Blacksmithing - Forging Tongs From Hoof Nippers - Full Version
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- Here is the full version video of the tong build from hoof nippers...
Nippers are so easily found in scrap yards and auctions and in reality, minus some burnt fingers, an easy way to make up a set of tongs...
I love how candid you are!
Hey man! Thank for teaching and talking out loud! Awesome... very awesome.
Awesome. re-purposing obsolete old junk into useful new junque is great. I'm really happy to see your videos from the new location. It will settle down in a few more weeks. Looks to me like the new location is MUCH better than the old one. You just kicked your business up a notch with the new location. All is coming together. Glad to see it. Lookin' good Chandler!
Burns are no fun, thanks for the video. Your projects are always so fun to watch. I am really enjoying the projects in the new shop so far, hope you are as well.
Good to see you back at the forge, I can see you have a lot of moving in left to do. Glad you are back.
Make sure you temper them fingers after hardening them in the quench. Don't want any cracks.
Sorry about your fingers. I trust they have healed since a year ago May. But, thanks very much for a really useful tip. I have a couple of old hoof nippers and was unsure what to do with them. Now I have a plan, thanks to you.
Made my fingers hurt watching I know the feeling. This is a good conversion of nippers to tongs. Great news is farriers toss these in the “scrap” pile all the time when they wear out! Thousands are around all over the place every old yard sale
This video is actually super cool, Chandler. Thank you!
That's pretty neat, I'll try this tonight. Thanks for the trick Chandler.
Thank you Chandler I have a bucket of those nippers and needed ideas on what to do with them. Great idea thank you
You need a bionic arm. Back in the 70's you could get a bionic arm, 2 legs, and an eye for $6 million. I haven't checked prices lately.
Maybe make one from some rebar and an old Raspberry Pi?
Very nice video. Love the new shop. Seems to breathe in some new energy.
Thanks man. i have a pair. guess I know what I am doing tonight
Thanks for the birthday present in the form of a video Chandler!
thanks Chandler I found a pair of nippers at a yard sale for 5 bucks!
Chandler---I am a greenhorn blacksmith and trying to put together a minimal forge at present---with not a whole lot of money to at least get started----at this point--I don't feel that I should invest a great deal of money in putting a forge shop together. Along with getting into learning to blacksmith---I like to go find "old school stuff" at antique shops, malls, special antique events and such. Not too long ago---I found a pair of nippers for pennies like you said at an antique "Extravaganza" at a huge antiques place near my home in Central Florida. Got a decent price on a nice vice too from the guy selling old tools of all kinds. Kind of rare finding someone selling such stuff for a modest price---most guys that pick tools that you can use for blacksmithing----they charge more than a premium price now!! I figured that something could be done with those nipper and wow--so glad to find this video. I am watching videos on ways to set up inexpensive forges just to start doing some metal working---right now I don't have a decent anvil--just a cheap ass piece of Chinese junk Harbor Freight anvil and some rail I found at another antique shop for cheap. I have gotten a few hammers together and did make one pair of tongs in a class with a local guy who teaches blacksmithing near me. I am gonna make me a rough forge and go to work on making those nippers into another pair of tongs. Gonna watch more of your videos. Thanks for posting and do watch where ya put your hands around hot metal!!!
I never would have tried that. That is a great idea. Also learned not to just grab onto metal. Lol.
excellent repurpose chandler....I stared the same thing a year or so ago and ended up putting it aside because I couldn't decide how to deal with the gap when straightened out the nipper...(I didn't want to take the rivet out either). I am going to dig them back out and try some localized heating for strategic bending..thanks..........
cool wall display in the background there Chandler!
After watching this I’m kicking myself. I went to a garage sale last week and saw a set of those nippers but I passed on them because I didn’t think I could find a use for them. Now when I see another set I’m doing exactly this! (Maybe leaving out the part with burning myself)
Great idea I have several pair of old nippers around so now I know what to do with emthanks a lot
Dude you remind me so much of me 🤣 Treat EVERYTHING like its is hot! (except when I forget )
I'm glad you're showing us this. I have a few pairs and am wanting to make tongs. I wish I had a welder because I could cut a V notch on the ends and weld on a couple pieces of small angle iron to hold square stock. Anyways, your about to break the rivet so I'm gonna get back to watching the video.
I’ve done 4 sets of those get them cheap at yard sales and antique stores, a little advice my first pair I didn’t get hot enough and they shattered so just be mindful of that I guess. Great video and great idea for sure, been there done that on the burn hammer on brother
Great way for new smiths to get some tools with low cost and minimal efforts. Nice!
Great video Chandler. As said before we live and burn. Hope the finger and thumb isn't too badly burnt.
Thanks for the video
Welcome back to the grind :-) keep 'em coming.
I work with hot dies & tools in the plastic manufacturing field, getting ready to start forging, I came across a 200lbs chunk on metal to start pounding on, I'm hoping my experience helps from working around hot dies. Peace Out!
thank you
Great idea I have an old set of and new set of these and I think I will convert them both. Try to make a pare of scroll tongs
Thanks.
Miss ya brother!!! Hope all is well with you. Would Love to see ya back ringing an anvil.
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I've been thinking of doing this. Harbor freight has a set that looks like a good start thatr lighter.
I did the same thing while making an engine break in stand. Bar-B-Qued fingers really suck. 😂👍🏼
12:37 That Shit's hot!! Great video. I just got some large (24in) nippers from the "open box" shelf at Harbor Freight. I don't mind learning on them. $10 each. Cheap education as my first homemade tongs SUCK. Probably 'cause they are made from 3/8 rebar....
My first Tongs were hoof nippers now I feel motivated to go beat them around a bit.
Good recycle!
Thanx for keeping it real brother
I found a set for $3.00. Amazing. What do you think about "interchangable jaws" for a single set of tongs? May be crazy, but just a "left field" idea.
Chandler. How long would you normalize those tongs to keep from cracking?
How you doing chandler ? cant say ive seen you in a while ,hope your ok , Ant from wales UK cant make a silk purse out of a sows ear but they will do well done .
Hoof nipper have hard tips
Love need more
The first pair is pull offs not nippers so they’re a lesser steel because they don’t have to hold an edge
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Chandler... cookin' long pig for our education ;)
Im only 11 and I made myself a forge, blacksmithing tongs x2, knives and I dont have an anvil... I NEED ONE pls
Chandler, my friend you have very little to complain about as far as your body!
I have a thing called Still's Disease, which can manifest itself 2 ways. It can give you Lupus, it can just eat your organs and not stop or it can just eat all the cartilage from EVERY joint. That's the manifestation, I have!
I am 6.5 inches shorter than I was in 2000, my wrists, elbows and shoulders are shot and trying to do any Blacksmithing is a lesson in PAIN!
I do manage to make small things but I can't work anything bigger than half inch and that is a major pain to work! 3/8" is about as big as I really want to work as it isn't anything that will really hurt me! Half inch stock HURTS!
Just get to a rheumatologist and see what can be done for you! THAT is something I wish I had done sooner than I did!
You might try growing some feverfew plants. They are VERY bitter tasting but, they do work for pain. I dried the leaves and powdered them in a blender then used them in a tea or just took a teaspoon of the dried, powdered leaves and put it in my mouth and just swallowed the juice that it will produce! After about 15 minutes I swallow the stuff that's left! It DOES work for pain!
Best wishes, my friend!
easiest to take 'em apart in my experience
With fingers like your you dont need no stinking tongs lol
Ouch
You can’t fix Stupid however you should keep trying!!
That's why I always wear gloves, everybody busts on me always.
Pink shirt is fine. Pink fingers, not so much.
look at that clean floor!!!!
Sorry about your burnt fingers. We call burns "blacksmith's tatoos".....
foolish!
They make really good tongs Chandler. Now, you might? just be interested. I've some horse hoof clippers, about all that's left from the blacksmiths. They are made from rasps and most likely my Grandfather or even Great Grandfather made them. I have used them to hook out the crucible from the furnace (see model steam engine build) just in case you (or anyone) is interested in seeing them.
Just to make you burnt fingers feel better I joined your group keep up good work
At a theme park recreating an old western town, a tourist wanders into the blacksmith shop. The blacksmith, having just gone into the back to eat lunch, is keeping an eye on the front of the shop through a small window. The tourist is picking up tools and things, looking at them and putting them back where he found them. When he picked up a horseshoe that the blacksmith had been working on only moments before and was still extremely hot, he immediately put it down. The blacksmith, knowing the man must have been burned badly, came rushing out.
"Sir," he said, "are you alright? Didi you get burned?"
"No," said the tourist, "it just doesn't take me very long to look at a horseshoe."
Yes, I still have the scar.
Lmao
A tool first and foremost must be functional regardless of how they look. An ugly but functional tool is superior to a pretty but not very functional tool. I would rather use those functional tongs in a shop rather than one that's solid gold with jewel encrusted handles, Those will be able to do the work while gold is way too soft a metal and would fail during the first use.
Yeah, I can't do that YET, my forge is way too small but I should be able to do that with the one set of nippers I still have before TOO much longer. You did the exact thing I had planned on doing.
I'm really glad to see you back in the workshop. Missed your videos.
Very cool!
Looks pretty darn good. Take care of that finger, they are in short supply
Glad to see yoh baxk man! Comments are turned off on your new videos so I'll share my excitement here haha.
excellent video. i have a pair of those hoof nippers which ill be attempting this work on perhaps sometime today.
Dangit Jim! your are a Magician, not a Blacksmith!
I’m trying this now on 7 / 8 / 22 ..
YOU STill are a good watch and a TRue inspiration !!!
More than You know BRO !👊🏼
I do this. Often. And post on blacksmithing forums.
Folks hate this. So now, I do it to tick folks off.
I am informed that you DO have to take them apart. Furthermore I'm told this task is a waste of time as it is far far quicker to forge a set from bar stock. Which takes only 20-30 minutes or so.
Seriously makes you wonder.....dont it. You abd I are obviously smarter than the haters. Who, for some reason can see a pair of tongs in 5/8" - 3/4" square or round stock, but not in something that looks like tongs.
Oh, and don't do drugs. I guar-unn-tee
Sorry about your burnt digit. I have to say I've often wondered if a blacksmith or farrier in a momentary "guard down reflex action" accidentally has skin contact with the hot metal. Being an occupational hazard doesn't make it any the less painful.
Cool video, I've tried this before and came out with something similar. You've heard of the ASO( anvil shape object), now try the new tong looking thing lol.
Hope yr finger burn the earlier video wasn't too serious... How do y blacksmith's actually treat such things, as guess they might belong to some of the common injuries... cheers Achim fm Singapore+
They go for $20-$15 where I'm at. Still cheaper than buying most used or new tongs. This is exactly what I was thinking of doing.
I try to to find some tongs which wasn't possible here in east Canada so I guess this will be my first try in blacksmithing when my forge is ready , 30 years ago I could buy a truckload of those tools in Europe for a good price but my interest was motorcycle racing :-) I think the blacksmithing profession is one of the most interesting and rare craftsmanship in the world.
Not to nit picky at all, but that first set are pull offs. Secondly, if your shoulder is hurtin more towards the front side, may be a bicep tendon sub-luxation (maybe). Which is no fun at all. Thanks for the video, I had planned on trying to build my first pair, but this is a great idea.
My nippers look completely different I was trying to do this but the way they are designed it doesn't seem to be working. In fact none of the nippers I have seen this done to look like mine. I also have to make a few changes to my forge... too much air flow from the blower so I'm going to go grab a 2" ball valve and knock the flow down significantly. Flying coals don't heat steel very well lmao. It also burns the fuel up super fast.
Glad I'm not the only one who habitually grabs the hot end
I dont know who said it but i believe it was you. Blacksmiths should have a limited number of tongs and be able to make them fit his job. Or something like that, i hate making tongs so i modify what i have to what im making.
If I can grab the hot side I will.
another way to get cheap tongs is get hold of tong a farrier uses to bend horse shoe nails over with, you only have to bend one jaw
A great addition to shop, would be an aloe vera plant. For those burned fingers.
I’m glad I’m not the only one that gets burned every time I forge
Sucks about the fingers,but nice wire brush!!!
Hahaha you make the same mistakes I do. Hense my shitty fingers.
I bought a pair just like that to do the same thing. Thank you for the video Chandler,I'm going to try and do it this weekend.
Oh fuck I have done that before hurts don,t it
Roasted Chandler anyone?
I see smoke. That hurts.
Great vid u made it fun ty
Dude you got massive! and your voice changed deeper.
Slip a steel ring about 1.5" over the hands and makes a good vice grip. Old sheet metal worker seem mater. They work GREAT..
Glad to see you are getting settled in - the new Old Forge. Good idea for tongs. Take it easy on your limb (hand/arm). What I hear about gripping with the hand: "big open-hand holds are typically easier on the fingers, they can be quite stressful on the elbow where the wrist flexors originate."
Treat the hammer like a drum stick, hold them just enough to not throw them with each swing. It also helps keep the work cleaner as the hammer will self correct on the hit if it is slightly off rather than create a deep dent where the edge hit first. There will be a dent but that will clean up as you work the metal.
Love your videos man. I've been a bladesmith (exclusively, outside of my own belt buckle I've forged nothing but knives lol) since 2008, and have only recently...with my new, much larger shop...begun exploring blacksmithing in general. Needless to say I'm loving it, and between you, Black Bear, and Christ Centered ironworks my learning curve to become at least competent has been very, very short!
Much respect and appreciation brother!
I have a half dozen sets of these that I made years ago from a bucket at a garage sale find. Every set is still in great shape and they have held up very well. Most of us don't care what they used to be- just if they work properly. I also ran across a bucket of tin snips that I forged down into different sizes of scrolling tongs that have held up well. Good steel, into good tools dirt cheap. Good job, brother! Forge on! Loving your new shop :)
Dave
Thank you Chandler I got old nippers from when I was a farrier and now I do forgeing and heeling from accident but you are great help to watch thank you.
That’s a mighty fine looking anvil
Thank you sir