June 16, 201214 yr Forging some tongs for a fellow having a hammer in at his shop that has no tongs, so two full basic sets here, 20 pieces making 10 tongs 5 per set. Sets includes two flat bar tongs for 1" and 1 1/2" wide by 1/4" thick, two bolt tongs for 3/8" and 3/4", and one set of fine pickups. got these all forged in about 4 hours today. Going to get them all jaw formed then drill the holes for the rivets, then hot rivet them all tonight then final fit and tweaking tomorrow. Shipping monday overnight to Alaska for the 1st annual Arctic Fire Hammerin live web broadcast! Info here: http://forums.dfoggknives.com/index.php?showtopic=22731&st=0 and photos:
June 17, 201214 yr Sam...you the man bro. Thanks for doing for others, thats truly what makes our crazy world go around. You set a great example. Peter
June 18, 201214 yr Author Here is the two sets all finished. Each basic set has 2 flat bar tongs to hold 1/4" thick by 1" and 1 1/2" wide, two sets of bolt tongs to hold 3/8" and 3/4", and a set of fine pickup tongs. Took the time to wire wheel em too to make them extra nice. let me know what you all think. Peter, I hope I didn't give the wrong impression, he paid for these fair and square.
June 19, 201214 yr Nice tongs Grant! OOops I mean Sam! They do remind me of Grant's tongs though... very clean and nice! Looks like you made them in good time too. Impressive!
June 19, 201214 yr Love the smoothness of your tapering. I do everything with just me as a helper so getting smooth lines is still something of a chore!
June 19, 201214 yr Author Nampa you flatter me!! grant's tongs were the best, no doubt he set the standard so I studied them and try to make my tongs along the same lines. Vaughn thanks, I do em under the flat dies, no seperate tooling. When doing it by hand, that extra 10% to smooth things out can turn into 80%!!! thanks Will, Yes I am, why do you ask?
June 19, 201214 yr I was planning to attempt a set of tongs based on your tutorial you posted a while back and was just wondering what material you used for the pin. The place I usually get steel from mostly stocks the small rounds in 1018.
June 19, 201214 yr Author That'd work the same. I get from a farrier supply that is local, they get 3/8" in cold and hot rolled which is A36 and 1018 accordingly.
June 24, 201214 yr Great lookin' tongs Sam. All forged in one day??? Oh Man...I've REALLY gotta get my power hammer finished! My arm gets sore just lookin' at all of those....
June 25, 201214 yr Great lookin' tongs Sam. All forged in one day??? Oh Man...I've REALLY gotta get my power hammer finished! My arm gets sore just lookin' at all of those.... stop making roses and get your hammer done mate! :P
June 25, 201214 yr Yeah, thanks Woody <_< , fair cop. I actually spent a fair bit of time today fitting wheels to a slab of 1/2" plate I'm gunna use for the base. Need to make it mobile before the hammer and drive wheel go on top, otherwise I'll never move it once it's all bolted together. Sam, not trying to hijack your post, just answering the question...Looking at your tongs has got me back on track to finish my hammer, thanks...I think?.....
June 25, 201214 yr i think that would be considered ranked amongst the best compliments you could give on this site!
June 26, 201214 yr Author Hijack away! I am honored my tongs inspired that way!! in honesty again, it took two days but they were short days so I could have done it in one :D Once you have a powerhammer, things change!
June 28, 201214 yr Hey Sam! Great looking tongs, just curious but what is the average length of them?
July 6, 201213 yr Author Sakadt thanks! they are around 16-18" reigns. I like like longer reigns for the gas forge.
July 6, 201213 yr Sam, Thanks for this post. I have been struggling with the goose neck for some time. Some good videos out there but your pic of them laid out as blanks is the best view of "The Blank" I have seen! So many folks do the bend in process so its been difficult to see the transition from bit to pivot. I took the liberty of saving that image to my tool image folder :) (I promise to give credit where credit is due) Thanks again, Scott
July 6, 201213 yr Author Scott, my pleasure! Glad it helped. I find it easier to keep things in a straight line until I have to, better to keep them identical.
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