Blacksmith Basics - Learn the Tools and Techniques to get started in Blacksmithing!

Master Blacksmith Bob Rupert demonstrates the tools and techniques of blacksmithing. Join Bob as he shows you how to use tools like hammers, tongs, chisels, punches and the anvil itself.
He then demonstrates various basic techniques.
0:00 Introduction
00:37 Tools
06:45 The Anvil
10:30 The Forge
11:40 Twist
16:50 Loop
19:47 Hole in Square
24:10 Cutting
26:50 Taper
29:00 Hot Cut with Hardie Chisel
30:00 Additional Tapering
31:51 Slit Hole
39:42 Forge Welding
58:45 Part 1 Conclusion
The second section of video deals exclusively with the traditional forge:
1:00:07 Part 2 Intro
1:01:32 Forge Basics at the Drawing Board
1:08:45 Coal/Coke/Clinkers
1:18:50 Starting the Forge
1:31:31 Making Coke
1:39:00 How to heat stock
1:52:57 Steels and Temperatures
1:55:38 What's in the Forge?
2:01:05 Conclusion
Filmed on location at the J.L. Porter Blacksmith shop at South Side Historical Village, Hookstown, Pennsylvania. sshva.wordpress.com
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[@davidwilhelm4091]

This guy is great! Straight forward, direct, skilled, and makes the whole thing look crazy easy. He's like the Bob Ross of blacksmithing! I can't wait until I'm that comfortable with my tools.

[@williamang9649]

Welp I misunderstood bob Ross as a blacksmith, I find a goofy guy with an afro... cool guy

[@bernardhill1622]

As a 76 year old retired Arch'/ Eng & Master-craftsman i enjoyed your excellent tutorial Video. Tok me back to my childhood watching the Blacksmith manufacturing Mine Tooling Equipment i.e., Picks, Shovels, Pinch/ Prie-bars, Hammers, Chisels etc., Thanks a Mil' most grateful...!!

[@Killianwsh]

Thank you for sharing knowledge that is almost never taught in our "schools"!

[@original12thman]

I want to like this 5 more times...all my questions answered in one video!

[@dburnett7764]

I'm glad the world has people like you who are happy to share their knowledge with everyone. Great video. Thanks.

[@flatbrokefrank6482]

Hi Ben there is a chain makers shop in the Black Country Museum, Dudley England One of the chaps who demonstrates there worked making chain for a living - he would add single links onto a length of chain - his work rate is amazing he can form and weld a perfect link in about a minute - but i suppose if you are making a living at it then you have to turn them out quickly - Stay safe

[@MoistPinata]

Bob seems like an amazing person as most of the blacksmiths I've seen, loved the humanizing moment he shared with his dog @ 12:02

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[@josmith3954]

Very detailed and always good for a refresher, glad to see people want to share the trade of blacksmithing!

[@chrisgonz19]

Blacksmithing is something I've always had an interest in since i was a child. Now that im 21 i finally wanna give it a shot!

[@jankubiak3218]

About the same age as you. Started 2 years ago and its growing fruitful. Great as a side when studying carpentry or similar. Good luck.

[@kevinmaxwell6610]

I didn't loose intrest through the whole video because you kept answering very interesting questions Great job sir 👍

[@gurudasbock]

One of the nicest forges I’ve seen. Beautiful stone work and blacksmithing are two of my favorite things.

[@michaelwoida2805]

Thoroughly enjoyed this video. Thanks for posting. I have placed this location on my must visit list for this year. Will be checking for dates and times for when the this shop will be up and running. Bob clearly explains and demonstrates the blacksmith basics. Would love to have the design specs on the forge.

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[@urbanwarchief]

thank you for your advice. i was looking for a hobby and this looks fun

[@ahumanbeing1961]

this guy is so helpful now im going to start blacksmithing

[@guloguloguy]

IMHO: Thank you, for this great introductory demo/discussion! It is EXCELLENT!!! ALSO: ...(Those old "clinkers" could be broken up, and saved, to use in the Winter time, for better traction on icy driveways, roads, etc. Don't waste any of it).

[@davidhawley1132]

Very informative for this beginner.

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Thanks for this video it explains a lot. Well done.

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Thank you so much!

[@howiedewin3688]

...And you want to start your fire like this so the shop doesn't fill with smoke (wait, that's not it...) LOL Great video well worth the time to watch!

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Fantastic video - thank you so much for sharing this!

[@bjellison905]

I would love to tour your shop. Your forge is exactly what I have in mind to make mine into

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Good old standard definition days! :)

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"DVD Quality!"

[@slavneslavne]

Starting to bookmark: 11:40 twisting 16:50 loop 19:47 hole in square 24:10 cutting 26:50 tapering 29:00 cutting on chisel monted on anvil 30:00 tapering again

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@@error3821 To be continued... Currently in woodworking, taichi, violin, welding and other little stuff😜

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[@1AMERICANWORKER]

Fantastic presentation!! I was a Westinghouse apprentice in the early '70s. We were trained in Swiss-style tool making, where almost all of the pieces we made had to be hand-finished. My Grandfather was an industrial blacksmith in the 1920s I built a small foundry and forge to play with, in my retirement. Unfortunately, I can only get anthracite coal where I live so to keep it hot I have to inject a small amount of propane to keep it lit. I'm waiting for the weather to warm up so I can use the tools I built. And as far as C.N.C. goes, check out some vids of the latest machining centers and be prepared to be amazed. I watched a guy on a 6 axis machine make a part that looked a lot like a pump impeller that I made 40 years ago. The time it took me to make one part was 19 hours. The time it took the guy on the machining center--3 min.

[@mylawyer5972]

thank you in deed!

[@zantox100]

Lovely video, and yes i learned some new things about pressure welding.

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Great video! It seems as thought that anvil doesn't have much bounce.

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Nice vedio sir very informative I am also a blackmith from Philippines...

[@johngardiner6800]

Very useful for me, many thanks

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Cool, now if I can get the welding down right then I can make a classic Ball and Chain, just for fun.

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[@bzakie2]

Need to get some understanding and teamwork between you and the camera person. We’re missing important details. That said, I love it.

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The Rick Steve's of blacksmithing.

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It’s hard to believe that this video was made just 20 miles from where I live!

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Mantap 👍

[@sinkiller21st6]

Anyone have a link for the wrench like that shown in the video when he's twisting the metal rod I'm an aspiring blacksmith just starting out

[@daegannlongstrider1293]

It's a monkey wrench with another handle welded to the top of it.

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Very helpful, hopefully I can convince my parents to let me try because I'm 11

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Great video but i don't know why KZbin decided to teach me blacksmithing at 3 am .

[@brianwilson4861]

I made a forge and I'm sure that it wasn't ideal but my goal was to forge weld two pieces of steel together. I was using charcoal and borax as flux and I never could get the two pieces to weld. After countless tries I bought some anthracite coal and I tried again. When I pulled the two pieces from the fire they were both shooting sparks and when I saw that I knew that they would weld. And they did. My problem all those previous attempts was that I just didn't have the metal hot enough. I've tried again with charcoal and once again I can't reach the temperature necessary. Is it possible to forge weld using ordinary charcoal. Or must you use coal? I was able to get steel so hot with coal that it would burn it up if I wasn't careful. Way hotter then I could ever get with charcoal. And reaching those temperatures and burning up the steel I can only assume that my fire was oxidizing. If my fire was neutral or carburizing I would assume that the steel would have melted and not just burned up. But I would think that with so much coal you couldn't make an oxidizing fire. How could you possibly get carbon rich if a pile of coal won't get you there? I guess you just use less air and heat longer to reach higher temperatures. Or I guess that maybe it's always oxidizing when you're reaching welding temperature and that's why flux is required. Maybe oxyacetylene is the only flame that can reach welding temperatures and still be a neutral or reducing. I think I just answered my own question.

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This is awesome! I'm tired of kids teaching the basics of stuff that require decades for someone to get good at.

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Smoked the bugs out.

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Waar is z’n CO-meter?

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[@johngardiner6800]

You referred to the use of flux, is this a commercial product or something you have made up yourself? Also your dog is a British border collie, the same as my own beauty.

[@BenjaminNelsonX]

Common flux for blacksmithing is Borax. Something like this: amzn.to/2ZArPrg

[@jondrud3742]

European anvils usually dont have a step etc..? The ones he's talking about are South German anvils or farriers anvils. You know where London is right? 😉 I'm a European and I own four anvils, three of them are London pattern. Appart from that it's an excellent video. Great naration, easy to understand and to the point. I always know if I'm gonna like a man from the way he treats his animals 😊

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Borax is unobtanium right now, at least locally.

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I think you could say that about so many things right now.

[@johnjacobjingle8302]

When your looking at the tools, wondering why hes got a hot piece of steel by him, and how it stays red so long..

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8:10 listen carefuly =)

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Well What do you know I may actually learn Something COOL

[@jeffreyhill1011]

I have 100% CNC milled/lathed fake twists into material. It's about 3 times longer and 100 times more wasteful than just chucking some stock in my forge but you can get the same shape using CNC.

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I watched double speed.

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Gotta love some good coke

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Cant see anything just here his smoked voice..

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Ear rape warning if you are wearing headphones.

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I enjoy the lesson. BUT YOU NEED BETTER CAMRA MAN FOR CLOSE-UP Career the actual work and how you do it