Thanks John, just finally got my treadle hammer finished and now need tooling for it! I was always thinking of wood handled tools, much nicer to use in my opinion! I have dozens of scrap hammers picked up at swap meets and markets that were purchased for this very use! Thanks again mate!🇦🇺👍
Tell em what for John! Lol. Just kidding, but I totally get it. I've experienced it in the two years I've been smithing. I can only imagine how much people have tried to tell you what or how to do the craft. 🍻 Edit: its kinda funny I'm currently making a chipping hammer for my brother in law. And I'm filming it lol. When it up, maybe you can watch it and give me the pointers... LOL. Stay awesome Mr Bear.
John very nice and very helpful video today. Thanks for this awesome information. Can’t wait to see more videos soon. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend. Forge On. God bless.
Ive been watching your videos for a good while now. Always been interested in the craft. Turns out your shop is only an hour away! Its a shame on Fort Carson they dont look kindly on making a forge in the barracks XD
He has one already lol. But just curious, is that a vid people would like? Not to poach viewers from John, cause I'm no where near the skill level he's at yet but I'm trying to start a channel for beginners and novices. I'm a knowledgeable novice,(have two years of full time work under me) and want to build a little community of fellow smiths at my level and such. I don't have much yet cause I stink at editing, but I have big plans. I wanna do live demos, Q and A's, give aways and the like. I'd love to one day possibly collaborate with John and Roy one day. Take care!
@@BurntMushroomBlacksmithing A, ill sub cause watching your videos i like your work and B, i tend to go towards informational and entertainment. Youll find what your audience wants over time but iwould reccomend making a subreddit to get some feedback.
@@PMtoAM That's a good idea. And yes, it'll take time. I'm more than willing to put in the effort to grow. I've spent the last two years recreating projects off here, near all the beginner projects I can find, putting personal spins on things, making all sorts of tools, gathering steel, reading, watching vids, attempting to learn the metallurgy, talking to as many people as I can, set up a nice hut/shop and just on the grind. The wife (bless her) and I have rebugeted everything to where I was able to drop down to a part time gig to supplement my end of the bills. Now I'm able to be out working every day depending on what's going on with the family. Most days I get 6-8 hours in, but I do at least something each day. We're working toward creating an etsy and this spring I'll have a booth at our farmers market. I'm gonna try to get them to let me do live demos too. I have a lot of stuff I wanna do. I also melt and do some casting projects as well(not much as of late). I've made bronze, Nordic gold, and such. Mostly cookie pan coins and bunt cakes lol. But yeah, thank you for the subscription and hope to make you and as many I can that tune in enjoy their time. Requests are always welcome and I will try to get to as many as I can. Since it's so early in the development, I should get to em all. Haha🍻
@@BurntMushroomBlacksmithing get smithing soon, cause the winter is the hot market for craft fairs. And aside from money craft fairs give you the oppurtunity to tell people about your channel and where they can see you work. Its all about surface area, the more you can get your word out there the more people will see it.
@@PMtoAM good advice, there are alot of winter craft fairs. I remember growing up my grandparents did the craft scene. Grandma made reeths and such, Grandpa did some wood projects and electrician tutorials or all things lol. Thank you, I'll take all the advice I can get. And yeah, I need to focus on a nice handful of projects to master and start the net as Roy would say. 🍻
Hi John, really enjoy your videos being new to blacksmithing still making tools . I would like to build a treadle hammer like yours but having trouble finding plans. Any chance you could point me in the right direction. Thanks Rick
Thanks John! As always very informative. I do have a question regarding hot cut and cold cut chisels. I know one is meant to cut hot material vs cold, but are they made differently? Maybe tempering and hardening is done differently? Thanks!
My understanding of it is hot cut tools normally aren't tempered and may or may not be hardened much either, because as soon as you go to use them they'll start heating up enough to ruin it anyway.
So could you if you so choose, drift your hole in the tool, insert your metal handle, bring it up to welding heat, then forge weld the handle to the tool?
Temperature of material you cut and cold chisels are hardened while hot ones are not(no point since it works in hot material that will temper the edge).
I've seen several flatters turned into rounders by newbies using them as hammers. If you're having blacksmith classes at you shop... HIDE YOUR FLATTERS!
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Thank you. Stay safe and well and have a wonderful weekend 👏🤞🙏
I actually have a chipping hammer I chopped the chisel end off to use as a center punch
Google job John. You’re doing a great job letting people know what tools you use and make. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. Fred.
Thanks John, just finally got my treadle hammer finished and now need tooling for it! I was always thinking of wood handled tools, much nicer to use in my opinion! I have dozens of scrap hammers picked up at swap meets and markets that were purchased for this very use! Thanks again mate!🇦🇺👍
Glad I could help
Perfect little project that my wife will get a real kick out of, she loves Halloween:)
I'm starting to build my treadle top tools and this was really helpful. Thanks John!
Thanks for your info. I do watch a lot of your videos and I trust your teaching. Thanks, and keep up the good work and God bless you and your family.
Tell em what for John! Lol. Just kidding, but I totally get it. I've experienced it in the two years I've been smithing. I can only imagine how much people have tried to tell you what or how to do the craft. 🍻
Edit: its kinda funny I'm currently making a chipping hammer for my brother in law. And I'm filming it lol. When it up, maybe you can watch it and give me the pointers... LOL. Stay awesome Mr Bear.
Well now I want to make an entire set of top tools out of old chipping hammers just out of bull headedness!
John very nice and very helpful video today. Thanks for this awesome information. Can’t wait to see more videos soon. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend. Forge On. God bless.
Thanks for the video. Always great information.
Ive been watching your videos for a good while now. Always been interested in the craft. Turns out your shop is only an hour away! Its a shame on Fort Carson they dont look kindly on making a forge in the barracks XD
Nice, thanks John!
Great video
Hello John
Thank you for the Video
Always some Inspiration
Take care yours Frank
Thanks for watching
i have a couple of chipping hammers with wood handles
Love your videos, can you do one all about cutting?
How to cut with a chisel, hardy tools, power tools, drill press all that stuff.
He has one already lol. But just curious, is that a vid people would like? Not to poach viewers from John, cause I'm no where near the skill level he's at yet but I'm trying to start a channel for beginners and novices. I'm a knowledgeable novice,(have two years of full time work under me) and want to build a little community of fellow smiths at my level and such. I don't have much yet cause I stink at editing, but I have big plans. I wanna do live demos, Q and A's, give aways and the like. I'd love to one day possibly collaborate with John and Roy one day. Take care!
@@BurntMushroomBlacksmithing A, ill sub cause watching your videos i like your work and B, i tend to go towards informational and entertainment. Youll find what your audience wants over time but iwould reccomend making a subreddit to get some feedback.
@@PMtoAM That's a good idea. And yes, it'll take time. I'm more than willing to put in the effort to grow. I've spent the last two years recreating projects off here, near all the beginner projects I can find, putting personal spins on things, making all sorts of tools, gathering steel, reading, watching vids, attempting to learn the metallurgy, talking to as many people as I can, set up a nice hut/shop and just on the grind. The wife (bless her) and I have rebugeted everything to where I was able to drop down to a part time gig to supplement my end of the bills. Now I'm able to be out working every day depending on what's going on with the family. Most days I get 6-8 hours in, but I do at least something each day. We're working toward creating an etsy and this spring I'll have a booth at our farmers market. I'm gonna try to get them to let me do live demos too. I have a lot of stuff I wanna do. I also melt and do some casting projects as well(not much as of late). I've made bronze, Nordic gold, and such. Mostly cookie pan coins and bunt cakes lol. But yeah, thank you for the subscription and hope to make you and as many I can that tune in enjoy their time. Requests are always welcome and I will try to get to as many as I can. Since it's so early in the development, I should get to em all. Haha🍻
@@BurntMushroomBlacksmithing get smithing soon, cause the winter is the hot market for craft fairs. And aside from money craft fairs give you the oppurtunity to tell people about your channel and where they can see you work. Its all about surface area, the more you can get your word out there the more people will see it.
@@PMtoAM good advice, there are alot of winter craft fairs. I remember growing up my grandparents did the craft scene. Grandma made reeths and such, Grandpa did some wood projects and electrician tutorials or all things lol. Thank you, I'll take all the advice I can get. And yeah, I need to focus on a nice handful of projects to master and start the net as Roy would say. 🍻
Love your videos
Hi John, really enjoy your videos being new to blacksmithing still making tools . I would like to build a treadle hammer like yours but having trouble finding plans. Any chance you could point me in the right direction. Thanks Rick
The plans are available on the ABANA.org website
I've seen people use these hammers without treadle hammers, just hand hammering. Where can you buy the wooden handled ones?
Thanks John! As always very informative. I do have a question regarding hot cut and cold cut chisels. I know one is meant to cut hot material vs cold, but are they made differently? Maybe tempering and hardening is done differently? Thanks!
My understanding of it is hot cut tools normally aren't tempered and may or may not be hardened much either, because as soon as you go to use them they'll start heating up enough to ruin it anyway.
The big difference is bevel angle I cold chisel can't be as sharp an angle as a hot chisel.
So could you if you so choose, drift your hole in the tool, insert your metal handle, bring it up to welding heat, then forge weld the handle to the tool?
You could, but the S7 in these tools might be tough to forge weld to mild steel
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I know you said & I don’t remember what video difference between a hot chisel and a cold chisel 🤦🏼♂️🤷♂️
Temperature of material you cut and cold chisels are hardened while hot ones are not(no point since it works in hot material that will temper the edge).
I've seen several flatters turned into rounders by newbies using them as hammers. If you're having blacksmith classes at you shop...
HIDE YOUR FLATTERS!
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