Blacksmithing - Forging a pair of bolt tongs 

I love that sound CRUMPH CRUMPH ting ting CRUMPH. What a terrific video! I wish I'd seen it before I struggled through my first pair.

amazing. I really appreciate the craftsmanship. very well done video, easy to watch. I like how you show a bit in real time and then speed it up. good stuff.

Fantastic video! Lesson learned: plan well, take your time and do good work. Thank you so much!

i love those cut off jeans. Gotta get some good air flow to the "boys"

There is something aesthetically pleasing to the look of hammered iron......

Your attention to details is incredible! I'm not a blacksmith, but I feel like I learn a lot from you.

The precision you have punching the holes is amazing.

Thanks for this video! I did 4 tries and I still can't get what I want. I got a good hint from your video: using the vice to hammer on the inner side of the jaw to get it more square. I see that you only use the rounded side of the anvil to refine the circle, not to make it, anothet mistake I was making: hammering like crazy on the rounded horn, steel slipping away continously. Thanks a lot :)

Excellent video. Thank you

Very nice.! Thank you for showing this... and for mentioning Toby.

You made a beautiful tool with a lot of care. Lovely to watch you fashion the metal blow by blow. Thank you also for the natural soundtrack.

Man... after spending an hour just setting a shoulder, drawing out a tang/handle and shaping a 4 inch blade for a herb chopper and feeling jealous of your power hammer... would take me hours to do what that thing does in minutes lol

Absolutely fantastic work. Excellent! Thank you for making th videos.

That has got to be some of the best hammer control I've seen in a you-tube video. Also, to those just starting out and watching this video, note the precision of the initial layout. He produced exactly what he intended without wasted material, or just being 'close' to what he had in mind. There are a few books out there that will teach you the math behind it. Kudos to you and your instructor Torbjörn.

Who ever taught you blacksmithing, should be proud of you. You have to be an artist and a mathematician to be as good as you are. There was a lot of work put into those tongs and they look perfect. Awesome!! Love your videos!!!

I have one thought for you sir. Please make more videos? How about a hinge? Some woodworking tools like a chisel? I sat here and watched four straight videos. They are well edited and presented. No verbal commentary from you at all and still giving us some solid learning through your technique and craftmanship.. Keep up the good work! Thanx, Bubba

Exelente trabajo gracias por compartir Saludos desde León GTO México Las medidas no sé ven ni lo ancho de la solera 😢😢

it's wonderful job!

Bagus banget kreatif 👍👍👍👍

No doubt the best tongs making video on RU-vid.I personally watch it each time i need a new pair of tongs made for my shop just to refresh the memory. Great respect!

Beautiful display of craftsmanship.

I'm going to try to make my first set today! Hopefully a post vice isn't totally necessary. I'm broke as shit. XD

I've never seen anyone draw the design directly on the anvil, that's pretty cool. Very good video all around.

Thanks, ....inbetween you have become my blacksmith teacher :-)))

I want those, even though I have no use for them :O

The Holy Inquisition approves! Witches tremble!👍

It's inspiring to see you address small problems before they become large. Riding a bike comes to mind: one makes small corrections all the time "in order not to fall", or "in order to drive straight", while the attention is on getting somewhere.

Well no wonder my tongs always break, I've been using Luke 5mm rivets 🤣

An absolute work of art, if I can get my bolt tongs looking half as good as that, I'll be well pleased. What a great detailed visual tutorial this is and the one I am using as a guide for my bolt tongs. Great stuff Torbjörn.

Espectacular!!!! Me encantó, es un trabajo muy interesante, felicitaciones, aprendí mucho. Gracias!!!

Another awesome piece of work. Good job :)

EXCELLENT! Hälsningar från Mar del Plata, Argentina.

Great work, a pleasure to watch. Thank you for publishing this.

I thought this project was doomed -- just about halfway through the video -- but these are great. Good work. I may try this same technique.

excellent quality forging a tweezers first, thank you very much.

I just missed my lunch time watching this... Great job!

Thank you for sharing your techniques and skills with us. I am making my first pair of bolt Tongs this week, yes, I said this week I have the reins drawn out now and I am on day three. I am having a ball.... I am retired and in no rush...

I made a set these, 1/4" to 1", but I used 9/16" round coil spring stock. As forged, they are stronger at half the weight .

Muy largo y extenso el vídeo En menor tiempo se hace más interesante

Awesome work, but why didn't the rivet expand into both halves of the tongs and freeze them in place? When I've tried to rivet in this manner that's what happens to me :-/

Great Video! These are my favorite style of tongs and I have been watching how others make them to refine my process. Very impressed.

You do great work, there's a lot of skill and knowledge involved. I like watching your videos so I've subscribed. Keep it up!

Excelente Video. Gracias por compartir su conocimiento. La herramienta quedó muy bien lograda.

Loved this. Great work. I'm looking at learning blacksmithing as a hobby. It's always fascinated me. For now though I'll just go watch all your vids haha

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Very good work.

Looks like you got a pretty cool shop...you should take a video of your set-up

Inspiring. I hope to reach that level.

The detail is amazing and it shows. Those tongs will last several lifetimes. Your video was great and nice close up. How big is the anvil your using? Thank you and Keep pounding! Dave

worked in blacksmith shop BUTTE MT --1970--1975 Best years of my life;;; the old heads the best to learn from good storys .easy wayes to get job right the firstime;;;; LOVED THEM ALL

Excellent Tool, congratulations on the job!

Hola cuando nos regalas como hacer una espada ropera.

That was really cool. You make this look so easy. Just out of curiosity, how difficult would it be to forge something like slip-joint pliers? The hard part would probably be the slip-joint.

Can you point to a guide for the math you used for the layout portion of your video? Fantastic start to finish work!

Love your videos there amazing

Blacksmithing in torn jean shorts lol

Nice job! I liked how you didn't just beat a pair out and ended the video you showed how to customize them to get a better fit for yourself and liking .

Super travail de forgeron bravo 👍👍👍

Fantastic job... you are a master...

can't stop watching these videos.

Good work, good forging tongs.

Hi Torbjorn, I've recently subscribed to you videos here on you tube. I must say they are very good ones. As I watched you make the tongs I find it interesting to know how you made your maker's mark. Would you make one for all of us to see someday. Thanks

Never thought I'd see a blacksmith wearing jorts

UMA OBRA DE ARTE! NA VERDADE QUANDO VI A INTRODUÇÃO DO PARAFUSO, ACHEI QUE IRIA TIRAR O OBJETIVO DO FAZER SEM SOLDAS OU EMENDA, MAS FOI SÓ PARA AJUSTAR A PEÇA, INTRODUZINDO O ARREBITE FICOU CLARO ISSO. MUITO LEGAL!

I was thinking you were Nordic because you were wearing jean shorts while forging with a huge f***ing hammer. Then, I saw your name. Swedish?

I'm a beginner have lots of trouble with tongs I do better when I started at the working end., maybe I just do what I can handle Thanks, Beautiful work

Thats very good.........???????!!!!!!!!

I honestly believe this guy could hammer a nail and make it a Michelangelo sculpture.

That's a huge anvil, how much it weigh?

Very, very good work !!!

와우 정말 잘 만드셨읍니다 감사합니다

I want to be a blacksmith.

WHAT a Craftsman !!!!

Love it. I just purchased an anvil and a small forge. Could you do a beginner's tongs forge without a pair of tongs? Thanks in advance.

Thanks , Torbjörn Åhman! Very good video.

I think two people pressed the wrong thumb button! And your work is awesome! :)

Very nice, nothing like RU-vid university

Couldn't help but subscribe... Very clean work.

Bro, themz is some nice jean shorts.

Blacksmithing: Need a new tool? Make it.

Fantastic ,Merci

They are nice tongs !

Good looking tool Great job Thumbs Up

Impressive.... beautiful work.

Superb!! Thank you for this inspirational video!

Как всегда прекрасное исполнение

You are the MAN😇🖒

So nice to look at some measurements that make sense. Love your videos.

God I need a power hammer

you are really doing a good job, very good carrying, cordially

Very nice cut offs

A wonderful craftsman at work . Practicing an ancient craft , whereby not only using the tools of trade , but making them as well . It completes a full circle .

こうやって、鍛冶屋は、自分専用の道具を作って行くのですね。 他の職人は、道具を揃える 鍛冶屋は、全て炉からヤットコまで全て自分で作る。 『鉄は国家なり』有名な言葉ですが、 『鍛冶は文明の礎』と言い換えても良いでしょう。 流石に万力の自作は知りませんが、他の道具は金槌からヤットコまで全部作ってしまうのですね。（恐らく万力も作れるのでしょうが）

I picked up an old Keller power hacksaw for $20.00 and it works great...8 would have never bought it if I had known the prices of the blades were so high though....lol,lol,lol... damn things gonna put me in the poor house!

Thanx for sharing

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First congratulations another amazing job, and second: what's the brand of your anvil? Appear to be very nice! Greetings from Brazil!

Molto bello. La lavorazione mi sembra però molto laboriosa.

Very nicely done

Dude your work is effortless, love to see how you do things with such ease.