Blacksmithing - Forging a ball swage
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- In this video I show how I make a ball spring swage. I then use it to make new handles for my wood lathe.
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I love your videos that turn out to be cases of, "I showed you how I made that tool so I could show you how I made this tool." Fantastic stuff!
My Dad had a fold-out yardstick like the one this blacksmith uses. I haven’t seen one like that in a long time. Brings back good memories of my Dad ❤️
You made a tool, to make a tool, to make a part for a tool, utilizing another tool, and I enjoyed every minute of it!
He he... thanks!
His work always looks so easy, think I’ll try it. 🤔😂😂🤣🤣😁
Making a tool, to make another tool, to be used as part of another tool, to make something else. I love it! I wish I had that skill set.
Tools are a contagion.
You are a man's man who likes things done the proper way. I did my lathe the same as you a few years ago. Great video.
mark
Thanks! That's great.
Dude, I totally get it!!! Respect bro, you totally make your own toys!!! 🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼😂😂😂 Should have seen that earlier!!!
Love the simple workshop noises and lack of poxy background music. Keep up the good work.
i can't belive that the beast youtube blacksmith has not done yet a Ram's head , it would be great if were something like ram's head bottle opener.
I love your videos, i learn a lot with them :) greetings from Mexico, master .
:) Thanks!
Just made my first ball and that's what I need in near future....I will be the hat hook hero.
Thanks
There's a certain *irony* in 'dirtying' the surface of the perfect ball, arc welded onto a rod, on the belt sander so that the surfaces of swaged pieces eventually have an 'authentic' look.
Again as always, elegance, beauty in functionality … such a pleaure to watch. You set standards that ought to inspire all blacksmiths. I thank you
Making tools to make tools to make other things. My kind of video, awesome!
You have a Fort?! And big birds that walk on water?? How satisfying was that Torbjörn?! Making tools to make tools!
Yea, spent an afternoon tossing up stones... easy peasy japanesey. He he, even I can walk on water, you just have to freeze it :)
Looking your videos is beside the great respect for your extra ordinary skills really contemplative for me. They are edited very great in it`s simpleness, no annoying music, no hectic cuts. Thank you
This project outlines one of the many joys of being a blacksmith. If something breaks, or needs an improvement, blacksmiths can fix the problem or improve the equipment with their skill set. Great video and I congratulate you on your skewing skills! You're doing great!
Thank you James! Yes, I believe that was the key for many blacksmiths back in the days.
Torbjörn Åhman
I got to show my grandchildren videos like yours! They grew up with the reality that if you want something or if you need something you do not even have to leave your house, it is brought to your door.
It‘s not that long ago that if something broke or was needed you had to make it yourself or if you were lucky to have a blacksmith within a days travel and were „rich“ enough to pay him, you could have it custom made for you!
Keep the good videos coming to educate our offspring!
Great video. No time wasted on grandstanding endless gabbing, as most videos do. Your actions send the message, "This is how stuff gets done." very good
Thank you Kevin!
non ho parole ..... sei un artista meraviglioso..bravissimo..
Watching your work process is much better than being in a relaxation session ..!
Nice and useful blacksmithing tool. A peaceful place.
Ferreiro, Marceneiro, Arquiteto, Agricultor, Soldador, Cozinheiro , Chefe de família e TH-camr ! Parabéns ! :)
Blacksmith, Joiner, Architect, Farmer, Welder, Cook, Head of Household and TH-camr! Congratulations ! :)
Ha ha, thank you so much!!
Every Citizen should have these abilities and more! specialization is for Bugs!
Paulo Monti Don't forget his actual job in life like computer graphics! Great video once again Torbjörn.
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These help a lot with anxiety bro!!! Respect and Thanks!!!
I've only watched two of your videos so far but I enjoyed the little nature interludes in both of them as well as the more obvious appeal of your videos. Thank you.
Thanks!
That's nice to make something by our hands. We do not care for time or money, because we do not do it for living. We are doing it for love.
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That play fort in the backyard you built for the children looks like it can use a few cannons too.☺
Yes, I have to work on that. :)
You are so talented, blacksmith, woodworker, cinematographer and who knows what else. Driven by desire and commitment. Thanks for shring
Thanks!!
Nothing better than making something you’ll use to make something else.
You are wonderful son, husband, father, blacksmith and artist... As far as I can see at videos ^.^
Thank you!
A very useful tool and well made too, every tool in your workshop that is missing a handle will soon have a new one made for it now. Regards from your Aussie mate.
Just when I think I see what it's for you go and make something else with it. Thank you so much for producing such great video.
Thank you !
Can't get better then your channel! Thank you!!..great editing...great camera angles...and great talents!
Gracias por enseñar forja y mostrar esos increíbles paisajes, tan helados pero impresionantes...hare Krishna
Very nice... I always wondered how these handles are made... expected that they come out of turning shops but obvious forging is older than turning. Thumbs up.
Well, this is one way of making them... there are probably many better ways. Many were most certainly cast
Fantastic work! I paid $160 for a forge last week, along with a bunch of coal to use as fuel. I've already made a hive tool out of an old file to use in my top bar hive. It's very basic, but at least I got to get some steel hot and bang away at it with the hammer. Your videos are inspirational. Thanks.
Thank you! Sounds great!
I adore the nature intermissions :)
That is propably most bizarre thing I ever watched😳. Yet you are very skillful! Entertaining😉👍
Ha ha, bizarre? :) Thanks
Ya good with metal. Wood. Plants. Computers. I mean this is rare combo. May Allah bless ya more
You TRULY are among the very best channels for Blacksmithing my Friend!!!
really like how you add the great looking sceanary into your videos. so peaceful. very nice work.
Muito profissionalismo, competência, produção impecável na fundição, usinagem, marcenaria, vídeo, editoração excelentes! Parabéns! Meus respeitos.
Thank you for taking the time to make these videos. I find your work inspiring.
Best game of ‘can you guess what it is yet?’ ever. Always enjoy these vids. That paint looks good. Better then the watery rubbish we get here in the U.K. now.
Thanks!! Yes, this paint is the old style, smelly stuff...
I know I'm not the only welder watching this that closed his eyes as he was welding that .
Rusty Shacklfort yep
Nope, mee too 😜
Every time I watch metalworking I don't look directly at it. :P
Nope. But I'm kinda wondering why he pre-heated that die end before welding?
Mike Ford because when you weld high carbon steel it cracks if you don’t pre heat it
sweet
no swage for me, but.. got to make a pair of tongs today.
and helped with live demonstration today, and doing one tomorrow for art show. have to keep craft alive!
Sounds great! Thanks.
wonderful place you live.
That prove again that with blacksmithing we can do anything! i'm in my first year of ironwork art!
Ha ha, almost! :) Cool
Another innovation on your tool great have done things similar to that but never any forging . But at the beginning seeing that hack saw going and the that short tuff blade, reminded me of my first knife dad made for me but he let me help it was in the 50s but cannot for the best of me remember the year probably mid 50's . Any way still carry that knife to this day great memories of good times as you will have when your 75 . Happy Trails young man
Thank you Mike. I love that short story.
15 minutes and I honestly learned a great deal.
Thank you for sharing.
Cool. Thanks
So, you're going to make a porticullis for the greenhouse next, right? 😃 A man can't be too careful with his peppers.. 🤣
:)
Love your videos there amazing
Ohhh you made my day, just came in from forging a round ball wall hook for clothes, and then I saw you put this video up....you never cease to amaze me with your talents.....so good. That swage worked out fabulous.
:) Great! Thanks. Sure it's a bit overkill for forging two handles... but it's fun to try new things. I'm sure I'll get more use from it.
nice machine, it deserves the time you put in to make the handles.
Thanks. Yes, old sturdy machines like this can't be bought anymore and if you can they are crazy expensive.
yes i know, i lost mine in a love story long time ago :)
that is so cool!and now you have a custom made wrench for your lathe!
Most excellent. I always learn something from you . Thank you!
I really enjoy the complete story contained in your videos. In this case, I had a very well-rounded experience 😅 from start to finish.
Thanks!!
10:00 thought this was going to be a rustic toilet paper roll holder
Nice work
Great work as always! Your attention to detail is outstanding and I love the practicality of many of your projects
Good work👏
eu não tinha assistido seus videos antes mas entendo a necessidade de fazer uma ferramenta que seja util os equipamentos hoje ou as maquinas que compramos não vem do jeito que nos queremos. meus PARABÉNS belíssimos trabalhos voce trabalha com a arte excelente nota 1000 para boce .
Thanks!!
Вам спасибо! Не важно что сделано, важно как. Снимайте ещё! Успехов мастер.
Nice video, Torbjörn.
Not bad your tool, that has become really good.
Such "gags" were always used on machines as "on and off, switch".
Smile, as a Wood turner, you're doing good.
Thank you Günter!
very good you did a great job and the castle is very beautiful !!!!!
Landscape are beautiful at your place. Nice work, as usual !
Hi torbjörn, I'm Brazilian and I very like your channel, every day I watch yours videos , good work.
Thank you so much!
I love a good shop-made handle. Also reminds me how much I miss turning, I did some many years ago at school but I've never had a lathe at home. One day.
Getting an actual lathe may be a thing put off due to cost ... but if you like DIY stuff, you can make a spring/pull lathe fairly easily, loads of videos on that on youtube (just follow along), technique does look a bit different due to the drive mechanism, but the end results are pretty much the same. And a spring/pull lathe can be build for a fraction of the cost.
Nice job
1:55 a yardstick/tumstock with inches and centimeters(millimeters)! [tumsock = thumbstick]
Hello from Virginia, USA... Nice work.
Thank you Ron!
Great to see you using the skew chisel. They take a bit of practice but are so good to use. Most TH-cam turning videos are scraper from start to finish. Real turning should use the cutting edge of the correct chisel for the job, resulting in a great surface finish.
Thanks! Yes, no scraping for me.
Excellent video, thank you so much for NOT putting stupid acid Rock N Roll IDIOT music to your video like so many other fools do here on TH-cam. Great shop you have there.
Thanks!!
Gooood ! And very quiet place, that landscape and the geese traveling remember me "Nils Holgersson", Hehehe ! Thanks for sharing !
Cool. Interesting that you know about Nils!
Been watching you for a couple years and could never think who you reminded me of..
Finally, I figured it out..
Agent 47 is a blacksmith!!😁🤣
Ha ha, ok
Да, руки из нормального места выросли. И точение в "чистый рез", так определил. Не знаю, есть ли такое название? Показывал и учил людей, но если они не могут сами резец сделать и навести, то и точить в чистоту не смогут. Пусть наждачкой пылят. Гуд. Всё на высшем уровне, хотя предела высоты нет!☺
Beautiful scenery my brother
These handles turned out so well! Always a pleasure to watch you videos. Their quality seem to improve again and again ;-) thanks!
Nice!
I was wondering how did they manage do forge the round back of the walker revolver ,paterson and so on..I would try to do that.
Nice video, cheers !
Sounds like cranes @ 7:30. I heard some Sandhill Cranes this morning--half a world away.
Could be, they are passing constantly now on their way north.
I need to make one of these. I’d love a little ball like that on the ends of tongs so you grip them better
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I don't want to be sycophantic, but for me you are the man, your skills are excellent and I really enjoy watching your channel. I do wonder though as you are a relatively young man and I'd bet you just didn't pick them up at night school.
May I present you with a challenge. Refusal won't offend.
Could you forge anything, I don't care what it is, without using modern power tools, from the beginning to end. I'll forgive you starting with stock material.
While there are many older gentlemen showing forging clips on YT who may remember some older methods they still use power tools. I believe that with your skill set you could be the man to do it.
I'm not sure why this important to you? The blacksmith has always strived to do hard work easier either by altering the method or using tools of some kind. And the big difference back then was that the smith almost never worked alone. There were always manpower at hand who could swing a sledge. That's why power hammers are so valuable today when you need 4 hands...
That said I have several projects of that kind already:
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Torbjörn Åhman
Thanks for the reply. I do realise that we all, in no matter which industry we work, want to make things easier. Many years ago when dinosaurs ruled I did repairs to old gates and railings obviously made when there were no electric welders and electrical power tools and I marveled at the workmanship put into them and the expertise the people who made them must have had to do it. The repairs never did seem to blend in and needed copious layers of paint to hide our hideous efforts. It was just an idea, and I thought that you might be the man up for some retro / vintage forging to entertain and enlighten this fan.
I'll settle for your suggested posts. Thanks anyway.
Yes, the workmanship of old gates and railings are often mind blowing, but as I said before the work was seldom the result of a single smith.
Torbjörn Åhman
It's not even that Sir, I just imagine something as simple as a pair of scissors that someone made prior to electricity. We take too much for granted, whereas our forebears put so much more importance on what we now consider simple items as they probably cost a fortune to buy before mass production and had to be looked after.
I suppose that was what I was after, for you to show folk just how much work an ancient smith had to do to service the ironwork needs of his community.
Do you ever wonder what the first iron worker used as a hammer? ;-)
:) Yes we take much for granted, for sure. It would have been cool to show the entire process from bog ore to final "something" , with every tool in the chain. Making fuel... building forge... finding the right first stone to use as a hammer... etc...
props from sydney australia, you make great stuff man
You're doing very cool things.
Very nice.
your a real insperation thanks for the idea
Greetings from Houston, Texas! Great stuff. Thanks for sharing!
Gile lu ndro,gua nungguin..wah bikin wah banget,,😂😂
Blacksmith, n.: a person who goes to enormous lenghts just to make his life needlessly more difficult yet aesthetic
That is probably not always the case... haha
Thats an exellent tool. also good for making mallet headed stonework chisels....to the maistro.....bravo.
Thanks! Interesting, never seen that kind of "mallet headed" chisels. Do you know why they look like this? I assume you can hit them with a greater degree of "non-accuracy" so to speak. Don't need a bang on square strike?
That would make a really good bell donged, or a door pull, or a socket handle, grab handle in a bathroom or a chest handle.
Yes! Great ideas
pen turning? no way. pen forging? heck yeah!
I love you're power hacksaw.they are all gone in the U.S.
Awesome. I loved this video. I love your videos as a general rule. 😊
Another great build Torbjörn! Enjoyed the sequencing to get to the finish line and didn't get you were building 2 from one billet...got me. ;-) Man your lathe skills are like everything else you do...a natural, with practice of course. Thank you Sir! Love the interlude of geese and Kronoberg Castle, nice!
Thanks!! I have a lot of practice to do on the lathe. Especially the business of switching hands...
New to your channel but loved the work.
Great! Thanks
Отличная работа,спасибо за видео.Вот бы видео с вашей работой было бы больше=3
Elegance in simplicity. Thanks for sharing, as always.
That's Good Example of Working Safely. Your the man...
I love the way to build tools and I think that you are good at machining. I also make pieces and for this I recognize your work. Angel from Spain
Very cool tool! Kept me wondering until the very end! Thank-you for all the great videos. I love that you take a break to appreciate nature, it creates a nice balance. Kudos for your consistent use of safety gear - you take the time to work safely and protect your health. I know Sweden has its share of problems just like the rest of the world, but watching this is a pleasant respite from the political and social chaos here in the United States.
Thank you Johnny!