Mark Ling Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Made these tongs out of two rail road spikes. Holds 1/4" flat and 1/4" square. Not bad I thought. If you would like this pair of tongs, you can get them at the live auction taking place at the 7th annual combo/demo at steep hollow forge here in town! Also made a tong clip for assisting with holding stock. Pleased with that design, looks nice and functions well. Obviously though a piece of pipe or square tubing will due the same thing. Littleblacksmith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C-1ToolSteel Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Super nice! You've done it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianinsa Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 You're getting quite good at this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Nice work. Cute tong clip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Those are some very nice looking tongs LittleBlacksmith. Well done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C-1ToolSteel Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Did you cut the head off the spikes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judson Yaggy Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 I like the "blacksmith's burn". Suspect many of us have matching ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arkie Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Those are called "blacksmith's tatoos"......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tubalcain2 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 very good job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Ling Posted January 6, 2017 Author Share Posted January 6, 2017 Thanks everybody! On 1/5/2017 at 9:33 AM, JHCC said: Cute tong clip I too like it. came up with the design on the spot, but it is nice and simple, but still has a nice look. Can be made in 3 heats. Like I said, Really simple. On 1/5/2017 at 1:11 PM, C-1ToolSteel said: Did you cut the head off the spikes? On the pairs before this I had always forge welded the head into the spikes. Now for that I would have the head forge welded into the reins, because you obviously don't really want a forge weld up at the boss area were the most stress is going to be. When I would do that I would always end up cutting some off though. On this pair I ended up trying it without the head, and it saved me time, and I still had plenty of steel for the reins! But if you were to make lets say a pair of bolt jaw tongs, or any pair that requires more steel for the jaws I would end up using the head. On 1/5/2017 at 3:07 PM, arkie said: Those are called "blacksmith's tattoos"......... Yeah, I got my first tattoo a long time ago..... Littleblacksmith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 1 hour ago, littleblacksmith said: But if you were to make lets say a pair of bolt jaw tongs, or any pair that requires more steel for the jaws I would end up using the head. Like this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Francis Trez Cole Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 nicely done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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