Blacksmithing for Beginners - Viewer Questions

Blacksmithing for Beginners - Viewer Questions
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Thanks for watching - Denis

[@brysonalden5414]

Amen to using 5160 spring steel for tooling! I've made all my daily use chisels and fullers out of it, and it works just fine. Punches, on the other hand, tend to deform, but I can live with that given that I get the 5160 free.

[@johnjude2685]

Good point about the vice bearing Correct, we can check sizes ourselves if needed I say 1 lb of steel tanks projects that are almost 1 lb. Might have been me asking for radius of pein. I had experience a 4 lb cross pein that was than I should work with I'm 62 and it was too heavy so I gifted it to a younger Smith who says he loves it that bigger radius is so forgiving and marks very little radius. I took a dime and cut a washer in half to make a Guage for accuracy measures my pein before I grind them to keep the radius to match as before I grind. The Smith that I'd gifted the hammer was estimating nickel or quarter size. I'm wishing I had gauge it before gifted it away he lives 800 miles away I weld a hooked bar to hang the gauge on I'll make him one about quarter size and he'll match it to the radius of the 4 lb. Hammer to help me copy the radius. That's radius is so important I believe. I'm still believing you. J.P. Services and Black Bear Forge are the biggest reasons I'm loving this craft. The hammer skills I've learned from you and J.P. Services Black Bear has lots of projects and safety advice I'm thinking thanks for teaching the 3 of you have been influence. Myself I mostly enjoy gardening tools and tools that are helpful in my garage DIY just handy been making better tools than Harbor freight mostly and cheaper Thanks Dennis

[@ivan55599]

Off-topic - l like that microphone sound effect. Blast from the past. You don't hear that often nowadays, unless it is edited.

[@df-intheshop330]

Thanks for assuming it was intentional but It wasn't. I'm still learning this new editing software. It's a 1000 times better than iMovie but it doesn't like amateurs playing with the controls.

[@MOOPS]

In one video you were comparing hammers and said something like “this handle will kill you.” How do I know if I have a good hammer handle or one that will kill me?

[@df-intheshop330]

Most hammer handles today are designed to survive the manufacturing process and life in a toolbox not protect your arm from injury. Look up my video Blacksmithing for beginners - Hammer Handles

[@alanbutler7712]

Good afternoon DF, I was given my anvil and post vise by a widow I worked with about 10 years ago. I was curious a out the threading on the post vise and unscrewed it. It looks like the threads are almost completely worn away on the inside. Is that common for a 100 year old post vise? Or, are the threads originally designed differently that a normal vise that has a consistent threading along the whole shaft? Thanks!

[@df-intheshop330]

It's pretty common for the first few inches of the threads to be worn away because most of the clamping is in that region. However if you're saying that the threads are worn away on the wrong side ( not the clamping face ) then that is called a buttressed thread. They are triangular in shape with a large flat clamping face that is set to 90 degrees. They are really common in woodworking vises but I have seen then in post vises as well and thought the same thing you did when I first saw one.

[@alanbutler7712]

@@df-intheshop330 Great, thank you! It still works great, so I will continue using it without worries. Much appreciated!