FuzzySmith Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 Hi Guys, i am doing a project on unique tongs and different varations on classic tongs. If you have any unique tongs or know where i can get some good materail please post it. I am going to try and post as many unique types i can find for people just intrested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 Stop by my shop; I have several old odd ball ones that turn out to be quite useful! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel.85 Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 Both those you posted are GS tongs, just go to his website, he makes lots of different types. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaughnT Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FuzzySmith Posted November 28, 2012 Author Share Posted November 28, 2012 Hey, Thomaspower, have you got a link to you shop so i could have a look at your stuff. Daniel.C.85 yeah i got them off his website because there a little unique, i bought a pair of the tusk tongs shown above awhile back and they have proven to be some of my best tongs, they have so many applications. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 No. You are welcome to stop by; but I don't have any digital pictures. Yet. (Probably have to do an inventory if I have to move next year.) My apprentice with the digital camera graduated from college and moved back to CA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FuzzySmith Posted November 28, 2012 Author Share Posted November 28, 2012 Sadly mate i live in England or i would love too, if you get some pictures post em up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 Hey I visited Wales this last spring---in the rain---come on over! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt_K Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 Here's a pair (triple?set? unit?) you might like. I always enjoy the confused looks on peoples faces when they spy them in the back of the truck. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockstar.esq Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 Vaughn, did you make those? They're very cool and it's easily the most elegant slip joint I've ever seen. Matt_K are those for some kind of horse shoeing? I'm curious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Turley Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 Bottom to top. I use these for holding black iron pipe to forge. The plow share tongs have one rein common to both pairs of jaws. The top tongs are pick tongs which have a rotating square at the rivet head in order to hold the pointed end of the pick steady while the mattock portion is forged. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan P. Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Frank, those plow share tongs are incredible! The mechanical intelligence/spatial awareness (or whatever you call it) you would have to have to come up with those is amazing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Turley Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Another try. I never claimed to be a good photographer. Let's see whether I can describe what I've displayed. Two views of the plowshare tongs. I saw them behind glass in a farm museum in Kansas and drew a diagram guessing at the dimensions. Made them when I got home. Next from bottom to top: pick tongs; 2 tongs I use to hold black iron pipe; ball tongs; adjustable jaw tongs with bolt; Hofi woop tongs. Hofi made the jaws in my shop but had to leave to go on the road. I drew out the reins. End view of the previous tongs. Next bottom to top: Turley made draft horseshoe tongs; tongs made when you're angry with someone; hammer eye tongs; link tongs for 1/2" round purchased at 2nd hand store with beautifully drawn reins; hermaphroditic tongs. End view. My journeyman blacksmith helper, Daniel, is working on a flowery, leafy gate, so he fashioned some tongs for crimping flower petals. He purposely made the rein ends different one from the other, so he could recognize their use. Four of them have a split jaw with the other central jaw going in between when pressure is applied. Note his blossom and dragonfly. The rule is 12 inches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan P. Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Nice collection, thanks for sharing. Love the angry tongs. Will be staying away from the ball tongs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 IIRC Practical Blacksmithing, Richardson has a section on making plow share tongs in it. (It's a collection of articles from an 1880's, 1890's blacksmithing journal and so is full of "this is how I do that" and "a better way is like this" much like an internet thread these days but with much slower turn around times! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt_K Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 Matt_K are those for some kind of horse shoeing? I'm curious. They were made by a local horseshoer for jump welding a bar into a shoe. They'd be good for just about any sort of jump welding though. I have yet to need them, but someday... they're going to save my rear. :D Frank, those plowshare tongs are fascinating! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert A Rasch Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 Fantastic thread idea Fuzzy! Images give rise to a world of imaginative ideas, in addition to the obvious emulation of the subject shown. That three reigned tong for example and the plow share tongs give rise to other ideas that can be executed, Just a great idea! Regards, Albert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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