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@iwanbop 2 күн бұрын
Good info! I'm always looking for these kinds of practical ways to identify materials. (I remember how thrilled I was to learn that vinegar could sort Al and Mg!) It is Video cassette player or tape recorder fly wheels that I'm looking to conquer! I don't have access to one of those metal ID, X-ray guns but I'm on the lookout!
@bhaktapeter3501 12 күн бұрын
The artist is the guy with the propeller at the top of his hat
@danieltokar1000 12 күн бұрын
Maybe, cultish dress sometimes appealsto the creative mind Daniel
@DobleWhiteAndStabley 13 күн бұрын
Been looking to do some inlay into plate steel to decorate some armor. Might try this. Thanks!
@danieltokar1000 12 күн бұрын
It is a lot safer than firegilding with mercury amalgum! They used a couple different methods on armor and this is one of the types seen on Spainish and Eastern Euopean plate and helmets. Daniel
@GOLDVIOLINbowofdeath 15 күн бұрын
If you go in a thrift store with a hammer and start hitting their Pewter or Aluminum or anything they’re going to throw you out, duh. There’s a much better test that is discreet and I have done hundreds of times with nobody caring
@GOLDVIOLINbowofdeath 15 күн бұрын
Why would a manufacturer put less than 10% lead in their pewter? They wouldn’t. Any manufacturer can lie about the lead content. 99% of all pewter items ever made have the percent of tin embossed on the bottom that has to be just as reliable is anything you can buy from any manufacturer who could be more motivated motivated because the price of tin relative to other metals is probably higher now than it was 30 years ago due to the use in the electronics industry. I have a friend who owns a Scrap Metal business and I’m going to be checking my 300 pounds of acquired Pewter from thrift stores to see which pieces have any lead in them. so far the only pieces that had Lead in them had 30% lead and they just predated the 1974 band and we’re not items intended for anything but decorative purposes so when you’re buying Pewter that’s made to eat or drink out of it would have to be very very very old to have any lid in it and nobody’s gonna bother to put 2% lead in something it’s gonna have a significant percentage otherwise otherwise why would they bother?
@danieltokar1000 12 күн бұрын
Solder on "modern" pewter sometimes contains lead. People sometimes reuse pewter by melting the entire item , solder and all.I agree that pewter made by companies in America and Euopean countries mark the metal and don't use lead , but it is a big world and items last a long time. I have been making metalwork for 45 years and have seen a lot of stuff "that should never happen" it is good you can have your metal tested by better methods. Please remember that this video is intended for people casting bullets and other iems where hardness is important. Daniel
@laurencelance586 Ай бұрын
To my knowledge, there are only two known existing Ferguson military rifles in existence, both in museums one being in Milwaukee. The Rifle Shoppe in Wellston Oklahoma has taken measurements of both rifles and offers a copy of this rifle
@jace2344 3 ай бұрын
Dude, this is exactly the info I've been looking for. Lots of words people throw around for wrought iron that are generally worthless if you don't understand the process. Perfect video!
@danieltokar1000 3 ай бұрын
Thanks. Daniel
@briantremblay9157 4 ай бұрын
Hi there Daniel, I hope you're well, haven't heard from you a quite awhile, hope you are still making videos, You are a wealth of knowledge and information. All the best.
@danieltokar1000 4 ай бұрын
Hi: Still working, I have had to spend time helping friends , so videos were the easiest thing to drop. Will get back to them by the end of the year. Barring more stuff happening! Hope you are having fun Daniel
@briantremblay9157 4 ай бұрын
@@danieltokar1000 Happy to hear you are still working! And yes I have been lucky, As I am fairly new to blacksmithing, My work has been selling quite well, while learning at the sametime. Enough so that I have been able to build a shop and focus on smithing full time!!
@cesgin2565 4 ай бұрын
Very educative video. My question. So it's fine mix lead and pewter to cast bullets?
@danieltokar1000 4 ай бұрын
Hi: Got kind of distracted for a couple weeks! Yes, pewter is mostly tin so it can be used to mix a bullet alloy Casting bullets is a book worth of details. Best overview I can offer is that you have to be able to reproduce the alloy that works for a loading. "Works" is the key word, a target load may be different from a hunting , There are online forums and real books . Whatever I say in a paragraph is just a small start. Good Luck! Daniel
@User0resU-1 4 ай бұрын
Bend it cold, that'll test it.
@bhaktapeter3501 4 ай бұрын
8:00 awesome pipe hawk, thanks for showing us. Pipe hawks are basically all i make... The method i am using is forging it out of one piece of metal. There is one person on youtube that showed me how to do it named Jay Close.
@danieltokar1000 4 ай бұрын
Hi: Sorry for the delay in reply , got distracted for a couple weeks! Pipe hawks are fun. I thought about doing a series on them. My current list has six methods that were used in the time period and two modern ones Everybody has ideas about them and there are days when I think they are all right and days when I think they are all wrong. Example, There are people who think that they were first made as smoking tools. "Tobaccoe" was traded as twistes or leaf rope as well as pressed bricks , "plug".Either way , you had to cut it up to smoke it.Chopping with a little axe works great for that!. So, it is better to say it is a pipe with an axe blade added rather than a hawk with a pipe added! Like I say , some days... Daniel
@ivan55599 5 ай бұрын
The only proper needle "forging" videoin youtube. Thank you.
@danieltokar1000 4 ай бұрын
Hi: Depending when and where , people made needles diferently. Some started with wire , some with sheet or bar stock. So I am willing to say that any method that results in a usable needle was done somewhere Daniel
@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367 3 ай бұрын
There is a video from west africa of a man making needles vin a blacksmiths hut on youtube. He cold forms from a sheet of steel
@danieltokar1000 3 ай бұрын
@@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367 Thanks! I will look for it. Lots of traditional smiths still working Daniel
@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367 3 ай бұрын
@@danieltokar1000 I'll find it and post it here
@jay_chang 2 ай бұрын
@@danieltokar1000 Your video is one of my inspiration sources when trying to develop a needle making technique. This is a video I made for a 0.8mm brass wire needle, the finest I could get is 0.5mm but that's kind of the limit. The technique made something that resembles factory made needles which made me pondered why the needle eyes isn't rounded in the first place. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mJXRpK2ggbmsabcsi=HmtGIY6lsGmdLQKo
@bhaktapeter3501 5 ай бұрын
Thank you. I was at the 50th abana in johnstown Pa the past couple of days
@jimTB. 5 ай бұрын
Hi Daniel, why is a Tenon Shoulder tool called a Monkey tool?
@kristibbradshaw 6 ай бұрын
We can see it. It's beautiful. Thank you.
@scottsammons7747 6 ай бұрын
Working on the work, but you did manage to avoid a "wax on, wax off" karate kid reference. Good deal!
@scottsammons7747 6 ай бұрын
Amen on the making pretty things paying better than making swords. I have yet to teach a young man or woman how to forge weld before they begin to spout out how soon they hope to make the sword of their dreams. (lately it must be made of patterned steel.) All talk about hammer control fire management, temperature estimation, metallurgy, etc goes in one ear and out the other. Folks wonder why I am grumpy and difficult to get to spend time teaching beginners.
@danieltokar1000 6 ай бұрын
Yes, Every High School football player talks about what it will be like when they go pro. We have the advantage of having made the walk and knowing how long it is, they think it is only a short one. The hard part is getting them to "forget" what they think they know. I started learning Blacksmithing in 1975 and still have to work at forgetting some things. Daniel
@emmithoyl3608 6 ай бұрын
Only thing I might add is that all of my research shows hand drills were almost never star bits, instead solely single chisel bits.
@danieltokar1000 6 ай бұрын
Hi: When and where make a difference. I did no research , I just listened to the old smiths in my area when I was young. Those men worked in the 1910-1950's era. The area is south western Pennsylvania, coal fields and sandstone I think, chisel bits are earlier and may have been hand driven , the large long star drills I have seen are all machine driven , steam or air. Daniel
@nofunclub 7 ай бұрын
I love this level of geekyness
@danieltokar1000 7 ай бұрын
Hi: I think it can help people who do "world building" to get things right. I have a video about my ideas on the minimum size of a population to have a tech level. Stone age to Mars colony. Musk is going to need a lot more people that he thinks! Daniel
@lindboknifeandtool 7 ай бұрын
Is this food safe? I know cold blue isn’t.
@danieltokar1000 7 ай бұрын
I had to look that up. Cold blue is a selenium based chemical, that is why it is not safe. What is deposited in this process is iron phosphate, not so bad as selenium , but I could not find a record of it being used on food processing equipment.. I think "bright and clean" is the general rule in any tool for food use. Daniel
@mohsen4465 7 ай бұрын
thank you for your useful and informative video. when i was a teenager l found that when l dragged lead metal on a paper it make a clear metalic line that I can write with it. it was very amazing for me to understand lead is softer than paper.
@danieltokar1000 7 ай бұрын
I know that they used "lead" pencils to write on Xray film in the past Daniel
@GOLDVIOLINbowofdeath 8 ай бұрын
Didn’t you mispeak and say 2B several times when you meant 2H?
@GOLDVIOLINbowofdeath 8 ай бұрын
Pewter scrap $3.35/lb is worth 7 times as much as lead scrap $.50 and pewter is almost pure tin just like lead free solder which new costs like $25
@danieltokar1000 8 ай бұрын
Hi: Scrap price , new price are moving points. This video is a way of "ball park" grading of metals. Some things need a certified alloy , like making pewter spoons and tankards . Often what you are paying for is the assay that means there is no lead . So , please use any results from this grading for things like bullet casting , where hardness is more important. Also , "pewter" can be all sorts of alloys, some with antimony , lead , copper , Daniel
@vm.999 8 ай бұрын
i thought i was so clever when i invented this in my mind lol, come to learn its been around forever. thanks for the video!
@danieltokar1000 8 ай бұрын
Thanks, Lots of stuff gets reinvented , over and over , till it becomes common. Build one and play! I will add that I use a safety cage now around the anvil. Had a die spit out the work at very high speed! Daniel
@vm.999 8 ай бұрын
@danieltokar1000 dang it! A safety wall/cage was already something I've been thinking about, but you just made my mind up. Thanks!
@Konduct_ 9 ай бұрын
Thank you uncle 🤍 God Bless you🙏
@5x535 9 ай бұрын
Fantastic collection! Very few understand or appreciate the importance of what you are preserving here. Thanks for posting. I look forward to more videos.
@moro8274 9 ай бұрын
Hi, could washing soda/Sodium carbonate (Na2CO3) be used as a flux?
@leahannwhite1111 10 ай бұрын
👍💓!
@peterdawnehenszel1960 10 ай бұрын
I like that you do everything in real time. To I have only used a gas forge as a farrier. Now that I'm older and only want to smith with a coal forge as a hobby I find your videos extremely useful. Peter Henszell
@danieltokar1000 10 ай бұрын
Hi:I have had all sorts of students, with all types of skill levels. Alot of times they have a "modern" skill set from work and they need to see the traditional ways. One of the things new students have a hard time seeing is that the fire is a tool just like the hammer or anvil. So , just like you use the right size hammer for a job , the right size and type of heat is important. Same with time in the fire. I had a job years ago that used a 60 lb.s piece of steel that was an hour in a furnace comming up to forging temperature. Hope you have fun Daniel
@donaldprue8737 10 ай бұрын
Hey, those are the same gloves I wear! 😂 Great content, nice to find someone who's knowledgeable making videos.
@kobusvanzyl7222 10 ай бұрын
What a magnificent source of information!! As I mentioned on other channels, I am having to start forging out of necessity. Building up a homestead from scratch requires much in terms of infrastructure. Thank you for this wealth of information.
@danieltokar1000 10 ай бұрын
Hi: I understand your problems. My cabin was 8 years of "spare" time to build and my current shop is the 6th I have put together. Good luck! Daniel
@bhaktapeter3501 10 ай бұрын
There was even a time in history when silver was much more valuable then gold. The towns with the silver mines became the most important back then, hence the boom of a place like Kutna Hora in Czech Republic, where my family is from. I find these kinds of things interesting. Iron was also very expensive back in the day, not a cheap metal like today
@analfvcker420-bg9xl 10 ай бұрын
Awesome video bro
@allfiredupltd9108 11 ай бұрын
I get it thanks
@bigrod0069 11 ай бұрын
Very good video, thank you! very good information
@brysonalden5414 Жыл бұрын
Sure glad this is still up! I suddenly need to learn about what stake to use for specific parts of a project I probably shouldn't have started, and I know lots more about them than I did 8 minutes ago. Thanks, sir!
@danieltokar1000 Жыл бұрын
Glad to help! Daniel
@brysonalden5414 Жыл бұрын
@danieltokar1000 Now, all I need to figure out is whether to try sinking or raising to make a 4" flower bud from one piece of steel!
@danieltokar1000 Жыл бұрын
Hi: One way to see it, if you have thicker metal you can sink and thin it, thinner metal you can raise it and it gets thicker Daniel@@brysonalden5414
@brysonalden5414 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for your continued help! Going to have to forge a T stake, but my rule is that any project that requires me to fab up new tools is a good project.@@danieltokar1000
@stantilton2191 Жыл бұрын
Well done Dan. It takes abit of practice and patience but the reward is worth it. Great demo.
@danieltokar1000 Жыл бұрын
Thanks. I like showing the many ways the same work can be done. . Daniel
@dicksargent3582 Жыл бұрын
Lemel is not just nonferrous fileings but of any type of metal.
@danieltokar1000 Жыл бұрын
I always heard it as that lemel was metal worth saving , so yes you could save your steel turnings . I learned the words from different people. Silversmiths and jewelers said lemel , Machists and welders said swarf. Daniel
@VTeslaV Жыл бұрын
You are a very interesting person and it's a pleasure listening to you. I see your last upload was 11 months ago, I hope you are doing well..
@danieltokar1000 Жыл бұрын
Thanks, I am sorry to say that I have been distracted the past year. I hope to make new youtube videos soon. Daniel
@josephburdell2041 Жыл бұрын
Hi how can I get a copy of your hardness sheet
@danieltokar1000 Жыл бұрын
Hi: You can get my email from my webpage. send me a message and I will email you a copy. Daniel
@josephburdell2041 Жыл бұрын
Thankyou for being so thorough
@stantilton2191 Жыл бұрын
Well done, Dan. Tough to work on thin items. Good explanations and examples. Thank you.
@danieltokar1000 Жыл бұрын
Hi: I like to show as much as I can , many youtube videos don't bother with the "unimportant" details. Longer I work , the more details seem to matter. Daniel
@nannesoar Жыл бұрын
Can't believe I live in a world where this is only as popular as it is
@danieltokar1000 Жыл бұрын
The mysteries of KZbin are deeper than I can understand. One of the reasons I am currently not posting new videos is that way youtube keeps changing it's rules. Daniel
@samuelmellars7855 Жыл бұрын
Brilliant! I've been looking at doing inlays, mainly on finished work, by engraving lines, undercutting and then laying wire in. This is good way of doing similar work, and far easier! Thank you so much! One note. When cold filing something at the vice, if it squeals, adding a cheap plastic spring clamp (think large clothes peg) to the end you aren't working often deadens the sound. Far nicer on the ears, and if you are recording it will help with clarity.
@danieltokar1000 Жыл бұрын
Thanks, hope your projects go well. Daniel
@nofunclub Жыл бұрын
Subscribed
@dolfinwriter5389 Жыл бұрын
Very interesting Daniel, and very informative. I am an electrician, scrapper, bullet caster, and always interested in learning more about identifying different metals. You said in the video that you were going to put your pencil hardness chart in the description. Is that posted somewhere? Thank you!
@577bluegrass Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@577bluegrass Жыл бұрын
Always love to see your work ! Pray you are well
@mountainwolf1 Жыл бұрын
Do you think it is possible to dye fabric with this ink?
@mountainwolf1 Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom and time with us all godbless you Daniel tokar for being such a honorable man🙇♂️🙇♂️🙇♂️