I'm 68 and have been smithing since about age 13 or 14. You've made a really excellent video!!! If anybody were to take their time and watch this over and over and then imitate -- follow your instructions and try to understand how and why it works -- they'd be pretty far ahead in the scheme of things when heating iron and bending it to your will and then hardening it for the intended job.

I hope you do more videos like this, it wasn't only especially helpful, but it's also nice for a change to have verbal instructions along with the visuals for us auditory learners.

@oldfieldforge

Жыл бұрын

Glad you like it! There are more recorded and scheduled! We try and release something on the first of every month. Tongs coming next!

Very well done. I have been forging off and on for about a year and this is one of the best introduction videos I have seen yet.

Awesome video Ben!

Great Video! Thank you for posting!

Very helpful video - thanks for sharing!

Great video. Good walk-through!

Exactly what I needed to see. Thanks very much! Very excited to start tempering and making some hard tools ;)

Thank you for taking the time to make these videos✌

So generous, thank you so much sir, I am new to the subject but have a background in nanomaterials science. EXtremely valuable. I hope to forge my own carpenters axe one day.

Most enjoyed. Saw it through reddit. Greetings from Holland!

I made an epic sword with these guys. They are all patient and kind, this video was great but I would 1000% advise booking one of their experiences and getting the basic knowledge first hand.

Very impressive glad I found you

Love it! Please, make more sir Cheers from Poland 🍻

Real good tutorial Well done Thanks Take Care Enjoy

Excellent video. I am kind of learning on my own and find videos like these really informative. Looking forward to the next video!

Looking forward to more videos in this series.

Great video bloke, would love to see more vids on with what can be made with throw away items (car springs etc). Good video pace, good narrating, great work.

Bravo on getting it rolling with simple tooling! Look forward to seeing more- Subscribed- Be safe and have a great day!

Lovely video 👌

1:10 and a thing to hit the thing with :P

That is a beautiful big anvil

Nicely done, I subbed and I enjoyed your video style.😊😊😊😊

Great beginners video👍 I've made some similar coil spring tools and am surprised how good they are(if a little primitive looking)more luck than skill possibly 😉

Another fantastic video! If I could make a suggestion- adding timestamps to each step would be very helpful for quick reference.

Great Thank you

Excellent primer! The only thing I would add is a caution about cooling coil spring tools in a slack tub when they're hot from use, which as you know can cause cracking.

@allanhorne6067

9 ай бұрын

Advice is to cover the bosh / slack tub with a piece of wood board to avoid differential quenching by habit.

I use fireplace ashes to anneal. Steel will air harden as it still cools quite fast. I anneal my steel before I start forging for obvious reasons. You can also clamp scrap steel on both sides of your hardened piece, heat it, stick it in ashes overnight. This makes the steel butter soft. Air cooling is more for thermocycling to relieve the stress in the steel, I would not recommend it for softening or annealing steel. Forge On!!!

No idea why youtube flagged this, I've been smithing for decades & it's too basic for me. The fellow in the video looks like he stands pretty far from the anvil when forging, that is something which anyone teaching smithing will know is one of the first things to correct in a learner - but each to his own. All that written... this is by far the best intro' for a beginner that I've seen online.

after the Skyrim reference I had to watch

Thanks for a useful and informative video. I'm interested in the fuel you are using. I'm using coke at the moment, what sort of coal is that please?

@oldfieldforge

2 ай бұрын

Sorry for taking so long to reply. We tend to use anthracite here, but we've occasionally used coke.

I love your setup, please invest in a microphone so I don't have to turn up the volume all the way to hear you.

Super video! . You seem awfully tall for the height of your anvil - had my back aching, as I have my anvils set much higher... am I just old?

@kevinburrell2494

Жыл бұрын

He is a monster. I’m 6’ and felt like a schoolboy on our day at the forge!

@mrfolstag3038

9 ай бұрын

@@kevinburrell2494 can confirm. He's a big fella

You have sideblast water cooled forge?

@oldfieldforge

2 ай бұрын

Yes, in the UK its a pretty standard design over the bottom fed ones. We also have Gas forges, but we thought it better to teach on a more basic forge style.

What´s type of coal are you using in your forge?

@oldfieldforge

22 күн бұрын

We use either welsh coke or anthracite. We do have propane forges as well, but for teaching we prefer solid fuel.

@osvaldoloyola7391

22 күн бұрын

@@oldfieldforge THANK FOR YOUR ANSWER. GREETINGS.

can i really use engine oil to cool my metal down??? because im a mechanic ...i can have old engine oil for free.

@oldfieldforge

2 ай бұрын

Yes, almost every oil will do. Just remember that Engine oil releases some nasty stuff when burned, so if it is your only option, do it somewhere very well ventilated.

YEP as you say , your not experienced enough to teach . Try standing behind an anvil for 10000 hours before teaching ......

@oldfieldforge

2 ай бұрын

The gentleman forging has been doing so for over 14 years. Thankyou for the constructive criticism though.