Thanks for posting that, Gary. It gives me a few ideas to work on as a memorial for my mother who passed away in Feb. That's a nice little "gift" for her grave.

I seen this made from some 3" square in a video. Took a 6 man striking team and 60# of coal. Weighed about 60#. But they passed with there cuts and it had a diamond shape hole in the center. For texture they just peined all ends of the cross. I like how simple your cross is. Like a lot of your videos, the sky is the limit!!! Great job Gary, I love your vieos.

Great video. The way it is cut first and then folded in a way into shape reminds me of origami. Thanks for the video Gary!!!

A nice video. I was taught a nice little tweak which is to heat it up but not to color and take a brass wire brush the ends of the arms. The brass color transfers to the metal for a nice addition to the cross.

Thats cool. Now I learned a new thing to try on my forge. Thanks.

THANK YOU Gary I watched your video and then have a cross made ​​from round stock. the three sites I turned, and made ​​the ends flat. I made the cross for my cat she died. Please excuse my bad englich and I thanks for the inspirations. LG Manuel

This project was really cool! It inspired me to try it myself. I have to say I am pretty happy with the results=) Thanks for posting it!

I love your videos! Thanks for doing them.

Gary, I appreciate all you have contributed. Thanks a lot, Bob Bergman, Postville Blacksmith Shop

@garyhuston

9 жыл бұрын

No problem Bob, I can't believe how many people who have their own blacksmith shop are actually getting anything from my videos!

@buckzillakiller

7 жыл бұрын

Many of us that have a blacksmith shop are not real blacksmith but are learning from videos like yours. Thank you for sharing and making videos. I'm learning how not to burn myself my fingerprints are coming back

very nice easy project! Thanks!

Very cool very helpful !!

That's really great! Hopefully I'll be set up enough to make a few of this for Christmas this year. Love it.

Nice. video very nice..I will try one of these tomorrow... your very talented

Thanks for all the great videos man, i subscribed.

it has a great look

I learned how to make a cross like this a year ago at a local county fair. It's such a simple idea but it's pretty nice.

That one is a Thomas although there are lots of different makes out there. The Italian ones ore good MACC for example. I got mine cheap from a machinery auction but there are lots of new and secondhand available from any good machinery dealer. Google your local one and ask for a stock list. They can be had for as little as a couple of hundred pounds upto a thousand or more..

The hole in the middle looks better to me. The joint where it all unfolds get a nice twist in it.

Looks good, to me!

I just wanted to see how to make a Fredrick s cross. I think I will make one like this also.

@garyhuston

4 жыл бұрын

The process is exactly the same but you just cut further down on the initial cuts which gives you the hole in the middle.

finaly i found the cross iwanted. Σε ευχαριστω.

I have seen this video in a dream 0_o

ADIDAS! ;D

No, it's just for demonstration so you can make your own!

red hot iron works look under forgeing a cross This is a friend of mines site, he does it a little different. nice piece

What you said around 3 minutes, if you cut all hen ay to the other line you get a hole in the middle. If you do that then you can get a Fredericks cross which can look pretty cool. It all depends on taste I guess though.

1 1/2lb and it's just an ordinary ball pein hammer available from any DIY store.

No, as I have no idea how to make one!

Can you make a video on how to make simple boot spurs?

Hmmm, this gives me an idea how to put a guard on a knife :O

Super-legal

No, sorry, i can't find any information on them!

Hi, Gary. Nice vid. I'm not into crosses either, but could be tempted to try my hand on a Thor's Hammer. I can see how you could have easily cut off a little more while doing the hot cut and ended up with a nice hammer. But I just don't like throwing away material. Have you got a better idea on how to make a Thor's hammer? /GA

Gary how heavy is your 'english hammer' and where i can gry one ? :) nice and simple method btw.

Could you make a video on smithing a dragonfly

I have the measurements for the Fredericks Crosses if you would like them...haves the hole in the middles.

No not really, you could just do a tenon on a piece of bar and punch a hole in another and rivet them together! But how much material are you going to waste just cutting a cross down, next to nothing!

I need 500 each... tomorrow!

Sure, they might come in handy some day. You can mail them to me at horse.shoeing@sky.com

Thanks for all videos! Could you please show how to make a Jew's harp?

write jew harp in google and there is a jew harp guild explaining the history! It is also called a jaw harp and if you search it like this select image search in google and you will see a ton of images about it!

The correct name for this is a Fredericks cross.

@garyhuston

10 жыл бұрын

Why?

@bloodstaindsilk

10 жыл бұрын

garyhuston Not entirely sure but I think it has to do with Frederick William III and the cross he awarded in the military in the 1800's, not the forging of it but the common name. The old German man who taught me how to make them when I was 12 called them this and so does many on the internet if you google fredericks cross (and hopefully don't get the lingerie store fredericks LOL!) However traditionally it is supposed to have the diamond in the middle but looks good either way. A neat project to keep people wondering and to use up some scrap bar stock.

@garyhuston

10 жыл бұрын

sydney K Thanks, I did google it but just kept getting examples of the cross but no explanation of why it was called so.

@Animuldok

10 жыл бұрын

garyhuston www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Iron+Cross if you ever want to try to get more information about the origins of a word, name, or phrase; type the word etymology after what you are looking up. It will weed out most of the crap that comes up when you google a word.

THANK YOU! Have been trying to figure this out for ages!!!