How to Forge Tools: Wood Chisel
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- čas přidán 21. 08. 2024
- This is the fist video in a new series I am starting about how to forge your own hand tools.
This is a step by step instructional video on how you can forge your own chisel for woodworking.
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northernforgeblacksmith
Learned a lot, thanks
Glad to hear it!
Awesome video! Fascinating to watch, thank you!
One big question: what's a "cold shunt?"
Excellent question. A cold shut is when 2 pieces of steel, or in this case one piece folded over on itself, are forged together without enough heat to cause them to forge weld. This can easily turn into a crack in the material that has to be ground out completely or it will spread and ruin the entire piece.
I'm not going to complain about a cold anvil sucking my heat out anymore.
It was pretty warm that day. High 20s if I remember right. Once it starts getting down to around -10F I usually just stay inside.
One question, why do you work out in the snow. Get in the shed and get the heater running.
I assume by shed you mean the area where I was doing the grinding and turning. Unfortunately thats just an extension off the back of the barn with 3 walls an no insulation so not much use trying to heat it.
I have since gotten a dedicated smithy roof up to keep the snow off. Check out my facebook page if you want to see pictures of it.
How do you keep your heat? I'm in Minnesota and my steel cools crazy fast in winter
Generally in the winter I only forge on relatively warm days (usually above zero). The cold air actually isn't as big an issue as one might think since air is a pretty good insulator. The biggest heat loss comes from the anvil. Usually the first several heats have to be pretty short as the anvil sucks out a lot of heat from the workpiece, but once the anvil gets warmed up its not too bad. If I'm working really small stuff, I will take a larger piece of steel, heat it up, and lay it on the anvil to warm it up before I get to work.
@@northernforgeblacksmith ah there it is. The anvil itself. I have neighbors bothering me
yeah, a lot of mass to warm up in the anvil, but once warmed up it will stay warm for a long time.
Do the physics. Anvil temperature does not matter much when you are forging 1,000+ degrees F steel.
speaking from experience, the difference between a -10F anvil and a 150-200F anvil makes quite a bit of difference in how fast the work piece cools down.
Did you harden/temper it?
I did harden and temper it. In between rough grinding and finish grinding, though there's not much to show for the process. Heat it up, dunk in oil, then oven for a couple hours.
Oh no poor avil, it's gonna rust away
the surface of the anvil does develop a little big of rust once in a while if not used for longer periods of time, but that goes away with a bit of use, and since the surface is very smooth it is actually a very minimal issue.
Your shop needs a new roof man.
Its coming! When I made this chisel I was just working outside, but since they I have been able to finish the roof over my new space and I am in the process of getting things moved.