Got to Love History! Thank you Mr John😇

Thank you John. Have a great weekend! 😊

We got to hang out with Peter Ross at his home in Pittsboro, NC when I went down to Roy Underhill's school in 2017. He & Roy are friends, so he stopped by Roy's school and invited the eight of us over to visit his private forge. Very cool experience!

Any thing and any way I can listen to Peter is wonderful.

Thanks for filming this John, It was a very interesting talk and a learned a lot about the historical context for this craft.

I loved this discussion soooo much... I don't have any blacksmith conferences or gathering around me, and I wish I had. I could listen to this guy for a lonnng time. Very talented blacksmith, perfected through the years I guess. It's so refreshing to hear a bit more about what was common, what was rare, priceless, or valuable at the time. Thank you so much for sharing, again

@BlackBearForge

5 жыл бұрын

Search out Rocky Mountain Smiths here on KZread. The group is starting to post more full demos from previous years.

@gabrielnavarro8721

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you !

That was really fascinating. He sure knows a lot. Thanks for uploading.

@BlackBearForge

5 жыл бұрын

I always like listening to Peter's perspective on the craft.

@workwithnature

5 жыл бұрын

Yep I found the history aspect really good info, would not have thought they spent more time on hammer marks, plus finally understand what cast steel is all about.

@tobymiller8508

2 жыл бұрын

instaBlaster...

Thanks for sharing this!

Thank you John for posting this video of a true master of the craft.

Peter, Thank You! Thank you so much for sharing John

As you had taught me in 3 years I believe I found this of more interesting. Thanks Mr.John Swisher

Enjoyed the talk about all the Smith's.

Most interesting video I have seen in a long time. Thank you.

Great stuff John, thanks for sharing.

Very interesting, and educational, Thank You!

Really enjoyed the video. Learned a lot about blacksmith history, especially when Mr Ross talked about finishing iron work verses just hand forged. Iv'e been wanting to finish my own work to a higher degree and now have a new perspective on the subject. Thank you!

Thanks for your video

I could listen to him for hours.

That was a great Video ! You did a Wonderful Job of recording it ! Very interesting! Thank you for sharing it ! Take Care !

Yep! Pete is one of the great ones. 🐻🔥⚒

I talked to Peter at ABANA this year. His knowledge is priceless.

That was great.

Amazing bit of engineering history. Thank you for sharing

@BlackBearForge

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

I remember my trip to Williamsburg. A lot of fun. I don't remember what he was working on, but the Smith that was demonstrating had a HUGE piece of round bar on one of those little classical forged anvils. Had a nice handmade tripod to help him hold it. Far left, a buddy of mine got a job at the basken Robins they had built for the tourists... he wasn't even old enough to work yet lol. Memories are weird sometimes.

Muy interesante! Thank you

Awesome video!

Thanks John for recording this. Found it very interesting because I love history. I live right next to the historical town of Gainesville Alabama and it has a lot of history. It was once the third largest town in Alabama with a lot of steam boat trade. It's dried up to just a little small place with maybe 15 to 20 original homes left. I've set my blacksmith shop up in Gainesville next to one of the biggest of the old home.

@garethbaus5471

2 жыл бұрын

@@sophiaherschel567 although I generally agree that learning about the history of a region prior to European settlement is a worthwhile pastime there are several issues with your specific claim. Why does the fact that other things happened further back in time reduce the historical significance of an a particular region? Recorded native American history that predates contact with European settlers is difficult for most of the public to access so it is fairly reasonable for someone to be more familiar with recent history. European settlers have had permanent residence in north America for almost 500 years, with what is modern day Alabama getting it's first permanent European settlements over 300 years ago with Gainesville specifically being founded a bit over 180 years ago, so the 200 years you mentioned is an arbitrary number that really doesn't represent any relavent major historical transition.

Really enjoyed the historical perspective. Now if only I could remember it all.

@BlackBearForge

5 жыл бұрын

I'm lucky if I cn remember it until the end of the day

I have been to Williamsburg, wonderful place! I am wondering if he was there when i went about 25 years ago! As far as this video, it was extremely informative! I learned so much I didn’t know! Thanks for posting this!

@BlackBearForge

5 жыл бұрын

He was probably working there at that time

Great video John, would love to see more videos from these events. Great to listen to while I'm out at the forge

@BlackBearForge

4 жыл бұрын

Check out the RMS channel kzread.info/dron/wQzavb0mm11G3To002BOsw.html

@davedoessomestuff8176

3 ай бұрын

​@@BlackBearForgeFunny that I just now see this reply three years later! Guess it pays to come back to old videos. I've been participating in the California Blacksmith Associations events and it's really great to learn one on one from others in the community. I don't think I'd have had the confidence to go forge with others if it wasn't for your videos teaching me the basics. Hope you have a great day John.

22k subs woo hoo...interesting information on 18th century smiths!

@BlackBearForge

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks

We know things now what they didn’t know then, such as that the silica in the wrought iron enabled easier welding and higher quality, particularly in the cast steel. Silicon is added to various welding rods, wire, etc. to remove impurities from the weld or braze. When casting that steel, the silicon would have bound to impurities which, since the silica is lighter than the steel, would have floated to the surface and would have been skimmed off as dross. How much of that they understood, I don’t know. Likely not much. Unfortunately, the earliest book I’ve been able to buy over the years is from 1836.

Enjoyed learning about the difference from wrought iron to sheer steel to cast steel... Was cast steel also called Crucible steel?

@BlackBearForge

5 жыл бұрын

Thats a good question. I'm not sire if its the same thing or not.

@garethbaus5471

2 жыл бұрын

Cast steel is another term for crucible steel. It was the first process that made steel of a similar quality to modern steel.

What an amazing man and smith! We are blessed to have such great smiths to learn from. Yourself included John. Do you script what you say before videos or is it off the cuff? I plan on doing videos and looking for info

@BlackBearForge

5 жыл бұрын

I should probably have an outline, bit it is so far just off the cuff. Sometimes with several retakes.

Beleza

If anyone wants to transcribe and make closed captioning, that would help

@BlackBearForge

5 жыл бұрын

That would be a big undertaking. I think there ids a captioning option you can click on, but It mat have trouble with some of the terminology

@tkjazzer

5 жыл бұрын

@@BlackBearForge i wonder if there is a way a user / watcher could transcribe it just like people submit translation in to other languages

Anyone here from the tendonitis /hammer tutorial?

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The audience is mostly old geezers, that’s not good for the long term future of the trade/craft/art.

@BlackBearForge

2 жыл бұрын

Plenty of younger smiths picking up a hammer these days. But its us old geezers that have the time off to attend a multi day conference and the disposable income to pay for travel and lodging.