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Really beautiful and very well done, those copper rivets really set it off!

'Honey-do project', I'll get a bit of mileage out of that one lol. Thank you for the vid, I think my next project will be making an edging tool, looks really well.

Well done!

Inspiring video! Definitely a good job. Useful tips.

nice job! i do shelves as well. I need to look and see if you've made a video on making that grooving stamp. I'd like to make one myself.

..Good design and look Lee. i hope they don't get covered up by curtains...

Great stuff! 👍

Beautiful work and great visuals and so great hammer work.Yes great video to learn from. Thanks

Love it. I just got the book hooked from abana, can't wait to try some new things.

Thank you

This piece looks very good. The only thing I don´t like are the modern screws. I think rivets would have been better here. Old style screws would also look good, maybe with slotted halfround heads and square nuts.

Looks great 👍

Great job. I like it way better than using 1 piece.

Great job can you press thin metal whit that ?

I really like the idea of a rivet head blending into that pattern. Nice work, thanks for sharing 👍

I like it. I've been messing around with casting. I there's a thing that i'm trying to make quantity of i've been struggling with all the different casting ways. I tried making an open mold with refractory and that didn't work, but uh, thank you, this is going to work just fine.

Great job Lee. thanks for sharing.

This is a rad project! Thanks for sharing.

gives me some ideas myself

Why do you double tap your blows? Seems to me that could make the tool jump off point….. I got my butt chewed for that in the early stages of my apprenticeship. Wonderful video!!

Beau travail! Le moule est-il en acier carbone?

..Nice job Lee. i had to weld a shank on the couple i made. my anvil is crowned and it wanted to fly off...

Question ;! What is a choice of high carbon steel and I'm in a small Blacksmith shop using parks 50 oil.and have 01 and 9022 on hand here. Thanks that will work for leather also.

Pretty cool. I think if it was made a bit smaller and put on the end of a punch for a pneumatic rivet gun, it'd be pretty cool to make some nice rosette style rivets for forging decorative work.

Awesome job man I really enjoyed your video 👍🏻👍🏻

thats a great multi purpose tool . I like the "rough" look , it really shows how it was hand made. hope to see you using it in the shop.

Good design love the other end for straightening scrolls etc. Well done.

Very nice, think I might copy that. I love the tool at the other end, will be really handy.

Nice!

Nice Work! I also like the riveted in pegs, they look good even if that wasn't the plan! I wanted to comment since you mentioned at the end that you couldn't weld in your forge. You should be able to!! I have done a number of welds in my propane forge. I can recommend trying with iron mountain flux. It has some mild steel or pure iron in it that melts a little lower and helps the welds stick initially. I have made a few tongs with welded reigns and some san mai knives. Admittedly success rate is low with the knives. But it is a fun way to make some heavy duty tongs without a bunch of forging. I would say get some flux and give it a try!! the flux does kinda make a mess in the forge as a heads up!

Nice video. Nice work sir

I like the look of the cross-rivets in there, I think it really adds to it. Nice job!

..it works, that's what matters...

Nice, maybe think about necking down the pins and bevelling the pin holes in the top side of handle. Then if you insert the pins like rivets, you can peen the tops down level with the handle and they won’t come out. Would still be a lot less work than forging from one piece.

You could put the pins in without heads and bend them closer/further apart for a double bending wrench🙂

I like how this turned out. I also appreciate you sharing your process and respect the way you kept going after your first idea didn't work. I think I will try to make this also but maybe just duplicate what you did with the straight end and then bend it over to make the large bending side.

i dig it

You could have wrapped some copper wire around the posts of the prongs and fluxed it. The copper would melt and flow nicely into the seams and it'll give you a decently strong braze joint. That braze work can, of course, be done in the forge.

cool bit of kit, I like the cross rivet to fix the shrink fit problem' I actually like the look of that better than the shrink fit, and when you can use both ends of a tool why waste metal...make it a double whammy. Good stuff thanks for sharing

Looks to me like it'll work! I especially like that open wrench like end...that seems so practical. Wish I had thought of that!

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Wpuldnt the world be so much easier if every rivet was the same length and width? Lol

Good work on this poker. We shared this video on our homemade tool forum last week.

Well, your skills are beyond mine at present. You did a great job with your poker, and I learned quite a bit. Thank you. Question: how DO you keep your hands so clean? Working with coal, my hands skin creases are ingrained black. Help?

The finger grip reminds me of the trigger guards of old wheellock pistols.

That collar's amazing, I'm surprised it's your first attempt. And anyone looking at the end result would never know it strayed from your original intent. I think it looks fantastic, you did a great job!

Excellent save on the handle! For me, when the steel refuses to do what I want it to and seems to have a mind of its own, I often end up with a better result, which I think you did here. Thanks for sharing your process.

brilliant buddy such skill

I know you made a change to the loop due to the crack that developed but I really like how it ended up and I may try to do that on purpose on a project I am working on. I really like the finished look of it.

Great outcome!