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So happy to find you and Cathy one again! You will never realize how much I missed you! Guess it was the algorithm! And that's not fair to either of us!

I am pleased to see your Blacksmith shop finally in use. You have done a good job on the fire irons and I am sure your friend will cherish them for years yo come. The coverage was right up there in quality with any of the other Blacksmith videos I watch. We escaped the recent wild fires near Shelburne Nova Scotia, although some of our friends did not. Have a great summer and be careful.

Beautiful work Peter!!! I know its not "complicated" but for someone who has never done it, it is complicated.

I really like that you share the history people tend to forget we did alot of things much different back than and sometimes alot better.

Peter your videos are really fascinating, surely the most interesting on RU-vid by far.

Hello to you both! Another fine video to enjoy. I'm glad to see Peter taking a well-earned break by the pond; it's always good to relax now and then, even when you have so many 'irons in the fire'! lol

Hi Peter and Cathy, great video and a great little project, thanks for the shout out. Be well.

The Hame is a nice touch for the bellows handle. Nice project.

Nice project Peter! And someone's going to have a great keepsake - custom made by you in your Blacksmith Shop!

i love that bellows. looks like its easy to use and really got that fire hot. nicely done

What a beautiful shop you have built. I can almost smell the nostalgia from here. Arizona.

Enjoyed watching. Back in ‘76 (1976) I went to a school to learn how to shoe horses. The first thing we made was a fire poker. Then horse shoes. I still have the first 3 with the 3rd horse shoe being acceptable. But I liked the blacksmith part of the farrier business better that the horse part. Go figure!

Hey Peter, boy your the neighbor to have. Nice set of fire irons.

Always look forward for your videos.

Nice job. Your Blacksmith Shop turned out great!!

Traditional smithing is so cool.

Nice job! We are getting the smoke from the fires. We're in Pennsylvania. Hope your Homestead fairs well!

Good evening from Syracuse NY USA brother and everyone else thank you for sharing your adventures in history videos

Don't know Emperor Peter, if it was the best thing 2 say how quickly U could polish off a set of those 'fire irons'...U may now find a long queue at the; Woodland Escape Blacksmith Shop! Good thing U R probably paddling-merrily-along out in the Yukon and not at the Homestead 2 receive the deluge! I like the twist in those irons...could call it the infamous 'Kelly Curl' trademark. Watching U move this way and then move that way in your Smithy-shop...has me wundrin'...was there a dance created from those moves? i.e. The Smithy's jig, perhaps? Around the anvil this way back to the vice about that way, now swing back to the fire and hammer down that right foot and pivot back round again'! LOL! Hope U R enjoying your trek with the lovely Empress Catherine. I thank U 4 this vid and sharing of talents with us. Health and God Bless! "Experience is the teacher of all things." (Julius Caesar). :)

Appreciate your efforts and dedication! So glad to see you getting to enjoy your shop. About to head out for the week to the NMLRA spring shoot where the smell of black powder hangs in the air from just after first light till well into the evening. Thanks again and keep your powder dry!

Wonderful video, Peter you have some awesome toys

Hi Peter, I enjoyed watching! Fine craftsmanship their buddy👍

Nice job, again, Peter! You're inspiring me to get my flu done for my forge. I was a welder for 24 years and hammered out a few knives on my forge on the side. I gotta get back to it. Thanks for the inspiration.

Nicely done Mr. Peter, what a craftsman you are sir! Thank you for these great videos.

More smithing please!

What a great video. Love watching what you make in your blacksmith shop.

That's a nice set of fire irons, the crude set i made some years back definitely don't look that good! The nice thing about that style of fire irons is that if you take the cross bar and forge a round eye on one end you can turn the 3 pieces into a tripod.

Great work, Peter.

Schöne Arbeit. Grüße aus Deutschland.

Always enjoy the videos!

Great video very peaceful to watch and a fun blacksmithing project.

Peter, for safety reasons, please remove the cutting hardy from the anvil when not in use. When you start your fire, make three chain links and see how fact your smithing skills develope. The fire is clean when starting and better for forge welding. I still do this and my chain is getting pretty long. Best Wishes, Rick

Really liked watching this video.

Fine set of irons there. A flat stump and a wood mallet will straighten without flatting the edges of those twists.

Another great one.

My Granddad was a black smith and farmer. He worked for Cherry River and Boom lumber Company in Richwood West Virginia where he fixed tools shod the horses that worked in the woods, I’ve been told he also built wagons. I have one of his shop hammers. He passed when I was just 6 but I remember him taking me fishing and hearing all the stories about him. He was born in 1888 and passed in 1962.

Enjoyed this very interesting video. Thank you.

Hi Peter. Nice work on the irons. I know you're a busy man, but I'd sure like to see a video on building a firearm's lock.

Nice work Peter. Well done on that one 👍

Another great video!!!

Great content....

Good education about how locks were imported and how blacksmiths might do repairs. Most folks have the idea that the colonial gunsmith built every part when in fact they were "gun stockers" not "rifle smiths" for the most part. Looking forward to seeing more videos on your flintlock work!

A man enjoying himself!! Interesting, from the simplex to the complex. It would be a great job in the middle of your winter!!

Great video! Thank you!

Another fine video and nice set of irons.

Very relaxing, watching you work the metal. I love your videos!

I am currently working on a Trade gun. Can't wait to see you progress on yours! thank you for today's video.

Awesome thanks

Fine work Peter!

Nice video! Thanks for sharing. If you open up the handle on the crosspiece a bit more, you could set up the whole thing as a tripod as well. The two uprights go into the crosspiece hole and you can hang the chain or s hooks from the hole in the crosspiece handle

You Sir are very amazing!! Oh how I would love to spend a few weeks with you!! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!!

Thanks for sharing.

Fascinating as always. You have a wide range of skills Peter. A pleasure to watch as you share them.

Ever since I was a kid, I always used green saplings to make fire "irons". I'd so love to make a set of these to haul around for camps. Someday... I have way too many projects.

I really loved your demonstration on how to make the fire set! I just love watching your channel please keep it up.

Very nice work! I suspect you make it look easier than it is, which is one of the marks of a skilled craftsman.

Nice job very nice blacksmith

Looking forward to gun building, great stuff 👍🇺🇸

You do good work at the forge

If you had made a circular curl on the handle end of the cross piece, the set could have been used in a tripod configuration as well as the uprights and crosspiece way. It's more versatile that way. The "U" shaped pieces fit into the circular part, and the points into the ground.

Good lesson..✋

Those are some fine looking fire tools you made. I once knew a good welder that I took things to. He claimed to be able to fix anything but a broken heart, and he pretty much could. He took to blacksmithing and making fireside tools, railings etc. I dearly wanted some of his fireplace tools but a poorly paid teacher in a poorly paid state, teaching in one of the poorest counties in that state and having 3 kids and a wife counts his pennies carefully. I always put off buying them. Low and behold, the welder, blacksmith, found a wife who convinced him that he was an arteest and could make good money making artistic iron projects. All he had to do was move to a locale where he would be more appreciated and they would pay the big bucks. He did just that and is probably pounding fantastic art out of iron in I know not where. I never did get my fire tools.

Howdy Peter Nice pieces ..... the way it was done so long ago and is so nice to watch . I noticed you had 3 blocks of stone holding the table legs down on your bellows ..... was it lifting up when working it ?

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Fort Loudoun in Pa. is coming up the weekend of the 23rd this month.... just sayin 😉

I saw some sweat there Peter, the forge must be working well! My son had JUST asked not 5 minutes beforehand what they used when no anvil was around. You answered his question before he could "Google" it! Since your buddy had to wait so long, maybe an extra hanging hook for him? You know he's gonna lose one!

Fun video to watch Peter, you do great work, do you have a blacksmith touchmark yet?

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Interesting how you work with iron, love your videos. Keep your powder dry

Hello you two, I very much enjoy your theme song and all the wonderful varieties of it. Is it possible to do a video of all the varieties of this one theme just for us to enjoy? I ask this largely because the world news is so dark and I treat myself to your station for the light. Your videos cheer me up and restore my hope that my own hard work to prepare is what normal people do. To hear 20 or 30 minutes of your music would be heaven, God keep you safe in these fires.

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Hi Peter, I’m curious why you don’t put a twist down close to the pointy end. Wouldn’t a spiral help it drive into and hold in soil better? Attractive set of irons, I have a tripod my late Ex gave me. Pretty nice rig, all in all.

Nice fire irons Peter I was wondering about the chain raped around the base of the anvil is that decretive or does it actually serve a purpose?

Great project. What size stock did you use, 3/8 or 1/2 inch?

WoodLand! "This project's finished." It's as 'handy as pockets' to BE "The BlackSmith". What a fine set of cookin' irons You've (quickly an' beautifully!) forged. I was impressed by Your bellows; a couple o' months ago when You were designing and building it, I could hardly wait to see how it turned out... It turned out Magnificently. Curious I am, about how many cubic feet per minute of air do You s'pose it delivers to You fire? Another part of the design -- whether on a purpose or simply Serendipitously -- Your forge bellows lever works out Your left shoulder, working the bellows, and Your right hammerin' arm at the anvil tends to keep Your strong but weary shoulder muscles..., 'balanced'. Great (Light!) Work, as You nearly always do. Thank You fer sharin'! 🙂 Rick Bonner Pennsyltucky

What is the big heavy chain wrapped around the anvil for? Just extra weight? Thanks enjoy your programs😀

Very good video but seems like they are always over to soon!

What size metal do you use for your fire irons

In the video it looked like you were forging at a cherry red heat and even into black heats. I'm a rank beginner only having smithed for about 4 years under the teaching of proper smith with a reputation in his craft. He castigates me if I strike a piece of metal at anything less than yellow heat and tells me that it will damage the metal and lead to problems later in the forging process. Could I be cheeky enough to ask if you agree with that? Or is it simply the case that the camera you recorded this video with did not pick up the actual heat that you were working the metal with? Sorry to sump such a difficult question on you, but I would really like to get some more information from different smiths so I can begin to develop my own style.

Would an 18th century blacksmith been able to source square bar like this? Or would it have been forged to bar by the blacksmith using it. I know by the mid to late 19th century it wouldn't have been out of the question to get bar from large steel mills.

Peter, I don’t mean to find fault. However I am worried you are going to hurt your arm hammering like that. Please check out Hand Hammer Forging Technique - DF In The Shop There is also a man named Hogi who is on RU-vid and discusses ergonomics in blacksmithing. Thanks for the advice- I bought a Kibler rifle kit. Frank (Virginia)

what do you think about another widely known reenactor john towsendes. Do you know him personally and would you like to make a film together sometime?

I'm really tired and didn't understand the terminology you were using before you showed what you were making , so I'll have to watch it again , just so I know . But I love the finished product .

Are the wildfires affecting y’all up there?

Hey you ain't around the fires are you? If so be careful.

Tava ibernando não mostra habilidade com a profissão chego a hora de trabalhar isso ????prosperidade