Damn, took me till 16:35 to even figure out what you were doing.
Kei gaaf!
15:10 this part is really upsetting
5.54 the world's longest rail road spike
Damn........