Hi Dennis, thank you for this vid and so many other ones in the past. I learnt so much from you and your explainatins. You are one of the best teachers I had. 👍 Greetings from Germany. Thomas
Haven't seen your videos for a while. Nice to see them again. This is a great series for reference. Looking forward to more. Grateful for your time & knowledge.
I think you showed a cross-peen hammer (for moving metal in a hurry), but my sense is that a regular peen might be better because of the way the tong hand holds the material and the hammer hand swings. Not sure, but would be interested in your opinion on each. Thanks!
The traditional way to use a cross peen was to swing it over the anvil face with the handle running parallel to the edges. You need to be able to reach around your anvil to position yourself correctly. The tongs are held in front of you with your arm fully extended. Not at your side. You don't need to do this all the time but it's real energy saver when you are working on heavy stuff.
@@df-intheshop330 I think I get what you are saying but I will have to ponder. Maybe you can look for an opportunity to clarify visually with an upcoming video. Thanks!
In video I just did on knife makers tongs I explain how the anvil and hammer work together. Sorry I can't post a link in a comment because TH-cam will see it as spam
@@df-intheshop330 Denis, I *think* that TH-cam will accept URLs that point to TH-cam locations. If not, you can add URLs (to anywhere, not just on TH-cam) into your video description - many TH-cam Creators add "affiliate" links to places like Amazon. Some Creators even edit the video Title & thumbnail until they start getting better view numbers than their "original" title and/or thumbnail did. None of these edits/changes cause a video to have to be re-uploaded and the video "stats" aren't started over from scratch with each edit. I've seen this explained by some "big channel" Creators.
Awesome information! I'm just starting out and this showing up in my youtube feed couldnt' have been better timed. Thank you!
Another great video, Denis. The community appreciates what you do. Thanks!
I'll put some of these tips to practice this week. Thank you!
Hi Dennis, thank you for this vid and so many other ones in the past. I learnt so much from you and your explainatins. You are one of the best teachers I had. 👍
Greetings from Germany. Thomas
Oh boy! I love reference material! Thanks for being one of my favourite teachers, Denis. I've got so many of them
I, too, am grateful it's nice to hear from you again denis great video as always godbless and good health.
Much respect
Tonnes of great info shared here, thank you kindly Sir! Brilliant vid!
This is great to see. I learned a lot of the basics from DFs old instructional videos when I first started forging. Thanks for the great instruction.
Belles démonstrations avec beaucoup d'intérêt merci pour ce partage
Didier( FRANCE)
Haven't seen your videos for a while. Nice to see them again. This is a great series for reference. Looking forward to more. Grateful for your time & knowledge.
This is extremely useful, wish there were more videos like this out there!
Thanks! Wonderful info.
Excellent presentation, Denis.
You have done a great work. This looks cool 👍👍
Perfect for me, thanks Dennis
I think you showed a cross-peen hammer (for moving metal in a hurry), but my sense is that a regular peen might be better because of the way the tong hand holds the material and the hammer hand swings. Not sure, but would be interested in your opinion on each. Thanks!
The traditional way to use a cross peen was to swing it over the anvil face with the handle running parallel to the edges. You need to be able to reach around your anvil to position yourself correctly. The tongs are held in front of you with your arm fully extended. Not at your side. You don't need to do this all the time but it's real energy saver when you are working on heavy stuff.
@@df-intheshop330 I think I get what you are saying but I will have to ponder. Maybe you can look for an opportunity to clarify visually with an upcoming video. Thanks!
In video I just did on knife makers tongs I explain how the anvil and hammer work together. Sorry I can't post a link in a comment because TH-cam will see it as spam
@@df-intheshop330 Denis, I *think* that TH-cam will accept URLs that point to TH-cam locations. If not, you can add URLs (to anywhere, not just on TH-cam) into your video description - many TH-cam Creators add "affiliate" links to places like Amazon. Some Creators even edit the video Title & thumbnail until they start getting better view numbers than their "original" title and/or thumbnail did. None of these edits/changes cause a video to have to be re-uploaded and the video "stats" aren't started over from scratch with each edit. I've seen this explained by some "big channel" Creators.