Wow. you just blew my mind. I didn't know anything about any step at all of all before watching. I just started trying to build a metal sculpture, with found pieces, & have been trying to bang on it & bend it & fabricate & have been hunting around for techniques, just building skills. This was stunning. But I definitely had a great laugh to see the big conclusion, after all that work, making all those tools, & all that setup & fire up... of a coat hook & hanging a coat. I loved it. HA HA ha.
That is a brilliant idea for a roll-out coal forge! Very clever hardy tools as well, seeing not what something is but what it could become is a wonderful skill for any craftsperson, but especially a smith with a penchant for reusing scrap! I am definitely going to borrow your idea for the quick release twisting wrench too!
" ..repurposing old things.." right on spot my friend! That's the pleasure! You did a great job by converting all these scraps to treasures! Great, strong long life tools for your mighty anvil! Thanks for giving me this joy!
I'm impressed with the amount of steel "stuff" you have. Lol. I really enjoy watching you do what you do. Especially when you restore various things. Keep up the good work, mate. Lol. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🇦🇺🇦🇺
When many people see a rusty old hammer or something they discard it , but it's top quality hardened metal that's going to waste. keep up the good work!
That is so nice to have all those treasure chests full of steel parts and the skills to make stuff. Those hardy tools ain’t cheap either! You probably have several thousand dollars worth there now. You could rebuild a civilization with all that. 😁 I love the quick release twisting tool too. Great stuff!!! 👍🏼
seriously impressive organization, which is the only way to remain productive when ya love to recycle and salvage things... "its not hoarding as long a you find a use for it"
Great use of STUFF for what you will be needing as far as Hardy tools! I wish I had as much old stuff to use for the tools I need! Thanks for the video!
Sometimes I watch your channel to see your metal working, other times I watch to see the dogs! Actually I enjoy both. BTW - Re-purposing of old objects to something new is great to see.
I don’t make the following kind of statement on TH-cam much of at all: this may be the most important blacksmithing video to come out in years. You have shown us how to acquire hardy tools. Well done.
Well done Fellla you did real well there making all those tools. I get a lot of hints from Blackbear forge. I am unable to get to my shop due to a new hip replacement, So grounded for 8 weeks maybe more... Tom Ayr Scotland.
Excellent. Some good hardies for the anvil. I like the way you think outside the box, I tried to think outside the box once, got a bad headache.. LOL .. Always like the puppy time.. Peace..
Some of those descriptions on your storage boxes 😂 great the way you made your own tools, have to call you a blacksmith soon. Look forward to seeing what you can make with that collection.
I'm glad you enjoyed it! I have a lot of fun in my shop, even with the simple things like labels on my tubs and crates! I'm a ways off from actually knowing what I'm doing at the anvil, but I know enough to be dangerous!
Love the assortment of tools you made for your anvil very nice a wide selection for what ever comes your way good thinking I am sure we will see some of them being used fir things on further restoration projects! 😃🔨!! 👍Keep up the excellent work !!
Funny I found this video. I made a hot cut out of an old chipping hammer and welded it to a mild steel shank today. I think my phone is tracking me. Just subscribed also.
Hello friend I used to do alot of blacksmithing in my youth. I suggest that you make a few punches and chisels with handels on them they come in handy . Also on your tounge make a oval ring like a chain link. It goes around both handels and thightens around the work piece as you slide the ring back towards your self.
Like the repurpose of the old wooden level very good use of scrap steel for anvil fixtures, gives me ideas. Ahah cought you in your nefarious scheme trying to make me get out of my chair, I will get even, by teaching you the watchmakers trade if I ever catch you in Pensacola!
Dude I'm so jealous of your "scrap" I mean I'd be in heaven just fixing those old hammers up and forging blades from that hard enable steel, Awesome video man, I liked it
My God mate. You certainly have a lot of 'stuff'. lol. Well, at least you're not short of things to use in your restoration projects. Good job on the resto. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Pleasure to watch. I was very impressed with your stash of round bar and all your extra stuff to repurpose. The dies I think could be a gold mine. Fun video, I have an old a axe the eye is deformed from hitting it with a hammer I think. I’m going to make a hardy cut.
Thanks for the video! I need to make several more hardy tools and have been putting it off! This vid might just get me off my dead ass to do what I've been putting off! Very nice selection of tools you've made!
For my bending tool I took breaker bar that had broke and welded the square end to the plate. That way I can change the diameter by changing the socket. I still use the small round holding bar. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge and making this great video.
I love how organized you are and you have everything on hand to make what you want. Those are very clever additions to the big boy anvil!! I recently bought a steel cabinet with 30 large drawers to go in it. Every drawer had all kinds of tools nuts bolts, a tap and die set, you name it was in there. The kicker is I only paid $20 for it. It was the woman's father stuff she was selling and I knew she should have at least another $100 to the price, so I asked if she was sure on the price because I felt like I was stealing from her. I have several wrenches like the one you have. They are pieces of art to me.
I could almost guess your DOB by how organized you are and how you keep your work area clean as you work. Great videos you are doing, nice mix of interesting work. Love those dogs. Thank you
That is excellent that you can reporpose all that scrap tooling and make something awesome. Going forward, you can now make or repair just about anything. I recall buying a Shopsmith.... made a few $500, birdhouses. Costs go down for the tools the more you use them.
Awesome job man! I like the way you used the bench grinder to grind that right angle on the base of the tooling. People over think things like that so much and want to make jigs and spend half a day fingering something like that out. When you can just get it done quick and efficiently lol. Awesome man!!
Definitely lots of ways to do things like that, but I always think: what's the goal? For the bottom of a tool that will be in a hardy hole on an anvil, it just has to FIT!
Having done some Blacksmithing you have made some nice tools for your hardy hole on your anvil all thought I don't know how I would use some of them yet if it was my shop. Just adding them adds a lot to the shop
Great work. See you also use hand protection, good example for others to take care of those valuable 10 only fingers. I learnt from experience myself; eye- and dust mask go along also.
Great Ideas! I had an anvil clam like the one you made, but I found I wasn't using it much. I prefer the old holdfasts. I made the clamp into a bar clamp.
bill baggins The tap is still round but the threads on it were square. Just a standard 4 flute tap with square thread. Square threads are still used today albeit acme has taken over for it in most application.
I am so jealous of your hoarding ability and having it so organised
You’ve got a gold mine in them racks and tote boxes my brother! 👌🏻
Hello SW. As a lot of blacksmiths say "need a tool, make a tool". You are certainly off to a great start, nicely done. Regards, Dave
Wow. you just blew my mind. I didn't know anything about any step at all of all before watching. I just started trying to build a metal sculpture, with found pieces, & have been trying to bang on it & bend it & fabricate & have been hunting around for techniques, just building skills. This was stunning. But I definitely had a great laugh to see the big conclusion, after all that work, making all those tools, & all that setup & fire up... of a coat hook & hanging a coat. I loved it. HA HA ha.
I'm all about re-purposing tools and iron! Well done!
Its so hard restoration anvil but you can maked. From anvil abandoned to be like new. I liked your done...very well. Good job. 👍👍👍
I love making useful things from discarded steel. Your hardy tools are very imaginative! I’ll be copying a couple. Thanks for sharing.
Excellent video! No music, very pure.
That is a brilliant idea for a roll-out coal forge! Very clever hardy tools as well, seeing not what something is but what it could become is a wonderful skill for any craftsperson, but especially a smith with a penchant for reusing scrap! I am definitely going to borrow your idea for the quick release twisting wrench too!
What a great variety of bits and ends remade into useful tools. I enjoyed most...you showing the used of each tool you made!
Thats a lot of treasure. I would use every piece of that steel. I do bladesmithing and welding. Way to go man. :)
" ..repurposing old things.." right on spot my friend! That's the pleasure! You did a great job by converting all these scraps to treasures! Great, strong long life tools for your mighty anvil! Thanks for giving me this joy!
It was my pleasure! Thanks for always watching, I truly appreciate it!
Appreciate you showing us all the tools you made and examples of how many of them are used. Very cool stuff!!
I'm impressed with the amount of steel "stuff" you have. Lol. I really enjoy watching you do what you do. Especially when you restore various things. Keep up the good work, mate. Lol. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🇦🇺🇦🇺
I'm always collecting things that are "junk" to others, and this video shows why! Thanks for watching & commenting! Lots more to come!
When many people see a rusty old hammer or something they discard it , but it's top quality hardened metal that's going to waste. keep up the good work!
Not me! I've got tons of old hammers! I love em!
That is so nice to have all those treasure chests full of steel parts and the skills to make stuff. Those hardy tools ain’t cheap either! You probably have several thousand dollars worth there now. You could rebuild a civilization with all that. 😁
I love the quick release twisting tool too. Great stuff!!! 👍🏼
Wow, very nice supply of bits and pieces. And soo tidy, you actually have a chance at finding just the right thing... Great
I love how organized your workshop is.....all those drawers with everything in boxes, all sorted....awesome! 👏👏👏
seriously impressive organization, which is the only way to remain productive when ya love to recycle and salvage things... "its not hoarding as long a you find a use for it"
Damn! You really don’t mess around, definitely giving me tool envy🤯 and lots of inspiration. Thanks
No I do not! If you enjoyed this video, I'll bet you'll enjoy some of my others! Thanks for watching & supporting the channel! Lots more to come!
Great use of STUFF for what you will be needing as far as Hardy tools! I wish I had as much old stuff to use for the tools I need!
Thanks for the video!
Sometimes I watch your channel to see your metal working, other times I watch to see the dogs! Actually I enjoy both.
BTW - Re-purposing of old objects to something new is great to see.
I love this plastic boxes too! They are so modular❤
Can't believe how organized your shop is now... Great stuff!!!!!
I appreciate it! It's always a work in progress!
I don’t make the following kind of statement on TH-cam much of at all: this may be the most important blacksmithing video to come out in years. You have shown us how to acquire hardy tools. Well done.
Never would have figured that! I just wanted some additional tools! I appreciate you watching & commenting! Lots more to come!
Well done Fellla you did real well there making all those tools. I get a lot of hints from Blackbear forge. I am unable to get to my shop due to a new hip replacement, So grounded for 8 weeks maybe more... Tom Ayr Scotland.
Enjoying your repurposed blacksmithing tools.
Excellent. Some good hardies for the anvil. I like the way you think outside the box, I tried to think outside the box once, got a bad headache.. LOL .. Always like the puppy time.. Peace..
Sometimes it give me a headache too!
Neat repurposing of tools. And always love seeing the Weimaraners! 👍🏻
youve done well with the hme made tools well done.
I found this extremely interesting .
Thank you for posting this video 😎👍🙏🇬🇧🇺🇸
It pained me to see you save the Ford wrench and weld to the monkey wrench/adjustable hammer...I love em one of my favorite tools
Me too, that WAS a beauty....I was shocked ( commented above )Those lovely wood slabs, all contoured in, like the old screwdrivers.
Some of those descriptions on your storage boxes 😂 great the way you made your own tools, have to call you a blacksmith soon. Look forward to seeing what you can make with that collection.
125 SM he is a blacksmith he heated steal and move the steel into a different shape.
I'm glad you enjoyed it! I have a lot of fun in my shop, even with the simple things like labels on my tubs and crates! I'm a ways off from actually knowing what I'm doing at the anvil, but I know enough to be dangerous!
That's an impressive number of tools for the anvil, and I can't wait to see what you have in mind for each of them.
Random stuff? Dude you've got EVERYTHING in that shop! I am VERY envious. 😁
You have alot of cool stuff!
The possibilities of what you could make with it is endless
@@mwilliamshs fuck off shit head. Lame ass comment..
Love the assortment of tools you made for your anvil very nice a wide selection for what ever comes your way good thinking I am sure we will see some of them being used fir things on further restoration projects! 😃🔨!! 👍Keep up the excellent work !!
Great job using old things and giving them purpose again. I hate wasting perfectly good items. Nice work and cool dogs bro
Funny I found this video. I made a hot cut out of an old chipping hammer and welded it to a mild steel shank today. I think my phone is tracking me. Just subscribed also.
Hello friend I used to do alot of blacksmithing in my youth. I suggest that you make a few punches and chisels with handels on them they come in handy . Also on your tounge make a oval ring like a chain link. It goes around both handels and thightens around the work piece as you slide the ring back towards your self.
Good work on using what you had on hand. I do love the old "liar" er... level being used as the backing for a coat rack.
Like the repurpose of the old wooden level very good use of scrap steel for anvil fixtures, gives me ideas. Ahah cought you in your nefarious scheme trying to make me get out of my chair, I will get even, by teaching you the watchmakers trade if I ever catch you in Pensacola!
Dude I'm so jealous of your "scrap" I mean I'd be in heaven just fixing those old hammers up and forging blades from that hard enable steel, Awesome video man, I liked it
Man you live in the middle of blacksmith heaven..lol.. I just thought I had alot of "scrap" steel.. great video
My God mate. You certainly have a lot of 'stuff'. lol. Well, at least you're not short of things to use in your restoration projects. Good job on the resto. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Your parts organization makes my CDO happy.
My barn, tools and parts are the same way.
Cheers
That was an amazing instructional video, thank you!
Pleasure to watch. I was very impressed with your stash of round bar and all your extra stuff to repurpose. The dies I think could be a gold mine. Fun video, I have an old a axe the eye is deformed from hitting it with a hammer I think. I’m going to make a hardy cut.
DO IT! It's always more satisfying using a tool YOU made!
Thanks for the video! I need to make several more hardy tools and have been putting it off! This vid might just get me off my dead ass to do what I've been putting off!
Very nice selection of tools you've made!
Love the weimers checking on you. Only one here but she keeps me company in the Smitty!
For my bending tool I took breaker bar that had broke and welded the square end to the plate. That way I can change the diameter by changing the socket. I still use the small round holding bar. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge and making this great video.
Quod est impossibile…….necessitate est ingenii mater! Great job, best wishes, and a collective hug for the Weims.
Jealous of your old steel stash. I love the repurposed tools made into new tools for the anvil but im not gonna lie. Those dogs!😊
Why would anybody hijack a one year old thread with crap about hacking Instagram accounts is beyond me.
I love how organized you are and you have everything on hand to make what you want. Those are very clever additions to the big boy anvil!! I recently bought a steel cabinet with 30 large drawers to go in it. Every drawer had all kinds of tools nuts bolts, a tap and die set, you name it was in there. The kicker is I only paid $20 for it. It was the woman's father stuff she was selling and I knew she should have at least another $100 to the price, so I asked if she was sure on the price because I felt like I was stealing from her. I have several wrenches like the one you have. They are pieces of art to me.
Ah, that wrench mate, wrenched my heart to see him weld to that !
Love the use of the old level. My Grandfather's is still hanging in the basement.
Had a coworker catch his sleeve on a similar wire wheel on his drill press. Wasn’t pretty.
Nice fab work, I like how you reused that stuff.
Yeah, dangerous f'in set up that, break your arm. They can just grab you in a split second, or send something flying down the workshop.
Oh man you got a bunch of them crazy dogs!!!
I could almost guess your DOB by how organized you are and how you keep your work area clean as you work. Great videos you are doing, nice mix of interesting work. Love those dogs. Thank you
I'd love to hear your guess!
It would be 33 give or take 2.. How bad was that... Be nice..
That is excellent that you can reporpose all that scrap tooling and make something awesome. Going forward, you can now make or repair just about anything. I recall buying a Shopsmith.... made a few $500, birdhouses. Costs go down for the tools the more you use them.
I just started watching your channel and I am already jealous of your massive stash. 😜
Watching your vid I first thought great content then, this guy's gonna injure himself then, I saw the finished product and subscribed!
Awesome job man! I like the way you used the bench grinder to grind that right angle on the base of the tooling. People over think things like that so much and want to make jigs and spend half a day fingering something like that out. When you can just get it done quick and efficiently lol. Awesome man!!
Definitely lots of ways to do things like that, but I always think: what's the goal? For the bottom of a tool that will be in a hardy hole on an anvil, it just has to FIT!
Dont get me wrong, great job on making your own tools, but i love watching guys forge their own tools, take the stock and forge it......
Having done some Blacksmithing you have made some nice tools for your hardy hole on your anvil all thought I don't know how I would use some of them yet if it was my shop. Just adding them adds a lot to the shop
Great job, Matt! Need to get myself another welder then I could do this. Love those anvils!
When you welding I'm instinctively closing my eyes lol
I know the hurt at 10;55 when you sacrificed that nice American made Armstrong or Williams c-clamp.
* /most enviable fashon/* I HATE YOU!
What a treasure stash of a shop you must have. Love the videos, keep them coming.
Hello a very nice Video it’s great 👍 from Germany 🇩🇪 👋👋👋Kai
What neat ideas you have. Thanks.
You have more money invested in plastic storage totes then I have for my whole shop!!!!
Mighty fine work
All that for a coat hook!!!!!😁😜😍👍
That's a beautiful Peter Wright anvil, I have one myself 157 pounds. You should clean get up to show off its beautiful lines!!
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Good video; about the right amount of dog time. A solid A.
Hi nice Job . Love IT.👍
Great work. See you also use hand protection, good example for others to take care of those valuable 10 only fingers. I learnt from experience myself; eye- and dust mask go along also.
Enjoyed your video and gave it a Thumbs Up
Making that speed adjust on the little wrench is smart.
Great Ideas! I had an anvil clam like the one you made, but I found I wasn't using it much. I prefer the old holdfasts. I made the clamp into a bar clamp.
Buggered if I can figure out how a square thread tap works😁 but it will be fun seeing you learn and burn blacsmithing 👍
Lol.. no idea either!
bill baggins The tap is still round but the threads on it were square. Just a standard 4 flute tap with square thread. Square threads are still used today albeit acme has taken over for it in most application.
@@steveshopworxmachine5716 Just being silly 😁 even tho I've seen square holes with a thread, but I'd love to see a square bolt
Are you running a blacksmith shop or a kennel?
Thanks for not destroying the Ford wrench!
But the other one was far more valuable.....😮💨
Love your organization system
Very good artisan !
i LOL when your tried to cut the tap with a hacksaw. you know better than that. love your junk pile.
I am jealous of your bolt cabinet
Treasure trove...👍👍👍
Those are some good looking dogs.
I have some serious steel stash envy going on right now damn
You might want to fabricate snow plow adapters for those 4 footed freeloaders to help earn their keep. lol
I'll give you a A+ for tooling
I like the way you think. I have many hardie tools made the same way. No sense in wasting good steel. 😉
17:49 Now you can start up your main business! Smithing Bench Dogs! =D
Love the Weimaraners. I've had a lot of them. My female is almost 16. We've grown old together.
They are amazing dogs!! I'm a bit biased though!
Bryon Hills good comment, miss mine terribly at times.....
Sooooooooo many Weimarainers.
I'm jealous!!
Look at those puppies.
you are smart good job
Very impressive.
Have you thought of adding a motor or a foot pedal (or both) to the forge drive? Simply awesome use of salvage in Salvage workshop!
You seriously used a hand hacksaw.......I admire your patience.
Major scrap envy, I have been collecting for years but my treasures are pitiful next to yours