Forging a Nail Header // Let's Make a Blacksmith Nail Header Tool
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ต.ค. 2024
- If you've wanted to get into forging nails, you will first need to start by forging a nail header. A blacksmith nail header tool makes the process of creating nails much easier. If you want to get into blacksmith tool making, this is a good tool to make for your collection.
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This may be the longest nail header video on TH-cam, but it is well worth the time. Loads of other information about forging techniques as well as making the header. Thanks, Roy!
As a minor perfectionist, blacksmithing is a perfect hobby, because I am always out of my comfort zone... Nothing I make is perfect. I made a nail header today and started making nails, to think they used to make hundreds of these a day. Smiths have to have a will stronger than their metal if they are going to survive, that's for sure.
I wanted to watch a nail header vid so if coarse I looked up good old Roy .the content is solid as usual, but your videos and your skills as a Blacksmith have really grown immensely since this one from three years ago .I can only hope I grow that much in the next three years . Thank Roy
Thank you for the encouragement!
Many thanks for the structural description and reasoning! Got some of it by watching other videos and theorizing but the explanation was invaluable for going into what and why and what could do otherwise and why you don't want the alternatives.
Good job and really it DOES make more sense to make single nail headers rather than 3 or 4 on one plate, expecially when you explained the dome/punching from the backside to keep from getting the nail stuck!
I've not had much use for nails myself but, I do have a project coming up that requires the use of square nails for some Rendezvous pieces so, I'll be making a couple of these!
Thanks, Roy!
Thanks Roy! As usual I love how you explain everything!
Hey Roy , i just want to say i appreciate all these informative videos , you provide a good realistic view of what a real modern day blacksmith is and has to do to make a living and keep up the great work and material man its a great help for people getting into the trade and who want to run their own blacksmithing business down the road !
awesome making one tomorrow then attempt to making all the forge tools
Thanks Roy been wanting to make a nail header for a while now. You always get me the knowledge
Thanks for this video. I was considering making a nail header soon, and this discussion will have saved me some real headache. Thanks for your amazing videos!
Very nice thank you so a round ball or round end starts off as square first. Glad we are blessed
Useful information, i will be using it, have a lot of leaf spring material I had not much to use for! Thanks for your video, PAUL
Best video on the topic with a great tutorial on design 👍🏼
Very informative and liked the way you did the shoulders.
Keith Whipple I'm glad you enjoyed the video! it was a spur of the moment kind of thing but I think it came out good none the less :-)
Nice and clear. Enjoyed the demonstration a lot. Now I need to watch a video on making nails I guess.
OKBushcraft I'll be making a video of that before too long :-) Is there a particular nail style you would like to know how to make? Thanks for watching.
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I don't know really, any style will be great.
Nice work on the header.
Having made many nail headers, I would offer a suggestion if I may: If you make the header itself thicker, it will be less prone to deformation by hammering nail heads. The relatively thin, looks to be about 1/4", header will very soon become dish-shaped (concave upwards) upon hammering the heads over the pritchel hole. One way to thicken the header proper when using thin bar would be to fold over the disk area and make a forge weld. That would provide a doubly thick disk area that would not lend itself so much to hammering deformation. You could then put a suitable crown on the top.
Thanks, man. Just gettin into blacksmithing for fun and hopefully profit. But sure fun to learn with younger guys that wanna do it too. I got the tools, so why not use em.
I do like this much. I may try to make another one . I sold my last one I had. They were my first now they would probably be better as yrs have gotten under my feet
Hey Roy, these would make excellent rivet headers as well....a few different sizes especially for copper/brass rivets. Love the video Roy!!!!!
+Charles Wright awesome glad you enjoyed the video!
Great video, very clear information, thanks for sharing it! Keep it up!
Marcos Linberg Thank you! very much!
Great video. Good instruction.
Thank you
Thank you my brother for sharing your skill and your passion. Most of all, thank you for representing our Lord Jesus, the Lion of the tribe of Judah. It is always encouraging to see men boldly proclaiming Christ. I pray Gods richest blessing on you and your craft.
Brother DaveRedeemed Blades
Good on ya Roy. Top video, and I learned plenty. Thankyou.
I was expecting you to make a nail with your new nail header.
Very cool!
I like watching your videos. They are informative and fun to watch.
good video lot of useful info. thanks again
thank you so much roy love your work i thinking i have too cold steel so ill work on my door of the gas forge God bless
+grayem pepper I'm glad I could help! Thank you for the great video idea!
Good technique. keep it up.
Hi Bland, thanks for the encouraging words!
Thanks
Great informative video!
You might do a demo on a double spring fuller with hardy shank.
Bland William I might just do that in a future video! thank you for the great suggestion!
i am just starting to forge things as a hobby and i am also a woodworker. i think it would be really cool to make my own nails and i would like to see if you could make a finnish nail header im not sure you can but it would be interesting to try
"Laborsome." In Old-speak, it was called "labor intensive." In New-Speak, it's now called "laborsome." The destruction of words is a beautiful thing. George Orwell would be proud. ;-)
One of the comments said "labersome". I don't mind spending a bit more time making a good tool. It's better than spending more cumulative time making several lower-quality tools "that are just ok" and will get you by until they break and you have to make another one. Thank you Roy. I appreciate your comments, patience and insight. Thanks for the explanations.
What was the size stick you started with? Seems like as much flattening on the top you would be thinning the material too much. Good job on the final product.
I enjoy your videos, and learn much from watching your videos.
I was disappointed after purchasing several nailheaders from one of the blacksmith suppliers, to find out they are made backwards, having the taper opposite of the way most are shown made. They are tapered from the top down making it quite difficult to use, as the size and taper of the nail stock have to be an exact match to the header or you end up with a stuck nail or one that won't seat all the way; causing the head section to more easily hockey stick rather than seat and I also tends to stick in the header, same as the way you describe the material riveting in a square hole. Could you have an explanation of why there must be another school of thought on which way the taper should be. I am considering TIG welding the hole shut and redrifting it in the direction you are showing in this video. Would you advise this or would I just be ruining them? I could just leave them hang on the wall as a conversation piece, but they piss me off Everytime I look at them.
Get it hot, hit it hard. I like this... Should be your tag line!
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Could elaborate in elaborate detail how to "elaborate" the crown?
Before it came to mean “extremely cautiously” in 1600, gingerly meant “elegantly, daintily.” In fact, But today it has less to do with elegance and more to do with a delicate touch, usually used to avoid hurting something or someone.Ain't Goog;e fun??
Whilst I agree that working cold steel is both less effective and possibly bad for grain structure, the notion that working the material with heavy blows that complete the forging task before temperature drops below working temperature is plain silly. If you can get it done in one heat that means loss oxidation loss and less time. This is an example of a competent blacksmith.
You showed a three hole nail header, How would you dome that header?
+SheikYerbuty you would donut by centering a ball end punch on the back side of all three holes individually to create a cavity. Hope this helps thank you for watching God bless
#blacksmithquestionoftheday
Do you ever weld in your gas forge? Do any problems or differences arise as opposed to coal?
Do u have any videos using it?
What is the diameter of the punch and hole?
would it work to make out of mild steel
That looked like something for the most of the video
+Elliot's Forge lol I think I know what you are talking about :-)
Thank you, very informative.Your skills are amazing. If I could make a suggestion. Your demo has a lot of extraneous info and is very long. Get to the point more quickly.
Boo watch someone else then
What is a cube of material
+tanfo8 if you were to look at the piece of bar and imagine even Square Cube means equal in cross-section dimensions. That's what I meant by a cube of material :-) hope this helps thank you for watching God bless and happy New Year
Christ Centered Ironworks thanks
Hey, if you're taking requests and haven't done it already, how about a froe?
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll consider it.
Christ Centered Ironworks thank you for considering it.
Origin of the word "Gingerly"
[C16: perhaps from Old French gensor dainty, from gent of noble birth; see gentle]
Where are you in Ohio?
Time saving tip for your video. When you put your iron in the fire stop talking until the iron is hot again that way you get to cut out that section where we watch an anvil while you jabber. Do your jabbering on while you are pounding steel. Much more engaging that way. It will shorten your videos and you get the same thing done.
You're from ohio ????
Good job. Talk less just get to it.