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Thanks. Daniel

Hi: Still working, I have had to spend time helping friends , so videos were the easiest thing to drop. Will get back to them by the end of the year. Barring more stuff happening! Hope you are having fun Daniel

@@danieltokar1000 Happy to hear you are still working! And yes I have been lucky, As I am fairly new to blacksmithing, My work has been selling quite well, while learning at the sametime. Enough so that I have been able to build a shop and focus on smithing full time!!

Hi: Got kind of distracted for a couple weeks! Yes, pewter is mostly tin so it can be used to mix a bullet alloy Casting bullets is a book worth of details. Best overview I can offer is that you have to be able to reproduce the alloy that works for a loading. "Works" is the key word, a target load may be different from a hunting , There are online forums and real books . Whatever I say in a paragraph is just a small start. Good Luck! Daniel

Hi: Sorry for the delay in reply , got distracted for a couple weeks! Pipe hawks are fun. I thought about doing a series on them. My current list has six methods that were used in the time period and two modern ones Everybody has ideas about them and there are days when I think they are all right and days when I think they are all wrong. Example, There are people who think that they were first made as smoking tools. "Tobaccoe" was traded as twistes or leaf rope as well as pressed bricks , "plug".Either way , you had to cut it up to smoke it.Chopping with a little axe works great for that!. So, it is better to say it is a pipe with an axe blade added rather than a hawk with a pipe added! Like I say , some days... Daniel

Hi: Depending when and where , people made needles diferently. Some started with wire , some with sheet or bar stock. So I am willing to say that any method that results in a usable needle was done somewhere Daniel

There is a video from west africa of a man making needles vin a blacksmiths hut on youtube. He cold forms from a sheet of steel

@@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367 Thanks! I will look for it. Lots of traditional smiths still working Daniel

@@danieltokar1000 I'll find it and post it here

​@@danieltokar1000 Your video is one of my inspiration sources when trying to develop a needle making technique. This is a video I made for a 0.8mm brass wire needle, the finest I could get is 0.5mm but that's kind of the limit. The technique made something that resembles factory made needles which made me pondered why the needle eyes isn't rounded in the first place. th-cam.com/video/bdnszjLTy3U/w-d-xo.htmlsi=HmtGIY6lsGmdLQKo

Yes, Every High School football player talks about what it will be like when they go pro. We have the advantage of having made the walk and knowing how long it is, they think it is only a short one. The hard part is getting them to "forget" what they think they know. I started learning Blacksmithing in 1975 and still have to work at forgetting some things. Daniel

Hi: When and where make a difference. I did no research , I just listened to the old smiths in my area when I was young. Those men worked in the 1910-1950's era. The area is south western Pennsylvania, coal fields and sandstone I think, chisel bits are earlier and may have been hand driven , the large long star drills I have seen are all machine driven , steam or air. Daniel

Hi: I think it can help people who do "world building" to get things right. I have a video about my ideas on the minimum size of a population to have a tech level. Stone age to Mars colony. Musk is going to need a lot more people that he thinks! Daniel

I had to look that up. Cold blue is a selenium based chemical, that is why it is not safe. What is deposited in this process is iron phosphate, not so bad as selenium , but I could not find a record of it being used on food processing equipment.. I think "bright and clean" is the general rule in any tool for food use. Daniel

I know that they used "lead" pencils to write on Xray film in the past Daniel

Hi: Scrap price , new price are moving points. This video is a way of "ball park" grading of metals. Some things need a certified alloy , like making pewter spoons and tankards . Often what you are paying for is the assay that means there is no lead . So , please use any results from this grading for things like bullet casting , where hardness is more important. Also , "pewter" can be all sorts of alloys, some with antimony , lead , copper , Daniel

Thanks, Lots of stuff gets reinvented , over and over , till it becomes common. Build one and play! I will add that I use a safety cage now around the anvil. Had a die spit out the work at very high speed! Daniel

@danieltokar1000 dang it! A safety wall/cage was already something I've been thinking about, but you just made my mind up. Thanks!

Hi:I have had all sorts of students, with all types of skill levels. Alot of times they have a "modern" skill set from work and they need to see the traditional ways. One of the things new students have a hard time seeing is that the fire is a tool just like the hammer or anvil. So , just like you use the right size hammer for a job , the right size and type of heat is important. Same with time in the fire. I had a job years ago that used a 60 lb.s piece of steel that was an hour in a furnace comming up to forging temperature. Hope you have fun Daniel

Hi: I understand your problems. My cabin was 8 years of "spare" time to build and my current shop is the 6th I have put together. Good luck! Daniel

Glad to help! Daniel

@danieltokar1000 Now, all I need to figure out is whether to try sinking or raising to make a 4" flower bud from one piece of steel!

Hi: One way to see it, if you have thicker metal you can sink and thin it, thinner metal you can raise it and it gets thicker Daniel@@brysonalden5414

Thanks for your continued help! Going to have to forge a T stake, but my rule is that any project that requires me to fab up new tools is a good project.@@danieltokar1000

Thanks. I like showing the many ways the same work can be done. . Daniel

I always heard it as that lemel was metal worth saving , so yes you could save your steel turnings . I learned the words from different people. Silversmiths and jewelers said lemel , Machists and welders said swarf. Daniel

Thanks, I am sorry to say that I have been distracted the past year. I hope to make new youtube videos soon. Daniel

Hi: You can get my email from my webpage. send me a message and I will email you a copy. Daniel

Hi: I like to show as much as I can , many youtube videos don't bother with the "unimportant" details. Longer I work , the more details seem to matter. Daniel

The mysteries of TH-cam are deeper than I can understand. One of the reasons I am currently not posting new videos is that way youtube keeps changing it's rules. Daniel

Thanks, hope your projects go well. Daniel

I think that using the closest method to the original makes it be closer to the original. CNC mill a model T engine block out of aircraft grade aluminum. It may out preform the original but is that better? If the reason is to know about driving a Model T , make the car as close to factory as possible. Daniel

@@danieltokar1000 Thanks for the analogy Dan .... very apt. Trying to replicate the more basic aspects of smithing to the best of your ability, truly teaches respect for the wide range of skills that the smiths of old possessed. I missed my vocation in life and am playing catch-up. As a youngster, I worked in a 3 smith shop as striker and general dogsbody but sadly all of them were getting on a bit and not in a position to take on an apprentice. I ended up spending my life mining coal instead, and to be fair enjoyed every minute of it. Now long retired, I am setting up a shop with my eldest son, who does work in a forge - on a different scale as his forgings tend to range between 1/2 and 10 tons a piece, and generally are of complex and expensive specialist alloy steels. He hope to incorporate general small scale forging as key part of the training of his apprentices.

@@bigoldgrizzly Hi: I came from a "mine" family, Lost a grandfather and uncle to mine accidents. If you look you can find my video on being a "mine smith", early on I made safety links and survey augers for the mine. I came from a mill town south of Pittsburgh and grew up around smiths like your son. Almost got into a apprenticeship but the 1982 collapse of the old rust belt mills happened. He is also an example of why I have problems with some smiths calling themselves "Master Blacksmiths". People don't seem to know that Blacksmithing as a Trade is regulated the same way Plumbers and Electricians are. A Master has gone thru programs and been a Journeyman and Apprentice with lots of time spent learning . Maybe you can talk your son into doing a video about the current programs. Anything I know is from 40 years ago. Daniel