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Why not use the flypress for splitting🤔

Loved the final result, and of course enjoyed the process. 👏👏👏.

Your explanations are extremely useful for beginners. 👍

I never had much luck with 4140 for my punches but my press is a bit smaller so they perform fairly poorly at the thinner cross section

For those of us who have neighbors the hammer is not even an option. Press all the way. Quieter, faster, more better. Forge On!!!

Price of the hammer

Great stuff! Consistency is amazing. Now I have to save up for another tool...

Interesting stuff! Have always wondered about solar and a modern shop. Now, maybe, the Tesla battery vs the arc or the tig..... Thanks for the video!

great job, love the fly press videos and ideas, thanks for making them

Great work.!!!

All I have is a Norton #3. But I'd love to see some videos on making tooling for the fly press. Do you have any jigs for quickly assembling the top tools nice and square?

the best anvil stand on youtube 5:32

Well done. Look great.

That has a very pleasing tone! I have a random lump of rusty chequer plate with a small 90' bend along one side that rings like that.

Awesome! Liked and subscribed.

Really nice bowl. I like how you turned it into a bell that rings. If someone needed to replace a fly press counter weight, they could make two of these, weld them and fill them with lead. Many options and uses!

Good to see your great job.

Very good to see your great job.keep up good job.

Well done

thank you.. this will go along long way towards my metal art... cheers and wonderful blessings to you !

Ram speed needs increasing !

If that would have been my first set of tongs, I'da been damn proud of myself. 👍🍻

good video to compare the hammer and press via forging sight, the hammer can form the working piece even when it's temperature less than 1000 degree by blow and blow. but press good to make the large forming at beginning.

how much vibration an noise do you get outside the shop?

Turn your forge off when not using it, and turn your gas off when not using plasma torch. Wasteful

You breathe too hard

I was thinking "oh that not too bad size wise" then you took us on the walk around and OH My Word, that thing is as deep as it is wide. It will definitely be an awesome addition for you, especially for pressing your own custom bottom dies from hand tooling top dies. Excited to see what you do with it. Thanks for the in-depth sharing.

Wow awesome

Don't let it hit the floor, you'll break the floor. 😅 👍

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Great video. I really like the dog head bottle opener. I love punching holes. One of my favourite things to do. Usually one heat, by hand on the anvil using my holdfast and slot punch. I finish the circle on the horn. Pretty sure I've made over a hundred bottle openers by now.

Hi, nice job, any chance you could do a vid on the dogs head part of it, please.???

Great job. Excellent channel. Thanks for bringing us along.

I enjoyed how you worked through the issues. I am curious as to what happens if you would have accidentally knocked the support block over while you were messing with the bottom die. I assumed people blocked it so the ram or whatever it's called wouldn't slowly bleed off, but they way you said it got me thinking it might fall straight on the bottom die at full weight. Also are you using a tig welding electrode as a scratch awl? I mean it is tungsten I just never considered to use it in that way. Great video, thanks for sharing.

Nice job on the new key. Should work well.

Nicely done.

Could you use an arbor press for blacksmithing?

If the rivet material is 10mm and the hole in the bottom die is 10.5mm, did the rivet shank grow in diameter to make it stick in the die?

I’m not fortunate enough to have a scale model traction engine or a fly press like yours but if 1 had both perhaps a strip of e.g. 50x4 flat bar could be “dimpled ? “ every day 2” along it’s length then wrapped round a welded boiler over the weld seam to make it look riveted ? Sometimes these things don’t even need a use to justify them , there just ace 😁

the ever adorable, lovable, playful Border Collie... bring in the chickens. LOL

Thanks mate. I thought it was worth watching.

Nice work!

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My guide is to use twice the amount of kindling you think it will need, and it will work half the time!

Basic video but essential information resource for the new generation who have an interest in having a do at this stuff 👍🏻

Keep forge lit. Forge On. Keep Making. God bless.

No backdraft to bottie? Blacksmith theo Harlingen holland.... Good idea though we Off of northstream Bycia nato and mi6 Thanking them Blacksmith theo Harlingen holland Stil have some coal... Stil

👍🏻👍🏻. Can't wait to see more updates an projects and many more videos soon my friend. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend. Forge On. Fab On. Weld On. Keep Making. Keep forge lit. God bless.

Interesting. Where did you source your new blower from?