Forging a spatula - blacksmithing for beginners
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- A while back I made a forged fork with a flat stock handle. I had always meant for that to be part of a set with a spoon and spatula forged to match. Today I finally get around to the spatula from 1/4" x 3/4" flat bar.
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Nice job and the Bob Ross reference was good
I always liked happy little trees.
4 years late, but I love Bob Ross.
lol at the Bob Ross reference at 10:30. Salute to one of the greats!
Great job, John! So it's a little small , I thought it turned out nice! Love watching you teach sir , I'm 61 and still learning.
Excellent John, can't wait to see the spoon video! Nice to see the ghost of Bob Ross still making his presence known! :-)
Once the set is complete it would be a perfect set for bush camping 🏕 I think you should do a small knife bade on the end of a handle the same length as the rest it would come in handy for cutting up things in a camp oven over a fire so you don’t burn your knuckles being to close
You , Sir, have increased my Blacksmithing skills an awful LOT ! I want to Thank you for sharing your skills with the Blacksmithing Community !
You are a Blessing to us all !
Have a Safe and Blessed Day !
Thanks for showing this without the power tools, we all have tool envy being just a handful of us have them, and I am one with the bare basics, but I'm learning the process
I watched this on my phone a while back so I am a little late commenting. It looks great!
Your anvil has such a nice sound to it. I like that nice solid click over the ring of others much better.
He has a video on how he made it quieter, you can tell his older videos before that was done.
Cant wait for the spoon part. This oughta be good.
Really like the build though. Turned out nice.
Blessed days sirSir,
Crawford out
This was great watching you do this small spatula thank you
That wasn’t a joke, that was a quote!
Thanks for sharing with us 👍👍
Lol. It is a little on the tiny side but like you I got a tiny little cast iron pan that would work great with. I like it! Wrote down the measurements you started with because I'm going to make one as well. No idea why I never thought of it before. As always great video. Thanks John!
I like those slotted jaw tongs. They look to have a real secure hold on this kind of flat stock.
They are great for lots of flat stock projects
Happy little curl....or did you mean "happy little cloud" Mr Ross lol funny just did this at our Hammer In we had Leigh Morrell in for a two day demo. And yes all of us who caught the joke dated ourselves lol
In a Mark Aspery class he showed us how to fold the end over and forge weld it to gain more mass for the spatula part. I believe the starting stock size was about the same.
Nice technique to get to the classic spatula shape!
Scott,I did the same thing on a fireplace broom handle using 1/4" x 5/16" s stock, instead of 1/2" square stock. A customer wanted a more delicate handle, so I folded over and forge welded to get a 3/4" x 1-1/2" tab for the broom maker to tie on the broom
liked the insert shot on the hammering technique. may be useful in the future .
I have made a few of theese butvi always rivit the head on from a diff peice if steel or copper. Ive gota say watching you do one peice construction was amazing! And so is your hammer control while useing the cross pein for the head of the spatula! Very cool to see this thank you!
Thanks John, will definitely going to try a set
Always a nice easy visit my friend.
Very nice!
Nice John.
"Happy little curl",always happy curls.
I really enjoy your videos you have shown me so much
I probably would have thinned the end a little with the file, just to make it easier to slide under the pikelettes (or mini-burhers). Thanks John - now another one on my to-do list.
Cool little project, very practical and a good use of drawing out/
Great shape
That was very nice thanks for sharing and teaching us how to forge things like that. Keep up the great work.
Love your tong control.
I liked it very nice
Thank you for making this video. I saw your post earlier on Instagram. I really like it. Also your other video with the camera spinning around you had some really interesting angles.
Some times you just need to have some fun, glad you liked it
Love your videos! If I wanted them identical I would go to the hardware store and buy a stamped out one.
I got the joke! I was thinking it while watching the fork video.
I enjoyed the "happy little curl" but if you show up with a squirrel in your pocket you may have taken things a little past center, grin...
Did Bob Ross have a squirrel?
@@BlackBearForge More than one, several times he had him in his pocket and they would stop the painting to show his "pocket squirrel", other times they had footage of him outdoors feeding them. He was a real animal lover.
I can almost do that!
Great job John but if i make one I will likely go a bit bigger.
Great video and nice bob ross reference! Do you think you could forge some one piece spurs?
Would it make sense to use high-carbon steel, and heat treat it, so the spatula is springy?
Joel C. Salomon mild steel has plenty of spring as long as you don’t get any cracks.
This may be a bit much, but forge weld a piece of 1 1/2 x 1/4" on the 3/4" x 1/4" to have more material for the spatula without a lot of drawing out.
Forge welding to achieve a starting size is a great way to work.
So now I have no excuse to learn to forge weld. I have been putting it off but it's getting warmer here so no cold anvil.
Hallo Mister John, great videos as always. Is it possible that you could turn up the volume from your side?
I actually was trying it with the mic gain turned down because it was sounding a little harsh when I edited. I'll try turning it back up
On that Fuller tool , did you grind the depressions, or are they from years of use .
They are ground in for working with black pipe
Is there a particular reason the horn of your anvil is pointing to the left?
It actually faces right. th-cam.com/video/y1TVeZ_MSW0/w-d-xo.html
Can you tell me what kind of fly press n size you have ton wise
It is a number 6 which should be 6 tons
Is there a specific name for the straight edge you use to measure the stock with that little 90 degree tail on it? I'd like to get one.
He calls it a hook rule, and he has a video on making one.
what are the dimensions of your hardy cone mandrel and what is it made of? thanks...
It is one I bought from Pieh Tool, so I don't know what the material is. Its about 5" tall and 2" at the base
@@BlackBearForge Much thanks for the reply. :)
It might just be my ears but I thought this video the hammering was noisier than usual and you were harder to hear did you change microphone set up or is that the new camera? Still a wonderful video as always though
I actually turned the gain down for this video to try and lesson the hammer noise. Odd that that seemed to get louder
Great video as always :) I'm going to have to try to make one of these soon! So I have a bit of an odd question, I don't know why but I noticed that you haven't used the hammer that you used to use a lot in your older videos in a while. The one seen here th-cam.com/video/Pq3Dwpc_UyQ/w-d-xo.html did something happen to it? Or do you just rotate the ones you use?
It just needs a new handle, which I haven't gotten around to doing.
"Inches" are so complicated to follow. Too much math!! A quarter, a sixth, two eighths. How do you keep up😢😢!?
Good work, great channel, love the fact that you take it down to basic tools.
How do you know garages from inches?
I only know a few. 16 ga is about 1/16" thats the easy one. 11 gauge is about 1/8" these aren't exact just rough guidelines that are close enough for most forge work.
Thanks allot that'll go far enough.
Someone watched Bob Ross!! Lol
I never watched him much. But occasionally someone comments that I sound like him.