Ben Wells

Soo much great advice here. Interesting reading that tongs shouldn't be an early project, for me it was about the third thing I attempted (my first pair worked out much better than my second). I think my first pair took around 10 to 15 hours to complete, last pair around 3 While I hadn't picked up on the rebar thing yet I can say that as a newbie to the art, buying an expensive alloy steel suited to punches was one of my first mistakes. Yea I didn't think about how I was going to harden it. Finding the 10XX steels good to play with though