Glad you enjoyed the shop! My daddy is quite proud of it! The sound of that anvil brings me alot of happiness :) I was blessed to grow up surrounded by an appreciation for history.
Wow. Got to say loved the video. What a privilege to have have seen a blacksmith with so many years experience letting us all have a look around. Love all the period tools and how his shop is set out. Look forward to another look around. Be great seeing some forging there. Thanks man. ⚒⚒⚒
breaks my heart when smiths dont know this stuff, and go for the propane/plug and play route, but warms my heart when they learn the basics of true Blacksmithing, even if later
Great video, nice to meet Gary. For sure , you'll never run out of things to make as a blacksmith. Love to repurpose scrap into useful things. Have fun with it.
Loved your chat with Gary Will. Been blacksmithing myself a few years and always looking for history and advice! Started with gas myself but quickly went to charcoal and then coke. Coal is unavailable here, but was lucky enough to find about 50lb at an estate sale recently! Yeh, the clinker surprised me, heaps of it, coke has some, charcoal none but coal, wow! Subbed to see more although I am not a knife guy, more traditional tools and home wares are my thing!
knife making is 90% grinding and 10% blacksmithing, not a lot goes into knife smithing really as far as it goes. I love blacksmithing, you are a generalist, you learn the techniques that allow you to work metal, whatever that entails.
Sorry, buddy. This could have been a real gem of a video, so interesting. But, you dance the camera around so much it is hard to watch. That and zoomed in tight too much. Very disappointed.
loved the video! i am really interested in demo's from Gary Hinman. I cannot find any info on facebook or the internet. I would love to see him working in his shop. Thank you very much.
loved this ! always a pleasure to see where + how these master craftsmen work. this shop had a look of antiquity and was laid out to work in. would love to see a demo by Gary. once again a pleasure.
I didn't forget, he just didn't have much to say about it. I found out a bit more later on my own. There wasn't really much to find out about the older forged one. No markings and no clear identifiable maker. The other one was a cast steel Columbian, likely from the early 1900s.
Unfortunately I didn't find out a whole lot. Many of these types of vises don't have makers marks because there were many generic manufacturers back then.
Watched your anvil find and paint removal video. I"m looking for my own anvil also. Friend of mine used to shoe horses years ago, he said he has one in his barn, I hope its at least a medium size. I build knives also but in the past have used the stock removal method. Hope to forge a few soon as well. Built my forge stand last weekend, turned out nice. My old channel is called....Pintoblades. I haven't posted any new videos in quite a while. Been having some health issues the last few years but I'm feeling better now and ready to start building again. Cheers!
Sorry to hear about the health issues. I hope forging blades will be a blessing to you. I have my own health issues that affect all I do as well. So, I sorta get it. =)
@@WJBlades - Yes, I saw you have some serious spinal issues going on. I'm also an RN and my wife's a Nurse Practitioner, we've both seen the pain spinal issues can cause people. Even with surgeries, it sometimes doesn't fix the problem, some even get worse. I hope this is not the case with your situation. I somehow developed an auto-immune disorder and my former doctor left me on steroids for 5 years, because of that, I now have osteoporosis in my left hip and myopathy in my legs. Took sometime to repair the muscle wasting I went through. I'm taking a lot of calcium now trying to reverse the osteoporosis before I bust a hip. I'm only 59, too young to have that problem. Best of luck on your spine, those problems can get better or worse.
Fisher anvils had a cast base Trenton anvils were full forged steel Trenton anvils ring like a bell and that’s the catch frase of the brand Fisher anvils are high quality anvils that have amazing rebound but don’t ring at all due to the cast base
I can't comment on Fisher anvils, I have little knowledge there. However, I have two Trenton anvils. One was made around 1890 in Germany and the other was made in 1924 inside the US. The older Trenton has a solid wrought lower with a steel plate forge welded to the top. The newer one has a two part lower, the foot appears to be cast and the upper is wrought with a steel plate forge welded on top. I've seen many Trenton anvils and none of them were ever "full forged steel." I think you might be mistaken. I appreciate your comment and interest in anvils. I love them. 😎
WJ Blades Trenton anvils are not full forged steel I took a look an old manufacturer catalog and the older ones are a three piece construction all forge welded together the newer ones the top is solid wrought with a steel face and the bottom is also sold wrought iron but it is not forge welded to the rest of the base instead it was heavily beveled and arc welded on that might make it look like a casting
@@tinnyblacksmith3434 That all makes sense. I do love my Trenton anvils. =) Do you have the AIA book? I don't, didn't have the $80.00 to spend on it. I'm trying to save my pennies for a garage/forge.
WJ Blades I have a collection of old blacksmithing books I got from my uncle among them is a Trenton/Colombia forge manufactures catalog as well as hay budden Peter Wright and Fisher noris anvil co I wes lucky to have Been gifted those books there is no way I’m paying that much for a book like that lol I too am building my shop I have a fairly decent building with a propane and coal forge I’m currently saving up to make and/or build a power hammer
@@tinnyblacksmith3434 Nice! What a blessing to be passed down those publications. I was just looking at my German Trenton, I can't really see any seams where the solid wrought base would be more than one piece other that the steel top plate. Maybe it would show if I cleaned it up more. I'd show you pictures but not sure the best way to go about it atm.
I want to build a small blacksmith shed. Im debating on a dirt, gravel, wooden floor. What do you recommend. I would love to do concrete but, well, price.
I'm not sure I'm qualified to answer that question. But in the next year or two I'll be building a new garage and I'll probably be starting with tamped down crusher run stone. Eventually I'll work toward concrete also.
Lenblacksmith That's because he didn't know much about them. Only that one was forged and the other wasn't. Post vises can be a mystery. I did alot of research on my own and didn't yield much either. Some are quite identifiable others were made so utilitarian by so many manufacturers they didn't bother to mark them.
Lenblacksmith I ended up being gifted a very old broken Peter Wright vise. It is huge... I did a restore video on it 4 videos after this one. I love it!
I tought the one on the left is a John Brooks Vice. Made in Engeland about 1880 till...... ?? I have one. Looks a lot like mine. There are Marks on it. J.B (John Brooks) on one Side. L.V (leg Vice) and then Numbers. ( Size of the leg and Jaws. On the right i dont know, its about small Stuff, angles, corners, Bolt shape that you need the look for, the "read" a leg Vice
