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Frontier Boys
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 28 ม.ค. 2023
Learn about 18th Century and primitive skills, building, blacksmithing, cooking, hunting, trekking, and much more! Enjoy our hilarious reenactments while learning about history. We'll see you on the trail!
How To Start Your Forge: The 18th Century Way
In this video, learn how to start your Blacksmithing forge with flint and steel. I also show you the process of using coal and the different types of fuel. Check out my video on Flint and Steel fires if you haven't already!!!
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How to Blacksmith a Knife Blade
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I blacksmithed a knife blade!!! Watch the process as I turn a piece of metal into a very useful tool! It turned out GREAT, and I am really proud of this blade!
18th Century Camping In -20°F!!!
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Watch as we campout in extremely cold temperatures in 18th century gear! Learn many tips and tricks about camping and staying warm in cold weather and how Longhunters would have stayed in the winter!
How To Make Char-Cloth
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Learn how to make Char-Cloth, a very necessary part of life in the 18th century!
Primitive Traps: Simple Snare
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Watch and learn as we make a trap that is completely primitive and takes less than five minutes to make!
Primitive Traps: Paiute Deadfalls
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Watch as we show you one of the simplest, easiest, and most effective primitive traps!
18th Century Hot Chocolate
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We show how to make Hot Chocolate on the frontier! This might just be the world's easiest recipe!
Bow Drill Tips and Tricks
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Many tips, tricks, and techniques for bow drill fires to have more consistent fires.
Bow Drill Set Construction
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Learn how to make a bow drill set from the woods around you!
Smoking Rabbit Meat
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Learn to preserve meat by smoking it into jerky. This was very often done in the 18th century and before.
Frontier Cooking: Cooking Stew Inside A Pumpkin
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Use a pumpkin to make stew inside of it! You don't even need pots or pans!
Frontier Cooking: Cooking Cornbread Inside A Fish
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Watch as we cook two meals in one in this easy method.
hello just wondering were you find your clothes also just wondering what specifically reenacted as love the vid!
I just got into 18th and 19th century reenacting with my lads and found this channel and ive been hooked on it i think its so cool that other people my age do this love the vidssssssss
man, I cannot wait to see your channel to grow. Love the set up and the hammer control. Try to keep the thumb off the top of the hammer it will lead to injuries later down the road.
Thank you so much! I appreciate it! I will remember that, thanks for the advice!
Just found this goldmine of a channel, keep it up!
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoy our channel!
I have to ask, you have a hand blower right there, just place your Tinder bundle in the forge, with some smalls on top and crank away, the blower will do all the work for you and it will be going in no time. Better yet get yourself a pinecone, load it up with char, develop an ember and then put that in the forge and crank away, again the forced air will get it going very quickly.
Thank you for the advice! That is actually what I usually do to start my forge, but I showed the other method in the video because it will still usually work even if you don't have a blower or bellows.
@@frontierboys my forging mentor lights a coke forge all the time with flint and steel using a pinecone and forced air, he does volunteer work at a living history village and they like everything to be authentic old-school.
I will have to remember that! I am still learning, so I love to hear what other, more experienced, people do for different skills like this! What living history village does he volunteer with?
@@frontierboys it's a small local one here in Australia.
Nice tutorial. Well set up shop. could se see a closer look at your grindstone setup and your tool rack? Mabe do videos on each piece in the shop. also good content on the basic forging techniques, hammer strikes and how the iron move from each is much needed on TH-cam. especially for younger viewers. Loving the content on your channel. Keep em coming.
Thank you! I already have plans on making videos on both of those things and the rest of my shop in depth. Thank you so much for your support! i will!
Now that's one i have never seen before. very nice indeed. Thanks for the tip.
This method was pretty common in the 18th Century. Thank you!
Forgot. good sources of good knife steels are. Coil springs from cars, usually 5160 spring steel. Metal-NOT wood files 1095 or o-1 tool steel. Old mill style wood saw blades- The big 3-5ft ones 1084 or 1095 high carbon steel. Roler bearing races and larger ball bearings " over 3/4 of an inch" almost always 52100 very good steel. "ROCK SHAFTS" from tractors. 5160. John deer ones seem to be the best quality of these i have found. Ather good TH-cam channels for smithing. That works. Blackbear forge. DF in the shop. Alec steel- the earlier videos. Knife steel nerds. and Joey van der Steeg.
Thank you for all the advice! I have used both 1084 and 1095 high carbon steel for different projects, and will look into the other metals. I am on my way to check out those other channels right now!
New to the channel. Really like your forge setup. The blade looks good. A few questions if you wouldn't mind. Are you self-taught, or have you trained under a smith? As you hammer control and fire tending are good. What steel did you make the blade from? as mild steel will not harden properly when heat treated. I would have you try to keep your thumb off the top of the hammer handle as much as possible. rather put it on the side, as thumb on top can lead to hand injures down the road. When doing the tip be careful of "FISHMOUTHING" the tip. as this can lead to a cold shut and cracks. Either round the two tips first when hot. or cut the tip at an angle over the hot cut. When punching use the Pritchel hole instead of the Hardie hole. it will deform less. also if it is a flat tipped punch" not a pointed one" punch from the first side on the flat of the anvil, then flip over and go over the pritchel, you should see a dark ring from this side. put your punch directly on top of the dark ring and as the steel is cooling down" about dull red. then punch it. it should shear out a little plug if done correctly. Annealing or softening can be done by heating to a very dull red, holding that color for about 2 minutes then putting the blade in wood ash or vermiculite to cool slowly "about 8 hours" then it will file very nice. Do As much filing of the blade while annealed. To heat treat. heat the steel to a bright red to a dull yellow. get a magnet. it should be non-magnetic at the right temp. then quench in water or different kinds of oil depending on steel type and speed of quench required. Careful the blade will be like glass at this point and a sharp metal file should just glide over the steel and not grab. to temper. rub with a red brick and water to shine up. then heat slowly over coals from the spine with edge up, moving the blade back and forth. careful not to overheat the tip. when the entire edge is between a straw or wheat color for smaller blades and between brown and just starting peacock purple for larger blades and small axes. blues are getting into the softness of springs and may not hold an edge well. Quickly quench in cold water. NOW it is a blade. By the way. i like your magical blade holder when you were punching the holes;) I hope some of this helps in some way or another. I hope you enjoy continuing on your smithing journey. I will be sure to check out some more videos of yours. I always enjoy younger folks practicing living history skills. You are our future.
Thank you! My dad and I built our blacksmith shop ourselves! I appreciate it! I am mostly self-taught, but I have learned quite a bit from books and TH-cam. Thank you! For this blade, I used high-carbon 1084 bar steel. Okay, I will remember that. Thank you so much for all of the advice! I am still a beginner, so I will take all the help and advice I can get. This helped A LOT and I will continue to reference this when blacksmithing. Thanks, it always helps to have a good magical blade holder ;) It all helped, and I truly appreciate it! Thank you so much! I will continue to share videos, and I'm glad you like them.
My boys (7 and 9) love your videos! Thank you so much! They had a request for videos on how to make a primitive fire starting kit and showing the layers of clothes you wore camping in the -20 weather. We live far north and are learning to keep warm the old ways and that temperature is pretty normal for us.
Thank you so much! I have a few videos already about primitive fire starting and a whole series on Bow-Drill fires and how to make your Bow-Drill fire kit. A video about the clothes I wore is a great idea! I will definitely have to make a video on that!
Dry nice job on shaping you knife and hammering it out I would like to maybe offer some advice on your quenching and or hardining practice if you would not file you knife itvwould be softer and quench for hardness then temper it and. Be careful when using water to be sure you don’t put a full blade in water if it is really hot u can tend to get smalll fractures that may not be evident right away
Thank you for the advice! I am still learning and appreciate the help! I will try that next time! We will gladly take any and all advice, so thank you!
Great job! I have a small blacksmith forge and love the hobby.
Thank you! I love it too!
Outstanding video
I really appreciate it!!!
I have several knives made by a black smith
I really like hand-blacksmithed knives, and I like doing blacksmithing myself even more!
Outstanding video
Thank you very much!
@@frontierboys I am always watching different people doing Re-enactment and sharing their skills
@@earlshaner4441 Me too!
Very nice job. Would like to see the finished product please
Thank you! I would really love to show it with the wooden handle on it, and the knife completely finished, but I am sending this blade to a family member of mine. He is going to make the handle and keep the knife, so I probably won't get a chance to show the finished product, but I plan on making more knives soon where I can show the finished knives.
Cool Video.
Thank you!
@@frontierboys u r welcome.
Nice video bro❤
Thank you so much!
You guys are great and I love the videos. You guys got skills!
Thank you so much!
Its sad that all boys his age knew this at one time and now they cant even read an anolog clock
It is very sad. But we sure know how to read an analog clock
Preciate the game lads
Good afternoon from Syracuse NY everyone
Great job, guys! keep up the good work. Come join us for reenactment events at historic Martin's Station sometime!
Thank you! I would love to go to Martin's Station sometime. We are going to the reenactment at Fort Des Chartres in November though!
Awesome!!
Good morning from Syracuse NY everyone thank you for sharing your skills
Good evening from Syracuse NY everyone thank you for sharing your information
Our pleasure!
Good evening from Syracuse NY guys and thank you for sharing your information
Good Evening! I'm glad you enjoy our videos and thank you for your support!!!
I enjoy watching you boys teaching this old school skills
Lovely video!! Very much enjoyed
Yes my friend
Thank you so much!
Great job! Just needs more smoke!
Keahlian anda sangat hebat moga cepat sukses.
Terima kasih banyak! Saya sangat menghargai dukungan Anda!
Good evening from Syracuse NY everyone
Good evening from Syracuse NY everyone
Very interesting cooking stuff
Do you have any videos on survival cooking?
We are rebuilding our channel after it was kicked off because we are using real tools so many videos are soon coming.