Well, they were complicated for me. 

They aren't pretty, but they danged sure work.  Started with 3/4" sq bar, 8" long for each half.  That's a piece of 3/4" bar in the jaws.  They securely hold from 5/8" square to 1 1/4" square............and the same with round.  Top jaw is split like a snake's tongue.  I'm happy with them and they'll fill a gap I have in tong sizes.  Reins are 16".  These sure do make a guy yearn for a power hammer!

 

Look good Chris. 

Frosty The Lucky.

Very cool, I've never seen a pair like that before. I like it. Being able to hold such a wide range of sizes I'd say they probably fill more than one gap in your jawed arsenal! 

Looks good, I made up a pair that looked similar at the beginning of summer. Its nice when you can get one pair to fit a variety of stock sizes? Especially when you are forging your own tongs, so much less drawing out. (Although I still have the dream of walking into the 'shop' with a battalion of tongs.)

Thanks, guys.  I think they'll work a treat for me.  It's funny..............thought these were my own design, but took them to a friends shop for suggestions during the making and he had a pair hanging on his rack.   Does anyone know what these are called?  (friend didn't know) I've had a couple of people ask, but I have no idea.

I vote for Hawk Bill tongs. Really good work Chris. Can't wait to see your next ones in the works 

Thanks Chellie.  If my memory were better I'd know the name.  The video I stumbled onto that gave me the general idea labeled them with some country's name.................like Egyptian Tongs.  (but that wasn't it.)  I've tried every search word I can think of to find that video again to no avail.

Hmm, maybe someone will come across the name somewhere. I can't recall if I've ever seen any like it, but I don't think so. But I reckon you custom made them so you can call them whatever you wish. Whatever the name be, they look like a very versatile pair

Well, while I "thought" they were my design, I actually saw a pair at a friend's forge.................so someone made them long before I.  I was just prompted by the ones I saw in the video.  But like you say, they will be versatile, I think.

That is a problem in Blacksmithing: 3000+ years of creative people all over the world  with the skills to make and modify their tools.  Hard to claim to be first with an idea---why I suggest trying to be *BEST* with it instead.  (There has been several times I came up with a neat idea only to find that others had come up with it, sometimes centuries before.  Puts a different look to things when one person claims another copied their design---especially when I remark that there is an example in a museum in Germany; so *they* must have copied it too!)

"There's nothing new under the sun". I've only made one thing I've never seen before and it was just a design choice on a bottle opener. But I bet someone else has made one just like it. The only difference is, mine is unique to me 

Looks like a Pelgrom tong

Just looked that term up and by golly, you are right.

Probably even today people name them after the job they do 

I use that style to work hinges. The barrel goes inboard and the tongs clamp the hinge body. 

So I call them hinge barrel tongs.

Lol, I use them for other things as well, but made them for forging hinges.