forging the Horse Shoe Nail Hook -  

You really nailed that hook John. :)

My Grandfather was a Blacksmith... a fantastic dying art.. well done.. for keeping it alive..

Finally, a forging project that is practical. No more making hatchets out of old wrenches. Good job

This guy has a really peaceful voice and he seems nice

After seeing your full video on these I had to go out and buy some horse shoe nails to try it myself, and these are incredibly easy and really fun to make.

I owe some much to you and your channel. I have learned more from you than all other blacksmithing channels on RU-vid combined. Thank you for what you do

My Dad would have liked this. He started out as a blacksmith in about 1915, but when the automobile came along, smithing didn't pay the bills anymore. He took up the craft of repairing auto bodies and perfected his trade until 1990 when the insurance companies put him out of business. He died April 1st 1996. When he had something to do that took a great imagination, ability to copy one side of a car to recreate the smashed side. He taught me how to do the job Right the First time. He had very high standards and work ethics. I was always proud of him. Blue collar means nothing demeaning when one is the Best at what one loves to do. I still miss him and his crazy sense of humor. Thank you for sharing this with me.

Love it! Fun simple project. Blacksmithing is very interesting and would like to give it a try one day

I can see why these would sell. They're inexpensive and a functional piece of art.

Your microphone used for recording this is incredible

I love it! So cool to see other well understood crafts being used outside the box

Black Bear....it is so encouraging to see someone who loves what they and is able to do it everyday...or not! 😊

Thanks blacksmith. Mighty fine looking hook.

Beautiful! What a great way to get some time in at the anvil, and something a beginner can succeed at over and over as he or she builds the muscle memory needed for the craft. Love it!!

My ancestors were blacksmiths apparently. Last name means "Hammerer" in Spanish. Pretty neat. Either way still entertaining videos.

Отличная идея!

This is a great project, thank you! Stumbled across your Shorts on accident and not regretting it a bit. Thanks for the great videos

This vid leave you with a sensation that something useful has been accomplish. Good job.

Your craftsmanship is impressive!

great channel good workshop for kids on the weekends

What is really cool is that you can actually make them without having to heat them up you can do it all cold because most horseshoe Nails have different Alloys added into the metal to make it really soft and personally I love the mustad ones for doing these kind of projects

Blacksmithing is mesmerizing

This makes me wanna try metal working. I can imagine making a nice coat hangar with that skill or perhaps custom wall mounts for whatever it is I need hanging from pictures to mounted rifles or swords. Maybe something as simple as Christmas light decorations. Or something a little more custom like a stand for the pens I make. Imma look up how to make hinges.

This is just amazing to see how everyday items that we use are made

They look great. I’d buy them.

I love this the man sounds so kind

Wow. This was very informative and well presented. The RU-vid algorithm is going to hate it.

I can see you blowing up on here again, especially with the new shorts and stuff. Good luck and happy forging!

killer stache, dude, and nice work!

Tictoc is cancer, this guy is the cure.

thankyou sir stay bless n keep it moving looking great

I'm hooked on this idea

Really a great little project John, thanks for sharing with us and passing on fun project information! Fred.🙏🏻🙏🏻👋👋👍👍👏🏻👏🏻

Found my favorite person on RU-vid

such a pleasure to watch! you have a great way of walking us through your stories. Hope you are doing well

Great job and nice project Sir

We need more of these kinds of videos, not some stupid pranks.

"I can make 2 or 3 dozen..." *me thinking 'a day'* "I can make 2 or 3 dozen an hour" 🤯🤯

Would love to see a very useful item made in a blacksmith shop fishing hooks.

I’m really digging this channel!

Thank you forge grandpa.

Great idea. I love seeing different things people make from horse shoes. So if you see an old barn that got pushed over by high winds, ask the land owners if you can get a few pieces of the wood to make shelves with. He or she might let you have the whole thing. But get the main beams also, hopefully you can find one that didn't use nails to lock the frame together and the builders used wooden round pegs on all the joints. I would keep those pieces solid in one piece because people will pay you huge money from a old barn that was built hundreds of years ago. Those older barns that normally got turned into homes because the barn was solid and they just put in the bottom level floor and it would have tall ceilings in them. If I could go back 200 or even 300 years ago and retain all my memories, I can show them how to give themselves air conditioning by just using a 8 to 12 inch pipe and the air coming in would be about 20 or 30 degrees cooler than the air inside the house. We can do that today too. Just like our thermal heat pumps. It looks warm water into the ground and the ground coolsaet water to make it colder and it goes back into the house. On my way we use a PVC pipe and it goes straight out away from the house and the pipe needs to be pointed southwestern, that way the air will blow into the pipe and gets cooled off going under the ground and ends up inside the house. Have a door on it to control the air and in winter close it off so colder air can't get in.

I've been making these and attaching them to a wooden board to give away as Key chain racks for christmas and such.

Cool idea! I’d have thought those nails would e been soft enough to do them cold though.

Your videos are great.

Bravo Doctore !!!!!;!!

That's an awesome apron. On my home planet that symbol means hard worker.

Man I wish I was even half as cool as this guy

RIP Johnson's Paste Wax. We'll miss you.

What a legend

Nice, simple and to the point....... Or hook?😉

These are so charming

Super simply super cool

Its beautiful👍👍

Good positive content

For all the energy used, - (furnace and human), plus the manual time, - $3 sounds very reasonable. 👍👌

The only horseshoe nails I can find in my area are size 5. Would masonry nails work as well for the larger hooks

This dude is amazing

Maybe a foolish question but is there a primary function for these hooks? Or are they just general hanging hooks?

Excellent

Master craftsman!

i think i found a good channel

I want to try it!

I love ur work bro, keep it up

NICE and simple SMART

You just brought in a few competitors

That very 1st punch strike at the end I know that sound well

Bro I love your videos keep up the good work forging

...nice work sir. I'd like to be your apprentice as I always long to learn such skillsets

Ya know I feel stupid. It took me forever to make a cross out of horseshoe nails. Never thought about heating it. Ugh. Debs from Texas

This is content right here

I love Your videos❤️

I remember they would make rings out of horse shoes at markets when I was little

I like that that's a good idea

They’re actually good bending then the opposite way keeping the point in tact for people that have log cabins. the point goes in the wood great

Look very nice

very creative

i love these videos i don't know why. better that the stupid TIKTOK shorts

I want to learn this

As my grandpa is a farrier I approve of this

Sad to see Dr. Phil switched careers. I really liked him, but I'm glad to see he landed back on his feet.

As kids we used to make arrowheads out of horseshoe nails. You would flatten the stubby end and wrap it around arrow shaft and you had the best eye poker outer ever. That was in Poland during communism so finding ways to poke your eyes out was one of the few things we could do to entertain ourselves besides finding unexploded bombs from WWII in the woods. These days kids have video games.

Good deal and decent profit

Hello John Nice Video good idea Yours Frank

My 10 year old nephew is always asking to help or make something when I'm working in the forge I think I'll set up a smaller forge and turn him loose with some of these

Bro these are some cool videos

Cool

How can we create a small forge at home for small DIY projects and learning the trade basics?? What’s needed as far as ALL tools/items one would need to complete THIS small nail project from A to Z for example? If you don’t already have one published: A video on THAT would be excellent!! I’m so tired of trying to FILE/GRIND metal for 10% the results..

nailed it

Sweet!!

Big Fan sir🙋‍♂️

My grandfather used to make rings from horse shoe nails

On a good day, I could make 2 or 3 of those, that don't even resemble each other 😅

Omg something real on tiktok!!

Beautiful. In So CA, $15 LOL.

Great 👏

I would like to share your hand. Wait...that could hurt!!! 👍👍👍

Nice

What are you using to wipe down the hook with at the end? Fyi. I love what you do and keep up the great videos.

Can you make a fishing hook this way?