I believe you are required by Dad law to tap those straps and then say "That's not going anywhere"

@nb44647

2 жыл бұрын

yea, I'm familiar with this law 😂

@gramursowanfaborden5820

2 жыл бұрын

like if you have real trouble fitting something into a car or a box or something, when you finally manage to get it to fit, the dad is obliged to say "like it was made for it!", "like a glove!" or "with room for a spare!"

@Gameboygenius

2 жыл бұрын

No, I believe that law only applies definitively, if your son is standing a few meters away and looking nervously as if the anvil is suddenly going to jump sideways and land on his feet.

@davereeves1967

2 жыл бұрын

@@Gameboygenius na, it's definitely to be said every time you tighten a strap.

I liked the talking episode! You did great ;)

The fact that the company went out of business after 4 and a half centuries is kinda saddening

@torbjornahman

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed! I have tried a bit to find out where all the patterns went, but haven't been able to find out more.

@DBKING04020

2 жыл бұрын

I get your point and agree, but to be fair, if any business makes it 450 yrs-the emotional response could easily be pride instead of sadness.

@avenuex3731

2 жыл бұрын

It lived far past the life of the economy that supported it. Tough to make tools for trades that no longer exist at the level that demanded such tools. You can still buy a brand new farrier’s anvil though as a counter example.

@Qrunch

2 жыл бұрын

@@torbjornahman Aren’t they still talking about MAYBE trying to restart the company? Or it might just be dreams that have been posted online... fingers crossed, cause I’d love to have a brand new one from them. A nice little 100kg A1 or A4

@torbjornahman

2 жыл бұрын

@@Qrunch I'm not so sure... lets hope it's true!

Forgot to mention, enjoyed hearing your voice. Your “Swedish version “ of English is probably more accurate than my “Aussie version “ of it !!!

@MrPnew1

2 жыл бұрын

Too right cobber :)

@torbjornahman

2 жыл бұрын

Ha ha.... but your's is much cooler, mate! I wish I could speak like David Attenborough, then anything would be interesting to listen to. :)

@johnnydingo8680

2 жыл бұрын

@@torbjornahman Not true. Your voice is quite unique and suits you. Also your pronunciation of the English word is very good. Stay the way you are. That is what we like about you.

@user-kg1yq6nm3e

2 жыл бұрын

@@torbjornahman "Nordic English" have more color to it. Stay your way, please.

@Landrew0

2 жыл бұрын

Scandinavians are often easier to understand in English than native English speakers. Australians? Not so much.

I liked hearing you talk! You have a fun to listen to accent to my American ears. But do whatever makes you comfortable I'll keep watching!

@moparlarsson

2 жыл бұрын

Let's hear your Swedish accent!

@aragustin

2 жыл бұрын

@@moparlarsson yeah, his english is damn perfect with very very little accent, which is totally lovely and interesting, i myself talk like a mexican jejeje

Yes, extremely interesting! Perfect english too.

@torbjornahman

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@cheese_9319

2 жыл бұрын

His English gets better and better in every video!

@GregorShapiro

2 жыл бұрын

I only heard 3 slight mistakes which is WAY better than most Swedes who, in general, believe their English to be better than it actually is!

@ianrutherford878

2 жыл бұрын

@@GregorShapiro Well,I'm a Brit living in Sweden and I would say that about a lot of Brits too.

Great video! While it strays from your usual "ASMR"/"Silent" style, I really do enjoy listening to someone tell a story about their tools - it almost felt like a mini-mini documentary about this anvil.

@DBKING04020

2 жыл бұрын

I feel that Torbjörn has the balance perfected. Mostly “asmr” but with a sprinkling of spoken content. Being an arborist, I am also a huge fan of the mini garden adventures.

You have one heaven of an anvil there. That's a dream anvil of many blacksmiths, myself included. Congratulations.

This is the sexiest anvil on the internet - throughly researched.

@MadebyKourmoulis

2 жыл бұрын

I agree

2 жыл бұрын

I agree

@gallaik

2 жыл бұрын

I think so.

@kirtodam6540

2 жыл бұрын

It is nice but I have to say I do like John's new one at Black Bear Forge! :-) I'm just envious as I don't have one of my own. Yet!

@MadebyKourmoulis

2 жыл бұрын

@@kirtodam6540 I think a double horn would be sweet.

That's a really nice anvil that can and should be handed down from generation to generation! Thank you for taking time to film, edit, and post this video.

A nice, tight, deep relief in the shape of the anvil base will do WONDERS...

Re: repurposing scale - a potter who lives near me has asked that I save the scale for him to use in the making of custom glazes. Evidently iron oxide creates some interesting colors when blended with other glaze compounds. That seems like dark alchemy to me, but I’ll share a picture if he is successful. Always enjoy seeing the activities in your shop and homestead. Have a wonderful summer!!

@torbjornahman

2 жыл бұрын

Cool! Yes, you're right. I haven't thought about that. I guess you would have to grind it to powder then...

@muratdil1798

2 жыл бұрын

Pistachio trees love those scales; moist them and mix with soil and feed the tree around the root.

@thecorbies

2 жыл бұрын

@@torbjornahman My wife is an art teacher and she has a potters wheel and kiln at home in her workshop. She would love maybe 0.5kg of your scale to grind up and use with glazes. Please let me know if you would be willing to sell some.

@its_just_fish_original

2 жыл бұрын

Check out Sculpt Nuveau's products. Good stuff.

@torbjornahman

2 жыл бұрын

@@thecorbies Nice! Send me a message on IG/FB or my web page!

Very interesting video. The story, old images of Swedish industry, ... I like this "speaking format" very much.

This anvil is an art piece. If I had one of these, I'd sleep in the workshop. It is quite hard to see anvils here, let alone a Kohlswa, wich I've seen just once, and man, it feels like they are calling you to hammer some hot steel on them

It was nice to have a talkie. Talk, don't talk, you always do the best work I've seen.

I really appreciate your explanation of your anvil. I love your normal style of videos, but still it's nice to hear you too. I am English and your spoken English is faultless. I have many English friends I find it harder to understand than your accent. Thank you so much.

You Swedes has a long and proud tradition of making machines, engines and other industrial equipment of good quality, just like your anvil. And you are a good representative to bring this tradition further👍👍

Honestly mate, you speak better English than the locals here haha, love the accent, love the history, especially how to pronounce words in swedish, reminds me of The Post Apocalyptic Inventor explaining how to pronounce names in German :) Thank you for coming out of your comfort zone to teach all of us a thing or two, and loved those old photos!! Even Swedish factories had beautiful architecture :) Cheers!

hello. I am the lucky owner of two anvils.. The little 45 kg is from 1925 and remains flat. The largest, 160 kg, is about 200 years old and has a marked "cradle" on its surface. Many people advise me to plan it, but if I did, it would lose its identity and would become a different anvil because it would lost the visible samples of the people who used it before me .. I do not ask for advice but it is nice to hear the opinions and their reasoning of people interested in this noble art of blacksmithing. Greetings and thanks for your time and all your videos that inspire us.. greetings from Spain

@torbjornahman

2 жыл бұрын

Great! I wouldn't try to fix that. Learn how to use the surface to your advantage. It's good for straightening stuff for example.

On the subject of forge scale, there actually is (was) a use for. I used to volunteer in the forge of the Batavialand historic ship wharf (Dutch museum where they are building ships using historic techniques) and one of the researches found a piece of text regarding using forge scale to make the wood more durable. No idea exactly how it was used as I left to go work somewhere else, but we were asked to keep the forge scale (at least the "clean" bits from the anvil, not from the floor) separate so they could be used to treat the wood with.

@benfrederick3147

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Mr fabulous. regarding Batavialand historic ship wharf, I just moved to Leeuwarden and desparate to start blacksmithing again (my previous workshop is in UK). Do you by ANY CHANCE do of any blacksmithing workshops or know of any blacksmiths in Friesland or nearby? I know its a long shot but thought i would ask in case! thanks!

@anvilsbane2196

2 жыл бұрын

“Ironwood”, lol. We hav a species here in Ohio called Ironwood, as it sparks steel tools that cut it. High silica content.

@demastust.2277

2 жыл бұрын

You can also mix the scale with vinegar to make a stain for the wood.

@benjurqunov

Жыл бұрын

A friend wanted our scale for home made linseed paint. Basically her process was wash it. While suspended in fluid magneticly separate it from dirt (or whatever wont stick to a magnet). Dried into cupcakes pan then ground to powder in a rock tumbler. From there mixed into her secret blend of oils.

Don't be scared of talking to us. I like listening to you! In the beginning of the video I thought that you would carve out a recess to put the anvil in and maybe fill it with a damping medium of some sort, so that it would be soundproofed from the sides as well.

Kohlswa anvils are beautiful, such clean and crisp lines, really brings out the beauty of the London pattern. A real shame they're no longer produced

Very interesting that the company goes back to the 16th century. The oldest companies I know are Beretta, Saint Goban and Hudson Bay Company. This company would be older than Saint Goban and HBC, very interesting to think or put into consideration that this company was around when the Cannon which were used at the Battle of the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, in the 19th century, were being made, which cannon still survive today. Very cool indeed!

You speak better English than most of my fellow Nova Scotians. Cool video. Very practical and useful.

It was great to hear you talk about your anvil and (as always) great to see what's going on in your shop. Cheers from Texas!

Your English is perfect my Swedish is like slag good for nothing . Stay safe happy trails.

@torbjornahman

2 жыл бұрын

:)

@mikeboone4425

2 жыл бұрын

@@torbjornahman Your getting to intellectual with your answers Torbjon for this old fart of 78 who can barley type.

Torbjorn, your English is perfect and you present yourself very well. You have nothing to worry for. Thank you for sharing; it is a beautiful piece of steel.

Even your english is perfect! And thank you for not using your voice to annoyingly shouting "please subscribe / like / hit the bell button" like most other channels do.

Always a fan! As someone who did some very minor smithing when I was younger in a rural area, but now lives in an area too urban to allow it, your videos always give me a peek inside what might have been.

@torbjornahman

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

To quell the last bit of ring, inexpensively, and easily, you might try sticking welding magnets on the underside of the horn, and the tail. I couldn't believe the difference it made on my cheap little anvil. Nice piece, Mountain Bear!

@torbjornahman

2 жыл бұрын

I have already tried that... doesn't work on my anvil for some reason.

BRAVO Thunder Bear! English is really good! Since Americans supposedly speak English......we have our own brand so you did a excellent job!

You do such a great job, your are a true artist, GOD has gifted you in many ways. My wife is half Swedish and enjoys your work as well, if I was younger and in better health I would buy one of your tools to hang here. Great job and I will look forward to your next video.

@torbjornahman

Жыл бұрын

Very kind, thanks!!

This is the first video I've heard this man's voice, and I was pleasantly surprised. Keep up the good work!

Even far away from your comfort zone you delivered once more an instructive and well edited video, Thorbjörn! Really sorry that the Kohlswa Works no longer exist.

Thank you for adding my shop sticker to your shop. I am honored sir.

@torbjornahman

2 жыл бұрын

The pleasure is mine, Robert! Thanks

I lusted over Kohlswa anvils for my entire career and I ended up settling on the new Scott anvils. Likely not as good, but good enough and obtainable. Several of my friends have Kohlswa anvils that a fellow imported, but imported anvils had to be cut in half for shipping and then welded back together before sale here in North America. Anyway, beautiful anvils and I always have wanted an unmolested one.

Black Bear Forge got his anvil dead quiet, I was surprised how well it turned out. Yours turned out very similar. He has his anvil pedestal buried in the ground also which helps, however doing that stops you from ever easily moving it. Isolating the wooden block from the floor with rubber will also reduce the resonance as well. You could experiment with an old piece if rubber backed carpet.

@smartgorilla

2 жыл бұрын

I saw that too

@torbjornahman

2 жыл бұрын

Yes he has the post buried and I think that would deaden the last bits here too... I will see if something under the wood helps!

@jackthompson6296

2 жыл бұрын

The two ways to make things quiet are isolation and adding mass. You probably aren’t going to make the anvil heavier, but making the whole thing stiffer transfers more vibration into the floor which is like adding mass. But the wooden pedestal isn’t super stiff and only some frequencies are going through to the floor. So you can try to make the pedestal even stiffer and really fix it to the floor or (probably better) isolate the pedestal with sound deadening material. Could be as simple as putting the existing pedestal on a layer of sand in a sandbox. Wet or oily sand may work better. Or you could make something more serious by sandwiching mass loaded vinyl between sheets of plywood. Finally consider that the sound is echoing around the room, reflecting off surfaces, especially the flat concrete floor. You want it to be absorbed, not reflect off surfaces. Adding floor grating might help break up the reflected noise.

@marginatux

2 жыл бұрын

@@torbjornahman how about some rubber between the anvil and brackets?

@torbjornahman

2 жыл бұрын

@@marginatux No, I don't think that will do any good.

Very interesting. I’d be interested to hear about more of the history of your equipment.

I really appreciate seeing the anvil maintenance & sound proofing efforts, thank you!

Loved this. I think the one thing I do like about your channel is very little if any talking. You just get right to work. To many like to hear themselves talk I think. But like many I wish I had a shop as nice as yours. Thanks again.

Very nice video, Torbjorn. Thank you for sharing your words and humor I love my Kohlswa anvils. I did not know that the company went out of business. That's too bad.

Great idea and the sound is so much quieter with a solid ‘muffle’. jc

That my friend is one of the most gorgeous anvils I've ever seen ... One of my anvils is a Kohlswa 70 lb ... It was cool to hear the most detailed history I've heard on the maker ... Great video ...

Nicely done. The forge scale was the perfect solution.

Thank you Torbjorn. I sincerely appreciate you sharing your work, skills and knowledge of this wonderful artform. Greetings from Durban South Africa.

Thought for sure you'd get one of those Scandinavian "World's Strongest Men" to come help move it for you. 💪

@Thebigmanmetaldetecting

2 жыл бұрын

Like the late great Jon Paul siggmason

@DBKING04020

2 жыл бұрын

Magnus VonMagnuson?

@Thebigmanmetaldetecting

2 жыл бұрын

@Charles Brainard I'm a Scotsman and don't know what your talking about lol

@Thebigmanmetaldetecting

2 жыл бұрын

@Charles Brainard I know exactly what you mean lol

Good job Torbjorn. It's good to hear you speak.

Thanks for introducing your anvils! I also like that you talk in your videos, it makes it more personal and engaging.

May I suggest: When creating a silicone-bed, it may be advantageous to place temporary wedges or shims under the anvil while the silicone is curing. This guarantees a certain minimum thickness of the rubber. In your case, the weight of the anvil probably squeezed away most of the silicone into the wood-gaps, making the silicone layer extremely thin. Then you have a hard-on-hard contact (steel on wood) and that would limit the sound-deadening effect from the rubber. Of course, once the silicone has cured, the wedges or shims must be removed, otherwise you still have hard-on-hard(-on-hard) contact via the shims.

@torbjornahman

2 жыл бұрын

I don't think you need a layer at all... just contact over the entire surface.

@AdityaMehendale

2 жыл бұрын

@@torbjornahman I would agree if the damping is almost entirely derived from the wood. If you are using the "loss tangent" of the rubber as an energy-absorption/dissipation mechanism, then a (controlled) thick-layer would be beneficial.

Best blacksmithing channel on the tube!

Great video! Going back to the history of where these pieces came from and then having made other tooling and your own creations is pretty fantastic.

Love it when you speak, love it when you don’t. You make great videos, thanks for making them!!!

More than just a little interesting, TA! Love the info.

Beautiful kohlswa anvil! Soderfors and kohlswa are among the worlds best anvils. Nothing beats Swedish steel

AMAZING The improvement is almost unbelievable.

beautiful anvil, sharp edges all around, well defined faces and the manufacturer name cast in.

Thank you for the great video on such an iconic piece of history that is the anvil. I think we could give the anvil credit for being one of the most important tools ever made in building civilization. Personally I think you did a fantastic job mounting the anvil. It's now very quiet and should go a long way in helping the hearing out lol

@torbjornahman

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! You're probably right, it was a very important tool!

Tusen takk Torbjørn for en nok fantastisk informativ video 😁

I was told that you dampened your anvil by cutting the top of the block the anvil sits on into an anvil shaped pocket and filling the pocket with horse shit before replacing the anvil ! You did a pretty good job of that ! I was taught in metalworking class on an anvil that had a cast iron block supplied with it, now that was loud !

Happy to hear ya talk man

My friend’s dad back in my hometown uses steel chains hanging down and around his anvil to reduce the “ringingness” of it. Might come useful. Much love from Russia! Thank you for your great videos!

@brandongraham3509

2 жыл бұрын

I have seen this too from a couple people. Glad someone else commented on it too. Great to hear from you and appreciated the history.

@torbjornahman

2 жыл бұрын

It works for some, but not on this anvil... not sure why, maybe the size.

My parents used linseed oil for a lot of things. When I see you use it, I am often reminded of them. You did a great job in reducing the noise of that anvil. Also, your command of the English language is very good. I wish there was more incentive for people in the US to learn and use multiple languages.

@torbjornahman

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@billjones3071

2 жыл бұрын

So true, but in usa we usually start in high school trying to learn other languages , way too late

I enjoyed your story and the information in this video. Really nice to see a technique to make the forge a better place and hear the explanation along with it. Very good job leaving your comfort zone and adding to the content!

Interesting historical photos and information! Thanks for finding those and sharing.

Anvil, the unsung hero of history

Thunderbear's Forge Scale and Coke Dust Rub: For when you've got to have the look, but don't have the time.

It's nice to learn a little history once in awhile.

Of course we enjoy seeing you taking care of your great companion who carries on such an interesting history! You make it sound less but you are gonna get more from this great piece equipment you have! Thank you for sharing and of course..keep it up👍😉

Idag tog vi ett litet dopp i svensk metallurgihistoria. Det här är intressant! 👍

This is relaxing, like a Norse bob ross

All of your videos are as interesting as it could get. This one is no exception

Nice one! I think that every modern man should have an anvil

спасибо за видео!!! Удачи! очень нравится смотреть Ваши видео!

Спасибо, очень интересно! Thanks, very interesting!

Hey! the Thunder Bear speaks! It's good to hear your voice my friend.

I very much enjoyed your discussion of your anvil.

I can only dream of having an anvil like that.

Приветствую. Очень правильный подход! Наковальня это лицо кузнеца и должна стоять мертво и выглядеть идеально!!

I very much appreciated and enjoyed this video. Thanks for stepping outside your comfort zone. From Canada

Thoroughly enjoyed this video. For me there is a fascination with anvil's as I'm sure it is with many people. Thanks for telling us the story about it.

@torbjornahman

2 жыл бұрын

Great, thanks!

Приятно смотреть за уходом инструмента....👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👌👌👌👌👋👋👋

Отличное видео про великолепную наковальню! Спасибо!

More words were spoken in this video than all previous TA videos combined. Nice work!

What a pleasant surprise to hear the silent steel smiter narrating this video. Thanks you TA

Heavy chain around the anvil and a magnet under its horn makes it even quieter.

@torbjornahman

2 жыл бұрын

Nope, not on this one... have tried a few things already.

@akukorhonen5182

2 жыл бұрын

I put those on and a lead plate under my Lokomo 50A. Bolted down firmly of course. Quite quiet now.

ficou otimo faz mais videos assim :) fale mais vc si saiu muito bem , Sou Brasileiro porem entendi tudo

It's a pleasure to hear you talk

I love all the videos you do, I take pleasure in your steady speed and precision! Thank you.

That's a sweet anvil, my youngest daughter recently moved to Finland, maybe she can find and post me one :-P

@torbjornahman

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a great idea!

KZreadr AvE cast a base for his anvil in rubber, that should dampen the sound pretty good I think?

@sander7165

2 жыл бұрын

Until you drop red hot metal onto the rubber.

@clappercl

2 жыл бұрын

It was a two part epoxy resin he dyed black. Would work great to deaden the ring but that anvil is there forever now! Like was mentioned above, one hot bit of metal would melt it and smoke up real bad, too.

@johnnywoodbine9092

2 жыл бұрын

While it does kill the noise It also absorbs alot of the kinetic energy you want reflected back up through the anvil

@glennwiebe5128

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnnywoodbine9092 I think this is a theoretical question that might need to be addressed by some engineering students. I've been a blacksmith for well over a decade. I have tried solid mounting (anvil directly to solid stump), rubber mat, and silicone adhesive, and everything in between. Anything and everything to take the high frequency ring out of the equation. The silicone is the most effective to date. I have not found it to reduce the hammer's return. The rubber mat was actually the worst in that regard. Here's the point, when you're forging hot steel, you are deforming it, you are putting energy into changing its shape. An anvil may have a 995%+ return with a ball bearing but we don't hit the anvil with a hammer only. There is always something in the way that requires said energy to be deformed. I have had many close calls while forging and have missed or slightly missed the work piece and my hammer has returned violently and nearly hit my face. That experience dramatically demonstrates the energy that the hot steel steals. Sorry for the long rambling reply.

@Camcanoe

2 жыл бұрын

@@glennwiebe5128 From a purely theoretical perspective, rubber should (and I'm glad you're agreeing) be the worst. I should add I have next to no forging experience, but at one time I was one of those engineering students you speak of. With anything soft and elastically deformable between the anvil and it's base, you effectively have a sprung object, like a car. Much like with cars, if you increase the stiffness of the springs, or if you reduce the length of the springs, you reduce the travel after a given impact or load is applied. Using in this case what is now probably 1-2mm of silicone at the thickest, is a fairly short travel spring, and so will allow the anvil to move far less. In this way a thin layer of silicone is like a track car, and a thick rubber mat is like a trophy truck. They both absorb some impact, but a very different amount. If your end goal is to get 100% return from a bearing drop test, you need 2 things. 1 - for the surface to fully resist any deformation, and 2 - for the anvil to resist movement after the impact. Number one you'd implement by buying a good anvil with a hard top surface. Number two you'd implement by having the heaviest anvil possible, or having it attached as securely as possible to the biggest heavy thing you can find (the earth). In an ideal, and completely unrealistic scenario, a very overengineered steel grillages cast into a lot of concrete would be best for this, but to have any sound deadening, you need to sacrifice a little bit of the energy input! TL:DR, sound deadening costs whacking efficiency.

Thank you for telling us about your anvil. I have been wondering about it ever since I subscribed to your channel. I love watching a true craftsman building wondrous and beautiful and functional works of art and tools! Thank you for posting your videos.

Awesome improvement! I mounted mine in a very similar fashion with GE 5050 silicone under the base, and similar straps inspired by Black Bear Forge. I couldn't be happier with how quiet and sturdy it is.

I could not translate the mass, but it is clear that a good anvil, a way to get rid of ringing is interesting! I will keep in mind)))

@JustinTopp

2 жыл бұрын

400 lbs = 182kg

@jimurrata6785

2 жыл бұрын

@@JustinTopp It's literally cast into the side at 11:54

@user-sw8lh8cf7c

2 жыл бұрын

@@JustinTopp Thank you

@user-sw8lh8cf7c

2 жыл бұрын

@@jimurrata6785 Without knowing the language, even familiar words are incomprehensible because of the dialect, it is very difficult to understand which numbers mean what! Thanks.

@jimurrata6785

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-sw8lh8cf7c Your reply in english is quite good! I meant no criticism. Only to show you where the mass was pointed out.

Kolsva is not far from where I grew up. Every little town there was in some way part of the steel industry.

@IrenESorius

2 жыл бұрын

Världens i särklass bästa svarvar kom från Köping, som då också borde vara dina hemtrakter. Jag har tre. S8-S10-S14. Finfint Svenskt stål. Skål från Småland,, 🍻😎👍‍‍!

@petter5721

2 жыл бұрын

Svensk industrihistoria är fascinerade 👍🏻

Nice to see another video! Great explanation and nice to hear you talking.

Really interesting to hear the history of the company , thanks for all the research , knowledge and creativity you share . Awesome video

Звенит так, что и сыграть можно запросто на ней..

Thunder Bear didn't just dead lift that anvil off the post? What is the world coming to?

Appreciate your narration - nice work and a beautiful anvil!!!

Having a video full of dialogue is a good change of pace for you. For being out of your comfort zone you've done very well. The new brace is outstanding, I would never have thought to use caulk to reduce the noise of an anvil but here you go enlightening all of us once again