I just started blacksmithing yesterday, built a brake rotor forge and bought a 100 pound anvil. I really appreciate your videos and the information you are able to give in an easy to understand fashion. I'm enjoying my new hobby so far, i have several hammers in ball peen and several sledge styles in weights from 3lb to 8lbs, i will have to get a cross peen if it makes the work easier. Again thank you for taking the time to help us newbies.
Manny thanks for the awesome videos. An also thanks for the help with resolving our issues with our damascus forging class with peer meerding! You are a awesome man!
Great video! Using the play dough was such a great teaching prop!! I am a beginner and was trying to get lateral expansion on a piece of rebar but only getting radial. My hammer was a small round engineers hammer. I now have the cross peen but can't use it yet because of severe repetitive stress injury. My dad always taught me that there is always the right tool for the right job!
I love your videos. I am a farrier by trade but am starting to get into true blacksmithing other than horseshoes and drawing clips. Keep up the great work
Just spent an hour trying to make a giant allen wrench into a punch and I've come to the conclusion that nothing beats experience. It started at around 3/4 and i got about 6 inches of it down to 3/8ths before i ran out of steam and hunkered down in the air conditioning. Had i recorded it, I'd have gotten a few laughs.
thanks for these videos. iv been looking for more of an educational then just a here is how you hit steel.something else I thought was funny is your play dough. I have a young daughter and I was playing with her the other day. so as we were playing with her dough I was forming it into "bars" and making deferent twists.
Very glad to hear your comments on this basic topic. I love your approach to the work. Does it matter if the handle is metal or wood? It seems like a wood handle would absorb some shocks, but then, would a metal handle affect striking impacts over the course of working a piece of metal?
My biggest problem is not the hammer but that piece that is positioned between the hammer and the shop floor. Speaking of that, how do you still walk upright after all those years of smithing? I'm already starting to feel lopsided from swinging the hammer with one arm.
Trent, once again I am disappointed, not to hear the 'boop' at the end. ;). Aside from that the sound effects were perfect. Great description and demonstration. I have been telling young and old alike, that anything you can do with playdoh, you can do with hot iron. Thanks!
Trent, thanks for your videos! I REALLY appreciate ALL the info you are giving us beginners to the art. One quick question. You've done this video on hammers, what about tongs? What type should a newbie use? Are there different types for certain types of forging? Sorry, that was another question. Any thoughts? Thanks again for your videos and help! Please keep up the GREAT work!
Sadly , where I'm located there isn't much interest in blacksmithing or the tools of the trade. I've been given strange looks when asking about cross or straight peen hammers. We do however have plenty of 2-4 pound square hammers which I intend on turning into my working hammers. Would it be better to grind one half down into the cross peen or to hammer it into shape off the forge? If I forge it, would I need to quench? Thanks again for the awesome videos and yes I've been one of the claw hammer guys for a long time also using my old panel beating hammers which are just a bit too light.
There is so much talk about rigidizing your ceramic blanket in a gas forge,is this neccessary, and is the fibers that come of is it really that bad for you,the manufacture of my forge says it's not necessary cause these blankets get rock hard after heating, but some many sites say rigidis and coat with refractory cement,I dont want to be breathing in stuff that can cause mesothelioma
Thank you sir I just want to let you know that the information was very knowledgeable and I appreciate so much of the tips that you give me and guess what I was given two small 3 pound Sledge hammers guess what I'm going to turn them into you guessed it a couple of peeners thanks. It's not even funny I get so much of this stuff free the only reason why I got the Hammers was both the handles were busted off.
As a big fan of Forged in Fire, I have decided to try blacksmithing. Your videos are so refreshing, in how you explain things in a way that I think I am getting it (having absolutely NO experience)
I appreciate the knowledge you pass and the way you do it. On another video you explained using borax, my question is, If I weld tool steel onto my ASO, should I use borax between the metals for a better bond and less air pockets?
I appreciate the way you teach people without arrogance. Thanks for posting!
gosh.... that soundfx is top notch
:D
Your sound effects killed me bro! Spit coffee all over my kitchen table! 😂🤣👍loved the vid👍
I just started blacksmithing yesterday, built a brake rotor forge and bought a 100 pound anvil. I really appreciate your videos and the information you are able to give in an easy to understand fashion. I'm enjoying my new hobby so far, i have several hammers in ball peen and several sledge styles in weights from 3lb to 8lbs, i will have to get a cross peen if it makes the work easier. Again thank you for taking the time to help us newbies.
Nice profile picture
Years of personal experience + no BS= great advice and instruction. Thank you Sir.
Wow, thanks dude. I just learned more in 6 minutes than I have watching hours and hours of other sites.
Great, simple, and straightforward lesson. Thanks
Manny thanks for the awesome videos. An also thanks for the help with resolving our issues with our damascus forging class with peer meerding! You are a awesome man!
Thanks Tren!! That's some very Good information. The play-doh was a Good visual aid. Have a Shot & a Good weekend...!!
the sounds of steel stretching in slow motion lamo XDDD
Nice videos! 1/day is quite a pace!
Thanks for all the time, effort, and skills!
Dude, I sooooo love the sound effects.
Great video! Using the play dough was such a great teaching prop!! I am a beginner and was trying to get lateral expansion on a piece of rebar but only getting radial. My hammer was a small round engineers hammer. I now have the cross peen but can't use it yet because of severe repetitive stress injury. My dad always taught me that there is always the right tool for the right job!
Great advice and knowledge passed on right here. Thank you!
Thanks mate, I learnt something valuable as a beginner out of this - appreciated.
LOVE the lesson you made hammers make sense.
Great info, love the sound effects.
I just want to say thank you for such a helpful and insightful video. You seem like one cool ass dude. I appreciate it. Subbed
Thank you the clay explanation was the link I was missing good job breaking it down. Sound effects need work lol
Pretty cool! Good video, Sir, thanks for posting!
I love your videos. I am a farrier by trade but am starting to get into true blacksmithing other than horseshoes and drawing clips. Keep up the great work
thanks for your time and effort to make the great videos you make keep them coming
Thanks for doing these....full of information.
Love the sound effects great video
Interesting foley work.
Loved the sound effects, made the whole video
Just spent an hour trying to make a giant allen wrench into a punch and I've come to the conclusion that nothing beats experience. It started at around 3/4 and i got about 6 inches of it down to 3/8ths before i ran out of steam and hunkered down in the air conditioning. Had i recorded it, I'd have gotten a few laughs.
Sounds effects for the win. 😂😂😂
came for the hammers stayed for the sound effects
Good input thanx!
Nice and informative video. Thank u
Yes, I am soooo glad that it is FRIDAY also. I wish that it was a looong weekend...
LOL, that entry is sooooo me!
thanks for these videos. iv been looking for more of an educational then just a here is how you hit steel.something else I thought was funny is your play dough. I have a young daughter and I was playing with her the other day. so as we were playing with her dough I was forming it into "bars" and making deferent twists.
I enjoy your videos, with your help my son and I are going to make a forge outta propane tank.... hope we do justice to er?
Nice! Good tutorial. Thanks
Good Sir, I appreciate your style. This video rilly dumz it down for us simpl fokes!
Awesome explanation and being a Friday? You gotta be a clown! Lol🙂👍👍👍
Very glad to hear your comments on this basic topic. I love your approach to the work. Does it matter if the handle is metal or wood? It seems like a wood handle would absorb some shocks, but then, would a metal handle affect striking impacts over the course of working a piece of metal?
My biggest problem is not the hammer but that piece that is positioned between the hammer and the shop floor. Speaking of that, how do you still walk upright after all those years of smithing? I'm already starting to feel lopsided from swinging the hammer with one arm.
Trent, once again I am disappointed, not to hear the 'boop' at the end. ;). Aside from that the sound effects were perfect. Great description and demonstration. I have been telling young and old alike, that anything you can do with playdoh, you can do with hot iron. Thanks!
Trent, thanks for your videos! I REALLY appreciate ALL the info you are giving us beginners to the art. One quick question. You've done this video on hammers, what about tongs? What type should a newbie use? Are there different types for certain types of forging? Sorry, that was another question. Any thoughts? Thanks again for your videos and help! Please keep up the GREAT work!
Will be doing a series on tongs in a few weeks!
Sadly , where I'm located there isn't much interest in blacksmithing or the tools of the trade. I've been given strange looks when asking about cross or straight peen hammers. We do however have plenty of 2-4 pound square hammers which I intend on turning into my working hammers. Would it be better to grind one half down into the cross peen or to hammer it into shape off the forge? If I forge it, would I need to quench? Thanks again for the awesome videos and yes I've been one of the claw hammer guys for a long time also using my old panel beating hammers which are just a bit too light.
Hammer it and yes you want to harden it
Awesome!
I'm number 1000 on likes Awesome Informational educational video experience Y'alls
Any chance you'd want to address dressing a hammer face?
3:14 is the dirty mind test
U came in forged in fire
There is so much talk about rigidizing your ceramic blanket in a gas forge,is this neccessary, and is the fibers that come of is it really that bad for you,the manufacture of my forge says it's not necessary cause these blankets get rock hard after heating, but some many sites say rigidis and coat with refractory cement,I dont want to be breathing in stuff that can cause mesothelioma
Thank you sir I just want to let you know that the information was very knowledgeable and I appreciate so much of the tips that you give me and guess what I was given two small 3 pound Sledge hammers guess what I'm going to turn them into you guessed it a couple of peeners thanks. It's not even funny I get so much of this stuff free the only reason why I got the Hammers was both the handles were busted off.
I didn't know when you slow down the steel makes a raspberry sound!?
Be safe,make cool stuff.
As a big fan of Forged in Fire, I have decided to try blacksmithing. Your videos are so refreshing, in how you explain things in a way that I think I am getting it (having absolutely NO experience)
I use a diagonal peen hammer. Just because I can stand comfortably in front of the anvil and stretch it out in lenght.
What do you think of that?
3:45 you defiantly have a peen in your hand ;) hahahabababa
I appreciate the knowledge you pass and the way you do it. On another video you explained using borax, my question is, If I weld tool steel onto my ASO, should I use borax between the metals for a better bond and less air pockets?
Good job!
WTF is wrong with you you are breathing other fumes .........
Don't make the noises next time, thanks!