Your videos have inspired an ‘old bloke’ to get off his bum and build a new life! I loved forge work at school so i want to get back to it! I would like to try sand box casting as well. I have seen amazing tools made from collected empty Coke cans! I admire your ‘mantra’ of upcycling and reusing, saving the poor old planet from more damage. More people should follow this example!👍🏻
My dad, rest his soul, taught me to use what he called a chicken stick while chopping kindling. It was just any old stick to hold the kindling instead of my fingers. I still have all my fingers so it must have worked. 😁😁😁
Max, the normalising, why does it take three goes, is it just better heated and cooled a few times, love the vids especially the landy and the tractor, got an s3 and db 995 on last legs, thanks for the inspiration and humour.
Part of the process is reliving the stresses in the metal, but also when you forge carbon steel at high temps you increase the grain size and each normalising cycle reduces that grain size and so the metal becomes stronger (or more correctly returns to it's strongest state).
Thanks for the reply, could do with a good book to read up on that, please keep making the great vids, like the way you have a go, and invent solutions, cheers.
Can you fashion a wedge/axe device to mount to your power hammer? Certainly would have create a safe means of holding the wood to keep your hands free of the "power hatchet"! Love the videos, thanks.
When you need to heat the metal up before normalising, annealing or quenching, you need to reach critical temperature. When steel hits critical temperature it becomes non-magnetic so the magnet is an easy way of knowing when you have enough heat in the work.
Ive always got an eye peeled for decent pitch pine floor/ skirting boards in skips. Circular sawn into 5 or 6" lengths, they split up int kindling beautifully, with a real ' ping' Straight into my kindling sack.
I used to do a lot of work for a reclamation company and they would let me have all the ends of the floorboards they reclaimed - only good for kindling but what lovely kindling it was!
Your videos have inspired an ‘old bloke’ to get off his bum and build a new life! I loved forge work at school so i want to get back to it! I would like to try sand box casting as well. I have seen amazing tools made from collected empty Coke cans! I admire your ‘mantra’ of upcycling and reusing, saving the poor old planet from more damage. More people should follow this example!👍🏻
This channel is epic... Brilliant content, educational, entertaining, instructional and humour (most important).
Thank you sir 😊
Very enjoyable videos, thanks.
Nice One. Keep up the good work
Awesome, crazy man.
"I can actually ho'...no I can't." LOL.
My dad, rest his soul, taught me to use what he called a chicken stick while chopping kindling. It was just any old stick to hold the kindling instead of my fingers. I still have all my fingers so it must have worked. 😁😁😁
The tenacity! In case anyone doubts the name Maximus Ironthumper.
Max, the normalising, why does it take three goes, is it just better heated and cooled a few times, love the vids especially the landy and the tractor, got an s3 and db 995 on last legs, thanks for the inspiration and humour.
Part of the process is reliving the stresses in the metal, but also when you forge carbon steel at high temps you increase the grain size and each normalising cycle reduces that grain size and so the metal becomes stronger (or more correctly returns to it's strongest state).
Thanks for the reply, could do with a good book to read up on that, please keep making the great vids, like the way you have a go, and invent solutions, cheers.
wonderful to see how its done.... great stuff
Brilliant max😁👍👏👏👏
Prime tool Max Cheers
You sure make it look easy!
It *is* easy! You just keep thumping away at the metal until it looks right!
Excellent Tool!
This is not just a knife, this is an M&S knife quenched in virgin olive oil...
Can you fashion a wedge/axe device to mount to your power hammer? Certainly would have create a safe means of holding the wood to keep your hands free of the "power hatchet"! Love the videos, thanks.
I'm temped to do that just for the comedy value! Thanks for watching :-)
Love your new to that you successfully made, unique just like you.
Just found your channel gone back to your old vids. Just wondering what the purpose of the olive oil is?
Nice chopper.
There may well be a market for such a tool.
Nice work sir!
Cheers!
I think that is fabulouso
How long before you reach for a nearby wrench to undo a bolt and end up losing a few fingers? ;) Haha. Nicely done though!
Nice
god, that took some hammer !
Top job that man!!
Thank you!
why didnt you use your power hammer?
Just a bit too fiddly to do with the power hammer!
please explain magnet
When you need to heat the metal up before normalising, annealing or quenching, you need to reach critical temperature. When steel hits critical temperature it becomes non-magnetic so the magnet is an easy way of knowing when you have enough heat in the work.
Ive always got an eye peeled for decent pitch pine floor/ skirting boards in skips. Circular sawn into 5 or 6" lengths, they split up int kindling beautifully, with a real ' ping'
Straight into my kindling sack.
I used to do a lot of work for a reclamation company and they would let me have all the ends of the floorboards they reclaimed - only good for kindling but what lovely kindling it was!