Forging A Rushlight

A simple candleholder for the outdoors.
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[@bigguy2683]

Others have said it so will I. Enjoy and respect you for your well organized and tidy shop. Your methodical approach to your work in it is most appreciated.

[@RemeslennikCW]

Отличный ролик! Очень полезное приспособления для ковки. Порядок и атмосфера в мастерской - восхищают! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@dyermker250]

First time in my life I've felt Envy.

[@shnepper]

Great work, can appreciate the clean organized shop and processes with your pieces!

[@SchysCraftCo.]

Very nice video. Cool project. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend forge on

[@andrejohnson6731]

This is soothing.

[@lifeskillsdn]

Good work and good job

[@oneshotme]

Nice project! Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up

[@danimald.2407]

Imagine the historical significance when the first blacksmith went into business. The dawn of modern industry.

[@hiltonian_1260]

Beautiful technique, but that’s not what I’d call a rushlight. It’s an elegant candle holder. A rushlight might have a conical candle holder on the side, but the main thing would be a small set of tongs on a stand to hold a tallow soaked reed.

[@connort7497]

These came out beautifully! But at 3:25 that had the potential to be a great spearhead. Haha

[@rigoniironworks]

Actually, I'm going to make a spearhead using this tooling. Future video for sure.

[@Animaniac-vd5st]

New video after 5 months and i completely forgot what channel this is at all. Now i rememebr - it's that super-clean blacksmiths workshop

[@estebandefrancesco6128]

Tenés un hermoso taller ! Te felicito!!

[@lyulf0]

ASMR content. :) watching you work with steel is so satisfying. I really enjoy your content.

[@antoniomarreroalonso1542]

Noble trabajo.

[@ЮрийШмидт-с6х]

Браво!

[@salomao1971]

A sua criatividade é impar. Esse conjunto de ferramentas que o senhor usa no seu martelo pneumático são feitas pelo senhor?

[@bentaylor4025]

Your work blows my mind. Where was the start of the butchering in comparison to the end of the bored hole?

[@andrewb9076]

Not a rushlight holder but interesting work

[@EleanorPeterson]

I just thought I'd suggest listening to 'Limelight' by the Canadian band Rush. It's an exceptionally fine track, albeit completely inappropriate and irrelevant for a craft video of this nature. Thank you for your attention. ;-)

[@cameronflack2254]

Nice. I had been wondering since your Instagram post if you'd be drilling or drifting the hole.

[@mattyal9347]

If the material you used was brass, could make these holders usind the same method? Can you stretch brass like that?

[@rigoniironworks]

I believe so. The temp needs to be controlled to keep from cracking.

[@hiltonian_1260]

You can, but you have to be careful about brass selection. Some types of brass and bronze are “short”, in that they crack when forged. Each alloy has an optimum forging range. Also, if you use a coal fire, you will have to clean out the fire pot well after forging any copper containing alloy before trying to forge weld. The copper contaminates the fire.

[@mattyal9347]

@@hiltonian_1260 I had no idea there were so many variables

[@hiltonian_1260]

@@mattyal9347 So-called forging brass is what you really want, designated C37700 or 4614 (59% Cu, 39% Zn, 2% Pb ). Just below that is Naval brass, designated C46400 or 4611-12 (60% Cu, 39% Zn, 0.75% Sn ). Forge at 1300F, but not much more or it will melt. Brass will just barely "blush" at forging temperature. You might want to get 1300F Tempil Stick, which is a kind of chalk that melts at a specific temperature.

[@mattyal9347]

@@hiltonian_1260 thats a tough read. I doubt that what I do will require such knowledge. I'm mainly a scrapper or hobbyist wannabe. The only ingenuity I had turned out to be a failure when I thought that by adding copper to yellow brass would make it red brass.

[@fretless85]

Nicely done! Is that a 50kg (110lb) Sahinler? I have the exact same hammer.

[@rigoniironworks]

Yessir

[@atelier_nilsson]

Nice!

[@jean-lucgrosse1493]

C'est propre chez vous,pire que dans ma salle à manger.Vous devez pas y travailler souvent

[@BernardSandler]

I always love the spartan elegance of your technique and workshop. Also, your use of dies is always so innovative and obvious once you've demonstrated.

[@wolfhawaii1]

As always, nice work! Your post vise looks like one I have, any idea what brand it is?

[@rigoniironworks]

thanks, yeah no clue. It doesn't have any markings.

[@kalifammm]

Can you forged axe like tuatahi

[@keithchester1702]

Thats a nice candleholder, but its not a rushlight. You should respectfully re-title your video.

[@graemelliott3942]

Will you be selling the rushlights?

[@rigoniironworks]

That's the plan, I'll have them on my site in a few weeks.

[@graemelliott3942]

@@rigoniironworks cool thank you!

[@MrInterkid]

Simple..... and perfect

[@johngunn7087]

Excellent content- as usual !! Thanks, John.

[@anthonystrunk5360]

They look very nice...well done!

[@Alanbataar]

I'd be interested in a machining video for those 120° swages!