Forging Bending Forks

How bending forks are made always puzzled me. They aren't a straight forward forging. I hope this video can help and show you the process on how to make a pair!
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[@JScottShipman]

You made it look easy! Well done!

[@lewisnapton8399]

Watching this video is just heaven for me! What a peaceful day spent making something great! My work in L.A. has no such gratification...

[@oscarduck1920]

Thanks Lewis! It is a fun forging.

[@randomgoat2272]

Ooh, this’ll be useful for me soon! About a week ago I started building my first proper forge. Thanks for the video!

[@oscarduck1920]

Oooo glad you’re having a go!

[@machineshopatthebottomofth3213]

Really crisp forging and a useful lesson in thinking about the steps before launching into a project. A lesson I need to learn!

[@paulorchard7960]

Nice job Oscar, I have a bending fork but cheated and arc welded the inside tine. Couldn’t think of any other way but now I know I will make another slightly larger! Thanks mate!

[@oscarduck1920]

No worries have a go!

[@SchysCraftCo.]

Thanks so much Oscar. Very nice and very helpful and useful video. Always good to see ur videos. Always great to learn and see. Can't wait to see what you forge next. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work Oscar. Forge On. Keep Making. God Bless.

[@oscarduck1920]

Thanks!

[@calebwolf2927]

Thanks Oscar, great video! I've been meaning to make a pair of these for a long time now, perhaps I'll finally get around to it!

[@oscarduck1920]

Yeah have a go Caleb!

[@pjamestx]

Putting in the extra work to square up that outside corner really makes it look better, well done!

[@oscarduck1920]

I Think it’s worth it! Adds strength too.

[@katigroszek]

Your work is nice. Very nice! Much attention to detail. Your new bending fork is much nicer and better made than the previous one. You should see how Mark Aspery conducts the vise forging step - instead of angle iron he uses T-shaped beam segment to better support the back of the fork while shaping the lower tooth. Also it is easier to forge the upper tooth round before bending it down. Nice work!

[@oscarduck1920]

Thanks for the tips! People keep suggesting aspery so I’ll have to have a look!

[@dicksargent3582]

Oscar, You could rough forge the taper before doing the upset corner to save some frustration .Or you could twist the section between the tines after you've upset the corner to give yourself a convenience bend. Then forge your taper and when done twist it back inline and dress the forging.

[@oscarduck1920]

The twisting is my preferred way to make them now, trying to taper it before tends to be more of an annoyance as you’ll mess up the taper forging a local upset on the end rather than an upset corner!

[@jackdawg4579]

once I get mine upset and flattened, I cut a slot in from the end so I can then bend the centre tyne down. (same way I make a turkey foot poker) You lose a little bit of steel off the end of the centre tyne as it is a little long, but I think less work than trying to work out the centre tyne from a small bump. And I do make all of mine from mild steel.

[@oscarduck1920]

I’ll have to give that a go some time!

[@stickermigtigger]

You can always pick a blacksmith out of a crowd; he's the one who set his shirt on fire.🤣🤣

[@lukegraham1945]

Good looking set of forks oscar, well done!

[@oscarduck1920]

Thanks Luke!

[@VOVAR]

Good job and nice finish 👍

[@oscarduck1920]

Thank you!

[@mattwyeth3156]

I keep having trouble with the second fork i might try using a bit of angle ion in the vice and see if that makes enough of a difference to not forge in cold shuts

[@oscarduck1920]

Yes it should help!

[@matttaimuty5397]

Suggestion for making mild steel harder and stronger. There is, somewhere here on the internet, a formula for Super Quench. It's a mixture of Dawn, a salt that I can't remember and a very strong surfactant(sp?). If you quench mild steel at a high yellow heat it will come out hard enough to skate a file. You can actually get it hard enough to hold an edge. If it gets too hard, simply run the oxidation colors to get the right temper. You'll have to experiment to get it right but it can make a good tool out of so so metal.

[@oscarduck1920]

Interesting I’ll have to do some research!

[@matttaimuty5397]

@@oscarduck1920 google it for the recipe

[@davidgregory5033]

absolutely correct. dissolve as much salt as the water will take (there will be some undisolved ) then a squirt of washing up liquid. quench at near welding temp and away you go

[@peterodda548]

Nice job

[@oscarduck1920]

Thank you!

[@flatlander6734]

Watch Mark Aspery's bending fork video.

[@oscarduck1920]

A lot of people have suggested that! Will have a look.

[@jbodiers6572]

nice job.

[@barthooghwerff1682]

Great video as always!

[@oscarduck1920]

Thanks Bart!

[@dragonwaterforge]

Awsome man

[@oscarduck1920]

Thanks!

[@MrBenabida]

👍👍👍 Très bon travail, bonne continuation

[@richardhazell2601]

Thank you. Spot on.

[@oscarduck1920]

Thanks Richard!

[@VOVAR]

👍 New subscriber 🔔

[@oscarduck1920]

Thanks!

[@frankheger5185]

👍👍👍

[@timtheblacksmith]

Good stuff!

[@oscarduck1920]

Thanks!

[@garethbaus5471]

You sortove forged the second tine of the bending fork the hard way. One it was isolated from the rest of the bar you could have slit it on the handle side and bent it out before using a round end punch to radius the transition and only forging it to clean the shape.

[@billwoehl3051]

Why does everyone consider 1/2" is 12mm? When in a wrench set, 13 mm is so close to 1/2" they're almost interchangeable.

[@filipponseele7346]

Check Marc Aspery's methode and you will be very pleased. Well done .Wonder who you learned forging from. A good one no doubt. Kind regards Blacksmith Filip Ponseele-Belgium

[@oscarduck1920]

Thanks Filip, I’ll have to have a look at it. I learned from Bill Carter of Trapp Forge.

[@mikejulianoferreiro7654]

Isn't it easier to forge weld the tine?

[@oscarduck1920]

Yes but but it’ll be stronger forged out of a single piece.

[@lenblacksmith8559]

What size stock did u start with?

[@roydawson4882]

16mm square stock he said at the beginning

[@fantasycz2387]

👍👍👍