Forging pole lathe hooks and turning a bowl from scratch - Blacksmithing / Greenwoodworking

Don't forget to turn on Closed Captions to see my notes and explanations on the video.
00:00 - Forging
04:50 - Grinding / Filing bevels
07:08 - Bending the tip of the hooks, heat treat, polishing
09:00 - Turning a bowl
Here I'm forging, grinding / filing, and heat treating general purpose tip-up and tip-down hooks from 15mm diameter o1 tool steel. These hooks are for a customer, but I'll test them by turning a bowl before I sharpen again and send them off. Overall I'm very pleased with the hooks - the tip up is a little wide for this small size bowl but very manageable, and they both cut well and leave a good finish.
These are my first set of hooks for a customer. My books are open if anyone wants to order some - email me or send an instagram DM @littlebear_sloyd.
If you'd like to see how to do this with an even more minimal toolkit - check my previous video on forging my first hook tool - I've made a few since then and my methods and equipment have both improved.
If there's interest I'll upload the realtime / uncut footage of the bowl that I turned with my own hooks. Let me know in the comments.
#greenwoodworking #blacksmithing #polelathe

[@thebodgingbigfoot4014]

I guess I can sub. You do forge your tools which makes ya cool enough

[@noahfreeman8115]

Always look forward to these vids!

[@kimfejgin9780]

great work Julian and fabulous video!

[@DmitriIvanov]

Cool lathe man! Seems nice to work on it :)

[@rickschuman2926]

So the bevel is on the inside for both tools? I have seen elsewhere that the tool for the outside of the bowl should have the bevel on the inside but the tool for the inside should have the bevel on the outside. I expect it has to do with have the proper technique for the tool in hand as much as the configuration of the tool.

[@cocodij]

Nice video, thanks a lot ! I wish I had see it before forging my hooks, there are things I didn't thought about (angle of the cutting edge, thickness of the rod, ...). I'll guess I'll make some other once ^^ Keep going I like your videos, your turning skills are clearly improving ! :)

[@andersswerke5808]

Excellent video, just leave the captions on a little longer and it will be perfect (some of us are old and do not read fast 😂😂)

[@jones_trees_and_treen]

Noted!

[@traviswright2800]

Do you have any details on the little gas forge you have set up? I'm very interested in a simple forge setup like this one.

[@jones_trees_and_treen]

Sure, it's a Gameco gas burner and brick forge kit from an Australian website called artisan supplies. K26 bricks. I've since changed it up a bit, the previous set up was pretty inefficient.

[@AaronTWas]

Very nice work! I am very slowly getting a starter blacksmithing setup together, along with planning a pole lathe, with the intention of making my own tools as you have. Having made both a double bevel hook tool for tip up and tip down work, and with this video making two separate tools for the two tasks, would you recommend that a beginner just make the two tools with opposite bevels instead of the one? You had mentioned getting a lot of catches in your other video with the double bevel tool on the return rotation of the lathe. Again excellent and beautiful videos!

[@jones_trees_and_treen]

Thanks! I am sure if I had persevered with the double edged tool it would've been ok. It had some flaws other than just being tricky to use due to the double edge.
Having said that, I do feel that if you're forging your own, single edge tools are better. As well as avoiding the return catches, they're also naturally stiffer and seem to make a finer cut for me.

[@AaronTWas]

Makes sense, thank you so much!

[@verdigrissirgidrev4152]

what kinda steel are you using?

[@jones_trees_and_treen]

In this video it was an alloy equivalent to 5160, but I've since changed to 16mm O1 (silversteel)

[@johnjude2685]

QUESTION?
What type steel

[@jones_trees_and_treen]

These were an alloy similar to 5160. I have also used O1.