Heart finial wall hook - the problem with using salvaged steel - hook of the week 3
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- Опубликовано: 11 май 2019
- for this weeks hook of the week, I start with a piece of 1/4 x 1 1/2" flat bar and quickly remind myself of the risks of working salvaged material. Turns out to be high carbon steel that is quite difficult to forge.
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Really appreciate all the work you put into your videos. You’ve inspired another amateur blacksmith. Please don’t worry about mistakes, because we learn so much from how you recover! Otherwise we’re stuck starting over when we make mistakes.
Thanks 👍
Thanks for this hook series! You're heart hook warms mine!
Thank you for this series. I'm a few projects into learning and the hooks have been a great skill building exercise for me. I appreciate the numerous teaching videos you have provided over the years that i can look back at now!
You're very welcome!
I've just been back watching your old hammer making videos. Wow the difference in the ring on your anvil!
Huge difference, I bet your ears are thanking you since you tightened it all down.
I like the way you used the first and second pass butchers to make the heart appear to stand above the background, and the spikey bits you scrolled do the same. Really neat watching your mental picture of the hook become reality. Thanks!
The other smith that works at the shop where I currently work once cracked a wind chime after accidentally using spring steel(the spring had been straightened out and left in a scrap heap by a different smith so it looked like regular round bar)
I once accidentally started a project using spring steel, but was lucky enough to guess what was going on before I ruined it, the difference is small enough that it can be mistaken for fatigue but high carbon steel definitely feels a bit harder to forge.
I may never try to make a heart finial wall hook, but as always I learn a great deal just watching the technique, and listening to the reasoning behind decisions. I consistently learn more from Black Bear Forge than all other blacksmithing channels combined.
Missing hook of the week so much I’m going through replays!
I do plan to do more hooks over on Black Bear Forge II as time allows.
i love your videos me and my dad are making a hook right now
It turned out to be a beautiful hook
I think that's my favourite hook out of all the decorative ones that you've done. Definitely going on my forging "bucket list", although I'll make sure that I'm using mild steel 😋😆
A hardened heart hook on Mother's Day. Perfect gift for my ex.
You win
@@andysims9184 Actually I lost.
Burst out laughing when I saw that comment.
did you marry my ex?
Turned out nice!
Wow that rounding hammer is gorgeous - thanks for walking us though this hook. great opportunity to teach us about using the right steel for the right job.
Nice job John, you definitely showed what can happen when you do not know what the material is when you start. Also when you have a hammer, anvil and forge with determination you can get the job done.
"Let this be a lesson to you, know your steele"!!! Great lesson on how you can easily get yourself into some trouble by using the wrong type of steel for a project. Thanks for showing us how it can truly affect your day.
Mild steel, tool steel and Alec Steele
Just found your channel and I have subscribed, I am new to blacksmithing so your videos are a great help. Thank you
I'm glad to hear the videos are helpful. Enjoy your journey
Nice video! Hope your Sunday has been great!
Bless your powers of perseverance with that chunk of Steel You did it and it looks good
Awesome hook of the week!
Every time you use that wire brush, it sounds like Christmas jingle bells!
Really enjoying this series. The only design limit is one's imagination.
I like how this turned out! Very Nice!
Great video, and an awesome hook!
Nice job, turned out great.
Thanks.
Nice hook and another lesson learned thanks JOHN
You're right about the mystery steels for business production applications. What I like though, is the way you soldier on through the project showing us how to persevere and techniques for surmounting obstacles. Great vid! I like the hook style as well!
Now that is a great looking hook. Good lesson on knowing the material.
Hook look beautiful.Enjoying hook making series
Very cool John!
Thanks for working it through :-) lovely looking finished product nice job John
Looks good as always Master Smith
Thank you John and please share happy mother's day
I really like all of the improvements you've been trying out for your production quality! I can never seem to make a good video. Keep it up! I love these hook of the weeks.
Good Morning , John !
That was a slight change in your
Regular hooks , But that is the Freedom of being a Blacksmith !
It's a Shame it was high carbon steel , but you persevered and
Overcame it , quite well !
Very Nice Hook ! Thank you for sharing this Problem / Solution !
Take Care and Be Safe !
KEEP HAMMERING !
Very nice work. A true professional knows how to work through those unexpected surprises!
Nice can't wait for next weeks.
Sunday hook work out thanks for working threw that to the end
Gee that was tough steel, turned out good mate. Well done for persevering.
I will say one thing I have learned from this video is the value of spark testing an unknown steel.
John, you are an inspiration! Just today, five days after I saw this video, a lady friend asked me to make a two-pronged wall hook to hang her guitar on so she could get it off the floor. Your design of the heart with the finials just fit the bill perfectly. I think that's what I'll make for the wall support part if you don't mind me copying it.
John what a fitting hook for Mother's Day, as childbearing is a bit of a pain too...…..looking forward to next Sunday for your hook series. Sweet hook.
Massively great video. I use allot of Simi known mystery steel. 90% of the free steel I get is chrome vanadium springs. The nice thing is this will hold a tool belt or other heavy object without bending. So if Mom has a big heavy skillet there you go. Something that will handle the load. So really this may be harder to make but it's so much higher quality. I appreciate the effort.
That turned out very pretty.
Beautiful!
Awesome informational educational video experience Y'alls
Well im early here today! Now lets settle in for class Mr. John!
It runed out nicely.
My take away: I'm off to the shop to make curved punches. The video gave me the "heart" to "hook" myself up with more tooling.
I concur! I have a lot of punches, chisels, slitters, etc. but no curved chisels, DUH.
I think tomorrow I may launch off to make several curved punches as well. John has a way of getting us to "tool-up". I have a lot of coil spring that will work just fine.
I let my mom watch this video for mother's day. Good gift? I think so.
You could hang a big block engine on that hook! Nice work.
Hey there John I’d like to see your take on a handrail bracket when ever you get a chance. Love your videos!!
Well despite all the trouble, it turned out looking great, and will be quite the strong hook now ;-)
That came out great for being such a pain to work with tho! 👍 👍
TORG SAYS HEY AND GOD BLESS
"Strike while the iron is hot", in this instance, is akin to a quote from another blacksmithing channel, "Less Yack-yack, More Whack-whack" (Alec Steele), right? Turned out quite nicely. Thanks for sharing.
I’m really enjoying this series. How about a coat hook with a banjo😎 or guitar finial (or both) Thanks for your efforts
Morning John. I have been watching your video’s for a bit now. Enjoy them very much and yes I hit the subscribe button lol. One thing I have noticed is that you use some terms that I am not sure what you mean. Most of these revolve around what you are doing with the hammer and such, like a half face blow. It would be helpful for us know nothing beginners if you could put together a short video on different hammer blow’s and things like that. The more advanced guys would be bored but it would sure help guys like me.
He's done some, do a quick search.
ruclips.net/video/iu1QI4val68n/видео.html here is one specifically on the half faced blows.
That was some ornery stock! Acted like D2 or D3. 🐾🔥⚒
Great video as always I am not sure you can call that a bucket anymore lo
Lol
Awesome hook just before you scrolled the little end bits near the hart I was saying I hope you do scroll them, I watch a channel yesterday on a dragons scale twist have you done one of them
Nice...
Excellent hook. Would have made a cool heart pommel dagger ;)
That might work for the hook I need on the rear bumper on my truck
I was thinking you could just split the end with the chisel then hammer it round until you mentioned chiseling the entire shape. Would not lose any material but might be more effort .... I may have to try it
I agree completely with using known materials. the steel is the cheapest part of the process why not get stuff that you know what is, save your tools, your arm, etc etc. That is even a more important thing, in my book, when making tools, then you know for sure how to heat treat it properly.
It's good to see the use of the horn. Do you have any radius on the shoulders of the face of the anvil? I've done this on mine and I get really good results. I'm still learning though. Thank you for the lessons.
I have the edges slightly rounded.
I see. I’m s a little difficult to see. I have a pendinghaus and the radius I’ve on mine a bit more pronounced and get smaller. Thanks for responding, I’m getting a lot from your lessons. I have a RUclips channel as well, listed as Rinaldo’s Blacksmith Shop. Any constructive criticism is very welcome! I’ll be putting to another video soon.
John, what angles did you make the first and second pass butchers?
I'm not sue I have ever measured them. Sounds like a good video topic
Would one be able to make that first pass butcher out of a RR spike or would the spike steel not be hard enough?
I think the spike wouldn't hold up for long
You ever use white-out to mark your steel? Seems to hold up to the heat pretty well
I've never tried that, go suggestion
I think i saw tube stock in your plastic bucket, i wonder what kind of a hook you could make from that?
That will be a challenge.
Wow, the second it would dull my chisel I'd be forging a new one out of this stuff.
Is it just a white graphite pencil or something special?
And this: It's the second time this week I see hot filing. Do you think it can damage the temper?
The file isn't in contact long enough to get that hot. But I alos use an old file that isn't any good for regular filing anymore.
nice hook made you work hard but it was worth it
Did it soften in the vermiculite?
Yes it did.
I never know what to do with air hardening steel. I tried to use H-13 once and it was miserable . I have no idea how to anneal it
Annealing H13 properly requires a temperature controlled oven. It needs to cool at something like 50 degrees per hour. Cooling in vermiculite helps, but it isn't fully annealed. But it is very hard to forge.
What did you do to deaden the ring of your anvil? As of the video you did on that, you were still experimenting. Something obviously worked.
The video I did on the subject was the last thing I have done. It worked perfectly
I have flat barstock of 4140 that I'm clueless what to do with. Definitely not making a hook. Lol
You could have always used that piece to make a hook knife. I don't remember you explicitly saying all the hooks you made would be for hanging items up.
0:14 me i call them treasures
"Bucket" bahahaha
oh, hook of the week, was expecting a brunette in a bikini and heels....................:P
i do like those tongs with the two up sweeps to hold he specific stock in place
pays to do i quick spark test sometimes :)
ok next vid i watched was the one where you made the box jaw tongs lol, ( i happened to post the comment about spark testing about 3 seconds before you mentioned it, maybe i comment after the whole vid next time)
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Your lecture about known steel is ridiculous. You should have spark tested right at the beginning. Like you, beginner smiths need to struggle and learn from their mistakes. If smithing was always easy, everybody would be doing. There is actually science involved in this and each individual smith needs to figure out the material they are using first. I like what you are doing here and I like seeing the struggles because it is real. I never discourage anybody from using mystery steel for projects, rather I encourage it because it will cause the smith to learn a lot more. Look at the things you taught your viewers by using this steel.
I don't think it was ridiculous. It was a good lesson on what can happen when one just grabs some steel and starts forging. I can't tell you how many times I have started on some "mystery steel" without spark testing. Most of us might be just a bit on the lazy side to take that extra step.