Mästermyr drills made off-grid using stones for tools
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 มิ.ย. 2021
- When making a Mästermyr tool chest a drill may come in handy. As it happens such a drill pattern can be found in the original Mästermyr find itself. I have made other sorts of drills back home, spiral drills, but none suitable to the primitive tool-set I use in the forest forge. The drill forged in this video turned out to be surprisingly simple to make, grinding always take time using the local stones, but forging took only about 15 minutes this time.
I also made a smaller and a larger drill as well as three chisels. The thinner two where forged from a rusty piece of old spring steel that I bought from a scrap yard some 20 years ago as was the drills. The thicker chisel was forged from an old harrow. I heat treated the two small chisel for wood work and the thicker one a bit harder for cutting steel. You will se in upcoming videos of how it will be used to make a file made to use when making a saw made to use when making a tool chest... if everything turns out the way it is planes.
I also made my second attempt ever to colour grade, compensating for my beginners camera-skills. This time as in my last attempt over a year ago I have focused on the green nuances on the site. Please comment and help me with new ideas and ways of making the videos more enjoyable... but I will keep having them this slow, it may be boring for some but craft is a slow pains taking process and I do want to publish a unique nature experience as well as the full process of forging in such a setting. But otherwise, what do you miss? what do you like/disslike? how about more clips of the ice, moss and the Swedish spring slowly blooming out? or the close ups vs. far away pichtures, what makes you watch another few minutes of this sort of content?
Use of the rocka and old school coal forge is awsome.
Good video and beautiful setting .
New to your Channel. I have been watching quite a few of them. I have had the pleasure of working on Stone anvils in the past . and they are just that. A pleasure. After 40 something years of , I love seeing someone demonstrating the fact that learning fundamentals and technique are four more important than the tools that you have. It was my pleasure to share this with many of my guild members. Great video. Keep up the great work. Tom Brown. North Dakota
☺Thank you for the kind words. It is good to have you here, a bit of appreciation is good for moral. And I guess stone forging blacksmiths are fairly rare these days even if most old forges, at least here in Sweden have a big worn down stone close by, worn from being forged on.
Aha! Clever to use a large piece of iron to temper the smaller chisels! I sometimes use that when making chisels or small knives too. I have only made a spoon-drill once for my archaeologist friend, but it turned out a bit cumbersome, though I think it was because I have made the handle too clumsy to work with. Perhaps it is time to revisit it. :)
This is awesome.
Thank you John. I am happy to see you subscribed. More videos are comming.
this is brilliant, i will be following with great interest, thank you
Thank you, I hope you will like it, The next videos will mainly concern woodworking as I try out the tools I have made.
The hardest thing I've ever done as a blacksmith is make a stump anvil in the woods using a large granite boulder, a 4lb hammer, tongs and a bag-bellow forge. It was made from wrought iron rods forge-welded together, and ended at a weight of 9lbs, taking 3 days to make. I would love to see you make something like that, especially if you plan on making more Mästermyr tools!
Yes I have had the plan for some time now but the need for a stump anvil never occurred. I thought I would need it as I made the scrolls for the viking knife: th-cam.com/video/lUXFIbjUDdA/w-d-xo.html and then I thought I might have use of it for the large chisel: th-cam.com/video/w_sNFVbSlk0/w-d-xo.html but the stones worked just fine in both occasions But I hope soon to have use of a stump anvil and when I do I wish to forge one... but I would probably not fire weld as yoy did. Btw Awesome to hear you bush craft forged too. Did you do anything else? videos? would be fun to see.
@@gustavthane2233 I have no videos at this time, but I have been on the fence about making a few. Alongside blacksmithing I enjoy most of the "ancient" trades, among them jewelry making, paper making, and the odd one out is comic book art. I should make a video, just to try it out!
@@jakeeasterday1663 Yes, it is really nice to be able to look into the creative process of another, let me know when it is out there... commic book art you say. Sounds like you will be able to build a really fancy format for your vids : )
Great video! Could you share your approach to timing the quench?
Thank you, yes. At 7:30 you see the quench. It is quite late on the day, I prefer to have it dark since the sun mess up the colours of the metal. I heat to a bright red almost to the point when the metal turn orange and quench as quickly as possible not to loose the heat of the thin edge in the cold air. This is important since the stones here are not hard enough to sharpen the edge after hardening so all the sharpness is there already before the hardening. This also means that I can not keep the metal warm for too long before quenching for that would burn the carbon/coal out of the steel. So, quick heating to red glow, quick into the water. Then I do not cool the whole chisel in the water to use the heat for an inside-out tempering. But I did add some additional heat for the tempering as well. I wanted the thick chisel to be really hard so I would be able to use it when making a saw, cutting into cold steel.
Is this an answer to your question? keep asking if it is something else or more precise you had in mind.
@@gustavthane2233 That is incredibly detailed, thank you very much!
I'm sorry I'm just seeing this.
The title should read “Off-Grid” not “Of Grid”.