Excellent save on the handle! For me, when the steel refuses to do what I want it to and seems to have a mind of its own, I often end up with a better result, which I think you did here. Thanks for sharing your process.
Good way to turn a fail into a success. Thanks for showing it the way it happened, instead of editing/redoing the poker, or starting over on a new video. Great job!
That collar's amazing, I'm surprised it's your first attempt. And anyone looking at the end result would never know it strayed from your original intent. I think it looks fantastic, you did a great job!
love the mistakes kept in and did not edit them out, i always say you learn more by making mistakes and your work arounds than your successes it looks great to me
I know you made a change to the loop due to the crack that developed but I really like how it ended up and I may try to do that on purpose on a project I am working on. I really like the finished look of it.
The course change after the loop cracked actually makes the end there look technically more difficult, to anyone who does not know it started the way it did, because it looks like a upset 90° corner leading into a thin round, which I darn sure would find difficult to execute!
Well, your skills are beyond mine at present. You did a great job with your poker, and I learned quite a bit. Thank you. Question: how DO you keep your hands so clean? Working with coal, my hands skin creases are ingrained black. Help?
@@solidsteelironworks yes, the leather gloved bit has been recommended to me, but I have grown fond of the safety of feeling the heat in a non obvious hot piece, and then acting accordingly. Doing punch work with a punch in too close a proximity to the hot stuff is painful, I'll admit. At our shop, there is so much dust from the 4 coal forges, that everything is caked from it. I hear that rubbing hand cream into a clean hand before a session will help, but I hate the sticky/slippery feeling of that. Hmmm.
Great outcome!
Thank you!
We all have to back up sometimes good save nice job
Excellent save on the handle! For me, when the steel refuses to do what I want it to and seems to have a mind of its own, I often end up with a better result, which I think you did here. Thanks for sharing your process.
Good way to turn a fail into a success. Thanks for showing it the way it happened, instead of editing/redoing the poker, or starting over on a new video. Great job!
I learned so much from watching you work. Thanks a ton!
Glad it was helpful!
Good work on this poker. We shared this video on our homemade tool forum last week.
That collar's amazing, I'm surprised it's your first attempt. And anyone looking at the end result would never know it strayed from your original intent. I think it looks fantastic, you did a great job!
Thank you!
brilliant buddy such skill
Thank You!
The finger grip reminds me of the trigger guards of old wheellock pistols.
Love it! Looks good.
pretty cool and definitely unique...there's no way your hand is sliding down that when you have a log stuck
Thanks for sharing
Nice one!
love the mistakes kept in and did not edit them out, i always say you learn more by making mistakes and your work arounds than your successes it looks great to me
I know you made a change to the loop due to the crack that developed but I really like how it ended up and I may try to do that on purpose on a project I am working on. I really like the finished look of it.
The course change after the loop cracked actually makes the end there look technically more difficult, to anyone who does not know it started the way it did, because it looks like a upset 90° corner leading into a thin round, which I darn sure would find difficult to execute!
Well, your skills are beyond mine at present. You did a great job with your poker, and I learned quite a bit. Thank you. Question: how DO you keep your hands so clean? Working with coal, my hands skin creases are ingrained black. Help?
I use gas so thats a big factor in clean hands and I always keep my left hand gloved also.
@@solidsteelironworks yes, the leather gloved bit has been recommended to me, but I have grown fond of the safety of feeling the heat in a non obvious hot piece, and then acting accordingly. Doing punch work with a punch in too close a proximity to the hot stuff is painful, I'll admit. At our shop, there is so much dust from the 4 coal forges, that everything is caked from it. I hear that rubbing hand cream into a clean hand before a session will help, but I hate the sticky/slippery feeling of that. Hmmm.
I cheat when I do collars I put a small weld to the parts first , it helps to keep them tight . 🤔🙈🙉🙊🤠