Great 👍

can you pleas show your forge in detail ?

Great video. Love the science. Appreciate it. See you in 2025

Thank you! I had a problem with my diy forge and now I know why!

Cracked me in the middle of da night😂btw loved your review on airshield pro thanks mate👍

From menacing to charming in one "split" second😂

A perfect example of this "don't share ideas" thing is the trademark on river tables in the woodworking community. Greg Klassen is allegedly the first guy to make epoxy river tables and trademarked the technique. Now anyone who makes a table this way cannot name it a river table they have to advertise it as epoxy resin table

this is amazing! i found your page from your podcast! been wanitng to stick with charcoal and needed the motivation. i have hardwood where i live and want to mostly make my own fuel. im wokring on rebuilding my forge setup as i elt it wasnt effiecitn. i am workingon either fuigo bellows or hide and wan to make an efficient inground set up. im curious what you have to say about the japanese style setup with the side fed forge and pile of bricks, im curious how the core would work in those as i dont believe they have a "pot" or pitted area where the fire lives, more of a flat space. thanks for sharing!!

Just wanted to thank you for the great video and let you know that 4 years on its still helping people. I've just built my first forge (charcoal) out of mostly scrap from around the workshop - taking in a lot of information you've shared. It had its first run tonight and I spent a very enjoyable half an hour forging a piece of 20x6 flat bar into a poker/rake for the forge. Although I've been playing with metal and machines for about 50yrs, the only forging I've done in that time has been to make a few chisels and restore the odd flat blade screwdriver. My grandkids are getting to the age where they can start to learn a few things in the workshop so hopefully we can share the learning experience around the forge.

Nålebinding (norwegian) = needle binding. The å is pronounced like the o in «more» and the e like the first e in «ever». Norwegian i is pronounced like english e. Thanks for sharing how to make the needle! 🪡

Dude, what a nostalgia trip, back in 2014 watching people forging to learn was all I did :)

Hi Valhalla, i posted a question here but it is gone, i will do it again. I put a link in it to another youtube video, maybe that is not alowed? I have no idea 🙂 Anyway it is about a mirror polish of a damascus knife. I do not think it is possible and think it must be lacquer or something. Please let me know what you think.

Hey Mate, I actually started my journey into metal working forging armors and swords, so I know how damn hard it is even if you make it look easy 😂 very impressed by your craftsmanship dude 👍

I had another question. I watched your cumia video and you mentioned applying a resist to the copper before putting it in f c. So my question is Baker forge who makes wild cumia uses their G P doesn’t degrade the copper. Plus it would be impossible to apply a resist to that busy of copper patterns. So their G P must be made with something other than F C. Any thoughts? Thanks again

He talks about the flaw around 32:30 LIsten, I love the comprehensive review, but yeesh, this video moved at a snail's pace and I got severe anxiety just waiting until you could explain what this critical flaw was. If others are like me: The flaw is that the battery (NiMH) requires 14 hours to charge and only 8 hours use. Trend has decided to significantly mark up the price of the batteries, and obfuscated their simplicity of design for no other reason than to make a profit. LIke I said, I like how comprehensive you were, but there is also great beauty in being short and concise.

Dude!!! You have serious skill I’ve been watching a lot of your shorts of completed blades… I am very impressed! And always look forward to any content that you put out! Keep them coming!

Very good video, I think I have learned something. Cheers

Remember kids if you're messing with the stronger stuff- acid to the water Have a good Christmas

great vid, Ta, i am a printmaker and used etchants a lot. Old school etching copper plates used in rembrants time was to gently pour the etchant over the surface so the bubble block doesnt happen, it also critically creats a eddy as the poured mordant/ etchant hits the lip of the edge lifting any sediment exposing the exposed surface to fresh etchant. It creates a quick deep line. This was done mainly on copper through a bitumian/wax resist. For printmaking this ment a sharp detailed ink line when printed. a mate revitalised this techniques. The relivance might be a pour etch first to establish metal boundrys then a soaking etch to drop the height. If not helpful info perhaps it feeds curiousity. I have just made my first damascus billet with twisting after shrinking my forge so the heat was enough, your videos helped het a hot enough gas forge. cheers

Thanks for sharing your experience. I have tried two gallons of G P and poor results. I always end up with a matted grey color. Very frustrated with it. Do dark 1084 steel. I followed their instructions. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much.

Thanks for this comprehensive analysis. I couldn't tell at times whether I was hearing your rooster or my rooster!

Awesome! I’ve always had spotty luck with etching

I'm now educated!. I wonder how you learnt all this. Appreciate the effort.

About cleaning before etching... what about 96* ethylic alcohol? I have easy and cheap access to lots of it, and I always used it to clean everything and didnt get any major issues with it but maybe it prevent from getting better results?

Bro this is awesome and I’m greatly to call you friend it’s too bad you are so far in Australia

Dude, I can't imagine what you charged for that, but as a craftsman and prior officer I can appreciate this build from a few perspectives. The touches you added were spectacular. Were those real stones?

Just to explain what's happened to get that material. wool is shorn from the sheep, and is full of crud, mud, and lanolin. It's washed, picked apart, so only the wool is processed. Firstly it's drum-carded into a pad of aligned fibres a couple of inches long, drawn off through a diz, something with a small hole in it to restrict the amount to something manageable, known as roving, I'd normally pull a small handful off, card it to get a rally airy sausage, which I'd then spin into a fine thread, drawing a dozen fibres at a time, which is twisted together into a thread, finally plyed into yarn. Here, they've spun the roving entire. By pulling it, the fibres are less constrained than by a spun thread, and so separate rather than break.

Amazing, You are truly a mad genius!

Very nice, as always.

Good day Sir, Once again, you amaze me. Thanks for sharing. B Reese

You must have loved all the episodes of forged in fire using charcoal forges in the sunlight

Well, not really nail binding 😂 The literal translation of nålebinding is needle binding.

If you want to use a cloth bag, go buy some flannelette sheets. The bag they come in is awesome. Found at spotlight.

I love your explanations. There are a lot of youtube videos on managing a coal fire, but I have not seen anything on how to manage a charcoal fire and the differences in using charcoal as opposed to coal. (For example, do you water the edges in a charcoal fire? How do you keep the fuel concentrated? How do you get a reducing fire?) I know you use charcoal, could I talk you into a video demonstrating how to manage a charcoal fire for forge welding? Thanks!

Please do video on advanced stitches. Fascinating yarn work. Going to give it a try.

Thanks for the review! Very helpful. How are the earmuffs?

I'm sure you have gained some views simply by virtue of the title of the video, but the sheer amount of quality information contained herein might be missed by people who passed it up for that very reason. Anyway, so much good stuff. Thank you!!!

I just learned something. Thank you.

I wondered why no one was putting a collar on to reduce the upward movement. It's just common sense to keep all the forward momentum going forward.

i started out with a charcoal forge and switched to a propane forge, after noticing my propane tanks only last a week max, the $30 refills get annoying, tedious, and expensive, now i’ve switched back to a charcoal forge not realizing how good i had it

Thanks for your videos. I'm interested in your thoughts on forging with wood. Conventional wisdom is that you can not, but it doesn't make sense to me. Forging with coal is just forging with coke once the coal has been converted to coke in the forge. Why would not the same be true with wood that becomes charcoal as you use it? It seems to me that if you chop/cut the wood into small pieces you can make your own charcoal as you go. I have not tried this yet (I'm still constructing my solid fuel forge) but I'm going to try. Primarily because I cannot easily get coal, coke is expensive, I have no source for charcoal, and making charcoal independently seems pretty labor and time costly. Thoughts?

Finally! Made my first turn today. Got my first swatch. Thank you! What's your wife's channel so I can subscribe to her for more tutorials please?

Cheaper and easier to find when you don't have local coal

Wait for it……wait for it…….wait for it……………………

Best use of 53 minutes. Simple but so much information. I have a small single burner gas forge and I'm lazy, so I use it a lot but for serious forging I use my homemade horizontal coal forge. I had no knowledge at all when I built it but was lucky and it's a great little forge. I have just been given an ancient Buffalo coke forge with blower which I'm about to strip down and refurbish, it's very old, everything is rusty and fused solid, but I can't wait to refurbish and rebuild it all. I'm hoping it will work well with hardwood charcoal. I built a retort and make stringy bark and redgum charcoal, but I tend to go through it fairly fast and after this video I'm pretty sure I will be able to improve my fire management a lot.

Gas Burners for Forges, Furnaces and Kilns - M. Porter (2004) Book has all you need to build awesome venturi burner and forge dimensions to go with it.There are many books but this one actually works.A large 1 inch burner made in this book can heat up 30x30 cm cylinder when placed in middle (tilt it at 85° so you get swirl).There are also smaller burners.1/2" you can use as a torch with very strong output. I made a playlist on my channel with dimensions,if you read book make sure to read it all since some chapters are connected together.(only bad side of the book.)

Gas Burners for Forges, Furnaces and Kilns - M. Porter (2004) Book.

Great build, very educational

Why the six pointed star on the sabre?