Haven't seen your videos for a while. Nice to see them again. This is a great series for reference. Looking forward to more. Grateful for your time & knowledge.
Hi Dennis, thank you for this vid and so many other ones in the past. I learnt so much from you and your explainatins. You are one of the best teachers I had. 👍 Greetings from Germany. Thomas
I think you showed a cross-peen hammer (for moving metal in a hurry), but my sense is that a regular peen might be better because of the way the tong hand holds the material and the hammer hand swings. Not sure, but would be interested in your opinion on each. Thanks!
The traditional way to use a cross peen was to swing it over the anvil face with the handle running parallel to the edges. You need to be able to reach around your anvil to position yourself correctly. The tongs are held in front of you with your arm fully extended. Not at your side. You don't need to do this all the time but it's real energy saver when you are working on heavy stuff.
@@df-intheshop330 I think I get what you are saying but I will have to ponder. Maybe you can look for an opportunity to clarify visually with an upcoming video. Thanks!
In video I just did on knife makers tongs I explain how the anvil and hammer work together. Sorry I can't post a link in a comment because RU-vid will see it as spam
@@df-intheshop330 Denis, I *think* that RU-vid will accept URLs that point to RU-vid locations. If not, you can add URLs (to anywhere, not just on RU-vid) into your video description - many RU-vid Creators add "affiliate" links to places like Amazon. Some Creators even edit the video Title & thumbnail until they start getting better view numbers than their "original" title and/or thumbnail did. None of these edits/changes cause a video to have to be re-uploaded and the video "stats" aren't started over from scratch with each edit. I've seen this explained by some "big channel" Creators.
