Ethan the blacksmith Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 a detailed explanation of how to use the edge of the anvil to draw out. I may not be the most qualified person to explain this, but this video certainly would have been helpful to me when I first tried to learn this. Thought this would be very helpful for people who are giving up on trying to draw out tong reins! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQuz_iN9xtY Ethan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 First 3 minutes only show flopping the modeling clay (hot metal) around on the face of the anvil. This is 3 minutes of a 10 minute video.In practice, the heat of the metal would be gone before the first hammer blow. The other thing that bothered me was tapping and letting the hammer bounce between blows. The tap and bounce was very bright in sound and distracts from the presentation. Remove both and you end up with a nice presentation of how the half and half blows work to move metal. My suggestion is to make a video, then review the video. Then make a second or third video, correcting the small mistakes each time until you have practiced the presentation and feel comfortable. Edit, cut and paste, or whatever to make a clean, informative product. You may want to add a section at the end using real (hot) metal to show us that the information actually works. Not picking at you just trying to offer suggestion on making a better, more polished product. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethan the blacksmith Posted March 18, 2016 Author Share Posted March 18, 2016 thanks very much glenn for your imput! I will use that advice in the future! Ethan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacob's hammer Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 very good video. just reading some comments on your videos it is obvious you are a big help to a lot of folks...me included. thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canada goose Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 That was a great demo. Always appreciate when someone links to a good utube. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 That fold on the end is going to give you a cold shut. I'm just sayin'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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