Good video i am in the process of getting my small building together so i can do some forging. It's great to see your positive attitude and humor. Hey its great to be able to roll with the punches. Takecare i look forward to future video's.
I fought the same thing and was using very similar burners. What turned out to be my problem was I was making a very oxidizing environment due to too much air for the gas I was burning. Once I choked back the air a bit and started using a piece of coat hanger wire to see if it was ready to stick, I started getting much better results. The coat hanger wire will stick a bit like it has glue on it when the base met is hot enough on the outside surface. Be sure to soak it long enough to get your heat deep into the part before doing your general first taps.
For me what helped is my first welding was done with oxy acetylene. So not only do I have shade 5 glasses lying around so I can actually look at the steel when it’s that hot, I can compare it to what it looks like when welding.
It does indeed. I have a good idea of the likely alloys, but cracks could pose a serious problem. Thing is, me and my three brothers all fenced. I fenced for 13 years! So I have a bundle of maybe 30 pounds of broken blades from me and my brothers and I have a plan to use them.... :D
Hey Bennet just wanted to say I came across your videos after recently starting my own RUclips material, love the look and feel to your videos. Keep it up, I've subscribed and look forward to working my way through your content 👍
I've seen Forge Harder use hose clamps w success. Most just weld the ends n sides. Even seen the wire deal. Some soak the bullets in ceroceene or deisle. Idk, maybe on the last billet ... well I looked like it started good what w the hammer setting. I'm curious if you did or didnt press it to much with out taking another heat? No really I dont know. Next thing ya know your gona be cutting and stacking and twisting your way to an awesome billet! 🙏blessed days sirSir Crawford out 🧙♂️
I’ve heard that you can even dissolve the flux in water to help get it inside of things like cable. I dunno about hose clamps, I mean I’m sure it works, but doesn’t it ruin the clamp? I’ll have to check that out. I’m thinking yeah, maybe it was too much squishing without another heat. The other possibility is perhaps when the billet was prepared, it wasn’t preheated. Bandsaw blades are so thin, I could see the MiG welding damaging the structure of the steel.
@@BennettTheSmith u got it. The hose clamps are destroyed. Pretty sure the channel name is Forge Harder. A robust gal blond as I recall w lower cut tops. There are 2 dudes too. All I know of billet welding is from guys like alec Steele, Sam Towns bladesmith, and uh yeah guys like that. Hey man good luck, I'm enjoying watching n learning with you
I had a couple of guys charge me to fix some leaks in my roof. When they said they were done, it rained and I had more leaks than before they started. So, I'm going to get some hose clamps and clamp their heads together and see if I can get their faces to forge weld into each other, I'll try it first with a 2lb hammer and progress to a 5 lb hammer. I won't need to flux either since their blood will keep their faces clean of impurities. I'll try to video tape the process so that it might help someone else deal with incompetent help that never comes back to repair their shoddy work. One dude is white and the other is black, so I should get some nice handyman patterned damascus flesh blanks with high contrast. I might make a big sword with them, just in case I hire lousy help again. Wish me luck, nice job on beginning your forging!
Interesting idea! I’ve been here, just head down and working. I love making these videos, but it doesn’t pay the bills. I’m about a year in and my funds are about tapped out so I’ve had to start picking up shifts at my old gig. Still, it was totally worth it to be full time at it for as long as I was. It really let me get things moving. Every little bit I get from RUclips and Patreon helps and as that grows I’ll be able to put out more content :) and work towards being a full time smith and craftsman for good!
@@BennettTheSmith Totally understandable man. I quit my last job building ambulances to try and go full time welding and smithing on my own along with bushcrafting. Not exactly panning out the way I was expecting and probably going to have to pick something up soon too. But dude, you're a hell of a craftsman regardless. Remember that. And when shit (eventually) hits the fan, guys like us are gonna rule the world lol.
Hey bro ive tried forge welding a handful of times and i still suck at it. But i dont have a power hammer (yet) What size hammer are you using is that a 3 pounder?? Could you go back and forth between it and a 6 pound hammer??
I’m not actually sure, it’s a random hammer head I found, handled, and ground a rounding face onto. It’s between 2 and 3 I think. I have heavier hammers, but I have heard that especially for the first pass on a billet, you really want light fast blows to tack it together without squishing too much. Otherwise each blow might break the weld of the previous blow. On the other hand, that only really worked with the stacked layers billet. Maybe for welding one piece of bar to another a heavier hammer would do better. Hmmm.
@@BennettTheSmith I know it don't work to well with multipul stacked layer billet but I am going to try forge welding something together in a closed container with a small hammer then a larger one.
Good video i am in the process of getting my small building together so i can do some forging. It's great to see your positive attitude and humor. Hey its great to be able to roll with the punches. Takecare i look forward to future video's.
I fought the same thing and was using very similar burners. What turned out to be my problem was I was making a very oxidizing environment due to too much air for the gas I was burning. Once I choked back the air a bit and started using a piece of coat hanger wire to see if it was ready to stick, I started getting much better results. The coat hanger wire will stick a bit like it has glue on it when the base met is hot enough on the outside surface. Be sure to soak it long enough to get your heat deep into the part before doing your general first taps.
For me what helped is my first welding was done with oxy acetylene. So not only do I have shade 5 glasses lying around so I can actually look at the steel when it’s that hot, I can compare it to what it looks like when welding.
Mystery metal (such as the sword blades) always makes things harder.
It does indeed. I have a good idea of the likely alloys, but cracks could pose a serious problem. Thing is, me and my three brothers all fenced. I fenced for 13 years! So I have a bundle of maybe 30 pounds of broken blades from me and my brothers and I have a plan to use them.... :D
@@BennettTheSmith a blade of blades! :-D
Shhhhhhh! Secrets! :D
Excellent science, my friend!
that cracking of the band saw blades could be of the inpuretys in the blade
This was more successful than my attempts!
U should tack weld em together before you hammer weld keeps em tight so no crap can get between ur 2 pieces of steel ya trying to weld
Hey Bennet just wanted to say I came across your videos after recently starting my own RUclips material, love the look and feel to your videos. Keep it up, I've subscribed and look forward to working my way through your content 👍
Thanks! Glad to hear you're enjoying my work :)
I've seen Forge Harder use hose clamps w success. Most just weld the ends n sides. Even seen the wire deal. Some soak the bullets in ceroceene or deisle.
Idk, maybe on the last billet ... well I looked like it started good what w the hammer setting. I'm curious if you did or didnt press it to much with out taking another heat? No really I dont know.
Next thing ya know your gona be cutting and stacking and twisting your way to an awesome billet!
🙏blessed days sirSir
Crawford out 🧙♂️
I’ve heard that you can even dissolve the flux in water to help get it inside of things like cable. I dunno about hose clamps, I mean I’m sure it works, but doesn’t it ruin the clamp? I’ll have to check that out.
I’m thinking yeah, maybe it was too much squishing without another heat. The other possibility is perhaps when the billet was prepared, it wasn’t preheated. Bandsaw blades are so thin, I could see the MiG welding damaging the structure of the steel.
@@BennettTheSmith u got it. The hose clamps are destroyed. Pretty sure the channel name is Forge Harder. A robust gal blond as I recall w lower cut tops. There are 2 dudes too.
All I know of billet welding is from guys like alec Steele, Sam Towns bladesmith, and uh yeah guys like that.
Hey man good luck, I'm enjoying watching n learning with you
@@BennettTheSmith I saw one video where a guy used stainless steel zip ties.
I am planning on forging my first Damascus this year as well, I haven’t got a press but I hope I‘ll be able to make it by hand 😅
I had a couple of guys charge me to fix some leaks in my roof. When they said they were done, it rained and I had more leaks than before they started. So, I'm going to get some hose clamps and clamp their heads together and see if I can get their faces to forge weld into each other, I'll try it first with a 2lb hammer and progress to a 5 lb hammer. I won't need to flux either since their blood will keep their faces clean of impurities. I'll try to video tape the process so that it might help someone else deal with incompetent help that never comes back to repair their shoddy work. One dude is white and the other is black, so I should get some nice handyman patterned damascus flesh blanks with high contrast. I might make a big sword with them, just in case I hire lousy help again. Wish me luck, nice job on beginning your forging!
Where ya been man!? Try using hose clamps on some of the bigger pieces you try and put together.
Interesting idea!
I’ve been here, just head down and working. I love making these videos, but it doesn’t pay the bills. I’m about a year in and my funds are about tapped out so I’ve had to start picking up shifts at my old gig.
Still, it was totally worth it to be full time at it for as long as I was. It really let me get things moving. Every little bit I get from RUclips and Patreon helps and as that grows I’ll be able to put out more content :) and work towards being a full time smith and craftsman for good!
@@BennettTheSmith Totally understandable man. I quit my last job building ambulances to try and go full time welding and smithing on my own along with bushcrafting. Not exactly panning out the way I was expecting and probably going to have to pick something up soon too. But dude, you're a hell of a craftsman regardless. Remember that. And when shit (eventually) hits the fan, guys like us are gonna rule the world lol.
What is that type of wire brush called?
I found it under the name "butcher block brush". They make a HUGE difference.
Hey bro ive tried forge welding a handful of times and i still suck at it. But i dont have a power hammer (yet)
What size hammer are you using is that a 3 pounder?? Could you go back and forth between it and a 6 pound hammer??
I’m not actually sure, it’s a random hammer head I found, handled, and ground a rounding face onto. It’s between 2 and 3 I think.
I have heavier hammers, but I have heard that especially for the first pass on a billet, you really want light fast blows to tack it together without squishing too much. Otherwise each blow might break the weld of the previous blow.
On the other hand, that only really worked with the stacked layers billet. Maybe for welding one piece of bar to another a heavier hammer would do better. Hmmm.
@@BennettTheSmith thats probably why my forge welding hasn't worked very well then. I will try my smaller hammer and whack it like im hitting a mole.
@@BennettTheSmith I know it don't work to well with multipul stacked layer billet but I am going to try forge welding something together in a closed container with a small hammer then a larger one.
Clean your anvil before working on it so you don't hammer in the scale and the other impurities
I always do when I’m worried about the end result :) here I was focusing all my attention on learning, so I didn’t bother with it.
As much as he brushes the material he should be fine especially since its an attempt