Blacksmithing for Beginners - Punching and Splitting

Blacksmithing for Beginners - Punching and Splitting. How to hot punch holes and split bars

[@Dorpers89]

This is hands down the best educational black smithing channel on KZbin

[@gaiagirlgoesglobal]

I have just starting learning the art of Blacksmithing, and I am LOVING this tutorial series that you created. It is a brilliant, straightforward collection of lessons and techniques, and I am busy binge watching your videos in between my lessons. Thank you for capturing and sharing your knowledge 🙏⚒

[@davidhaines6656]

Great video. You really know your stuff and it's helping me with learning the art of blacksmithing. Your always very precise with your wording and camera angles are good. 😊

[@thomascorner3009]

This is an amazing channel! I used to think about metal as an immovable material that was only available in the few predefined shapes available at Home depot or the hardware store. You are showing us techniques that allow to shape it in an almost infinite number of ways. And you do this while highlighting the theory and the practical motivations behind every choice and step in those techniques. I made a small coffee can forge, and using an old sledgehammer head caught in a vise, i am learning to move and shape metals. I find it exciting, very empowering and a great way to relax from office work. Thank you so much and keep those videos coming. Greetings from Montreal, Dennis. :)

[@alanbutler7712]

Fantastic, simple, direct! Thank you!

[@andresmedina9967]

This video like all the reast that you have produced are always very. helpful; and save me from learning from just trill and error; for i did not know that heat treating would make a difference or not; have a nice week.

[@idahobob173]

Thank you very much for the clear, concise explanations.

[@oljames1687]

..Thanks Mr Denis !! Those are the first Square Punches i have seen anyone use. Looks like i will be making me some in the next couple of weeks...

[@gearheadd1]

Thank you for all your videos. learning a lot.

[@timgreene2029]

Love your videos. Thank you for producing them.

[@woodninjaswoodturning3787]

Once again excellent video. I'm also going to try to make my own tools and punches. Keep the video coming.

[@christopherneelyakagoattmo6078]

Like usual, you told and showed what you need to do; as well as what you DON'T need to do, like heat treat.

[@dubstkfd5663]

Great stuff as always! Thank you, sir. ;)

[@matsolsen3901]

really informative video! I wish I saw it before! I need to make bolster plates, spoon bent the hell out of my failed attempt on a bottle opener :D. Lesson learned!

[@dallashammond1986]

Thank you very helpful.

[@thecordlesscarpenter7956]

thanks Dennis!

[@kensmapleleafretirement]

Great job. I have been punching holes on some projects, but I decided to try and get better and faster at punching. I figure with enough practice, I can get faster than drilling, eventually. Thanks for taking the time to make this video. Well Done...

[@30mAkills]

A forged hole is better as Drilling doesn't create grain flow.

[@beastmodeiscool722]

I wish I had seen this a week ago before I ruined a railroad spike trying to put an eye in the middle of t 😜👍🏻

[@ocnightflyer1359]

Thanks!!!

[@williambeshearssr3958]

As usual your a lot of help do you know how to make the main square head bolt and ends for the bolt for the 2 halves of an old iron city leg vice late 1800's it's a project I'm gonna have to try thanks your appreciated

[@miketownsend6108]

thanks

[@rjordans]

Nice clear video again! Any advice on the size of the splitting chisel compared to the drift for the larger round holes? In the pictures at the end it seems to look like its about equally wide to the resulting hole.

[@df-intheshop330]

In theory the perimeter of the rectangular cross section of the chisel should be about the same length as the circumference of the drift you are using but you don't need to be that precise. It's easier to make up several punches of different sizes and match them up to the drifts you have.

[@Degovernator]

Luckily, creating depression is what i'm best at!

[@skylord8625]

Guy. Be safe fam

[@droppoint495]

Lol i was going to say i know all about that deep depression lol

[@joehagerman2272]

Thank you for your excellent videos. Do you operate a school? Where are you located. Great job. Thanks Joe Hagerman

[@df-intheshop330]

I'm live in Canada on the border with northern Michigan. I don't have a school so I do what I can through You Tube.

[@gabrielnavarro8721]

Hello, What do you think about the V shaped grind on flat punches ? Have you tried it ? I see it as a way to sacrifice some shearing capacity in order to have better centering while punching. What's your opinion on the matter ?

[@df-intheshop330]

I started out using hot chisels that where ground to an edge like cold chisels but my round punches where always flat faced because that is how I was taught to shape them. I did that for years without really thinking about it. One day I was using a chisel that had developed a flat face and I noticed that it was working better than before. I have been using square faced chisels ever since. I don't think the accuracy of a hole depends too much on the shape of the edge. The accuracy of the side bevels ( the taper ) has more of a steering effect than the edge. When I need to cut an accurate hole I rotate my punches 180 degrees every few hits to counter act any tendency for the punch to pull in one direction or another.

[@gabrielnavarro8721]

Thank you for the answer ! : )

[@maksim_vlasov]

Good morning tell me what brand of steel to make your punches? спасибо.

[@df-intheshop330]

My chisels are made from old car springs

[@h.schmid1965]

Very nice. Is the Chisel made us Spring Steel? Thanks.

[@df-intheshop330]

All the chisels I use are made from either recycled coil springs or crowbars

[@h.schmid1965]

I have Sringsteel from a Traincar or Drilling rod for Rocks. Is 30 Millimeters strong. Is that okay for made?

[@df-intheshop330]

That should work great.

[@h.schmid1965]

Okay trank you.

[@alanbuban9020]

@@df-intheshop330 I know this is an old post, but would you by chance have knowledge of the type steel one would typically find in allen wrenches; and would that be durable enough to use to make a punch from? I normalized it twice and made a punch but wondered if I should harden and temper. ( I tried it with a piece of a coil but it shattered in the center, fortunately after I punched my nail header though.....)