Forging a Pass Through for Scrollwork or Sculpture

hello everybody welcome back to the workshop so in this video I'm going to take and show you how to do a simple pass through now this is a very interesting thing that you can do and you can elaborate on this a lot in your type of iron work maybe in sine brackets shelf brackets things like that and it's a pretty cool effect if it's done properly it really kind of makes you know general populace heads kind of turn and it's just a nice another tool to your arsenal that you can use so I'm working with a piece of half-inch by three-eighths inch thick mild steel this is cold rolled mild steel so that's ten eighteen and that for you guys across the pond and around the rest of the world that is ten mill by twelve mill or twelve and a half mill ourselves you might as well say 13 mill over in your country now I'm gonna go ahead and pull this off out I have a mark already a center punch mark about six inches back from the end of the bar and or you could call that a hundred and fifty mil from the back end from the front of the bar and I'm going to use a very small slitting punch this is what I call it quarter inch or 3/8 inch slitting punch and I'm going to punch down directly through the center of the bar now you may say well Roy that is looking awful small how do you reconcile that in the way that I reconcile that is that the fact that we are going to drift this out this is a great way of doing this type of operation again and making it looking pretty darn neat now before I get it fully drifted out I am going to go ahead and upset some material right in this area as I try to drift once the drifts in there to again kind of get a little more bulk into the material so I'll get that back in the forge and get it heated up let me plug in the blower so now the blower is up and running hopefully you guys can still hear me very clearly and the microphone is doing okay we're going to get this good and hot and hopefully this won't take too many needs to take and do this so the biggest trick to whenever you're doing something like a pass-through in my opinion now this is my opinion this is a very artistic thing so you can kind of go whichever way you like with it my opinion of a good pass through joint is when you can go through the bar very close on size to the original parent bar material and then come out the other side and do something different with it it's not just simply enough to tuck something through and leave it at that it looks better if it continues on to do something else so rather it forms a hook Ally a scroll something it's welded onto another bar that's doing something else that's what makes this look so impressive without it it just looks like you punched a hole and tucked in you just kind of did a tongue simple tuck that's okay and that can be decorative in of itself but it generally in my opinion looks better if you can keep it close again keep the opening of the whole pass-through hole as close to the original parent bar dimensions as you can as your piece goes through it and once that is accomplished and you've accomplished that mission you know as it goes through doing something different to transform the material on the other side of the hole that's what makes this look so effective so I'm going to go ahead and get this pulled out here again I'm gonna leave the blower running because it's just easier to do that right now set this tonk here and continue to punch straight down to the anvil face we're going to flip it over and we are going to hit from the backside now and the reason why you're I'm using a a slitting punch for this is it chris observes as much material thickness as we possibly can because as you drift this it's going to take and stretch the sites which means it'll thin the sides out and we clearly don't want that so I'll take another heat on this and then I'll stand it up here and up set this hole a little bit before I start drifting because right now it's at the stage that you can still drive material back into the sidewalls once the once the sidewalls get out paths say a 45 degree angle here once these bulge out too much and they're creating kind of like a 90 degree bend hitting here is just going to collapse the hole so again we're gonna work that back and forth I'll get this heated back up the reason for putting a little extra material thickness in this section and of course if you had a torch or something you could heat up this specific area and just upset it first before doing this that's one option as well but the point of taking and again adding that extra material on the sidewalls is when we start to drift it out to stretch it so I will get this go ahead and get hot again and while that's getting hot and I'm getting ready to punch through again on it I'm going to take and tell you a little bit about the fact that I am sure glad you're here today I hope that you're enjoying this video so far if you are new to the channel I like it if you check out the rest of the channel there's over 1100 videos on the platform right now that you can take and watch and enjoy and I hope that you'll find it informative and I thank you for your subscription or subscribing all right that's almost nearly hot nearly hot enough I'll change up some of the airflow going to it so don't burn I'm gonna look for my and I don't see my drift here I'll have to go off to go get it give me one second got to step around sometimes I have it all put together when I do demonstrations and other times I do not it's easy to lose track of all the tools sometimes all right and I'm not finding yet which is never any good I've got one here I've got one drift I can use here we're just going to have to open it up a little bit more with the punch first someone go ahead and do that now again this is about a quarter inch right now and it needs to be a lot bigger [Music] those get a lot more open or I can fit my punch in there that my bigger drift there we go [Music] getting that opened up a bit now this bar is just short enough that you can't hold on to it by hand out on the other end which is kind of annoying for this operation but it's also just long enough that it's kind of awkward to hold with tongs so hopefully you guys can see that progress there so far so I'll heat that up again and we will drift it a little more again if you want a little thicker sidewalls it would be my suggestion that you upset the material first so you get a nice big hefty mass there to go through before you do this operation I'm choosing a little thinner sidewalls to go around the piece to make it just a little more striking if you will where it looks like it kind of plunged through and stretched the piece out but you do what you feel artistically inspired to do give it a try you may not actually like this technique and decide to never do it again and that's perfectly okay there's no rights or wrongs on that there's just kind of differences of opinions on what looks good and what doesn't there's the drift I was looking for although it's probably not needed now there's always going to be different creative differences if you will of opinions no matter what you do so again do whatever you would like to do or infill inspired to do again upset this a little bit into that whole and when you take one more heat on this [Music] and continue to I will upset it a little more and then we will drift it a little more so you just want to kind of keep this going and then we're going to take and make the actual pass-through itself to take and go through the hole again this is something that I feel anybody can do and I'm always teaching and preaching to learn the fundamentals and the fundamental forging principles of a blacksmith and a great way of doing that is just practicing so you can watch a ton of YouTube videos a ton the YouTube content that's a great thing but at the end of the day you need to get out in your shop and you need to practice these fundamentals over and over and over again what I'm doing right now is not magical it is just simply it is simply just fundamentals I'm drew I'm slitting and drifting a hole that's it upsetting that's another fundamental principle here in a minute I'll be drawing out material that is another fundamental principle of blacksmithing so I'm not doing anything special here there's no magic to it it's just taking a sequence of processes and putting them together so while that still heats up I'm going to talk a little bit about the way the channel is going so the channel is growing good there's a lot of you new subscribers and I greatly appreciate that and I'd also like to thank everybody in our community for their always their support over at our web-site blacksmith pdfs calm and for sharing and liking these videos and commenting down below I may not get to your comment and I may not have that opportunity to do that because there is a lot of comments on this channel but they are all read so I may not reply to every comment but every last one of your comments have been read so I do pay close attention to what people are saying on the channel how they're liking or not liking and I take it all into consideration and so I greatly appreciate everybody who leaves good comments and even people who leave constructive criticism I appreciate you all as well and glad to have you as part of the channel [Music] and that's it we'll get that heated up one more time so again this is just working this back and forth like that and I'm about to go to the drawing out process I'm going to draw out this little end here in just one second trying not to make this video too long but this is raw this is real this is real time this is what you're dealing with here you know there's things in YouTube appear like they happen in just mere moments and time when really it took a creator half a day to take and do something for four-minute video and then he spent another 8 hours making editing uploading healing with problems on the back end just to bring me all content for the day so give chance think your favorite YouTube blacksmith whether that be me or not show some love out there whoever inspires you most to get out in your shop and get to work and when they are putting in a lot of effort on the back side of things so there we go we got this pretty nice hole right through this bar stop now we're going to draw this material down a little bit and we're going to tuck it through that hole get that in good and hot I'm going to leave the opening that I just created out of the fire you don't want that to get hot and start bending and collapsing we have created a weak spot there so you want to be careful about that and get this good and hot and we will draw this out there we go got the end nice and hot little cue hot we're just trying to draw this down to where it'll look like it'll go through the hole which that hole is about 3/8 inch round so we want to draw this down this hole Lindt where it's approximately 3 H like 3/8 square and when we turn it round that should end this up with something along the lines of about 5/16 so 3/8 square would be about 10 mil 5/16 will be about I'm not sure in metric I don't have the ruler in front of me just here actually I could do I have a ruler let me look thank you we do don't know how to read it just yet but let's see here that's quarter sixteenth could be one two three four five six like six seven mil five sixteenths I could be a hundred percent wrong on that forgive me if I am that is a bad bad thing ROI pay attention even a professional create Sparky's work all that crud out of it now all right so we're drawing that right back down work and back towards ourselves it's roughly 3/8 square what ten mil square [Music] five sixteenths is probably nine mil but eight and a half nine mil somewhere in there so we'll go ahead and get that heated one more time we're down to the dimension we're down mostly to the dimension that we want now we're going to take and go ahead and round this up so it can tuck through the hole [Music] hopefully you're enjoying this we'll take this heat out [Music] by the way this is the type of instruction and demonstrating that I really enjoy the most I like doing live demonstrations of my work because I can talk through the process and explain things as I go and I find that that's the best way to learn I've been told many a times that I talk too much and I'm just okay with that we'll go to the horns this I can make that transition nice going into the eye and less sharp knock off the corners all right here we go so we got this all nice and rounded up mostly it could use a lot more work you can that get this as smooth as you like but I'm not going to spend an hour demo of smoothing this all up [Music] let's see what we can do here I'm gonna round this just a little bit more it's my goal I'm gonna round it up just a little bit more and then we're going to bend it and tuck it right through that pass through hole [Music] now I've found when we're doing this you want to take and make a really nice smooth arc on a bin you don't want to have any sharps like you don't want to bend the tip fairly sharp and then bend it a little sharp or somewhere else because what will end up happening because that'll end up kinking the piece and it'll put pressure you'll see what I'm talking about here in a second if you've been a nice smooth hoop when you come around you can tighten up that hoop once you're pushing the material through you'll see how that works here in a moment so get this nice and hot I reduce some my air flow there it's kind of adding up things didn't like that at all we'll go right through here and hot all right we're just gonna lightly tap this to round it up okay now you can go over the horn for the neck for this next part or you can just go way out here Oh against the edge and drive that out drive that material out and create something that starts to look like this again you don't want this to get too sharp now we need to heat back in here and get a good amount of heat in here so this way this piece here will come all the way around we'll go ahead and put that back from the fire get a good heat back closer to that end and we'll be good to go let me roll you guys back a bit I think you're in a little too close in my opinion I'm gonna use my handy dandy rag here make sure I'm still in focus looks like we are good to go good to go okay pull this out again just putting that material over that edge and tapping it right back through and now you can see why started with six inches or 150 mil curves like this eat up a lot of material a lot of material because once that pass through through there I won't even have close to maybe an inch internal dimensions here so if you want a really big hoop like this you're going to have to start with maybe twelve or fourteen inches of material oh go ahead stick that hoop back in there again at all times I'm trying to keep that eye out of the fire the best I can and what I can't do with that eye if I can't keep it out of the fire what I'll use is I'll use a dribble can and I'll cool it over here in the slat tub just a little bit on the eye so the eye doesn't Bend but the parent bar material does the dribble can I use for that looks like this it's got a little tea spout on it and that allows me to pour just out where I want to in the spot so I'm going to do that now I'll pour a little bit right here to just cool the eye out things kind of plugged up haven't used it in a while so as you work this you want to start aiming that limp right for that eye so we're aiming it for it and now we're going to tighten up our bar we're gonna keep driving until it tucks completely through just like so so we're gonna heat that up again get a little more heat on there I'm putting the hoop down in the fire and I'm keeping the eye up out of the fire so I'm hoping I can get this little pass-through done before the end of it here and that this will be very helpful so my camera films about 27 minutes per clip or so like what you see here and I've got about five minutes left so I'm hoping I can knock this out in that amount of time we'll see where we're at I think I can I think I can I think I can [Music] okay we'll go over a whole horn sorry guys not me I'll see this [Music] so I'm gonna have to do a little straightening of that I hear in just a second so we heat the whole thing up but we're getting close so what will happen is is as you're going up on the thicker part of the taper as it's filling up that hole it's gonna start bending the eye with it when it goes and the reason for that being is obviously it's gripping and it's trying to push much in the same way is how you get sucked down when you punch or you drift a piece of material so that's perfectly normal you're just going to have to take and redo some things now if you previously up set this piece where this area is going through it's a lot less likely to happen and do that [Music] so I'm gonna do my best to get this straightened up there we go there you go keep tightening that right on up [Music] and again it's just all about working with your material [Music] and telling it what you want it to do [Music] okay we're going to heat that up again and now we got this password so we just passed through three eight square through a half inch by three it's piece again this will really trip people up if once we put this final little bit done here so I think right now at this point instead of trying to rush it with this last little three minutes on this clip I'm going to take it just a little bit further I know this is a long demonstration but it is a very technical process so I hope you guys can understand that that's going to be a little longer I'm going to tighten this loop up here just a little bit and then I'm going to clip out and I'll come back with you as soon with another clip so this way I don't run out of time and it ends up not recording what I'm saying here so here we go and that's nice and hot everything looks mostly lined up I'm going to straighten that out it looks pretty good okay good to go straighten this puppy out of that that all actually looks pretty good I'm gonna leave it like is there [Music] brush that and there we have it so I'm going to go ahead and put myself a little bit of a taper a tapered point on this bar here a little more taper in the ones I had going through it originally and now I'm going to heat this up I'll be right back with you and we're gonna bend this the opposite direction you'll see how this press this will come out okay so I've got my bit stuffed in the anvil there and I'm going to go ahead and straighten this piece the opposite direction again this hole is going to want to bend around on you and you just got to tell it who's boss to take and keep it straight you want this piece here to run in line and you want this piece here to bed so you might have to take a couple heats on this to get this around properly but we're not going to go all the way bending it back to because here's where the trick is going to come in and the transformation align and this next heat so let's go ahead and heat that just that in back up get it good and hot you need to watch this in your Forge right now at this point in time especially if you're using an electric blower it's going to have a tendency to want to take and burn the tip be very careful of that we're gonna go ahead this getting hot and some blower there this is a long one today guys I really hope that you'll take and try this in your own shop and you'll realize why it's so long again 27 minute demonstration of me doing this basically completely live you know this this comes from ten years of experience and practice again I could be a lot better at this if I did them all the time maybe get it down to maybe a 5-10 minute process but it's definitely not as easy as it looks but I hope you guys are enjoying the demonstration because I enjoy making these for you we're almost up to heat I apologize for the length of time here I think we're hot enough that I can do the final little bit to it so we're gonna heat this is good in hot grip it in my tongs okay now we're going to take and we're going to flatten out this piece and we're going to aim more for the outside edge of this piece than the inside and try to take it up as close as we can to that end it's starting to add again we're changing the cross-section and people were like geez how to get that through the hole now again you as a blacksmith you've probably seen this before or you've seen this in iron work you like oh yeah well you know you just spreads the material after through the hole but again this is a it's kind of a joy to the eye when you find this in iron work because you can see that somebody took the extra time and care to try to produce something pretty neat in the piece other than just leaving it basic or plain it's around I'm gonna draw that piece out just a bit more at the amble here that outer edge get it looking nice and as we draw out that outer edge a little bit you're gonna see the piece curl around more I'm really just trying to put kind of a bit of a bevel scroll on it it's coming around looking good get that hot one more time and just so I don't have to go to the horn I'm going to put the BIC back up on the anvil here and I'm going to tap this on around a bit give it a little more scrolling it's the goal okay and again and now it's starting to touch this where I'm going to take and press it pass I can and clean this up I'm going to try to get this to take and press pass a little bit and just cross over the top of the bar now this would be a real interesting thing to do on the end of a fireplace crane again it's just adding that little extra bit of detail that maybe somebody wanted but otherwise thought about it's giving some details here that people can really enjoy so we're going to just tap this forward and we're going to keep working the scroll a bit here on the end the practice here is all in the reach because it takes a lot of effort to make sure that the reach is right you will making sure that you can get in and hold the certain areas that don't need to move in force the other areas that do need to move where they belong like here when you straighten out this whole a little bit bending at the whole so now we can heat up this whole scroll here and we'll finish that off and I'll let you guys get back to your day if your made it to this vide point in the video say hey guys I made it they greatly appreciate you and you know I thank you for watching this video the watch time really does help when you guys watch a long video like this it helps the channel grow so much and Jessica and I could be more thankful for that and we just ask that you hopefully like the video and let us know if you don't like long videos I've got plenty of other videos as well that aren't so long again they're just kind of you know there I've got a whole mix of videos out there we're a channel of over a thousand videos so that's pretty much bound to happen at some point okay so I think I'll leave it at that I think you guys kind of get the point make that a little figure eight on the end it's just an interesting way you can come up with any sort of kooky concocted constructions of this different angles of working in making different things out of it but that's where I'm going to conclude this demonstration it's good enough for one day I can keep tapping around on this probably for a couple more hours yet so and turn it into something else kind of beautiful and ornate for the shop so anyways hopefully you enjoyed this incredibly long video let me know what you thought in the comments section down below and if you'd like to support more great content like this consider checking out our website over at blacksmith PDFs calm that's it for today as always god bless you and we will catch you on the next one thanks for watching [Music]

Channel: Christ Centered Ironworks

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Keywords: forging a pass through, forged pass through, metal pass through, forging a loop, forged loops, blacksmith pass through, blacksmithing pass through, blacksmith tips and tricks, blacksmith techniques, blacksmithing tips and tricks, blacksmithing techniques, blacksmithing tips, blacksmith tips, forging a scroll, blacksmith projects

Id: dpRAn6CZ5F0

Length: 34min 1sec (2041 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 02 2019