Frosty Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 Didn't matter to which school I went, hard knocks attended me. Here's another freebie Chris. It's really nice to have a pair of tongs to hold chisels and drifts on HOT steel. A long handled pair of channel locks works even. A wrap of aluminum foil over your glove will make them last longer. A LITTLE. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lou L Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 Another freebie: Don't put a hot piece of metal near where you usually keep your coal rake! (I did this while forging outside at night without good lighting.) In fact, always have a designated space for hot items that is a known "no touch" zone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris C Posted June 18, 2020 Author Share Posted June 18, 2020 I made a coal rake for a person hoping to get into blacksmithing...........but have never used one. Haven't found a need for one in my gasser. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 What do you scratch your back with? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris C Posted June 19, 2020 Author Share Posted June 19, 2020 Door jam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted June 19, 2020 Share Posted June 19, 2020 Me too; I have a lovely scar on my back---looks like I was gunched with a gladius---from where they "removed a suspicious mole" and then went back and excavated a bit more. Impressive looking as the back pulled it bigger till it got totally healed. It itches all the time in one certain spot even decades after it was done. I tell people it was from when Cassius was practicing for his sixty on one with Julius... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Benona blacksmith Posted June 19, 2020 Share Posted June 19, 2020 22 hours ago, Frosty said: It's really nice to have a pair of tongs to hold chisels and drifts on HOT steel I totally agree with this. This is my hammer drift. I've made probably 30 hammers with this little bugger. It's time for a new one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluerooster Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 Quote neither of my two pair of tongs will hold the blank and certainly not solid enough to drift. I don't have any kind of hold downs. What would be the easiest and most secure way to hold that hammer head to punch and drift a hole? The question in the OP is why I can't get anything done. I spend so much time making a tool to do the job, that the job seems to take forever. But, then again, I end up with a tool to make things easier later down the road. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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