JoBai

Hey I hope you all can help me, I am searching for an article about making tools without having tools (or very limited). I cant remember where I saw it but can remember the first tools that was made there. It was a bar with hotcut on one side and a round punch on the other. Thanks for your help

Hello fellow smiths, I would like your kind help for a problem that is bugging me. For a fastening system I want to use a slot punched hole in Round bar and a wedge to hold everything together. As I need to make a few (30+) and never made any I would like to get your experience what is best. The main problem is the minimal distortion in the bar because I want to get it through a 1/2 inch hole. My ideas so far are: 1. Drilling most of it out and punch the rest hot 2. Forge the ends in a shallower half round swage, bend it over and faggot weld it to get a hole at the end. 3. Take thinner square stock and thin the hole section to compensate for the swell I added a picture and hope it makes sense