As an archeologist I love watching you work and hearing things like “it serves no purpose just an aesthetic choice”. Too often we forget when we are looking at things made in the past that, maybe they made it that way because they liked how it looked.

@BlackBearForge

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I am always amazed at how much care was put into the ornamentation on so many old tools

@waynemitchell8254

2 жыл бұрын

@@BlackBearForge do you have any thoughts on the Ozark Pattern Anvil for sale on Blacksmith supply? It’s pricey but those three different Prichel hole sizes seem really handy for punching.

@BlackBearForge

2 жыл бұрын

@@waynemitchell8254 I agree with both statements. I don't know anything about this specific anvil, but it sounds pretty good. I have wondered if I can drill a few extra pritchel holes in mu new anvil. But I would hate to mess it up.

You are the Bob Ross of the anvil sir!

Just as I think I start to get an idea about blacksmithing, I Find one of your video of some thing I had no idea existed😂

I like how you're taking form and function into consideration. No reason not to have a nice looking tool if you can help it.

Loved this video John, I really appreciate you taking the time to make the tool at the anvil as I know you have the big power hammer there that would have made the job a lot quicker and easier for you should you have chosen to, so thank you for showing us who dont have such tools how it is done "the hard way" LOL. Also a great demonstration of how to create the shoulder around the hardy shank by forge welding on the square bar, Top video John, well Done 👍⚒

That radiant heat coming off of inch and a quarter stock is brutal for sure

Also about the mail gifts the blade is from a Studbacker leaf spring. Really do hope you find them as helpful as our family Thanks for the videos and your endless teaching Sir

Watching this on a beautiful English summers day, whilst waiting to go to work

Thank for the video. I'm learning 👍

I love this video John. For tool steel or high carbon, you could try heating just the shoulder area you want with a torch, then the rest won’t upset. I used your example here a year or so ago for making one for my 209 # Fisher and made an almost identical bick. Thank you for the tutelage all these years.

By the way you're my favorite blacksmith on KZread.

The man has the ability to competently and efficiently do traditional forging, and yet does not do the colossally irritating, bounce the hammer off the anvil between strikes on the item thing. Lovely, thank you.

Black Bear and Alec Steele are my comfort videos.

@hankatmaggies8819

2 жыл бұрын

There is something traditional and warm about Black Bear though, like drinking beer watching a crackling log fire on a cold night.

My anvil was given to me by my grandfather. He snapped off the horn. So not gonna lie I’m excited to try making this. Thanks so much.

Beautifully made tool. I think I will have to make one for my anvil. Thank you for making videos regularly.

Very nice and all by hand, well done!

thank you for filming what you do. Such a joy to watch and learn.

Awesome Work John!

As always, a cogent and thorough walk through the process. Thanks!

Great job it looks great

A joy to watch you work, sir.

Nice looking tool! Well done sir

This type of thing is really useful to me, thanks!

Really cool project. It turned out great. Very handy tool. Thanks

Loving the transition from worked metal to refined right at the bend. Looks like a fantastic tool!

Thanks for your work John, always informative as you are a wealth knowledge!

Exquisite weld sir!

And that dramatic music at the end just fits so well. Well done.

Thank you John. Beautliful collar weld.

I love how he works on the fine details even on shop tools. This is so beautiful

Thanks John! As always a very interesting video. I enjoyed learning how to do the collar.

Great project! A very useful tool and I've been wanting to have a go at myself.

Excellent job !!

Good morning John. That’s some fascinating work today. Love the tools you see around a smithy shop. They can recall why they made it and whatever they used it for. Very interesting stuff to see. Thanks for sharing with us. Fred.

Humbly, I would suggest that aesthetic considerations may serve a purpose, they are one of the drivers of pride in your work and the pursuit of excellence in even the simplest of things.

Looks like a functional piece art!

That's just a Lovely and useful tool that is truly a piece of art! I do believe you are a blacksmith plus! Thanks Most Kindly for this Great video! A delightful Spring week! DaveyJO in Pa.

Very informative. Gonna need to create one of these as I am just getting started and only have a flat slab of steel to use for now.

My six years of arc welding and zero forge welding makes me think I will go with what I know best when I make my hardy tools.

Spectacular. Your videos give me a chance to get to know my grandfather. Thank you.

25:08 perfect traffic cone. As always great instructions. Thanks Mr. John

Nice bit of welding there and a really good job - I used the electric welder. Thanks John.

Nice work 👍 thanks for sharing blessings to you and yours 🙏😊 stay safe out there

Once again great video

I'm loving the new edits in the videos John. The slow-mo and the music just add that extra special touch to your already spectacular videos.

@BlackBearForge

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks

That’s really awesome John! Quite a bit of hammering. Thought you go to the power hammer. Thanks for sharing and God Bless you sir!

John, like others, great video. Thanks for doing it by hand for the ones of us who don't have a power hammer.

Thank you John for sharing how to forge that collar thank you buddy i am getting better healing i mean.

Woke up and had a new video to watch!! Thanks for all the good ideas! Can you do a video on making handled chisels?

Very nice useful tool, enjoyed the video. Thank you John.

@BlackBearForge

4 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Looks really good, l made a double ended bick a couple of months ago.

I Love your videos, and I reallly needed this help I'll learn a lot of things with your channel

Love your videos, they've really helped me learn. Thanks :)

The hand-eye coordination pounding the piece while it's bouncing all over the anvil at the 4 minute mark was impressive!!

Great tool. Wishing I had a hardy in my ground railroad anvil to add one of these to. My "anvil" has a ground horn, of sorts, but nothing so fine and petite as this for smaller round work. I suppose I could make one to be held in my bench vise as I have yet to aquire a post vise. Thanks for the video and the tool idea.

Always amazed at how long your steel stays hot ..even the light stuff...

Awesome tool John :-)

Great video. Thank you

My horn don't satisfy me , just seems spongy and more often to blunt.. I seldom use it so. Have watching you many times use like this buck not use the horn and probably much better recoil than my setup I built one shaping much as your work today but the shoulder are tuff and the fabacation man can do it with ugly weld. Still hoping to do a beautiful bick for the pride. Thanks for teaching Sir

John had to go to nome Alaska going to miss u for a few months there is a forge in a old bucket line dredge where I'm going will take some pictures of it. It last ran in the 50s. See u when I get back thanks

Great nick tool. Guess I'll make one

well done sir

Great way to shoulder a tool for the hardy hole, as Forge Wright mentioned below thank you for showing this at the anvil... you swing a mean hammer John. As alway another great tutorial, you are a true professional. Thanks.

@BlackBearForge

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Nice 👍 i have a couple that I use, but made in 2 bits like a T rod on one side and tapered on the other. Work great. Mostly made from 40mm trailer axle.

You must be a mind reader John ,just last week my son and i was talking about welding a horn on to my homemade anvil .But i think this is a far better idea, so thank you for sharing your never ending knowledge .cheers.

Absolutely beautiful work, i have been wanting to make one of those for a while now and just don't know if I'm up to snuff, you make it look easy

Thank you

Advanced manual right there, but very clearly explained! It would take me very many years to get my own skills to that standard, but in my head i understand! Thank you for passing on the skills, I'm sure smiths way better than me will use your techniques to their advantage!

great video

Great vid as usual

Thank you John. I have been wanting to make one of these. My anvil horn is too big and blunt. I have a cone mandrel for my hardy but it shakes so hitting sideways on it. I will probably cut up a fork lift tine and make one.

Hello John Very inspiriering work The collarweld is very interesting I will use this by myself Thanks for the Video All the best Yours Frank

@BlackBearForge

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you as always.

Coming to the end of my working life as an emt, and always been interested in blacksmithing and wheelwrighting, learned a lot from watching you John, great stuff. Steve Nottingham England.

@BlackBearForge

4 жыл бұрын

Best of luck! It can be an adventure

That's going to be a great tool, i'm thinking that everyone would get use from a bick like that.

I like you using the coal forge. I am just starting and using hardwood charcoal, and am interested in how you tend to the fire and place the steel to be heated.

Really great video! I've decided I prefer watching forging with the solid fuel forge. (Probably because mine is propane so I see that all the time.)

very nice

a Bick is so important for things like collars, collar for spear or arrow heads. or anything that has to fit on anything else , i have 3 sizes here and looking to make a super fine one for doing cutlery

Nice job aye!

Just love the coal forging, more please!

Maestroooooooo profesore

Great video. Coal videos are more relaxing to watch. May be sound related

Hi John

Right on time. I have a pick I'm thinking of repurposing. The one side begs to be made into a bick like this. Any idea what type of steel picks and mattocks are made of? How should I heat treat it? Thanks, John.

Hi John. I love this and I may attempt this in the near future. I could really use a small bick for my anvil. Having said that, I was just thinking about post vices and how hard they are to come by around here and I began wondering how hard it would be to make a vice that would fit the bill. As I contemplated this, it occurred to me that someone with your skill level and with the fairly complete shop that you enjoy would probably be able to make a vice that would not only function well, but would also look good as well. Of course you don't need a post vice and making one to sell would probably not be cost effective considering the amount of time and materials that would be required for such a project. That leads me to my next thought, which was, why not something, raffle it off and donate the proceeds (minus materials and labor of course) to a charity of some sort? Maybe even let the winner choose the charity. I understand the logistics of such a thing might be a challenge, and I also understand that time spent doing something for basically free might be a financial compromise for someone who relies on their trade for a paycheck, but I thought that it might be something to consider. These are the type things that run through my big empty head when I get a day off. TLDR, Have you ever considered auctioning off some of your work and donating the proceeds to cahrity?

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Nice

thanks for the great video i lerne a lot again 💪🏻👍😊

that's one thing i'm going to have to learn fire welding, but when i make an arse off it i'll just stick weld it like i normally do haha, i could do with making one off them as my horn is too big for half the stuff i try to make love you video's.

John, thank you for yet another educational _and_ interesting video. I need to get some "high-carbon" steel and try this. One request though: Will you give measurements of your piece as it changes through the "process"? You gave starting dimensions, but I can only guess at where things ended up (even though the dimensions probably aren't critical, except for fitting the hardy hole). Thanks again and take care!

😑my face when John says, “that’s a fair amount of work”

Neat video! You've got some awesome content on this channel, I just had to subscribe!

@BlackBearForge

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the sub!

Love to see that on your power hammer

I loved this video as well as so many others of yours. I have only been forging/blacksmithing for 8 months or so now, and I have learned so much from watching your videos. Thank you sir! I do have a question. I suspect I already know the answer but, would this process work equally well for making a small cone mandril also?

Been thinking about slicing the head off of an old bull pin to make one of these

John, thank you so much for the hard work at the anvil to show us beginners that you don't need all the fancy stuff to make useful tools! I don't know why, but I never thought about how the bicks are made. Just goes to show you have to think like a blacksmith to see the forest for the trees. It's really just a standard taper with the hardy shank squared out. You mentioned it in passing, but how would you go about making a bick without a hardy shank if your makeshift anvil doesn't have a hardy hole? I have an old hardy mandrel that I just put in my bench vise, but I feel like that's janky. Plus it leaves bite marks on the shank 😢. Thanks again for all your wonderful teaching! Keep up the good work.

@BlackBearForge

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. My first thought would be to make a hardy hole that mounts to the stand for the make shift anvil or welds to the side of the anvil. Perhaps just a piece of heavy walled square tube. Another option is to make the shank with a point that can be set into a stump.

@alext.7313

4 жыл бұрын

@@BlackBearForge Ah yeah, just hammer in a spike anvil. Thanks for the tips, John!

Great video. How many people thought "oh no!" When he coughed? Stay well all

@BlackBearForge

4 жыл бұрын

Just one of the down sides of working with coal.

Awesome 👍. Had to sub.

@BlackBearForge

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the sub!

Thank you John, I have done some forge welding (mostly the drop tong) but I have never tried to forge weld a collar like you just did, always thought it wouldn’t work, that in welding one side you would pop the other side. I am certainly going to try his, it would be very useful. I imagine that you really need to spend time fitting the collar tight so that there isn’t a lot of play in the piece when you weld it?

@BlackBearForge

4 жыл бұрын

There is some forgiveness as it upsets and fills the tiny gaps as you weld

Mr Switzer, Your videos skills truly keep excelling!!! I have a suggestion please 🙏 Have you ever considered wearing a go-pro on your head for a point of the smiths view shots??? Love your videos and teaching/inspiration. RIP hook of the week. Haha

@BlackBearForge

4 жыл бұрын

I haven't thought about it much. I find many of those shots to be fairly jerky