BLACKSMITHING FORGING A COBRA BOTTLE OPENER with Nathan Baker. step by step no skip stepped beginner blacksmithing project from 12 x12 mm square bar. bar to full snake bottle opener. #BLACKSMITHING #FORGING #MAKE
As a fellow blacksmith THANK YOU for simply showing your work as do Mark Asbury and Brian Brazeel instead of talking incessantly and showing us your smiling face!! Good demo!
Nathan, between the rat steel flint striker and this cobra bottle opener, they are my favorite designs. I understand it takes time and experience to make such things. So very well done. Thanks for posting these videos! I enjoy them so much.
Thanks for sharing your talents Nathan, your are truly an artist in the black smithing arena. You are an inspiration, to me and I hope others. Please keep making and sharing your video's.
You're more than welcome. I'm looking forward to getting back into making videos in the new year. I'd like to do it now but working on a big project at the moment so don't have the time. Unfortunately. Thanks for the kind words
I'm a 69 yr old retired man. I built me a rather nice coal forge and found out the build was much easier then forging... LOL... I watch your easier projects like 3 minute bottle opener and follow step by step with my laptop next to me... All I can say is mine looks like a bottle breaker then opener... I'll keep trying tho. Happy holidays to you and your loved ones.
great project and presentation. The content was more than enough to appreciate the process, form and function of this project. Thanks for putting this together.
@@workingwithiron This is the second serpent bottle cap opener video I've seen. Just to give you some ideas here's a take on it by John Little. John lives 4 hours from me here and I do feel as though I should get over to visit vimeo.com/channels/johnlittle/240298914
I have seen these soaked in Vinegar, adds some Texture. Pretty cool. I say watching you cut the mouth looks a great deal better. Less chance of cracking..now I cannot sleep. Want to get back to shop and try this out. Thank you very much
Thanks! I don't know why but lining everything up on a project can be an absolute aggravation. I decided I had to have a back scratcher, I'd get one line just right and two others would go cockeyed. LoL not a straight line on it but it scratches like a champ. Appreciate your work, that's an awesome bottle opener.
Function over form. That's the most difficult part of this craft, until it clicks it's difficult to have everything go as you intend it to. The material speaks and tells you where it wants to go, something nobody can teach except yourself when you get it.
Great stuff, as always. The funny thing is that I was more intrigued by those scrolling forks than anything else. Weird, I know, but, dang, they were nice! Now I have to practice making a cobra....
You must know my father lol he always says a clean whatever is a happy whatever n now I say it to my child n one day she'll hate it but she will say it to her children thanks for video man loved it.
You use terms my South Texas ranch did not teach. Willie is a seldom used therm for a guy named William. Apparently, where you are it means beat the hell out of it. There are infinite ways to make a simple bottle opener. Dice are cool but so is a RR spike with a twist. You? You have shown us a way that makes me want to put down what I am forging and make a damn COBRA!!! Epic, simply epic.
I am new to blacksmithing and I am gonna try to make something that resembles this. It's probably not gonna look anything like your finished snake, but I will keep trying :)
Looks great bud. Definitely a fun project. When did you get the big German anvil? Looks a belter. And pear cider? Now really Nath. Come on man. All the best Andy
Time is nothing when learning, it will teach you so so much trying to get it to sit flat. An easier way if you make one of these is double the length so you have more weight in the body and even bring the tail around the front of the snake. It wants to tip forward due to the belly under the head as it's not a right angle. Have fun and let us know how you get on!
just for focus but also shows the viewer where i would usually do that type of process, as i use manual focus as the camera is an old one but does the job.
I thought that start square would mean it looks more natural. I’m a total newbie and still putting things together, until CV19 stopped things in my tracks. Looking at peoples work, is really helping me to spark my creative brain into gear...
Very nice project, that anvil is a beast, if you were to sell an opener like that ,how much would you charge?I've been watching Smith's make that size objects for craft fairs etc.Im afraid to guess.Awesome video
Neat little project! However, two words am not familiar with: wellie and faff. Please define! Always interested in new terminology, especially if it's local. As usual, great video!
Olof, allow me: "Give it some wellie" means hit it hard, put some effort into it. "Faff about" means mess about a bit till it's right or "fettling" is a good term...☺️ Hope this helps.👍
It's a British saying but in Bristol it's quite common. Bristol has quite a lot of words and sayings you find nowhere else. There are some videos on it on RU-vid.
Hi Nathan, can you explain, what the chalk markings on the anvil are used for? I am a beginner and try to make the things, you showed in your videos. I would appreciate to lear, how this markings help. Best wishes Christoph
Ah man I'm sorry, if you want to do fangs then chisel the corners of the upper jaw from the back of the mouth to the lips but keep it hot otherwise they break off. Then bend them at an orange to the position you want. As it was a bottle opener and a small piece it would have hindered the use of it unfortunately.
It's effective. You do have a keen eye though. The last opening was how I opened it first as I was trying to get it in shot and messed it up 😅 popped it back on for the proper shot, hence saying take the opener to the bottle not the bottle to the opener.
Can't. The metal will tell you where it wants to go. Some things in this craft cannot be taught, it can be shown and copied but the material is the only thing that can teach you what it wants to do.