THE ALEC STEELE LIVE SHOW! Making Tongs! S2:EP1!

[Music] ladies and gentlemen welcome back it has been a long time it's been an extremely long time and this is season 2 of the Alex Steele live show episode 1 formerly the Alex Neil live show was hosted from Barker Street Forge in the United Kingdom with the help of our friend Sam but now we are here in Montana a long time later whole lot has happened in that time of course you followed along as you probably watched some of the YouTube videos and things like that but yeah a whole lot has changed here we are we know a whole lot of you have been seeking some entertainment and that's what we're gonna aim to provide it's the plan we'll see if I can actually make that happen what having the steel here folks is I have a piece of what I have in the steel is a piece of fire I have a piece of steel in the fire it's a piece of 5/8 round mild steel I hope because anything else would be a little bit too difficult to hammer on I also have this which is a piece of 4140 in case I want to make something else too what we're here what are we gonna do you might be asking well we're gonna hammer on some hot steel with this beautiful anvil and I think we can try and make a pair of tongs why would I make something as original as a pair of tongs it's because I'm just extremely creative that's a joke in case you didn't get it making a pair of tongs it's not very original I've made a number of pairs of tongs but what it is he's a really good opportunity for me to practice some skills that I haven't been able to practice in a while you know the nature of what I do on the day to day ends up being that I don't do a lot of hand forging and so I want to try and brush up on those skills and bring you along the journey as we forged some hot steel and make a pair of tongs so thank you all so much for joining me I have on my cellular device comments from you very people who are watching right this very second there's an unbelievable 3.7 thousand of you which is just mind-blowing it's more than we ever ever had back when we were in the UK so that's pretty crazy that you know first live shouldn't over the wall here three point seven thousand people I'm thrilled that we have so many people here we got Williams wink we have a Chris Lum we've got Cody hammer Andrew Browns go oh my goodness there's so many people Abbey cat Callum Pritchard Pedro Joseph Gladius Chris we got so many people it is unbelievable we've got a whole piece of steel though and said the most important thing it's trust to do a little less yak-yak a little more whack-whack it's time for us to do one heat Tong blank on the end of this five eighths round bar and see if I don't make too much of a mistake here we go so the one heat Tong blank was popularized by Brian Brazil of course is where I picked up most of my forging knowledge and it's a brilliant technique brilliant way of practicing forging oh sorry of course efficient way of 14-carat tongues but it's been a long while since I've done this well I say that in one of the most recent videos that we post SIDBI most recent video that we posted I actually forged top of a pair of tongs so I'm not all the way out of practice I did do this rough process a little bit but I'm now live which means I can't take another heat if I make a mistake I've got to get it right I'm also yapping way more than I should which means I'm not focusing well so I'll clean this up a little bit the key thing with making a pair of tongs it's just making sure that your pivot error is the thickest spot there this is where the tongs are gonna be pivoting so what I'm trying to make sure is that this which will become the reigns is thinner than the boss so it wants to be a reverse taper back there so there we go that's the aim there's the one heat Tong bang back in the fire we go and we'll keep chatting with you folks and see how you're doing I will say how I have this anvil set up I've got a little bit a little bit of a lot of radiant heat coming from the forge so in a second you might see that I push the forge away from myself what you won't know and I'm just gonna say this to you guys only because you know if you're here watching the live stream you could have in the club you know what I mean you're in the club you are you're one of the cool kids you're you know down with the vibes and the cool things and Hiep secrets and such so I will tell you this secret my Forge doors my Forge doors that may have taken three weeks to make have broken and now do not work so they are supported by bricks and the irony is just something you see that forged or supported by bricks after all the effort we went through in making those forged doors it's come full circle to them being supported by broken fabrics again so there we go don't let me code an Arduino for you because it's probably gonna go faulty and it's gonna end up being a bad time so here we are we're gonna try and forge out the rings on this pair of tongs I'm working over the far edge of the anvil and this is just such fun this is really really fun because don't usually swing the hand hammer it is also a little more tiring than using a power hammer so if I get out of breath my excuse is only laziness and a lack of practice I took one pass you see with every turn of this deal I'm pulling it in further towards myself so that we can break that taper down Steel is getting cold it's getting hard to hit and I'm getting weak in my old age so I'm gonna put it back in the fire and let it heat up just a little bit more I've got ourselves one of these Amazon bandsaw thing madhu Dan Watson's oh I pinched my finger I don't think I've ever experienced pain like that in my life you pinched my finger under there it was not a good time okay okay let's flip this heat up whoa I have to say and rapport back running the forge of natural gas is glorious it's so nice not having propane bottles here so that's a really really good time that was expensive but I've got a smile on my face now I'm thinking about it so natural gas is going well for now oh my goodness we have some people sending in super chats sending in money thank you very much that means a whole lot it's very very kind so Alec please for the love of God make a mechanical Forge door says Erin Florrie now Erin you sound like a reasonable man because that sounds like a very reasonable idea yeah it's a good idea it's just I'm not full of a whole lot of those so mechanical Forge doors is probably probably the thing to do back to the 4G in case you're curious and because I want to show off how strong I am despite how little forging I do it's a four and a half pound hammer and the it's not at all a thing about you know this is how big the hammer is I can swing a four and a half pound hammer it's about how you want to swing a hammer and how your style of working your build your body all of those things how they make you feel comfortable swinging a hammer and so with a job like this where there's a lot of drawing out I could have opted to go for the four and a half pounder it's also quite a lovely hammer this is one of the ones that Ethan made for us one of our square circles and it's a lovely lovely piece of lovely piece of work and it's nice to work with nice tools so ah are we going to be doing the Alex steel drinking game great question asked by Eric Stephens the Alex steel drinking game always exists and if you're unfamiliar it goes like this every time I drop something you drink and of course if you're a longtime viewer of the show you'll remember my drink of choice for this is an orange juice so grab yourself a good good pint of orange juice and get ready because I'm gonna be dropping some things and that's the perfect time for you to start drinking some things so if you haven't watched through the latest video on the channel you might be wondering what handle this is well this is a 140-pound car steel anvil designed by us here that we are currently testing so that is extremely exciting it is hopefully gonna be available soon we're gonna be testing it we're only putting it through its paces seeing how it works seeing if we're happy with it so far in the little that I have used it I'm just thrilled and it's static that I get to use an anvil that has my touch mark on it I mean that's a hell of a blessing that's something I could have only ever dreamed of but fortunately here we are so this is very exciting brand-new video showed us getting this thing you know in shipshape and ready to go so if you haven't watched that video and you get bored of my ramblings on this stream do feel free to go and check it out so why I've owned the channel now case you're curious as to what I'm doing I'm just cooling off the back end there and a pit of water trying to save it from heating up too much one downside to the fact that we're working in a propane Forge and like a you know coke or coal Forge is I have to heat up the whole thing which is kind of annoying because we're going to be getting a lot of oxidation here what I'm gonna do if I go ahead and do this is the opening of the forge is narrower than the length or shorter and distance than the length so I'm just gonna keep the thing up in opening this way well hopefully help will Center ourselves back out and we'll go ahead and read some more comments from your lovely folks holy mackerel 7,000 people a lot of people thank you thank you for being here so pleased that we've got so many of you here I'm so grateful so great haha glad to hear you guys are excited to see that the live show is here yes Alec and the evolution of the forged or common by Ryan Ryder I think that's pretty it we can just make another series you know which is evolving Forge doors bit by bit through time backwards from ultra technological solutions of the 2020 where was 2019 when I made them all the way back to what this should have been which is a cable and a foot pedal we will get there soon we will get there soon wherever we hitting the dog oh the dog is at home I figured it might be a little bit too much to livestream and take care of a dog at the same time so there we go when are we gonna get a Triton that's a great project idea very good Tommy Wilson little brother of Nicky Wilson they have asked for a shout out hello hello hello hello thank you so much Kevin Moore I really appreciate it you guys Rock very grateful to have you all here so here we go let's make a plan I'm out of practice and it shows because I don't know what I'm doing so if I recall correctly from when I was far more practice I'm gonna be using the far edge here for my most aggressive metal moving and I will be using the near edge of the anvil for when I want to take it a little easier and bring it in to size and especially for when I want to be making bars and reverse tapers now a bar is kind of the expression for making a piece of steel with parallel sides and then the tapers are about whether it tapers away from me as a forwards taper or towards me as a reverse taper see that I caught it kind of almost there where two-thirds of the way to half of a pair of tongs it doesn't mean that we're halfway there to the pair of tongs now I'm gonna be keeping you for much longer it's been a long while since I've made a pair of tongs it's probably gonna take a little while because what we have to do is we have to draw out the reins enough that we have one half of a pair of tongs draw out the reins enough for another half pair of tongs cut them in half punch some holes rivet them together and it all starts to get really complicated towards the end and so you know what I thought it might be a nice relaxing evening probably be a little bit more involved it's okay it's a good fun it's incredible to have you all here okey-dokey Oh got a question what is going to be the price of the anvil yet to be fully determined you know pricing things a little bit complex things that I still want to take into account I want to see how it performs you know all those things are going to affect what it looks like but if I was to give you a ballpark of what the anvil would cost I would say it's gonna be between 1,100 to $1,300 there's probably the region in which it's gonna be and so you know hopefully that you can keep that in your head and mull over on that one and see if it's gonna be a right decision for you can I good here we go back to work so I want a little more length on this half of the pair of tongs so I'm going to take another inch over the fire edge of the anvil and we're gonna keep aggressively drawing that down while I'm working you might note that this anvil hasn't moved which is a shock because usually I'm chasing my anvil all over the place like a lunatic because I've been too lazy to bolt it down because I'm so unsure and unconfident about picking a place for its final resting place in here because they're constantly moving stuff around well if you follow my Instagram stories you will see there is a band-aid holding the foot down so if you haven't seen that story please feel free to go and have a look and then now I'm gonna spoil all of that by letting you know it actually isn't a band-aid holding the anvil on the ground let me show you actually I can just go ahead and do this see this I'm sorry folks it isn't actually that band-aid it's almost worse when is that even possible could it be worse than a band-aid well let me get the camera centered again and I think I'll it's kind of embarrassing to be frank I used this it's a hot glue gun I hot-glued the anvil to the concrete how I have fallen how I have four [Music] what's shocking is it actually hasn't moved yet so we'll see how hot gluing an anvil to the concrete does but for now it's working great whose anvil as solid as can be so keep you updated what I recommend hot gluing down an anvil absolutely not hey hey ho there we go let's get a little more length on it - I'm gonna use it try and take some take some of my own medicine so my own advice here and I can use the far edge of the anvil at the top of the heat to break down material while it's hottest and then as our piece of steel gets cool up and come back down to here use the cold material the flat side of the hammer the nearer edge of the anvil together to do some of our more gentle work some of the works that requires a little less force a little more precision such as knocking off corners bringing them to octagon and then right at the bottom of the heat even doing a little bit of a rough rounding and kind of three-quarters on the anvil of 3/4 off nope that doesn't make sense 3/4 on quarter off which means that I'm kind of hitting like this so there's about a quarter of the animal hammer off the anvil 3/4 of hammer on the anvil and that kind of means that we get a little less pressure at the point of impact but we still get a little bit of a concentration right at this near edge back in the Forge we go Wow blacksmithing is tiring this is a workout okie-dokie will I make a Damascus Valor song asks K more hey there's an awesome idea isn't it toasty in here he's boiling hot Damascus Bally song I really like that idea what I want to prioritize above the Damascus Bally song firstly is opening this door because it's like 400 degrees probably right above the Forge which means that near the Forge it's like 80 degrees so I can't deal with that I want to prioritize making an automatic knife and auto neither you know like a give me your money no we don't one of those blades that's what I want to make first Damascus battle song I love the idea and I know it's a pretty popular popular blade oh now this is the coolest idea ever and I never use hyperbole which means that you know it's true because I never say things in such an explanatory manner somebody recommended to properly test the anvil we should send it to demolition ranch for him to shoot it and explode it and I think that is the best idea I've heard over the last period of time I don't know how long but that's an amazing idea sending this anvil the demolition ranch for him to test that is brilliant I want to make that happen when we get our first batch of these things cast we're gonna send one to him so he can shoot it makes no sense from a marketing perspective it achieves nothing just seeing one of our beautiful anvils get blown to pieces by you know incendiary 50 BMG rounds makes no sense but sometimes the stupidest things make no sense and so they just make no sense it is toasty it is steep I hope everybody's noticed that we haven't talked about something I haven't talked about it so what is that thing kind of defeats um I just talked about it okay try better to not talk about it we're here to lighten people's moods so we're not talking about dark sad things lighten moods lighten moods here we go onto the next one Thank You pirate captain gun me bump gun be pirate captain for the idea for sending an animal to demolition ranch on to the next one aha smile for me has asked Alec thank you by the way for the 10 pounds I really appreciate it Alec about the new old power hammer I'm curious if the seals on the RAM which act like a piston could be bad in cars crap piston rings could blow could be why the RAM hits the top so in case you're not familiar because I also have been unfamiliar of these things before the RAM itself it isn't just a piece of cast and machined steel running up in there well it is but there is these piston rings which of these rings of cast iron which are the wearing part which you can replace they stick up about ten thousandths of an inch or about a quarter of a millimeter and maybe no they'd stick up more than that for goodness sake they stick up off the edge of the RAM and that's what rides on it and if they didn't seal well that could be how it's leaking well I took out the top piston ring it didn't make it into the video but when I was grinding the weld on the top of the RAM I thought it was fine you know I'd make a little dust I'd clean it up well invariably I made a lot of dust and I had to do a lot more cleaning up and I would have liked to do I actually had to pull the RAM all the way up to the point that I got the piston ring out so that I could clean all of that and make sure both the RAM and the cylinder were entirely clean and so I have taken that piston ring out and I will say it felt like it was an awfully good fit so I'm not particularly worried about the piston ring fit up I also heard from the person that I bought it from I feel like they were relatively new I did think I was getting a spare set or maybe it was that these were new and that's what that's how it was going anyway I feel like the piston rings are good but then again I can be wrong and I think that's absolutely an avenue to pursue if we still can't fix it so thank you very much for that what tools do you suggest making or buying first when getting into blacksmithing well the first thing you're gonna need is a forge on an anvil with a fortune and anvil you're gonna get cracking from there you can starting to make your own tongs your own punch one your own punches and then your own tongs all that stuff to kind of get cracking if you want to turn a fan on or should we open I'll just open this more so I would start first like you know get cracking try and make some leafs make some tapers things like that and then you can go ahead and make yourself a round punch from either a piece of coil spring go to your local steel supplier get a piece of 4140 medium carbon steel or equivalent in 19 en 24 in the UK and you know needs to be up 5/8 of an inch around or so and you can make a round punch you can make slot punches square punches all of these things you can get a rough feel for heat treating and all of that and you have a very good time to learn a lot making punches once you've made punches what I'm doing right now is a really great project to work on you're making a pair of tongs you know it's an involved project making a pair of tongs can depending on how far you want to go how unique you want them to look it can be extremely difficult and extremely complicated so work up to it learn how to do forward and reverse tapers make leaves get comfortable making leaves because you can make a whole bunch of leaves really nicely with only an anvil a Forge and pliers you don't need necessarily a really good pair of tongs to make leaves because you just by bar stock you cut it in two handling lengths and when it's too short to use you just throw it in a pile because you know you're going to be putting a dollar in the scrap pile which you can then use on a project down the line once you've acquired the skills to learn how to make it a pair of tongs and you can use the tongs to hold the scrap steel I'm rambling but you know work on making leaves and things like that and then build up to punches and tongs you get the idea okay it's a little thicker here than it is there it might not be thicker it might just not be tapering in the right way so I'm gonna try and remember that I have at least the length for one half of my pair of tongs and we're gonna use some of this material here stretch it on out get ourselves a little feather so we'll just go ahead and do that he's a little overexposed okay yeah it is if I had more light so I could pump a little more light onto myself so the thing that we're thinking about is the background is pretty pretty bright so wondering if that affects the video you guys can let us know what you think cause if we kind of make all this stuff look a little fuzzy unclear having that not so good okay would you close the door a little bit suffer well sweat it'll feel like I'm actually working okay I'm very pleased click 9210 very pleased thank you for the little little little bit of money I appreciate that and he says this is his first live stream but he watched all the ones before so I'm very happy you get to join us on this inaugural real live stream here we go let's forge some seal I get up it's getting a little hot to hold all my hand is not tough enough so we're gonna cool it off in a bit water let that have a cool okey dokey hello Ashley Catlow from Helena Montana what happened to this vy hender the what I don't know where you're talking about it's by Hinda I'd love to make as if I head there someday I reckon we can probably finish it in a week if we start one seriously this right-hander is not abandoned it is still here it's still in the process of being finished we have a little bit more work to do to it and kind of the idea that I'd had as I diverted attention from it was we'll go ahead and hold off on finishing until we get will to come back with 3/4 of the way through the last episode we're almost there all we need to do is essentially stitch a little bit of leather glue it up sharpen it and it's done and I was kind of waiting you know I thought you know okay we had this lockdown coming on with the thing that we're not mentioning on this positive live stream I thought you know I'll just wait a couple weeks till wills back we'll finish it together have his help on the sharpening because he's gonna do a way better job than I am you know be able to you know finish it as a team there's gonna be just kind of finishing it on my own I thought that was appropriate well now the two weeks turned into a month so it's taking a little bit longer we'll get there eventually though there's my handlers not forgotten it's delayed flat side of my hammer if you cured us working on the near side of the anvil cleaning it up at a low temperature where we can be a little bit more accurate do a little less work also see a little bit clearer great to have you all here great to have you all here so thank you stony panda for asking about this right-hander it's not familiar it's not it's not abandoned and we will finish it up for the quarantine michael groves asks when do we get to see the missus well can it depends it depends on when she feels comfortable depends up we when we feel comfortable with it you know lots of people are always asking what are we gonna see - why VALIC sure why I with the business side of things I have a very public life with the business side of things you get to you know see a whole lot and it's all out there to see but interestingly my wife and I are actually going to quite private people and so you know being able to stay a little bit private suits us well and so that's why we don't put all of our private life out on the internet for everybody to see because we don't feel comfortable with it right now might we feel more comfortable with it in the future potential for now however we don't quite feel so comfortable so we kind of live up private life privately like every single other person in the world does it's just that there's a person with a little bit of a public profile the two can often end up kind of intermingling a little bit and so a little bit of a little bit of private life is good who cut my hair my lovely wife she cut my hair she always cuts my hair so I'm very happy sorry just-just this time it's a little bit shorter and in case you're wondering Alec you have one of your employees here in the workshop how could you be so irresponsible I don't it is is my lovely wife who is behind there who I'm talking to and so any any germs that we could be exchanging here we exchanged before the before the show with a little peck on the cheek this is PG we're going to be very appropriate so hello from Denver says si Simpson sending us $10 thank you very much mr. Simpson I appreciate that he is asking are there any updates on the fork the megaphone well I got some great it you could wait for the video to be fully up to speed but I'm gonna spoil it all now I got some great advice from blacksmith named Matthew Harris who recommended using a bouncy castle blower instead of the blows that we have because the bouncy parcel blower pushes some good volume as well as good pressure I used to use bouncy castle blowers on coal and coke forges back when I used to use coal and coke forges he recommended I try a bouncy castle blower I'm gonna try one I ordered one on Amazon hundred and twenty bucks we're gonna give it a go see if it works I just haven't got to it yet so thank you very much mr. Simpson for the kind gift and the question Thank You Vincent for the five dollars and I'm pleased that you like the content having tried before would you try to make a one-day sword again asks Geoffrey Percy again thank you Geoffrey I appreciate you sending a few bucks our way brings a whole lot making a one day sword I think I spent 14 hours on the thing I don't know if I have that same useful energy do you see this see this folks this is a beer it's a beard everybody I've been growing a beard it shows my old age my bid is currently at the level of a admittedly a 16 year old that's a little bit too reckless to heed his mother's advice that his beard looks terrible but it's a corona beard which means I don't have to look good I can look scruffy and look like I'm 16 and I don't feel comfortable buying razor blades because it's fine right it's fine my beard looks great anyway Wow I've deviated from the point the point is this I'm old my joints the creek the whopping age of 22 has crept up on me and I don't know if I can quite do it one day sword like I did when I was a young 20 year old whippersnapper I don't know that'd be taxing it would be a fun project though it would be fun a good challenge okay no I'm just reeling up some more questions here incredible everybody thank you so much eight point nine thousand viewers thank you see we can crack nine or ten would be incredible thank you for any golf I'm very pleased that you are excited by blacksmithing and you want to you want to keep increasing your skills here we go little more drawing out a hot steel it's getting floppy because it's really warm so this is where it gets difficult now it's there's so much sticking out and it's so thin and hot there that it's just kind of flopping about I'm struggling to work I'm probably about at the point I'm cutting it off and flipping it around before I do that I'm gonna grab oh oh oh that sucks that was so painful did you see that I just walked right into that treadle I'm fine it's all good if you I don't know how if your line of sight works for that folks this treadle is that the perfect height for hitting your shin or your feet if you're walking a little the Hammers in the way the Chambersburg treadle is just at the perfect height for hitting if you're walking a little too carelessly so I just walked into it okey-dokey yeah I think we're about there cutting off point it's a little it's a little bent and funky and I'd like to clean it up before I cut it off because right now we have all of this material to hold on to and so it just makes for nice and easy time so what I'm gonna do is something I'm gonna do something now trying to use one of my 14 brain cells and come up with a plan that makes the most sense is the most efficient and is the best use of heat okay here we go I am going to something something I'm gonna start at the end here and I will clean it up chisel a groove in this jaw straighten it punch a hole and then from the end back because that's from the thickest end of the taper because these are tapered the whole way down from then back and all the way back down here I will then clean it up with some gentle hammer blows taking care to make it all look neat and pretty before we cut it off and do the same on the other side so I need to prepare a chisel and a punch and I will also answer your questions so I get distracted Nik bustle thank you very much for the money I appreciate it have I ever made any kind of mini dagger we made a stiletto which is quite similar to a mini dagger with that with Neil's Vanderburgh Josh Smith and of course will skelter we'll recently made a dagger we've cut Holland so I don't know if that quite counts yoky okey-dokey so I have a punch dad it out that uh doctor his punch put that somewhere handy and put it right there and hopefully not lose it now I'm gonna go and get a chisel you'll have to use your imagination a little bit [Music] chisel here we go let's do it little little bit of wire brushing at a hot heat sorry about that I get you and you know actually before I start hammering on it I'm gonna straighten it it's a little twisted Danna oh wow this is a hoppy steel it is burning me so I'm gonna take a pair of tongs can you see this vise I hope you can my joy is just a little off-kilter Iraqi so fix that we'll take another heat I don't think it's the most efficient use of heat to have just you know taking this nice big hot heat ah I burnt myself nice big hot heat and then only have twisted it it's gonna have to work this is exceedingly hot I've been just flipping it around in the bucket of water I'm just cooling off one end I'm gonna grab a little cup so that I can properly douse it in water and really really cool it because that's it's no fun to just get burnt lots of people ask Alec do you get burnt all the time you must you must get burnt all the time well fortunately because you know either because you get weak or you get smart you can start to learn how to not burn yourself which is great and you don't burn yourself in much so you can see what I'm doing I have a bucket of water and I for it fascinating stuff I know you can have that tip for free okely-dokely here we go it's back in the fire the torch is cranking that is one hot Forge I'm gonna try not to die from dehydration we'll open up some more of your comments okie-dokie how long did you afford to take to heat to proper temperature what temperature do we use for Damascus Park jobs can a single burner Forge work for Damascus Jobs says Andy Sellars thank you Andy incredible $20 I sincerely appreciate it as well as the great question this Forge takes approximately 20 minutes to heat up to forging temperature maybe a little more like 30 minutes to get to Forge welding temperature now what temperature is that I don't exactly know you know and I think I might be wrong if I was to try and tell you the exact temperature it might be twenty-three twenty-four twenty-five hundred degrees Fahrenheit what is that in Celsius I don't know I can tell you a little bit better by the color that I see I want a forge weld at a high yellow temperature to a white temperature if it's orange you're typically gonna struggle to get quite the same Forge weld that you would otherwise so high high yellow works for me and obviously that's different if you're forges outside in the Sun or if you're in a dark workshop this is a pretty well lit workshop and if the Forge looks like it's a high yellow I'm generally pretty happy what is a high yellow look at the temperature that bring this out little hotter than that's where I like to Forge well and yes a single burner Forge can absolutely achieve that but that is like asking can a two and a half liter engine take a vehicle 70 miles an hour yes what vehicle can it take can it take a giant huge 18-wheeler up to 70 miles an hour probably not can it take a little Golf TDI Volkswagen to 70 miles an hour hell yeah when way beyond and so if you have a very well-built Forge and you have a relatively small chamber absolutely it you know what it depends it depends but single burner forges are used by plenty of people to make Damascus look at the latest video that will made for the channel where he made Damascus by hand he was using a single burner propane Forge so there's definitely an option and it's definitely a possibility for it the forge just has to be designed right all that people are asking about the trousers these things interesting here folks are curious about the cloth on my legs I think you are right to be curious because I think they are rather fantastic now as the beginning of the stream I will have let you all know I consider those you to be tuning in to my ramblings here unedited my ramblings that don't have the luxury of Jamie being able to pick through them and cut out all the stupid boring stuff and my bad jokes these rattling those of you that sit through this I'm gonna give you sneak peeks these trousers all the trousers this is a prototype pair of a little secret something something you know that is very comfortable and might be able to be warmed by some more people if you know what I'm saying if you get what I'm putting down if you underpant what I'm saying they're very comfortable good pair of work pants stay tuned guys working on it there's so much behind-the-scenes stuff going on very difficult to work out when's the right time to announce it but you know you guys you're in the you're in the inner circle so we can keep a few secrets between ourselves Terry Finch from South Carolina thank you very much for the 10 bucks appreciate it he's asked a great question why do I hold the hammer so high up close to the head age-old question rightly so I remember growing up always hearing you should hold a hammer always hearing like all of you did you should hold a hammer down the shop but then as I started blacksmithing it could have started to feel a little bit uncomfortable to hold the hammer way down the back end of the shaft and I didn't have quite as much control as when I held it closer to the head I also started black to me when I was particularly young and so I was quite weak I didn't have the strength to be able to handle a hammer at the end of the shaft and what I gravitated towards was using a slightly heavier hammer held closer to the end or held closer to the head I gravitated towards that that's what suited me suits the way I wanted to work it was part of you know the great inspiration and education that I got from brown Brazil and how he works is using a heavier hammer hammering at a slower cadence etc etc sorry I gotta adjust the forge here and we try not ramble too much but it's what suited me was using a heavier hammer and holding it closer to the head so that I didn't have to use a lighter hammer held further away helped me feel more comfortable at the anvil helps me get my body in closer to the work helps me see my work and just suits me I'd rather swing this a little slower I'm gonna take a lighter hammer and have to whip it faster I feel a little more in control so that's essentially it why does all of this handle exist if you rarely use it reasons I'm sure it feels good it helps it give it a natural feel and there's all this wood sticking out here and it suits me and when I do have a slightly lighter hammer like this three and a half pounder you know I'll be using it up near the head like I usually do this sometimes I might hold it down here and give it a really good get really good Wang you know good whip to it and so sometimes you want the extra handle like it's also like a marketing thing because I don't want to be you know selling everybody a hammer with a nine inch long handle because there's a whole lot of you that would feel good to take a three and a half pound hammer and swing it way back here using all fifteen inches of the handle and so we don't want to sell you a hammer that you don't have enough handle on if that's if that's how you like to work so there's a whole lot sticking out because that's just kind of hell with me so we're gonna get ready to punch a hole starting on this side here with that shoulder dropped over the animal that was very funny I guess I'm used to an anvil where the prytt did the punch sits in the virtual hold that's okay I'm not gonna complain about the anvil right after I get it I mean I designed it with a 5/8 hole and that is smaller punch thank you for the great question Terry personal preference is essentially why I hold to handle that simply put says Matt Landowski Lewandowski you use the choke to grip because it works for you but others are more open grip is preferred absolutely Jeffrey for $5.00 thank you my way says you hold a stonemasons hammer for the same reason and it helps with the balance of it Oh okey-dokey I'm gonna take the punch-out after every blow I got down to the bottom see that little bullseye on the back they're out of battery okay I'm not gonna hammer on it so we can flatten off the surface a little bit get a little more reverse taper coming in I will say my work has oxidized a lot you know with all my rambling I've let it sit in the fire a little longer than it should and when I turned down the Forge a little earlier I turned it down the lazy way by simply just reducing the amount of fuel going in which gave me an extra oxidizing flame so kind of kicking myself for that choice there I'm gonna come in again from our first side then I'm going to flip it find my mark but having done it again that last blow it really helps shine up where the mark is anyway we're now gonna punch plug there we go we punch the holes okay yeah so I'm gonna change batteries on this camera here thank you very much I'll tell you what we have not done a live stream in a long time and getting all of the software and hardware set up again to do this real blast from the past remembering days at the Barker Street workshop with Sam at 10 o'clock at night when we would start those things I think it was 10 o'clock at night insane insanity God how things have changed I remember the first live stream that we did there were 50 people watching the most and I was reflecting on this with my wife but earlier I remember going home and thinking oh my goodness this is life-changing unbelievable and to think that from then so much has changed there's now so many of you watching I mean that's just incredible it's it's a real real blessing I don't want to make that sound like a horn Tooting kind of thing to say like look at me this is this is where you where I got I mean it's it frankly it feels unbelievable I hope to you know people who were in my position it can be reassuring to think of what is possible in a very short amount of time it suddenly freaks me out to think that that was possible we went from 50 people watching a live show and then now we've got 9,000 people watching unbelievable so I'm very grateful for that and you know having all you folks be so so loyal and friendly and willing to share in this journey the we share in it's pretty unbelievable and so I'm very grateful for that thank you okay back to being tough thank you all of you the kind comments I really appreciate it Oh drink drink drink drink you know what I'm Way behind in the comments of course the Alex Steele drinking game I dropped my punch okie-dokie that's a hot piece of steel better than just cleaning it up a little bit having a good time oh it's gonna chisel the thing in that I haven't made a pair of tongs and so long I just frankly forgotten everything well almost I'm gonna put a brick on the ground to stand on because maybe chisel these tongs you got to stand up a little higher than normal and interestingly it's the door has twisted again I might fall off the Alek steel drinking game applies if I fall too so get ready and standing on one fire brick oh okay two feet still on the ground doesn't count I'm happy with that we do need to drift the holder so what I have here a piece of quarter-inch steel bar we're gonna make a drift and we're gonna make the heat in one drift I'm gonna make the drift in one heat rather that is the challenge I will set for myself what you will see here is a hot cut slight variation of a brown raziel [ __ ] you might see me make one on this stream but I don't to fully commit myself to that because I think I already have my work cut out making these tongs in less than five hours this has a tapered shank on it the reason that's tapered is just like the key holding a power hammer in place a power-mad die in place this gets forced into the hardy hole and it locks itself in place because you're working with such a limited surface area on the blade you're able to do this hopefully without splitting an anvil he'll watch me bite my tongue when this brand-new animal that we are testing splits right now so it shouldn't it shouldn't but this is if you use the bottom fuller which has a much wider profile if you use that in an anvil he'll I think you'd probably end up splitting it no matter what animal you had and so you would only do this tapered shank tool with a blade with a hot cup as a rounded edge nice and thin and the nice thing is it doesn't rattle around anyway we're making a drift that is only important when we're cutting it and I stupidly committed myself to making this thing in one heat so I best hurry up because now I'm not in the condition of practice to be making such promises that was irresponsible oh my goodness oh my goodness so you know people are asking about hammers and where you hold them you know the downside to using a slightly heavier hammer as if I was trying to do work like I'm doing now I can only work at a much slower cadence right then if I was using a lighter hammer I would be hammering much faster and at those low temperatures where this small piece of steel is cooling down so rapidly and all I'm trying to do is just clean it up being able to hammer quickly is fantastic I couldn't do it I was hitting as fast as I could with that hammer so there's a lot of pros and cons to everything as with everything in life there are benefits there are downsides you pick and choose for the work at hand and what makes you feel good and would you look at that don't know that that out that uh we made a drift if you'll catch my drift it's good right it's good sup I can go right drink orange juice that is okely-dokely let's drift a-hole let's drifter home let's drift Oh found the right hole here on out little drifting plate make sure this is nice and hot you can see then the wide one there right okay so well we have the drift in there I can do a little few bits and bobs I can straighten out that wonky jaw that we've been struggling with one that's twisted beauty there we go look at that get a few bits and bobs in order clean some things up a little spring cleaning on the tongs look at that this is not gonna be my best pair of Thomas but I feel like we'll be able to and we'll be pretty happy once these things are done it'll been a good time touch mark yep get rid of the drift I know I'm biased cuz it designed this anvil but I am loving it this is lovely this is very very lovely oh yes so it is now time for us to cut this bad mamma jamma off flip it around and make the other half of the pair Thomas but you know what [Music] in a little peckish do you happen to have I am spoiled I am spoiled thank you so much have you dog well this hammering has me starving but I'm fortunate no problems that we have a solution that answer some more questions Cody Renfro I am hugely grateful and that is incredibly unnecessary but thank you Cody I appreciate it and thank you for your service roast awfulest says he's really feeling the nostalgia with your stream man I think I've been watching for years now estimated time of arrival on anvil availability thank you thank you thank you it depends I want to make sure I give the anvil of really good good run-through you know I want to make sure there aren't any things that creep up on us because there's a whole lot of factors that are important when you're trying to sell a product obviously as you would all know you're all consumers which means it's I mean I that doesn't sound good I'm trying to phrase it in the way that by having bought something you can empathize with what is important for being able to sell something which is I want to be able to offer I want to be able to offer a really good product at a reasonable price but allows us the margins to make it worth doing and make us be able to offer the level of customer service that we feel is important for us to offer as a business because when we try and sell our things you know it's all great what-have-you but we don't wanna be just selling our things and that's that and you know goodbye forever there's no more you need to be able to have the margins when you sell something thank you so so so much round of applause for mrs. steel got a incredible two pancakes with Nutella here to enjoy and tucking thank you she is helping much she entirely fuels this and so please give her your thanks if you're grateful for this show existing so it's important that we make a good product and we have the margins to be able to provide the requisite customer service to support that product and all part of that is making sure that the product lasts because you can't have a product and you can't support because it breaks and chips and it doesn't it doesn't provide people value and so I'm really trying to think you know long term as much as I can and I don't want to rush into it and sell a whole load of people and bulls that then end up breaking because that would be no fun I want to make sure that I feel confident that you're gonna get a good anvil so we're gonna be testing it and of course the plan is we're gonna launch pre-orders first so we can get people in for the very first batch and we can make sure that we have as many anvils made as there are ordered so that if it's a product that people want we can supply it to them and then of course you know there's a whole lot of factors in it I'm probably going into more detail than that's necessary but you know I want to make sure that we can plan out well what is our warranty strategy gonna be for these you know how much of what can you warranty on an animal I mean it's a tool that people literally beat the daylights out of you know that's kind of uncharted territory for you know what do you do if somebody has a problem with something after they hit it with a sledge if you hit an Apple computer with a sledge they might not be so thrilled but if you were forging with a sledge hammer on this here animal and a bad thing happened you'd probably expect me to do something about it which is entirely reasonable so all of this needs to be thought of and that's what I want I want to take our time I want to make sure this is a good product we've got a good offering a good warranty plan in place make sure that people feel good buying from us and make sure that we can follow through with the overall values and mission of the business oh my goodness goth downing thank you if you email us I'd be thrilled to give you a gift so thank you God if you can email us with like a screenshot of your YouTube page I want to send you some stuff because that is just unbelievable of you sent $400 so I want to get you set up with a box of some swag to send us an email support at forged steel send a screenshot of your home page or like a payment confirmation that would be payment confirmation that shows this you probably will have had one in your email inbox so then we can make sure that it's you and it's not the nine thousand six hundred ninety nine people that might also want a box of swag but didn't actually make that donation Garth if you email support at forged steel I'd be incredibly grateful if if you're not goth right now and you're thinking about sending that email and you well please the email support at forged steel if you ever have any problems from a product that you purchase with us customer service inquiries support at Forge dealers that email goodness so many caveats but if you're trying to email claiming to be goth and you're not stop right now this is God's email too right not yours thank you God I want to send you some gifts I'm really grateful I'm really really grateful his question was when will you do another stainless steel Damascus project and my answer is maybe sooner than you think because the Barefoot Forge crits Cowan I was usually on a podcast with him recently on the makers happy hour podcast check that out but in that podcast he said Alec old bean old pal I would like to send you some stainless steel Damascus for you to play with and he gave me the obligation that I would only use the stainless steel to make the most stupid thing I could imagine so I have to make something stupid with the stainless steel Damascus and so stainless steel Damascus might be happening sooner than you think because we might just have ourselves a care package of stainless steel Damascus on the way from Pennsylvania courtesy over the barefoot Ford check him out on Instagram thank you God for the question I would love to hear everybody's ideas and what would be the most stupid thing for us to make out of thinner steel Damascus I made a Mis hit oh ah that's a bad one so I made a Mis hit and I put a big old dent in there that didn't look good not good you'll notice I didn't make as much progress on the last one or what I like to do is give you some excuses as to why that's the case which sound incredibly plausible well there is a kind of excuse that I think it's reasonable when we're working on making the one he told back from the other side we have all the reading of the module oh my goodness come on Alec it's 10,000 people watching here get your stuff together all of the residual heat that's in the bar conducts through and keeps it hot for longer but now we don't have as much residual heat because it tapers off right back there so that's what's happening another big one holy mackerel thank you merica 909 goodness gracious same treatment email us Marek 909 let's let's let's get you a little swag collection I'm very grateful sorry oh I've got to eat thank you what goes inside good position taper and here we go progress another one are you guys kidding so Marek 909 please email our support at Forge dealer come what about a Guan Dao I know it's a giant weapon but it could be really cool I actually don't know what a gwaan Dow is so I'm very sorry that I can't help with that oh my goodness Seth Jai $500 for the donation war holy mackerel Thank You Seth unbelievable unbelievable thank you again same applies email us let's get you hooked up with some stuff email us a screenshot of your payment confirmation holy moley thank you folks wowza well incredible okie-doke is your goal to make your online store the one-stop shop for everything a blacksmith will need to get started I think it is a kind of Gold's are like this to inspire people YouTube channel educate people we're working on that we have the online school which you can check out but I want to work on a refurbishing and turning it into an even better offering and then equipping people to which is the online store we want to be able to give you as much value as possible and so that's why angles hammers things like that all things we're working on get you inspired with the content that we make and then be able to offer you an easy place to find the tools that are gonna make you able to pursue the hobby so yeah okay I'm burning my steel I'm rambling too much folks my former self would yell at me get it fit uh well pancake ugly ugly stuff is happening okay I'm gonna go into the forge sideways again here I don't have my Forge dialed quite right he's a little too much oxygen for the amount of fuel which is why that piece was burned because it was hot with a whole lot of oxygen oh my goodness more holy mackerel four hundred dollars in one sense Caleb pink Thank You Caleb wow what do you miss most about your old workshop oh that's a good question you know I get nostalgic from time to time I miss most about that old workshop that's what feels good next day shipping that was good being by the coast and being by family I think that's kind of probably the most important thing you can wait a couple days for an Amazon delivery I think the things I get most nostalgic about is like the area that is it we're really luck I mean there's mountains outside the door I'm not gonna complain that much you know this is incredible but one gets nostalgic of course I think the era being by the coast being my family hanging there the most important things that I miss about the old workshop of course I missed being able to hang out with Jamie the editor and you know he did film for us now he edits you know incredible incredible didn't do you oh that we became from working together the incredible work he does in our videos it was great having him here in January but you know that's something to miss okay Kevin Kyle's $500 holy mackerel thank you Kevin he said he didn't want swag he just wants he just wants to be friendly and that means a whole lot if you do want swag female us and I email us a copy of your confirmation thank you Kevin goodness gracious you guys Rock this is a special thing and I'm feeling so grateful that we decided to do this live stream because it's nice to get back on the horse and hang out with you guys you know it's a lot of times it kind of feels like making just the regular youtube comment content can become a little distant from you that the relationships that we have with you folks the viewers who enjoy what it is that we do I feel like sometimes they can be a little bit of a disparity there as we do our regularly scheduled YouTube content you know we get so flustered I get so flustered trying to make as much content as we can so we can operate the business the way that it needs to be operated that it's easy to get a little detached from you folks so it makes me happy that we can hang out you know a little face-to-face in the secret little Club with you folks like we said at the beginning you're all in the secret club here it's nice to be get to hang out and interact a little more personally like this able to read your comments and all of that so I'm very grateful about that it makes me feel good I'm very grateful very very grateful holy cow bran Bethel thank you so much Brian for goodness sake you did not need to do that thank you will we be doing more live streams in the future Brian email us to let's get you hooked up with some stuff I really appreciate that will we be doing more live streams in the future well you might be able to tell my voice is already going so my voice isn't cut out for doing a whole lot of this but I feel like we definitely need to do some more of this if you folks are enjoying this and you want to see more I think I wanted to do some more too good fun it's difficult because you know a lot of the projects that we do are not the type of projects where we get to we get to just you know get it done like that nice and fast can't make us right-hander on a live stream for everybody to death it's always a balance because I've got a try and you know make the most of the limited time that we have but I'm pleased that you guys are enjoying this if you are we'll be doing some more of these this is good fun and I'm having a great time hanging out with you all okay I'm working on these reins and we're making progress and I'm just gonna ramble on some more bun some more metal and make a little bit of progress to spend some time eating eating crepes can I just say if you've never a part of me oh I hope you didn't hear that bub phew I kind of let me let you know as you're talking we let one out a little bit impromptu you but if you've never had a crap you know a proper French style pancake with Nutella you're missing out heaven heaven try it you will not regret it it's better than a CREP with just chocolate so if you like you know you like your pancakes with some chocolate person and tell her on that it's gonna be a good time mmm [Music] this is where the heavy hammer is a little bit of a nuisance I can't hit fast enough for the work that I need to do when you're rounding things you know you're trying to make a very small marks around the periphery of a piece of Steel for goodness sake you need to get as many hammer blows in there as possible and so not being able to have a high enough cadence with the hammer can get a little frustrating because when you're doing normal work with a larger larger hammer and you're swinging the hammer nice and hard you don't really feel the weight of the hammer but when you're trimming your trim like you know give it some you then start to feel the way to the hammer do I have enough teller on my face okay good thank you not yet just wait a few minutes okey doke so I just stepped it down to a three and a half pound hammer that took a little uh a little little little less weight and it made it very nice so thank you all so much oh here we go warrior maiden comments the best ever crepes are done with a light layer of Nutella and thinly sliced banana I didn't like the ones with banana okay so I probably wouldn't like the ones with banana and Nutella thank you for the suggestion to everybody else I hope you try that one too I hope you try that one too you like them with bananas okay though somebody's comin that I wanted to reply to Samson FOMA thank you very much for the ten bucks I appreciate that if you hack a broke you don't need to send that and that's very kind of you but he asked what refractory karo will do you use because I accidentally melted my refractory incurable this refractory is from oh boy high temp tools h i GH calm the base here in the US they sell the refractory that we use listed as medium density Costabile i believe and the KO wall underneath that refractory is just that one inch 2700 degree or 2,800 degree k oh well maybe i think it's that 2800 degree k well I don't know you should be able to get away with 2,600 degree KO Wolff provided you go to thick enough layer of that medium density refractory that that but uh start to look like a pair of toms ideas a though I can't grab a tape measure folks see if I need to draw these out some more let's see if I'm gonna be happy with that length something that I find very easy to do when I am when I'm making a pair of tongs and I'm making in this manner where I'm making both halves attached at the hip we're gonna be cutting hot like a para yeah just stop my train of thought so this is 30 inches long which means that when I cut it in half we can have a 15 inch long pair of tongs just have a look at these ones okay well these ones which are some of my most used pairs of tongs I think I made these when I was probably 13 these ones are 12 inches long so we're gonna have an extra three inches on those bad boys well inch and a half on either end that's pretty good but we might just thin this out a little more in that middle section just because we can cuz I just don't want this live student to end moderation what's that I think we do this to the point of just utter exhaustion so we'll draw it out a little bit more go a little further I like a light pair of tongs like whippy pairs of tongs you know what I don't think this should be about what I like in a ferret all angry should give these tones away I think we've got some incredibly good candidates the folks to give tongs do so looking for giving these tongs away I don't have the mental acuity right now and decision making at this altitude I'm hypoxic probably the carbon monoxide build-up from the forge I shouldn't make light of that carbon monoxide buildup is extremely serious have a cup of monoxide detector in your workshop please but I haven't worked out exactly who we're going to give them away to because we have an incredible number of people who have donated to this stream given us money I feel like it should be them unless it should be somebody that's you know maybe kind of up and coming and getting into it who needs a good set of tongs I can't quite there's a whole lot of ideas maybe you folks in the comments could let us know how should we decide who we give these tongs away to because we need to give these tongs away on an unrelated note I would also like to let everybody know a little promotion we're running aha you thought you could get away come a Salesman steel quite that easily hop on a little live-streaming get away from the man with the ads No what are you doing this is terrible it's not how you be friends with people Wow anyway it's just basically gonna say this I'll keep it nice and simple salesman of Steel will depart after this to just the beginning minute and last minute of an episode of a normal video salesman still return 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comments thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you okay okay just read some more ah awesome Sean Harmon from Australia moving to Canada soon recently started a knife making because of watching the videos that makes me so happy he's a farrier which is awesome it's a you know a cousin craft to to the blacksmithing and knife making crafts and and you have the utmost respect for horseshoes I'm very grateful to hear that you know we helped get you hooked on knife making Shawn that is incredibly exciting and I hope you enjoy moving to Canada you're gonna have a great time get it it edit it up a little bit more tweaking and polishing will be almost there folks very good so it's getting a little toasty again where that's all going to be okay cooler on back in the fire we go ha standing by a forge gets your little walk Thank You Sean again lovely message Tim lambic Tim one beak bought the beginner's guide to black swing from you three years ago never got to afford the tools to make tools one email our support forged steel Tim I'm gonna hook you up with a great deal on that thank you for the hundred dollars I sincerely appreciate it sport a forged eel payment confirmation let us know you broke the beginning blacksmithing course and you're interested in the tools to make tools one we will hook you up oh and we brought our anvil out two days after he bought his it so sorry I apologize but I'm sure the animal you bought it's gonna be good and it's gonna it's you can have a good time with it you know I want to make sure you know when I started that video which I hope what announcing this angle I was trying to be very intentional and announcing it by showing you that you could take $20 at 4x6 and some super glue and make stuff ie I want to let you all know that you don't have to spend lots of money with us to be able to get into this craft I don't want this to be an inaccessible craft I want to be able to help inspire you offer great things if you're willing to spend for great things but also offer the alternatives that can get you buy otherwise and so to be completely Frank because I don't want to be in the business you know letting you know the charade that everything that we have is the best there is because so much of it is subjective and to say this is the best animal in the world I couldn't say that with a straight face I don't know if it's the best animal in the world you know from my subjective opinion this meets the points that I wanted in an animal and so we made it and made it into that you can have a great time with whatever anvil you buy you're gonna have a great time whether you buy a piece of mild steel and start hammering away on it there's so much that you can do on a piece of mild steel and any anvil that you buy is gonna serve you very well it's just like anything a car is gonna get you from A to B no matter what it is whether it is you know a $500 $500 junker it's gonna get you from A to B whether it's slightly more comfortable its thousand two thousand five thousand ten thousand twenty thousand or whether it's a Ferrari you're gonna get from point A to point B a whole lot of this stuff is about feeling it's about the fine details and it's about marginal gains when you want the feeling of working on you know an anvil that has some of the details that I cared about then it's the time to step up to this when you want the what I'd consider marginal gains that this anvil gives then it's time to step up to it but I don't want everybody to think that you have to have this anvil to make things it's just not the case you can get by with a whole lot less I'm not making this animal just because I'm making it so we can put these cool features on there like holes in the feet flush logos an inch Rd hole 5/8 Hardy hole you know not oversized not undersized really nice horn controlling the edges where all this stuff is all really important you can survive with a whole lot less and I want that to be the message of what we put out as much as possible you don't need all of this we have it because we enjoy this like a whole lot of you enjoy having nice tools and because it affords us marginal gains which are important to the business doesn't mean that you need it wills videos are so incredible those videos as of late from him hook from his home workshop a such an incredible resource for those of you that are getting into this craft you're making progress you want to know what is the standard you can set to yourself look at how incredible the work that will produce is is and I hope that that helps you realize that well actually there are very few limits on what you can achieve with the tools that you already have it's so much more about practice you know dedication devotion research education than it is about the tools that you have and rambling got this drawn out it's now time to get ready to punch a hole here in the boss Dada Dada Dada Wesley Jackson thank you so much thank you so much I'm so pleased you like watching the channel it means a whole lot thank you thank you thank you William Owen thank you so much you asked about a Damascus steel low angle Jack plane blade he's a woodworker loves watching us make things every appreciate that William you know it's really difficult for us to take on commissioned work it's generally not something that we do or is open to the idea but I don't think the time is right right now for us to take on any commissioned work we have so much to finish off so many big projects to work on but feel like we might end up I don't think it's gonna work out so I appreciate it but I don't think I'm ability to take on any commissioned work the long and short of it thank you though what's my opinion of a railroad track amble for a very beginner metal pounder my opinion absolutely yes railroad track and look great no problem at all that's how I started you can start making some stuff the downsides to a railroad track animal railroad track is not flat across the top so you need to flatten it off somehow use a grinder you know go to a friend that has a mill or something that's down site you don't have a whole cetera et cetera if I had a preference I would just take a big chunk of Steel big chunk of mild steel I'd be happier with that then I would a railroad track that would make me let me feel good yeah if you can flatten off the top of a railroad track you're gonna be having a good time you know you won't have a home but you can get around that okay bring this in here so we get a little better clearance for the other jaw I'm trying to taper this draw out some I feel like I didn't take as much material as I had on the last one whoa and I miss hit and hit the anvil I didn't take as much material as I did on the other jaw so it's really not gonna be quite even unfortunately that's what I get out of practice so that stuff happens dokie let's get ready to punch a hole will Marcus at this low temperature after cooling off the bar christ-centered ironworks how are you he has a YouTube channel folks check him out Christ centered Iron Works I recognize your name recognize your face now that you're stateside Alec do you have any plans on attending some blacksmith conferences quad state is a good one in Troy Ohio in September that about 1200 Smith's attempt do I have any plans yeah I'm trying to I'm trying to minimize the amount of events that I scheduled myself for I'm trying to go easy on that so I really don't over commit myself I struggle enough as it is meeting the level of productivity that I want to meet in the workshop but traveling for a whole lot of things becomes difficult so I don't really have any plans to go to to go to any events I can't think of the whole lot on my mind not not in the plans right now bad video settings it is it is it working okay a bit of people saying there are problems does it look fine if you look there so I think we're okay I mean it looks like a nice resolution looks like folks are enjoying it I feel like I remember these things like that where it would say bad video settings but it's actually okay and it's still working so so long as it's still working and working I'm happy but let's punch a hole so again we start with the jaw facing down come into about the middle of the boss hit once take it out why do I like to hit once and take it out well oh I just hit my hand this is again like this is part of my education with ground Raziel and I really like hitting once before taking it out because it affords me a lot more control I couldn't look at what I'm doing observe the progress I'm making and make incremental adjustments as I work which is incredibly important to me a lot of folks they'll put that punch in the hole and they'll stop going they'll go 1 2 3 you know Bam Bam Bam they'll take it out that's fine if that's how you want to work there are some downsides to it you can damage your tool a little more easily because your tool is gonna be heating up more cuz it's stuck in there conducting Heat you go off center and end up to blows further than you would have been otherwise you're also having to work it a little bit of like a faster more energized pace which can be tiring you know if you were doing this all day getting Bam Bam Bam and take it out you know it's a little more of an exertion than just going a little bit slower but maybe even getting it done in the same amount of time because you're not spending as much time cooling the tool so paces myself a little bit nicer means I don't go off course as much a lot of folks do just fine hitting three times with the punch and then taking it out but if I was a beginner I'd find it easier to just hit once take it out especially if I didn't have the best steel for my punches because they'd be more liable to be distorting so if you don't have the best you know hot work steel for a punch it's really good to take it out make sure you don't damage it quite as easily okay awesome Brad Miller thank you so much I'm very pleased for the further for the hundred bucks that means a lot the hundo really pleased he got into blacksmithing after watching the videos that just gets me so happy it makes me so happy in older videos you advise using a striking and a lot of three inches of soft steel what would be making those the ideas in my head I've been thinking about getting a quote for getting a pattern made from our fountain so that make these animals getting them to make us an unhardened striking animal and idea that that's in my head I want to make that happen so stay tuned because I want to make that happen and I have a feeling it might be quite cost effective to do the striking animals we had looked into doing some folks of our Alec are you gonna do different weights of animal you have 140 pounder this one are you gonna do a smaller one a bigger one I'm not sure it really depends on the market demand it depends how many people like this whether it's worth us getting a new pattern made this so the way it works when you cast something out of steel if you go to a founder you have to have your CAD file your complete computer-aided design what it is here my voice is going Yoga Cadfael and then you go to the foundry and they quote on making a pattern which is the wooden part that they put in the sand compress the sand around open up the sand pull the wooden piece out that wooden part needs to get made and it needs to be designed in a way that it helps all the stuff flow it helps the molds release there's a whole lot that goes into designing that part right and so making that pattern it's really expensive basically it's very very expensive to just simply make the pattern alone so bringing other weights of anvils in is a tricky one because there's a lot of upfront cost before we even factor in the cost of actually melting the steel and manufacturing an anvil so we've got to see how this works it's a little bit of a gamble you know if only ten folks want to buy anvils I don't think it's gonna work out so well for us to make this move with the business hopefully a whole lot more of you want anvils that's the dream and the hope you know the key upfront cost of the patent has been swallowed and so you know invariably it's just a just a question of how does that all go with market demand so roundabout way of answering yes I want to do some striking anvils we haven't done enough of that type of work since I've been in the u.s. you know we've really liked a lot of those like back to basics things or it's not even back to basics but a lot of those things that came to the beginning of my career and an education in blacksmithing have kind of a little bit been left by the wayside as the busyness of moving and all the exciting projects have come into the forefront and I want to do some more struck projects with a striker and get back to those roots you know I don't even have my anvil bolted down it's hot glued to the to the concrete it's ridiculous you know I need to need to get myself in shape there do some work with a sledge hammer get some striking angles I get mine mounted here and start doing some work with sledgehammer because that it's just so much fun it is unbelievable so yes I want to work on right let's get some more of your questions fellow folks you lovely people goodness gracious just so grateful thank you all so much all righty Lou Stan goo just want to say I'm working on my first pair of tongs and I'm watching a pro puts it in perspective that I'm not doing too bad for an amateur with improvised workspace thank you for you all you teach in your videos that makes me happy I really appreciate it sir Thank You Lou I'm very pleased you're making a pair of tongs and it makes me so happy here you guys getting out in your workshops and making stuff that is what it is all about see if we can make these things match a little better dum dum dum dum dum dum dum oh I can't stand on it I'm too small this anvil compared to the last anvil that was on this stand so this is an 11 inch eye angle the last anvil was nine and a half inches high so it's an inch and a half higher than the last animal I had on it so I've gotta kind of do a little reget in use to know are we getting used to because it's a little higher up than normal which leads us to a question that I'm sure a whole lot of you have what height should I have my anvil oh I'm not high enough up I felt the consequences how the reverberation if you understand what I'm saying that is the go to be careful when you have a piece of steel between your legs okay not to talk of that kind of zing to me so how high should you have your anvil depends on the work that you're doing what the bulk of the work that you're doing is gonna be how you feel all that just like anything you know it's a whole lot of variables generally the most work if you can hold a piece of steel between your legs and the steel is parallel you're gonna be good to go the trouble is if you see you can see here I hold this between my legs it's not parallel if I hit that I'm gonna have an unfortunate time this is a little bit high for me this is higher than I would like if I was doing lighter work glorious because you don't have to bend down as much while you're doing that the lighter hammering but if you're trying to whale away and you're making drifts and stuff you're gonna want to lower animals because you want to get some more more air time with the hammer get some more gravity on it it's gonna help you have a better time for most people their animal heights you know tend to be in this range and not the tallest person in the world by any stretch the imagination depending on how self-important I am on the day I might be 5 7 or 5 9 who knows 32 inches right here it's a 32 inch anvil height the last one therefore would have been glover defeated with the maths turn 30 and a half inch 30 and a half inches oh boy I think 30 and a half inches and out suited me fine as somebody in that broad spectrum this tends to be an OK kind of height 32 inches you know if you're an average height kind of person 32 inch anvil you know it's a little too tall for me might be good for you so try that out see if that works people do things like saying you know stand up straight and feel your knuckles on the anvil it's kind of close it might be a little bit high though you know because I find this anvils on the touch on the high side and I can barely graze my knuckles walk it out little experimentation you work it out you have a good time I'm just so unfocused on this work piece I've just been like talking and then I'm like up there we go I did some work let me ramble a little bit eat a CREP I'm a blacksmith look at me Wow I made not oh I forgot to drift it before I put touch marking [Music] christ centered on works who else would like to see collaboration between Alec and Joey Vander stick making some anvils on the big hammer in the background I would like to see that collaboration it'd be a ton of fun and Joey and I might have already talked about how practical it would be with such a large forge like that to make an anvil under such a large banner I'd love to make it like you know make an actual like 20 pound 50 pound anvil Oh be incredible thank you all so much felix the cat 5e gaming thinks I'm drunk wow I'm not drunk I'm very far from it little embarrassing isn't it when you're completely unenumerated state is assumed to be drunk boy I should work on that so drifting do this yo hi-ho hi-ho it's in the legal a little bit of drifting a little bit of drifting distinction I live the drift in there while it cools is the steel shrinks it will cool as it cools it should shrink rather and as it shrinks it shall cool and so by putting the drift in there as it's cooling we can you know hopefully make sure it doesn't shrink up too much folks it's about time for us to cut this in half unbelievable so far we have come how long has this been streaming for because I remember when I used to do these I'd like look at the clock and then just like three hours had gone by two hours I'm pretty sure Brian used to make a pair of tongs in like or he can make a pair of tongs in like 45 minutes it probably wasn't talking and probably wasn't acting like a fool the whole time so that would do it I'm not a fool that's very kind very kind okey-dokey righty-o it's time for us to make a mark on where the middle is after pancakes all right how you doing retro well well okay I can't eat and talk that's so rude especially on our livestream I'm so sorry guys oh my goodness you spent a year and a half off-hook her majesty's island and you know look what happens 28 and a half inches divided by two 11 and three-quarter inches it is alrighty I think I can use a sharpie for it little warmer gal open the door Oh glorious look good great so what did I say eleven three-quarter inches no 13 in a quarter when I take my measurement you'll give their mountains then they look good folks Montana is very underwhelming I don't recommend it the views frankly Matt to middling wouldn't recommend it guys okie-dokie double-check that that'll do needle day all right they're saying 14 year ago 14 and a quarter times 2 isn't 28 and a half what I talking about it's fine oh that camera just died let's switch to the other one it's fine it's just that it was very loud and made me think about the fact that I'm gonna be going deaf and so I should put hearing protection on what she says you are going deaf that is so everybody here saying I'm already dead so do those of you that said oh well I was hoping it would balance you're right I got a static shock from that earlier - I was hoping it would balance and then it would be it was a joke there's men to be funny but you know what happens when you try to be funny right so we're gonna cut this okay well you know what else we're doing we're testing an anvil for goodness sake please if you buy one of our anvils in the future don't cut with it an anvil is not a cutting instrument it is an anvil it is for hammering hot steel on it's not famine cold steel on but I'm here to test it and judging by the state of my beard it should be clear that I'm a reckless 16 year old with no desire to listen to mature advice such as that of not cutting cold metal with an anvil okay so I'm having a look at it and I'm seeing what effects that had on the edge you know I'm kind of a piece of work hardened cold metal using this sharp edge and frankly it looks okay it looks really good it's not rolling I'm not seeing any chipping it looks just as sharp as anywhere else so that's good so this achieves a cold cut by nicking the metal like this I hope you can see it means that as we bend it we can concentrate the stress and exert so much force over such a small amount of material that it breaks right in half and would you look at that to everybody said that my mats were wrong I think that's a thing that's pretty close right so that will cool off and while it does we will proceed to some riveting let's do this we need to make a rivet now you might be familiar with the Eiffel Tower it's in Paris Texas it was riveted together in the 1800s and because it's in Texas you know it's the largest one in the world [Music] what we're gonna do similar kind of visits what's up then all forgiving me for what am i Matt as you said math instead of maths I said math I know it's happening assimilation right here so we're gonna be making a rivet much like the rivets that hold together the Leaning Tower of Pisa this is what we're gonna be doing we need to take a measurement to the width of this really gonna heat up a little bit too much okay I'm gonna pull that out of the fact and concentrate a little bit here so as I said Coliseum held together with rivets fascinating stuff it's incredible the technology that they used you know even as it must be recently revealed if we're gonna say there's so much stuff that's put together these rivets even more recently than when they really did together the Coliseum so there's a lot to talk about when it comes to rivets but when they used it to put together a Great Wall of China they were using it for its compressive nature a rivet it's essentially a bar of Steel with an upset and squished overhead on one side upset squished overhead on the other side you heat it up and it's cool you know when they were building all those incredible structures they'd have a guy with a hand crank rivets forward very small Forge way up high they're on on the Burj Khalifa and he had you know rivets that had one had already made and he'd be heating them up in the coal and they did it a few different ways sometimes he'd hold it a pair of tongs and throw it up to the folks above them sometimes I think they generally did go with the tongs and then up top there'd be a guy with a cone or a really heavy heavy glove who would catch it but take it put it inside a hole and then there'd be guys with a sledgehammer and more recently with pneumatic tools heading over that second head and then as it shrank the steel would contract and the two formed over heads would be pinching the material together holding it with a great degree of force now we're gonna be using a rivet not for its ability to hold something together tight but simply for its ability to have two heads that hold these pivoting pieces captive so that you can move freely without coming loose as opposed to using a nut and a bolt where the the bolt could come loose the nut could come loose with the bolt from it being work so it's wonderfully wonderful technology all the stuff take a measurement here very unprecedented scale z' so we are dealing with I think it's about right half an inch of material those two pieces are half-inch that is right the end of this ruler is weird those are those two pieces are half an inch long together we have piece of quarter inch round mouthed steel bar in the fire so to put into perspective of the metric viewers as my omage to the metric system 12 millimeters we have a six millimeter piece of steel well we need one and a half times the diameter of the rivet shaft material to make an appropriate rivet head which means if we're using quarter inch bar we need quarter / - it's an 8 8 plus 1/4 3/8 of an inch of material either side three eighths times two is six eighths which is 3/4 plus 1/2 which is an inch and a quarter if you metric folk can't follow it goes a little like this six millimeter round bar half of 6 is 3 go did it the 6 plus 3 is 9 9 times 2 is 18 12 plus 18 is a number that's too high for me to actually count to so I'll let your calculators sort that one out yourself we will give it a brush tenly that these holes are actually little bit tight it's a little bit of a bit of tricky one they actually need opening up some more so make a plan of action for that just not wide enough this in the fire oh and we could do it the reasonable and mature way we can do it a lazy way a little bit of pancake bear with me and then I will keep rambling shortly [Music] I'm gonna rest my vocal cords here a little bit and give you a patience [Music] all right what is the lazy fiction I did use that nice drift well I'm not just gonna take a punch lazy fix lazy fix lazy fix ludovick Gintama you do the lazy fix and amazing effects losers lazy [ __ ] it I'm done gotta keep the viewers right but I come Oh do did it do you do it it it you bet it down and down Charlie good I do hugs we are approaching our final destination please prepare for landing bring your seat backs up armrests - sorry don't window shades up too and will that be cycling into Tongva land about the next 20 minutes or so with their completed pair of Chong's the weather is currently 50 degrees Fahrenheit beside the forge it's about a billion degrees Fahrenheit and we once got a pair of tongs finished I almost finished something it's a little too late yeah pass the bedtime that's for sure so fellow people of the interwebs listen up look at a hole we have here a plate of Steel that happens to be how thick my to be one Wow 3/8 of an inch thick and you'll remember that number from earlier because earlier I mentioned that 1/4 plus 1/8 so is 3/8 of an inch and that is exactly the measurement that is on either side of these two pieces of material to make a rivet head and so we will hold these here we've got our hot rivet are you ready when you're ready yeah you're ready hot rivet nose into the hole oh my goodness get in there hot rivet breaks off into the cooled tank steals the show with it's awesome noise head of rivet gets hammered and it doesn't look like it's working well something looks off I think that's a half inch thick instead of 3/8 of an inch thick or I don't know how to measure with the ruler the idea is you don't be me and you make things work right the idea is is you had one rivet at a time well I'm a nincompoop so I don't get to do that I now have to fiddle with it and head both at the same time rats okay folks okay let's fix this how about we I need a monkey tool I think I left the lime on p2 is anybody else gonna do this ha both head these two hearts of the tongs are not sitting flush I'm doing this bolt head I'm just gonna give it one big quick little cricket a thwack what and now we're gonna heat it up and just hammer the thing shut it's just extremely loud and I remembered as I dropped it and the noise filled and echoed around my head that I hadn't put hearing protection on me dehydrated what are you talking about okie-dokie all righty folks can I ask a small favor thank you so much I have hearing protection on now folks we're ready to go uh Jim link has asked what is our gas bill well I actually haven't received the first gas bill from when we had the natural gas portion of Stahl it doesn't really matter because it's not representative of forging every single day because we don't Forge every single day right now and there's been a lockdown barely any work has got done so gas bill right now is not gonna be too high in the future it will be higher so to put into perspective when working when working off of one of those big propane tanks that we use those is it a hundred gallon propane tank thank you so much hundred pound propane tank maybe we get a few days of work out of one of those you know so we've changed to in a weeks forging we'd go through two bottles pretty easily which means that in a week's forging on propane you can be spending depending on how expensive it is where you buy it you know with a forge this size running it all the time for a week like we sometimes do you might spend 120 bucks something like that okay got it thing Madhu did we've done the Linga Madhu did it happen thingamadoodles Wow I'm tired folks jolly good clean this all up right so here it's taking that a little bit you will see you your keen observer the ends of this are not flush I need to file on them so I will file on them put an advice from but um I'm gonna grab a grab aa drink all right here we go horrible that nasty I that angled running on the wall right okeydoke folks bad example I have a grinding room I'm also lazy and I also have the ability to hold my breath for a good number of seconds [Music] get out I cleaned up pretty nice so we have the front side of the tongs pretty much sorted we just need to get them all bent and looking nice and then loosen them up because they're still tight now basically everything you see here is stuff that I learnt from brown Brazil you know and it's I generally don't consider what we do to be making a whole lot of educational content because a lot of the time we don't know what we're doing because you know we haven't had an instruction I haven't had an instruction on it but like you know I learned how to make this from brown Brazil and those little tricks like adjusting them while they're locked up picked up from him I do righty-ho so that's looking quite neat what I'm going to now do is we're going to open them up so if you have a pair of tongs and you rivet them and they're stuck oh my goodness no what am I gonna do that's fine take a chill pill dawg you're gonna be fine Wow really not helping with the whole Alex drunk thing are we you know back here Wow holy moly so many comments thank you guys so much ha go home Scott you're drunk did you just see that one the best the best hi Alec why do you brush the scale of the metal with that one well so you put it in the Forge it heats up the Forge it's the hot place and hot things generally react faster than cold things and so when a piece of steel is out in the atmosphere it's picking up oxides and it's forming iron oxide well here it forms it's SuperDuper fast and this iron oxide coats the surface and it becomes scale as you know but if you have our on that it doesn't become part of the metal all that happens is hammers into the metal and then it either sticks in there or eventually it breaks up and it leaves a mark where it live because it doesn't become homogeneous of the metal again so I brushed the scale off because I want to get it off the surface before I hammer it into the surface where though it won't our modernize and become one hope I'm using the right words I'm not sounding stupid it does have the opportunity to lose a dent when you hammer on it and then if you just leave it all there it looks nasty when you're done so you saw that I took a heat right at the end and if your tongs are built with a geometry that includes a proper reverse taper meaning that in this cross section of the tongs the thickest area is right here by the boss right here by the boss if they're constructed like this similarly in this direction thickest area is the pivoting area you're going to be able to heat them up have them hot and open them up and the point of least resistance is going to be the rivet and you won't bend your reins and so you can open them up without bending your reins but loosening the rivet so that's a good tell for if you've got your geometry constructed in line with this you know because they'll open up nice and easy so that's a good good reference there it's important that that's the thickest up right there so you don't have binding issues what welcome to the Alex deal ASM Asha Oh I could hold people ransom by something or I will keep this re too late I'm not speaking sense here but if you buy something you will get a free PVC patch jagged righty huh fabulous it's a little squeaky let me go I've had some tricks for this in the past tricks up my sleeve let's see if I can dig them out over the 1800s this is a pot of beeswax don't you be too nosy that's none of your beeswax that's my beeswax okay fine I'll tell you there is a secret ingredient within and that is a girl I've got something more special what's up I've got something more special I have a new product that I've been wanting to try this isn't how you actually use this product so this is not what's meant to be but anger stealing a little drop of it would be just fine this is punch lube for blacksmithing and it is called how do I pull this one off you know what I don't think I need to say what it's called it's all good it is punch Lube specifically for lubricating your punch as you are punching holes lubricating your drift as you are drifting holes and enlarging them and this is meant to be the bee's knees the best Lube there is for blacksmithing it's called as I said not going to say it that would be inappropriate but it's incredibly helpful it's uh it's meant to be the stuff meant to be the stuff don't get this on your skin though probably would not be good so four G's is a non-toxic solution designed for industrial use well no no it does say non-toxic okay so let's open this up this isn't the way you use it caveat caveat caveat caveat but it's designed to lubricate at high temperatures so I figure I was about to put some beeswax with graphite on these pairs of tongs I thought you know what might as well pull it a little industrial Lube on there instead and that's how we got this demonetised I said lube way too many times I didn't say the name of this though which is impressive right righty-ho so I'll put a little drop of that on there maybe that's not gonna work there we go it's meant to be dissolved in water but haven't you done that hello sorry it's very thick it's you're meant to dissolve it in water but I okay I'm gonna get a little cup I wanna the aim is I want to pour this lube over that joint to lubricate it I was gonna put that drag that that beeswax and graphite in there in this works quite well for me in the past but clearly I'm not content with this just being a two-hour live stream I want this to be a four hour live stream so I want to just waste a little bit more of your time unnecessarily it's up better that there are a little bit of water and a little bit of Lube down with water before use interesting water soluble we will mix it up then get a little bit of lube on our tongs this looks so bad like I mean it's just messy with that with that lube I've made a right master sir there we go terrible perfect I just wanted that smells really good too good okay lovely now we have this disgusting white coating all over our tongues so it's designed for lubricating punches and drifts while punching or enlarging holes it's not designed for lubricating a pair of tongs for goodness sake so sorry it's still loud you know it'd be a really original idea oil it's fine I'm not going insane how long was Alok lubricating his pair of tongs for 45 minutes with 9,000 people watching he lubricated his tongs for how long who would have thought oil lubricates really well guys what it was very bright when we started this okeydoke so we've learned ladies and gentlemen oil is just awesome so good good to know what the smell it's nasty yeah I don't recommend that I mean it's frankly something that one should be very careful about in a in a blackening workshop you know if you're a parent watching this with a with a child who was interested in this craft and wants to do it as well as if you are yourself interested in the craft and want to do it you've got to be careful because there's a whole lot of toxins that you can expose yourself to like smoking oil you know like grinder dust and I'm not in a particularly good example of that because I ground with the angle grinder out here admittedly while giving it enough time for the dust to settle okay held my breath well like a swimming champion which I'm not I can't even swim now so a little bit of oil blackened these up nicely made it look good but yeah just basically you got to you got to be careful cuz smoking oil breathing it in isn't good you know I backed off a little bit as it was all going up there we shall flip these around because we're not finished with the ends what I like to do on the ends here picked up from the man himself mr. Brazil I'd like to put a little splay out on them kind of means that you don't lose ahold of your tongue so much that's play out there's actually a pair of tongs that he made himself and this is one my favorite pair of tongs that splay out is right here we can do a little bit of that a little bit less than this I want to be careful with the splay but if I choose to put a tongue clip on a pair of tongs I don't need to compress them too much to get it on but the splay out helps the tongue clip stay on one and two means as you're using then you have a little bit of a reference for where the end of the tongs are and do a very gentle splay and it'll go a little like this come over the edge here tiny loss play give my little flat it's so embarrassing they're a little bit off in length okay folks you see that you see it's an easy fix I can you know drink drink drink it's an easy fix I'm gonna put this in the vise and while you work on your vices playing the Eric steel drinking again I'm gonna do some filing I'm just gonna file that down a little bit so get ready to hear some of the most beautiful noises in the world three two one oh thank you so much Devlin thank you for your work works in the health field just you know what everything is doing my I'm so grateful from folks that are risking their lives working on stuff but we're not talking about that are we so okay talk about a little bit I'm very grateful for everybody listening their lives of saving lives that means a whole lot and I know everybody everybody in the comments is thank you your lovely common to everybody thank you to everybody that's watching that is you know working hard right now to save wise people help you and say it means a lot you know it means a lot that there are people that are willing to put their lives on the lines to others as a member of the general public that really doesn't do a whole lot he's sort of life saving merit I'm grateful that folks like you exist that said it is pretty incredible you know the amount of life saving I did with making this pair of tongs pretty impressive sorry so my lovely wife says that she thinks I need to address that I'm not actually drinking alcohol and that I've actually said that is it [Music] does some unfortunate news to say folks but despite being the name behind the Alex teal drinking games choo boy is sober choo boy is sober indeed this is just me okay I am just quite weird I don't want you normal pink I'm normal special exactly well well I'm a little bit out of potentially you know the the normal slice of things this is just me not drinking I don't drink even this is just me me and my new best friends this is a PS this is why it's confusing for your folks this is me without editing exactly this isn't actually finished I mean nincompoop so if you're curious who is Alec without Jamie poeple the incredible editor it is me Widow extraordinaire I'm very tired I'm exhausted you know I said before the livestream you know boy this is gonna be something I'm going to be exhausted I am either gonna sleep really well I'm going to be so tired that I can't sleep these things are as they say in the home country knackering and that has nothing to do with [ __ ] I kind of get it actually why would somebody mention Nichols with knackering it does sound like I am entirely inebriated slow slow it tells it all folks okely-dokely so I put a piece of steel here I am gonna cut it on the band saw with hearing protection I'm gonna be right back so you're gonna have a ten tree some allowed noise unless I can find some scrap I'd like to find a little bit of scrap square steel so when you're making a pair of tongs folks oh yes please we're good when you're making a pair of I'm sorry I had the urge to buff and so I had to pause there for a second it's are good when you're making a pair of tongs something that you want to be really really careful about be careful some bandsaw noise is about to occur so you want to be really really cautious so that you make sure this absolutely doesn't [Music] we're finish off not round so I hope you got that that's my best tip of the day you know I just reiterated it for posterity just in case you needed that and yeah that's my most important tip for when you're making pairs of tongs what was that Oh people through a drunk purple I promise I'm not drunk so okay what I would think is this when you make a pair of tongs never make a pair of tongs okay I'm speaking in absolutes here it's probably not responsible I don't recommend making a pair of tongs to suit round box make your tongs whether to soup square bar because the pair of tongs that hold square will invariably hold Rao so here's what I'm doing making the jewels bit it was hammering hums like a roll a little bit there there we go they fit now we're just final tweaks here brush them it's a piece of quarter inch square so it means they'll be good per quarter each square but how you set the reigns is gonna depend how much smaller and larger they'll work they've bent a little bit unevenly so I'm going to come around to here straighten them a little bit pick this back up again I'm just using this as my reference of what my tongue reins look like sighting down my reins lol oh it's a little bit bent so we'll straighten it what's up drink yes okey doke that's gonna be all she wrote that's all she wrote we're gonna brush it small and now we've got to make a plan how are we gonna give this away did you did you get much feedback should we give it away to a donator or should we give it away like to our top donator of the day or should we maybe like find a way of finding somebody on Instagram that's kind of up and coming and wants a pair of tongs who's that much feedback didn't catch any so maybe now I brought it up folks will reiterate their thoughts there as week as we get ready to finish off we'll get an idea yeah yeah seething look at some comments from here bidding war accepted somebody says so I've got giving it give it to a kid starting out up-and-coming 12 year old the board enamel somebody says Top Gun eight Travis says he'll take it he's got a beard that's like down here top turn your thing in top donator up-and-coming up-and-coming health care worker that's a good one what are we gonna do there's loads of good ideas how do you pick I that's a really good one [Music] shoot Wow yeah so like a hashtag let's do hashtag Alex teal live hashtag Alex still live on Instagram if you are a young blacksmith you all getting into this craft I will pick somebody who has watched this stream and is watching right now to give these to the hashtag is Alec Steele live and this is the rules the rules will go like this over the next few days I want you to post some photos of your work or your forge setup known you do in your caption tag at Alec steel at Alex steel curve hashtag Alec steel hashtag Alex deal Co hashtag Alex D alive and I will pick and I'll have a look I'll see the profiles and I'll pick some either give a pair of tongs to I'll get you a pair of tongs and we'll do that this has been a joy thank you all so much for watching this is a pair of tongs and they work I mean what a what a thrill this is just the most incredible thing about making stuff is you get to go into your workshop on a Sunday evening start with a piece of steel then three dollars of steel and then finish having made something achieved something turn raw materials into a tool and this is a tool then we give it to somebody up-and-coming that looks like they're committed to this craft and they want to learn more it's a tool that they might use literally for 30 40 50 60 70 years incredible and this is really attainable folks didn't take a whole lot of tooling to make this so I hope you will have a really great time I hope you're all staying safe and staying healthy it means means a lot to me to have your support you know watching this you know whether you're just viewing and you know you're hitting it like whether you're leaving a comment and then of course all the incredible donators thank you all so much it means a whole lot I'm just so grateful and the whole team here that we're able to say here the nobody's here right now they're there and you're grateful to the whole theme that you know this business has working working here it's also very grateful for all your viewership and your support so thank you all for watching to all of you that are on the front lines right now going to war in an unconventional manner thank you I really appreciate that and the whole team here does we appreciate you guys are rooting for mankind and working to save lives and so if you know somebody that's that's working on the frontlines and in health care please send them your thanks and if you are thank you I appreciate that that means a whole lot to me thank you all for watching okay I think I've used up as many thank you as I possibly could I feel it's been a pleasure thank you [Music] [Music]

Channel: Alec Steele

Views: 902,827

Rating: 4.8402166 out of 5

Keywords: alec steele, alec steele live, live show, forging, making, metalworking, alex steel, tongs

Id: QhAt7h05N5s

Length: 162min 47sec (9767 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 20 2020