Three leg stand with forge weld

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Forge welding a three legged base looks more difficult that it is. A base like the one shown here is great for a variety of blacksmithing projects from a fire tool stand to candle holders.
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@charliespickler4244 3 года назад

Hey John, I can't thank you enough for posting this video when you did. I have been struggling for about a month now on how to make this very base. I am making a 14th century floor standing candle stand with that very base out of half inch square stock. I have been having nightmares about how I was going to forge weld three pieces in the coal forge. Your simple solution (and I would imagine period solution as well ) just made my life monumentally easier. I thank you sir and thanks for doing what you do.

@BlackBearForge 3 года назад

Glad it helped

@radarreally2110 11 месяцев назад

I have been having a great time watching your videos. Really enjoy trying to figure out how you're going to wind up with a finished product before you start and I have been wrong so many times. Its a ton of fun.

@robertcutburth3745 3 года назад

Great job John, fired up my new Chile Tabasco one burner forge today, far better quality than my other , the say you can forge weld with. I haven't quit got forge weld down yet, don't think I was getting hot enough, Thanks for the video John.

@frankgaletzka8477 3 года назад

Hello John That is a nice Video and i have learned from your work Thanks a lot for your skills you share with us Have a good week and i am looking forward what you have in mind Best wishes Yours Frank

@BlackBearForge 3 года назад

Many thanks!

@ranchrachel 3 года назад

Thank you for being utterly delightful, wonderfully decent, and exceptionally informative!

@jimmysblacksmithing462 3 года назад

Hey good day or evening, just ran across this video this morning drinking tea. Very well as always you are quite the master. Thank you for teaching and sharing this with everyone out there. It's a real pleasure to listen and watch what you do. Very professional to say the least. Keep up the great work and thank you again. Stay well and have a beautiful day. Jim

@BlackBearForge 3 года назад

Thank you kindly

@johnjude2685 3 года назад

My wife will enjoy it next spring for her flowers and I'll try to get the forge weld Sir, I thank you for the teaching.

@ako456 3 года назад

Thank you John for your courtesy to say measurements in millimeters for us Europeans and others!

@shweppesmojito4353 Год назад

Great video. Really like how simple methods you use, make such beautiful items (like the leg bend on the piece of pipe). Appreciate the effective commentary while sharing your deep experience and insights on the matter. Hope your elbow feels good!

@BlackBearForge Год назад

Glad you liked it!

@g.j.9556 3 года назад

I like the bigger projects break up in to smaller videos. It makes it manageable for an amateur Smith like myself

@NeilGraham.I.M.F 3 года назад

Brilliant tool you welded up at some point in the past for aligning Tri legged fixtures

@Seelenschmiede 3 года назад

And again, I learn a lot! Thanks for this excellent video 😊

@codytradingcompany7798 3 года назад

My main forge Is an induction and the price is very reasonable considering($1200-1500 maybe a lot Les if you gamble with an eBay model.). My small scale unit can liquify -3.5 lbs of copper which is serious amount of heat all for less than 40¢ in electricity. My machine is the same some companies sell for 4K you just need to shop around.

@jeffgrier8488 3 года назад

Seeing this stand reminds me that i really need to work on my forge welding so i can make a project like this!

@nathanlundell1616 3 года назад

Always a pleasure to watch u.

@andrewjaye2981 3 года назад

Finished the video. Love how you formed the legs over the pipe for consistency, I also love that you took the time to provide us with three different camera angles in between heats. You put a great deal of thought into your production, and It really sets you apart from the rest. Thank you.

@TheBottegaChannel 3 года назад

Cool stand. I'm turning in to see what it's going to be used for next week. My top three guesses are: 1: a full on metal Christmas tree 2: a giant pot stand used for cooking 3: a blacksmith's coat rack

@harrisonmantooth3647 3 года назад

This video was very interesting and informative. That stand has many possibilities. It's nice to see a usable object made, by hand, from a piece of flat iron. Watching this video made me want to step back in time to my metal shop. Thanks again for demonstrating a Forge Weld. Stay safe and well John. Stan

@AskDaddyjoe 3 года назад

Good work this base could be used for a lot application's thanks for sharing and great forge weld .

@shortfuse43 3 года назад

John, I like the three-legged stand. Your video makes it much easier to fabricate. You really like to keep us in suspense on the next episode! A hint, if I might, on getting the legs spread out equally. With the three arm thingy you retrieved with the ladder, draw a circle radiused from the center about out where the legs on the stand should be. Stand it on that and you can eyeball if they are equidistantly spread.

@djb341 3 года назад

Thanks for the tip John. I usually make my tripods by drawing down and splitting, this looks a lot quicker.

@kevindaley2251 3 года назад

I need all of your wonderful knowledge 👍👍

@gurvinderkau1e5w18 3 года назад

Forge weld was pleasure to watch.Using round pipe for bending was cool idea. Cant wait to see wat it is going to be used for!!!👍👍🔥🔥🔥

@matthewb8229 3 года назад

*Whack* (dammit!) - are we related? I will confess, when using a hammer, I also utter "what the f..." a lot.

@TheWoodsmanMilling 3 года назад

I do that when I'm running a chainsaw.

@yurishnirman3847 3 года назад

Me as well, hammer, wrenches, shower...

@yurishnirman3847 3 года назад

Me as well, hammer, wrenches, shower...

@johnnydrummond8738 3 года назад

What PERFECT timing!!!! I am making companion sets and was at the stage of making feet-THANK YOU John

@andrewjaye2981 3 года назад

Fantastic video, I'm only 7:29 into it but couldn't wait to comment. I love the idea of making practical, yet out of the ordinary, items like this stand. Makes me want to run out to the shop! Ok now I'll finish watching. Thank you!🖤

@ThiagueraPlay 3 года назад

You are a amazing inspiration to me, i'm starting forging with coal in a ground forge and learning with your hints too!

@tobyjo57 3 года назад

I was doing a poker and fire rake today for a friends Christmas gift and thinking I've been missing your videos for a while then when I came inside and seen you posted this it was a great finish to my day. Yet another superb educational video John with so many aspects to learn and osberving the tools you have made and use in differant applications...Thank you John.

@SchysCraftCo. 3 года назад

Very nice project. Looking forward to see the results of the other parts. John keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend forge on

@mtyson9004 3 года назад

Very nice John! Thanks and God Bless you sir!

@Edwinthemountainman8454 3 года назад

Howdy great job stay healthy 😆👍👍👍👍👍👏👏👏🔥

@thecreativecraftingtable8658 3 года назад

Nice professional artwork as always! It is a pleasure to watch your videos! Your videos made me to start blacksmithing and i learned a lot of basics watching them.😀

@Redneckemtb 3 года назад

Looking forward to it, John!

@jeremybender7483 3 года назад

im ill but i think i did some forging well pouring either way i really enjoy your videos best on the web on the subject

@douglasfathers4848 3 года назад

I have not made a stand like this one yet , but John you make it look so easy mate.(:

@Dfrantz87 3 года назад

That pipe trick is next level brother!

@mikehodges6598 3 года назад

I just made my first full fireplace set and was thinking of designs for the stand. Thanks for the design of the base!

@BCM1959 3 года назад

Simple design yet very nice.

@olddawgdreaming5715 3 года назад

Great job John, I’ll wait for it to all come together next time. Thanks for sharing with us. Fred

@im4dabirds 3 года назад

Blacksmith boomerang!!

@jeremiahjohnson1325 3 года назад

John love the coal forge I've been trying to learn to maintain the fire can you show more of the iron being heated how much air from blower maybe a short

@BlackBearForge 3 года назад

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@demastust.2277 3 года назад

John could we please, preeettty please, see another tour of your scrap piles?

@saintends7302 3 года назад

It’s so cool seeing how used your anvil looks

@OmahaLasse 3 года назад

Well, my life and crafts took a twist last week as I got diagnozed with a brain tumor. Operation due day after tomorrow and after that I will know what the effects will be. Happy to have these basic and intermediate level core skills to look at after the surgery. Sadly no time for me to go to my shop for a week or two al least. Spentthe whole week leading to today in it though, as I still could. Hope that I will be back there soon enough too..

@mitchstephen5491 3 года назад

Good luck and I hope everything works out for you.

@Seelenschmiede 3 года назад

Ey get well soon mate :) best wishes for you!

@OmahaLasse 3 года назад

Operation went well, nothing lost there. Now the radiation therapy has been on for 3 weeks, one week left. After that 6 months of chemo. And blacksmithing all the way if I can. Tis far I have been able to, happy to say.

@Seelenschmiede 3 года назад

@@OmahaLasse good to hear! Get well soon!

@publicblacksmith9467 3 года назад

amaizing ... love from pakistan .

@heathworsley8347 3 года назад

Beautiful work John I once made something similar with eighth inch by inch and a half basically cold with nothing but a hand-held propane torch. It was not all that easy to get things straight

@hannemannironworks1651 3 года назад

Looks great John!

@carsemonkey1 3 года назад

Great video as always

@erikcourtney1834 3 года назад

Induction forges are amazing, wish I could constitute spending that much for one. I’ll stick with my gas and coal forge for now

@SpecialOrder_937 3 года назад

I use a coal forge , simply because I’m not a fan or trust worthy of gas ( mainly because of how clumsy I am 🤣🤣 I’d no doubt forget to turn it off and then light up a smoke and blow my self up 🤣🤣)

@k3xtxhamradio930 3 года назад

Nice work rush lamp perhaps...

@lowellsewell3192 3 года назад

Thanks this was great!

@willsouthdakota5153 3 года назад

Great video. Glad to see you again.

@cerocero2817 3 года назад

I'm very interested in the topic of induction forges for the blacksmith's workshop. I think if you got one owerful enough it should be viable for a profesional even on thick stock. Maybe after hoarding a bunch of jigs and coils it could even be economically competitive. It will have it's drawbacks, but it also offers no noise, no startup, doesn't spend any fuel while not in use, can heat work without moving away from the anvil (this could be vey useful for small stock and forge welding) and with the right coil you can heat stuff anywhere, perhaps even better than with oxy-fuel. I may invest in one some day to try. Recently saw a video from DF in the shop where a three leg stand was made from a single bar by bending one of the legs around and welding it into the center before cutting it into two so you don't need to do a drop tongs weld.

@johngunn7087 3 года назад

Excellent content- as usual !! Thanks, John.

@BlackBearForge 3 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it

@georgewohl1126 3 года назад

That was sweet

@Zogg1281 3 года назад

I love that moment after you get the pieces up to welding heat, you line everything up and give it a few quick taps and finally pick everything up as one piece instead of two. It's like majic yo me STILL and somehow it still doesn't seam possible!! I'm hopefully hoping finish re assembling my forge soon and it should have more then enough heat to achive my first forge weld. It almost had enough heat before I dismantled it, but now with a slightly larger gas inlet I am very hopeful 😁 Thanks for sharing this, I'm wondering if you could get it into a gas forge with a few gental courtesy bends 🤔 or I could stand the forge upright and balance the piece on the front of the forge. As heat rises it could work 🤔😅👍👍

@markmoreno7295 3 года назад

I watched the whole thing. I am thinking maybe a medevial device found at your local haberdashery. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving.

@johnjude2685 3 года назад

Okay I will be back next week ( I always check back every day) Thanks

@marcerivest6204 3 года назад

Nice job, l think that you may have done this before, maybe once or twice.

@robertkatena8876 3 года назад

I'd like to see you make a 20 pound sledge hammer.

@matthewmerrick4452 3 года назад

I can see other uses for this weld. I'm thinking trivit.

@brysonalden5414 3 года назад

Thanks! Lots of good info here. Do I see a "Stand of the Week" in your future?????

@521cjb 3 года назад

Several millennia ago when I was in grade school, we had a stand like that holding up the American Flag.

@mishamish3610 3 года назад

Удачи!

@bernardleighan3218 3 года назад

John, what was the tool you used to cut the legs to length? I have not seen one of those before. Thanks for the video and God bless you.

@AllodialTitle 3 года назад

Metal shears.

@BlackBearForge 3 года назад

Edwards shear #5

@stefflus08 3 года назад

Love your videos. Wouldn't it be more prudent to scarf the sides of the short piece end?

@BlackBearForge 3 года назад

4:15 shows making the scarf on the short section

@stefflus08 3 года назад

@@BlackBearForge Aye, where you scarf its end rather than the sides which will blend with the other piece.

@mickdog2 3 года назад

Did you burn the apron?

@leedeal7301 3 года назад

I was wondering what kind of gas forge you have Thinking about getting one

@BlackBearForge 3 года назад

It was made by Chili Forge

@amazoncustoms1604 3 года назад

Does christmas tree fell on floor how fast without Water.? Here Finland we have tree in Water. Merry christmas for all

@BlackBearForge 3 года назад

We place trees in water as well. So this won't be for a tree

@azizbekakbarov7738 3 года назад

Жуда зур..👍👍👍

@marciomarceneiro6123 3 года назад

Como e o nome do produto que vc usa para soldar?

@TheJohnbarks12 3 года назад

Where did you get the little mini square from

@BlackBearForge 3 года назад

Are you referring to the hook ruler that was cut down from a square? I buy the squares from McMaster Carr

@hmsrose6230 3 года назад

What kind of chemical powder did he use to weld the additional piece?!!

@BlackBearForge 3 года назад

Its a welding flux. its main purpose is to keep the material clean

@dkami732 3 года назад

Hi John. Great video. What kind of tongs were you using at the end to hold the stand while you adjusted the leg using the guide?

@BlackBearForge 3 года назад

Box jaw tongs

@EXARCWithGrandpop 3 года назад

Newbie questions. I have been watching a lot of blacksmithing video and everyone seem to be working indoors. How save is it? I have a large walk out basement, can I make that a safe place? or is that a bad idea? Can the fireman side of you direct me?

@robertwhitney2232 3 года назад

What you don't see in all the videos on blacksmithing, is the smoke that is created by the coal fire and fire hazards, not to mention the carbon monoxide poisonings in your living quarters. Personally, I think a stand by it self building, with a lot of fresh air is the safe thing to do.

@Seelenschmiede 3 года назад

You definetely need to have a very good chimney to get out the stuff Robert mentioned. The rest depends on the materials your basement is build out of.

@EXARCWithGrandpop 3 года назад

That makes sense. I was originally planning on forging out side. With winter coming I though I could get a way with starting inside. Thanks guys for your replies.