What's up everybody? I am a Level 1 certified blacksmith documenting my progress as I learn and get better, making hand-made tools and art, and hopefully creating content you enjoy along the way. Thanks for watching!
You are correct Keris is a side arm but also fuction as commant pole. Javanese soldier is famous throughout archipelago for their spear welding skill on the ground or on the horse back, keris only come out when you want to excecute honorable enemy in a duel. The step of duel usually goes like this, spear-golok(Indonesian sword)-keris. Fun fact The flower around our keris during wedding is actually to honor one of our javanese prince intestine which pull out during the duel and warp around his keris.
Time, mostly. I don't have to do two hour-long tempering cycles. I definitely wouldn't do this with a knife (although, I've seen people blue-back knives, too which is kind of similat) but a precision heat-treat is just not necessary with 4140 in this application. And, I think it's kind of fun. Haha. Thanks for asking!
Nice, I never would have thought to use the step to make a curved shape. My first instinct would have been to take a piece of thin round stock and somehow hammering it around that until the last tip part of it. Knowing my luck i would overheat the small round and get them stuck together somehow.
Hey, fellow blacksmith here. That yellow stuff is zinc coating, and when it gets heated it gets into the air as slightly toxic fumes. Not a huge deal, but I would recommend sanding some of that off before you heat it. You do you though lol
It was amazing to see the forging processes from start to finish. I was surprised it took you only 30 minutes to create the hook, even with the propane running out. I honestly expected a simple piece like this to take a couple of hours to heat and shape. Thank you for showing how the forging process goes when focusing on the piece. The voice-over worked well, with enough of the hammering in the background to help us feel like we are in the forge with you.
Thanks for watching! Once you develop the basics enough, you can get pretty quick at making things. I was rushing about in this project, for sure. But, I'd say I tend to average around 40-45 minutes when I want to make a hook and be meticulous about it.
What you call a "pineapple twist" I learned as a "diamond twist" (Blacksmith Journal, December 1991). If you skip the last cut and untwist, that's what I learnt as a pineapple twist.
The use of the axe didn't contribute to the failure of the rebellions. The lack of artillery did. According to historical records. The highland charges tended to go as well as similar tactics used by the Spanish. Ducking under musket fire, since the commanders have to shout an order to fire, giving opposing men warning. Once the two foces met in close quarters, a musket without pikes or halberd style weapons like the lochaber axe is more of a liability in combat than an asset. Which is why the redcoats were routed so often. And why the redcoats had to invent the socket bayonet specifically for battle against the jacobites. Since they needed to be ready to fire and engage in close fighting at the same time. It was attrition and psychological devastation from the sheer volume of artillery fire that tended to give the redcoats the overall advantage in the rebellions. And which won them Culloden Moor.
During the forge weld, absolutely. And, I had to be pretty close because of how small the stock was to avoid losing too much heat. Otherwise, I tend to shut the forge off during takes for better audio, so it's much less, but it still radiates a bit of heat.
@@rockingeforge that is the main reason I don’t want a gas forge. I know they are more efficient and all but I can’t survive that heat today so I stick with my coal forge and fan blowing the heat out of the shop
@@wesking5600 that's totally fair. I love coal, but it's too dirty for where I live at the moment. I have neighbors too close to blow that smoke around.
I would love to see a follow-up to this video where you show all the lessons and steps to create a similar hook. It could be a timelapse with some voice-over for each step so we can see each process phase from start to finish. You mentioned that because you are showing and telling, the process took longer and had less-than-optimal strikes because the metal cooled while you demonstrated. The extended video would let us see the whole process of making a hook using an economy of heating and strikes.
Thanks for the videos! They are truly great. I really like how well you explain why you do things, what are the difficulties that one might encounter, etc. Very pedagogical. Also the way you harden and temper in one go, I had read about it in a book but very briefly, and I had not understood, and thanks to your explanations now I get it. I think your RU-vid channel has a lot of potential, I wish you all the best of success, and thank you very much again. Cheers from France!
First blacksmithing video (algorithm magic) but isn't spreading the only reason you'd pound it anyway? Not even trying to be clever with wording, genuinely curious. Not sure how else to describe
There are many different modes of moving steel with a hammer. Sometimes you want it to spread, other times you need to control the spread and hammer it back into the stock to reduce the overall size in every direction, like if you want to draw out a taper, for example.
@votrae No real-world qualifications here, take it with a grain of salt. To my understanding hammering hot steel also loosens/frees/shifts grain structures. If allowed to cool to ambient room temp, it anneals/softens the steel. If you immediately quench the steel it hardens. To my understanding, hammering prior to annealing or quenching enhance either process but hammering isnt required* to do either (I believe). Also, if steel is hammered while subjected to strong magnetic fields, the grains align in such away during cool down to magnetize with the same polarity (which is how magnets are made commercially to my understanding). Source: I took a materials class some 3 years ago in college. (No real world experience with metal working so I dont know if the effects above are actually tangible) If you’re unfamiliar with what grains are, I’d be happy to respond more.
@saberone1655 you're pretty much along the right lines here. Heating the steel allows it to act like clay, allowing each hammer blow to effectively cause dislocations in the atomic structure. Heating to the curie temperature for steel causes the carbon, which normally resides in the material as carbides between the grains, to disolve and disperse across the material. If you have enough carbon, when you heat the steel, you turn it from ferrite to austenite, which has a slightly different crystaline structure. When you quench in oil or water, you cool it so quickly that you form martensite (a BCC or even Body Centered Tegtragonal structure) which is much harder, but also more brittle than mild (low carbon) steels. This comes in handy for making knives or chisels. However, the steel I'm using in this short is a simple mild steel which won't harden when quenched because there is not enough carbon to form martensite. I majored in mechanical engineering back in the day and loved my materials classes too. Haha. Love to see people who know a thing or two!
@@rockingeforge completely forgot about carbons role in it all. I appreciate the further clarification! Materials was always my favorite part of engineering. I'm a chemist by trade so materials sciences & related are about as far as I can delve into engineering. gotta now go brush off some cobwebs and crack open my old books. Good luck on the channel, looking forward to seeing more
I have not done a lot of welding in it, so it's held up a bit better. But, as long as the shell is intact, it should be rebuildable. Happy to help! Best of luck!
@@rockingeforge I bought a roll of the wool and shoved it in just to get by. But today doing some canister Damascus I noticed a really bad hot spot. So I’ll have to fix it now.
One thing I noticed with a glove vs no glove on the hammer hand... my grip endurance lasts significantly longer when I am not wearing a glove on my hammer hand. I'm going to need to pick those books up, thanks for all the great info and demonstrating it.
Not to give you too much grief, but the targe was the shield used by the Highlanders, not the basket-hilted broadsword itself. But yeah, make a Lochaber axe!
I appreciate the full video of these tongs. I have been looking into making some tongs for myself that are not just "wolf jaw" tongs from Vevor. They work, but man do they slip and slide a lot on almost everything. What part of Western Washington did you move to? Southern like Vancouver, the peninsula, or up near Bellingham? I'm just starting up my forging hobby over in Eastern Washington, Tri-Cities area.
Forging your own tongs is quite the challenge. But, it's so rewarding to use a pair that you made yourself! Thanks for watching! And, for the purposes of online safety, I don't get more specific than Western WA. Apologies! But, I hope you are enjoying getting into the craft!
@@rockingeforge It did look quite challenging. It is likely a project i will need to wait to work on until i develop my skills quite a bit more. I also understand the desire for online safety, sorry for probing.
@@rockingeforge higher quality plus a set of quick tongs. Both do not work well at all. I just have to be careful and know when the spike is about to fly out, what angle to hold them and so on
