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This thread is worthless without photos. ;)

I wager you pair of tongs will soon be you favorite and you will fondly remember every hammer mark. Good going.

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Congratulations!

A pair of tongs is a heck of a first project, most folk start out with "S" hooks and the like.

Pictures please.

Frosty

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I remember my first pair of tongs. Due to the only material I had at hand and to the fact that I knew nothing about different steels at the time, I constructed them out of re-bar. I must have spent 8 hours trying to get the two halves to conform. Punching the holes and constructing a usable rivet was another issue. After much frustration and a lot of four letter words, I finished them...and they seemed to be working pretty well. I was kind of proud of myself. The next day after quenching a project I was holding them with, they cracked and broke in three places around the jaws. :(

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i'll try to get some pictures up soon. they aren't the most attractive pair of tongs, but they will pick up a RR spike easy enough and i aim for that to be my first knife-related project.

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Hehehe . .everyone's treating this like it was ure first grl ..which isn;t far off. ..considering the time, pain, money and feeling u put into going this far!:))

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it actually kinda reminds me of that. i was nervous and excited, and kinda worried about how it would turn out... and also it seems kinda like that because the first one wasn't so great and i think i have alot to learn. haha!

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