I tried to make a bowl and this happened…

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[@doupils6823]

Its amazing to see how much you guys improved in videography compared to when you started. Im digging the lack of music and just the sound of metal being worked. Keep up the good work!

[@davidnicholson6680]

Great video and Merry Christmas!

[@audiobrew]

That, sir, is definitely a crown

[@pierreb4122]

It's God dam beautiful 💜

[@HavocHounds1988]

Need a new hotcut tool, proceeds to make an axe head.

[@craigbooth5414]

Kinda looks like it's made up with stukkies of biltong

[@frankcoldwell4424]

A bowl from wrought iron? Isn’t that a helmet? 😂😂😂

[@knifethrower9733]

Yeah that's what I was thinking, looking like a medi evil helmet after its been rusting for a few hundred years.

[@steadfasttherenowned2460]

It's actually a mold for cutting a squire's bowl haircut

[@brendanoneill6267]

That's a matter of perspective

[@brendanoneill6267]

But definitely not a soup bowl!

[@benbubear8046]

Everything's a helmet if you try hard enough

[@e303gt]

The camera work when you dropped the cutoff thing in the quench tube was hilarious.

[@jessebob325]

5:36 Tool drop. 😄

[@mikerosene8904]

I can’t like the comment out of respect for the number of likes it currently has.

[@draven86]

The true spirit of Christmas is never forget who your true friends are.😉 Merry Christmas Will 🎍🎄

[@tak-cc3em]

I love his sweater ☺️

[@Whoozerdaddy]

You could always call it a "helmet'" Will. [Made that comment before you put it on your head!]😀

[@jameshobbs1460]

I bet you could come up with some kind of liner or bowl in a bowl/basket.. Merry Christmas Will .. Great Vid.

[@ThatWorks]

I think it counts as a “dish”. Pretty neat lil piece of art!

[@siedpe13]

Need to make some metal fruit for the basket. Maybe a rusty apple, a bronze banana

[@timm1139]

Maybe a molten melon?

[@RedBeardOps]

True artisan here...

[@goretoothrender]

Great video. Love the little moments like the reaction between you and the camera when you dropped the hot cut in the cooling oil. Any chance we could have a Marty themed tshirt anytime soon?

[@BeatleJuice108]

Loving the editing of this video! And the bowl came out fantastic

[@ArmyCop]

Neither a bowl nor a basket. It's a “bowlsket”. You're welcome. 😄 Happy Christmas to you and yours, Will!

[@paperthinportal]

At first I thought it was a Baskowl, but you are clearly correct. It's characteristics definitely place it in the Bowlsket category.

[@X22GJP]

It’s a bowlinder

[@danielmoss2394]

Superbly edited. The whole sequence of breaking the bar apart was fantastic.

[@MikeT]

In the world of wood turning, I was always told if it can hold water, its a bowl. if it cant, its art.

[@johnthemainguy9059]

Hemispherical Hollowform. 👍🏼

[@willw7595]

Hey Will you need to get you brazing tips. Instead of using your cutting torch. Merry Christmas to you .

[@pmh2390]

if you make something like it again wire wheel the iron pieces before you braze them together. and I would say its a basket I don't think anything that you would eat should go in it thought maybe pine cones or ornaments

[@zachpetty2930]

I really like the close up shots of the steel moving under the press, but great video as always keep up the good word my friend.

[@Grumpy_Stiltskin]

Was wondering if there was a reason you used a cutting torch setup instead of a welding one? Turned out cool looking though, the texture of the iron looks so organic.

[@bridgetiswrong8684]

I like that you didn't have any music playing. Made it more peaceful to watch.

[@H2ghsky2Jojo]

Happy Christmas Welcome Now merry Christmas ❤ 🎉 Jojo B

[@d.vanman3749]

Lo9ks like a helmet for a midevil electric chair..thanks for the video...

[@thomascaldwell184]

Merry Christmas Will! All the best for you and yours. Also, your camera person is top notch. Love the camera work in this.

[@samuellee1471]

It looks great but I would recommend using some 1/8" brazing rod next time

[@da300mann2]

I remember when that S guy made cool things too. Now, his channel has become a brand infomercial, for the most part, with builds that drag on for weeks. Oh, and "reaction" videos. I understand you guys are friends, but don't allow yourself to go down that road. Keep building and growing.

[@blubberboy1897]

Having sponsors and creating new content is the literal definition of “building and growing “

[@da300mann2]

@@blubberboy1897 Keep building items, such as this bowl and growing your skill set. Not grow your brand and become boring AF to watch. I remember "less yack yack, more whack whack". Long before reacting to fake forging on TV... 😉

[@jeffreyharris3440]

"You know who else says this? This guy (pointing to an S)" Will, do you mean Santa?

[@swr420]

I was skeptical at first, but that's really cool. Even cooler that he can say his brother made it.

[@breakawaybooks4752]

Fun fact: the grain in wrought iron comes from the deliberate incorporation of slag into the molten pot.

[@theJellyjoker]

definitely a basket

[@ryanjones8757]

Epic! Kinda reminds me of wood coal as well

[@johnsharkey2699]

Would love to see you do a collab with matt and ilya from that works ilya is a master of the craft he does

[@samuellee1471]

Brooo could you make a wrought iron tree sculpture?? 😏

[@JD-uq1tw]

Merry Christmas Will. I love the bowl. (basket?) Either way it turned out amazing. Hopefully Santa will bring you a set of welding tips so you aren't having to braze with your cutting torch any more. Again. I love the bowl and I love the work you do.

[@markfergerson2145]

Wow. Next try weaving the, uh, strands.

[@duanebrady8446]

Dude love the Steele tool co ugly Christmas sweater

[@paultucker2027]

You could make a great spider with that stuff

[@alanspeert8351]

Interesting use of a cutting touch to braze with

[@Spronkadunk]

I love this bowl shaped object.

[@leehenry1165]

Merry Christmas, Will!

[@greengonzonz]

Did not know that wrought iron behaved that way. Looks amazing

[@spyder7758]

I think it identifies as a bowl

[@Ryanmcgibbon69]

More 1/8 in brazing rod needed

[@aloberdorf4579]

A tisket, a tasket....a wrought iron basket.........Old, Old Children's rhyme...LOL !!

[@jmiknuk]

It’s a fruit bowl

[@jangrahame4891]

Awesome! Merry Christmas Will!

[@paultucker2027]

You need a wire mesh tray on a rod/wire/string at the bottom of your quench tube for Easy retrival of dropped items.

[@BCM1959]

Bowl, basket, whatever. Its cool. Would definatly display. Merry Christmas!

[@kschleic9053]

Basket 100%

[@b2bogster]

The texture is incredible! Great project Merry Christmas and happy new year Will.

[@geoffk43]

It's the thought that counts. But if my brother was known for knife making and he gave me a 30 pound bowl that looked like a birds nest that held nothing..............

[@bobgore1962]

Neither a bowl, nor a basket, but rather a head-shaped Masterpiece of Brotherly Love!!! Great job Will!!! 😎👍🏻🔨🔥🔪

[@poe8259]

It's a BSO... bowl-shaped object. Merry Christmas Will.

[@joelblair8339]

Pretty cool

[@randykuta5146]

Merry Christmas Will! It’s not a bowl, or a basket, or a colander. It’s art Will! It’s art and it belongs in a museum! Be expecting some cranky old guy carrying a bullwhip and wearing a fedora to come and take it from you…..

[@brunobarks6544]

Merry Christmas brother. Much love. God bless 🙏

[@paulrapp613]

Will, Fruit basket. Merry Christmas. Keep the aspidistra flying! God bless, Paul

[@Zogg1281]

That Hardy tool is comically large! 😂 As for the bowl/colander/basket/nest decision being "up in the air", I wouldn't worry about it too much because it should come back down again quite quickly as it looks pretty heavy 😁 Sorry, I couldn't help myself on that one 😂😂😂😂 Hope you had a great Christmas. Happy New Year 👍👍👍👍

[@devils30hockey]

Merry Christmas Will. I think that came out fantastic. Never knew that about wrought iron. It does look like wood. Being Woodworker, I should know, LOL. Hope the brother likes it.

[@Tugmun11]

Will that's pretty dog gone kool, and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year...

[@MartinAhlman]

In the 17th century, my ancestors went from Gent, Belgium, to Sweden to work as blacksmiths. They were very proud and haughty (and very, VERY, stubborn), as they they were blacksmiths (they were a little better than the rest LOL). They dressed in a long, striped shirt (like a dress, but hardier), clogs, and a leather apron. They always kicked off their clogs before enterering any house, which was odd at the time. With that kind of ancestors I couold only travel down the same path as they had before me. So I studied music instead of becoming a blacksmith. I'm stubborn too. Same path of being stubborn as hell :-D I hope you're having a wonderful Christmas!

[@januss47]

i just love it !!! beutiful look , i think your brother gona love it too, Merry Christmas ,, from Sweden

[@melgillham462]

Artistic expression is in the eye of the artist. It's a bowl. And the material is unique. Well executed. It would likely sell for a mint at an art boutique. Something to note. A short limited acid bath would clear the ash and antique the brazing. And a oil mixed with wax would preserve and seal it. I love wrought iron. Amazing stuff Will. Belated Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year! Now on to the hot cut.. dude. Ya gotta give it away.. that is not a Montana hot cut. That's a Texas hot cut. It's too big...🤣😜

[@jessebob325]

Yes, it's a bowl by definition. (Bowl: a concave usually nearly hemispherical vessel : a rounded container that is usually larger than a cup) An idea for your quench tank. Make a metal net (or bowl with holes) and attach a long (the length of your quench tank's depth + extra) wire to it. Leave wire attached bowl in the quench tank with the extra wire sticking out and bent over to the side (to keep it out of the way, right?). Now you can more easily retrieve dropped items. 💡😉 Well done. 😀☕👍

[@X22GJP]

Mathematically it’s not a bowl. Physically, it’s a bowl. If it can hold things like fruit and act as a serving vessel, it’s a bowl.

[@Jkirk1988]

It's.....alive!!! (thunder and Frankenstein music)...

[@bigchew3149]

I want/Need a Really Good Fire Poker for my wood stove but it needs to be kinda long ..I can burn 28-30inch logs but there more work to split by hand so 18-20 is what i usually Burn But i need one long enough to not burn my hands any more ..lol. and most ever thing ya can buy at a store is to short & just junk any way imo ! I am a Major Old School Made In The USA Kinda Guy ! made at a time when men were real Men an new what it was about ! again just IMHO

[@robertmcpherson138]

Perhaps more of a basket than a bowl... but a very cool and interesting artifact nevertheless.

[@OuroborosArmory]

Most smiths do their best to keep Wroght iron from looking like that… you took the opposite approach

[@Scrubti]

Looks stunning! Makes me wanna try it myself. Is there a way to weld this stuff without "soldering" brass? Tac welding maybe? But I'd guess it's too carbon-rich and brittle to work that way.

[@electrictommichael]

Philosophically I think that's a basket. Wonderful looking as well

[@vandewt800xl]

That is beautiful! I'm team basket, woven wrought. Love to see you working with some wrought and using it's quirks and texture in a unique way. There is so much potential with wrought for artistic textures and you nailed it. It really turned out great! Looking at the finished product I was thinking it would look great lit up from inside, maybe candle holder?. The same concept could make an amazing light fixture, go more like a near sphere, hanging from some chain with a vintage style bulb inside.

[@bhinkle530]

Its a basket. A very cool and unique basket. Awesome vid as always. Many thanks! Btw, there is another Montana KZbinr who is located in Joliet (not sure how far away from you it is) called Engles Coach Shop, www.youtube.com/@EngelsCoachShop who does work with wagons and whatnot. It often has blacksmithing stuff in it and maybe if you check him out and like what he does we could see a collaboration one day. I enjoy both of your channels and wondered what sort of things the two of you might come up with. Just a thought. Cheers.

[@Paul_Lane]

Pretty cool looks kinda like The Crown of Thorns. Nice project and Merry Christmas.

[@realemonful]

You disappointed me once again Will! This is Christmas and 1/3 of the way in I was hoping you were taking a different approach but I was wrong. In fact, in the end, it looks like you proudly built the crown of the Savior that got crucified for you, to receive eternal life over eternal death and whose birth we are celebrating today!

[@justinbanks2380]

Very cool to watch I have a question. As someone taking there baby steps into blacksmithing, could you take an old axe head (or a cheap new one from harbor freight or somewhere) and cut/grind into a hot cut for a hardy hole? I know that is a waste of material for someone more well outfitted. But currently, getting larger hunks of steel and having tools to shape is a limiting factor for me. I have plenty of tools to cut and grind already from other hobbies. If I could shape an axe head to fit the hole on my anvil, is there any functional or safety difference? Type of steel etc? I'm sure it would work, at least to start, but not sure if there is some unknown that would get me after a bit. Similar to when I learned about the danger of bent pieces on edge of anvil or hammer that could break off and be dangerous as could become shrapnel. Before was mentioned, wouldn't have even considered. Hope the question makes sense and someone more knowledgeable can answer. Love seeing your projects and following along!

[@SeanKroner]

Whether it’s a bowl or basket, it’s really cool looking! :)

[@Davidtestrake]

New top rankings of Christmas specials: 1) Charlie Brown 2) Star Wars 3) This one

[@avoirdupois1]

I really enjoyed the visual storytelling in this video. The dialogue was more minimalistic, highlighting the imagery. I vote for basket. It's really quite attractive. Also: 10:44 Anyone else think of a giant tarantula here?

[@mrdaniel911]

Well, at least you're not giving that ugly monstrosity to your spouse; like Alec Steele did with his mutated wine rack. Your brother might actually keep it (buried under the house) and appreciate it (laughing incessantly to his friends about it) - its the equivalent of making a horrendously grotesque clay ashtray for a mother that doesn't smoke.

[@scootertrashtx]

Fill it full of beach glass, or multi-colored polished rocks, the contrast would be delightful! Love the video, thanks for sharing!

[@GrassBuffalo]

Just a bit of a suggestion, look into stream beats for some background music for the quiet parts of your video. Super cool work though, very clever!!

[@Dave_1966]

When you were making it I thought “well that’s not going to hold his cornflakes” 😂😂 I think you could have made it more tactile , gifts shouldn’t be able to impale the receiver lol 😂

[@franciskovscek5881]

When you were brazing, I said to myself I wonder how you were going to make the basket become a bowl. I am glad you didn't - Great Basket

[@telldeatrich3593]

A person will spend a few days making something for a friend or family, but wouldn’t spend the equivalent dollar value to buy something for them… and that is my favorite part about giving and getting handmade gifts.

[@bobmyersco]

About halfway through I realized what was so good about this video: no music! Instead, we could actually hear the sounds of the workshop! Keep it up!

[@robertr4193]

I Wish you and your family and friends a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Will

[@sherizaahd]

hmm, it could be a bowl, cause a bowl is round and used for holding food or liquid. You COULD put some kind of food in it, probably..

[@SpookyGroovyPolitoCatMum]

Will what in the world!? This is not a bowl a bowl will hold things. This is more like a wrought iron basket or as you said a wrought iron bird's nest it's ungainly it probably weighs a ton it has three feet to make it stand up and that's the only reasonable you know I just don't know about this. Maybe if you showed it full of something like pine cones or whatever but apart from creating some kind of liner that goes in it.. now that would be kind of cool if you got another piece of something still 10 brass bronze bronze Brunswick and hammered a bowl out of it and then dropped it inside of your bird nest and you know fixed it in there real good then you got a bowl that can can hold items. But until you do something bowl like with it it's just an ugly basket not much good for anything except maybe pine cones. Maybe scented pine cones for the holiday.

[@fsmvda]

Did you think about putting that in a tumbler to knock off the sharp edges? Maybe a more fine abrasive in the tumbler. Not sure what it would do to the look though. Nice work!

[@khonsulunaris9513]

I mean, I think technically you're right about it being a basket more than a bowl, but who cares?! Call it a bowl people will still get it. I think it's badass no matter how you slice it. 😊

[@azgarogly]

Merry Christmas. It is so cool to watch your projects in progress. Frankly, for me that basket thing looks like a memorial of nuclear holocaust ;)

[@AvanaVana]

It’s a wrought iron basket, not a bowl (nor a colander lol). I love the torn wrought iron, but personally not really sold on the brazing job, it just kind of looks like fancy chewing gum sticking pieces of bark together lol. I had a totally different image of how you would do this when you first described it, which involved the strips being lined up side by side, radially, with the brazing in between, and then the whole interior ground down and smoothed to a solid, polished finish, with the exterior rough and tree like, with radial lines of brass between the “corrugations” of the bark-like exterior. Sound in this video was great.

[@markrico1917]

Basket, bowl, whatever you call it - great idea and excellent execution!

[@dan725]

ok that came out REALLY cool! I’d put lemons and oranges from my yard on it if I had one! This is just super cool.

[@ibewillow]

Its a bowl, a bowl is just a concave structure. I have a fruit bowl made of mesh on my table, skaters ride in bowls, they dont have to hold liquid to be a bowl.

[@hydealmen5280]

Merry Christmas are you gonna fix the mini Beaudry and farebanks power hammer