Hammer tongs & Pick Up Tongs! Step by step in epic detail.

[@stevesyncox9893]

Great stuff man! Thanks!

[@danielmoss2089]

Glad you liked it!

[@louislarose4023]

Wow ! I could watch you work all day -- Oh Wait -I just did watch you work all day ! Great Tongs !

[@thesprinkleddonutforge2774]

I enjoyed this. Gotta make a set of hammer and pickup tongs tomorrow for a fellow Smith. Good one Dan!

[@reigninoel]

"they don't have to look slick or super smart, they just have to work" - good philosophy

[@oddwoodforge2305]

Glad you pointed out that they dont NEED to be perfect. They just have to work. I think alot of people do get hung up on that. Good job as always. Keep it up.

[@marcerivest6204]

Lots of good information Dan ,most of us try to be too particular or fussy. Great video.

[@robertlonis9350]

Well done 👍

[@andywright2606]

Another fantastic video Dan I love it when you do these epic detail vids and show how its done without a power hammer or press etc. Thanks Mate, keep up the good work 👍⚒

[@Curtislow2]

NICE HAMMER WORK .

[@georgegriffiths2235]

Thanks for the instruction and putting me right following a video is harder than getting the one to one instruction and they get better with practice.

[@Rmillerb1]

Clean and accurate forging as usual Dan. Thanks for the motivation!

[@SSSmithing]

Great work Dan sorry catching it late busy lately lol

[@stevefurb745]

Great work as allways bud

[@JustinTopp]

I was just looking for a video on these style of tongs! Great video as always Dan! Perfect timing for me too haha

[@vegoil]

Always appreciate your tips and details! Thanks!

[@hammeredanvil7377]

Thanks Dan. Mate, most informative tong making video on YT. From this vid you've given me the confidence (and some solid advice) to attempt making my first set of tongs... Thanks again for sharing.

[@oliviermalige3279]

@ Hammered Anvil I've just finish mine yesterday, what a struggle but it worth it!! Cheers !!!

[@hammeredanvil7377]

@@oliviermalige3279 Awesome mate. How did you go with the set downs and shaping the boss? It's one of the things that has been holding me back, but watching the vid clarified quite a few things for me. I work in PNG and eat as many forging YT vids as I can while I'm away and can't wait to get back home to have a bash. Thankfully it's getting cooler now in Australia and I can finally light a fire in the forge when I get back this time. Cheers.

[@oliviermalige3279]

@@hammeredanvil7377 As Dan say ,don't look for perfection on the first pair of tongs :) For me the most difficult part was the drawing out of the reins. The set downs require good half on/off blows . I wish you a good automn ! Here in France, spring is coming and I'll soon start to work in the fields , so less forging for me...

[@tobyjo57]

Love it Dan, hope I can do half as good. Thanks for the lessons in all your videos.

[@mtyson9004]

Always great to watch your videos! Thanks for sharing and God Bless you Dan!

[@inconvenientskills]

Great info Dan. I appreciate you sharing!

[@rajhooblal5455]

Thank you Dan.

[@BBForge]

you make it look to easy Dan

[@georgegriffiths2235]

You want to be in the shop with him he makes it look even easier:)

[@BBForge]

George Griffiths o I know he does. I got to work with him when he was in the US for quad state.

[@lenblacksmith8559]

Good Dan, can't wait to see the outcome of these tongs.

[@danielmoss2089]

There's a link to the next video at the end of this one.

[@FZR650]

Amazing learning video... thank you for the lesson!

[@charminghollowforge1109]

Well done as usual my friend

[@ianlowe4666]

Nicely done fella, good to show folks how to make a blank. It's only really the style of nib that changes, the boss and reins rarely do. I'm not really on Instagram so aren't familiar with the 'pretty' versus 'purely functional' tool discussion but personally I'd rather have a tool that works well and looks like the back end of a bus than one that looks gorgeous but doesn't do the job I need. Function comes first for the beginner, pretty comes later (with experience and skill).

[@RayFromTheHayclan]

I've been itching to make some tongs and these are top on my list. Great timing Dan.

[@NeilGraham.I.M.F]

Nice work

[@douglasfathers4848]

Your tong making videos are very instructional, as I have said be for your tongs have unec style about them.

[@hannemannironworks1651]

Thanks for the great video!

[@GibClark]

👍👍👍good stuff

[@davidlong3824]

Like your video so interesting.

[@4110mahindra]

Thank you

[@danielmoss2089]

Pleasure dude good to see you about.

[@ztheblacksmith]

Why do you not draw out the reins out on the far edge of the anvil?? I have done it that way a lot and I love using that technique!!

[@danielmoss2089]

Good question and I'll be honest I don't like the technique. I've practiced it a bit and hind I would rather uses the bick. I find it faster and much clearer. Personally. It was the way I was tought when I was doing my degree and I guest its what you learn.

[@ztheblacksmith]

Daniel Moss I think it’s cool how different techniques fit different people!!

[@oliviermalige3279]

Is it a big bucket of clinkers behind you in the video,Dan ? Well explained way of making tongs, thanks for sharing !!

[@Zogg1281]

21:33 With your strange offset "jig", how much do you aim for the offset? Is it something simple like 50% of the boss thickness? Thanks for the video, it's really good to see how different blacksmiths aproach the same task. And it's great when the video has little gem's like that offset jig, I definitely will be trying that!! 👍

[@seanlosee7352]

Hey man, great video. I emailed you last week... any word on those hammers?

[@bulldogg4]

HAMMER TONGS !

[@bulldogg4]

also I super agree with your point about the instagram tools, would I like things I make to turn out as nice as the ones you do in these videos... absolutely. I dont have the experience and practice for that yet, my stuff still works though and I have the added bonus of being proud that I was able to make it.

[@PDQknives]

Great video! I need to do several tongs. Isn't that anvil placed too low?

[@danielmoss2089]

I like it low. I do a lot of work with striker and top tooling so having it up high is a pain. I also uses the power hammer a lot when I'm not making videos.

[@erikcourtney1834]

Daniel, Are you saving your clinkers for something? Your bucket is overflowing lol. Sorry I couldn’t help but to notice

[@ValhallaIronworks]

What about a set of brick carrying tongs?

[@rogerbarrett2237]

"dropped them on the floor, that's good for them" it's integral to making properly forged items to drop the item on the floor at least once, a sign of quality

[@jscancella]

Any reason you draw out your reins instead of cutting it off and welding on reins? I would think (forge) welding would be much faster especially when drawing out by hand 4140

[@danielmoss2089]

Well the weld is a fracture point. (what sort of welding are you talking about?) i normally don't hand Forge and I also showed the drawing out process of one rein in full in this video and it only takes about 10mins of forging in total. Cut, proparing two scarfs, forge welding them together and the profiling the reins it's about the same time as drawing them out. With the power hammer it take about 3mins ish. (I only draw stock out by hand for videos cause people complain other wise).

[@jscancella]

@@danielmoss2089 forge welding - getting it hot in the forge and hitting it to weld it together. When I was a part of my blacksmith organization we didn't have a power hammer, so it was either a) you did it all yourself, b) you got someone to use a sledge hammer for you, or c) you used the treadle hammer. Agreed if you have a power hammer, it isn't much work to draw it out. Just thinking about my time due to me not having a power hammer available. One more comment, when doing the second set down, you held it at about a 45 degree angle to the edge of the anvil. I always forget which way to angle it and have several times held it "backwards" (so it angles the wrong way when done). Since I almost always mess it up, I now just set it down straight and then later clean it up with a file. Great job on the video, it really brought me back to my tong making workshop!

[@lenblacksmith8559]

Or is this showing making blanks, sorry mate saw another post. And you did mention that in the start I think?

[@californiagunner7020]

how heavy is your hammer?

[@CausticPuffin]

My brain screams “prior military!” every time I see a westerner with japanese-style tatts.

[@danielmoss2089]

I think that's a very you kind of problem.

[@CausticPuffin]

@@danielmoss2089 lol. Thank you for the content. Great work sir!

[@bentoombs]

Do you really sell all these? Lol Need to chat about my set. Nice deception brother. Loads of knolage #don't tell you😜

[@michael5227]

tea is done get the bag out

[@danielmoss2089]

I like her kept in till the end.