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How cool. Keep going ☺☺

@Duckrabbit_Forging

8 ай бұрын

Thank you! 😊

Dude that was a cool project!!! Turned out Great!!!! 🤟🫡

@Duckrabbit_Forging

8 ай бұрын

Thanks OG! I was actually planning on a spoon and knife too but I ran out of time 😅

Good effort considering the nature of your forge setup. A couple of things that might be helpful to you coming from someone who started smithing in 1991. Rebar is not a great material to make much of anything useful out of. It is made from a wide range of steel types and is very inconsistent in behavior. Try to find yourself some mild steel. Next, you are not getting your material hot enough and are working it until way too cold. The temperature you are starting to forge with is where I stop forging and put it back into the fire. Rebar is notoriously hard, even when heated up and you need at least another 300-500 degrees to your stock before you start hitting it. Bright orange, not dull red. Turn up that forge. Finally, the hammer you are using, while very nice, is too heavy for you. I can easily tell that by looking at your swing and by the fact that you are really choking up on the handle. You should use a lighter hammer with a good 14" to 16" handle and hold it near the end. You will get more work done and experience less fatigue and potential damage to your body if you lighten it up a bit. Keep at it!

@Duckrabbit_Forging

8 ай бұрын

That depends on the type of rebar you get. If you get recycled rebar, or pretty much any rebar you just find lying about, yeah it'll be all full of weird shit. This particular rebar was the nice kind that's homogeneous, so no worries on that front. Between it being very bright out and my camera not being able to pick up the heat very well, it's way hotter than it looks. I was taking it out of the forge at a bright orange bordering on yellow, and putting it back in at a medium red. It think what you looking at is when I'm forging out the tines? That's not how I normally forge because I'm being very careful not to hit it too hard because if it gets too thin there's no going back from that. Thanks for watching and thanks for the advice!

I've been smithing for a month trying to figure all this stuff out what kind of hot wax do i need to use. I've made a knife and spoon so far lol

@Duckrabbit_Forging

8 ай бұрын

I just use a block of beeswax. Some smiths will swear by some fancy mixture but beeswax will do fine for just about everything. Thanks for watching!