Hand Forging a Pipe Tomahawk Using 18'th Century Tools | HISTORY | BLACKSMITHING |
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- Beau Beckett and Chris Johnston, visit Peter's blacksmith shop and forge three pipe tomahawks from old gun barrels.
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Featuring - Peter Kelly
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Thanks for having me a part of what was a great weekend! Every time we try a new (old) method we learn why these methods were used, overcoming the limitations of the primitive shop smiths were able to produce beautiful wares.
Any time, Chis. A great weekend and you are most welcome anytime.
Thanks 4 this vid and 'kind mention' dear Peter and your 'better' and fine-handed filmographer = Catherine! Even providing some delicious (no doubt) Leek soup to replenish the energy of '3' Forgers in the house! I never knew how vital the 'color' of metal was in developing an item. A person color blind, would have a hard time at such a skill, 2 B sure! My eldest son, years past, loved 2 partake of the; 'Voyageur' days in Winnipeg and gravitate 2 tinkering in the Forge. I thought 2 send him this vid as it would surely interest him. My own tool chest is quite sparse, yet I manage. It is comparable to this quote; "When the only tool U own is a hammer, every problem begins 2 resemble a nail." (Abraham Maslow). Health and God Bless! :)
One could simply not be a blacksmith if they were colour blind, perhaps a striker or fire keeper of the forge. Great quote! Having said that a good smith can do a whole lot without anything else, lol.
Mr. Beckett is one of the very few blacksmiths of that era I have seen to sport a full beard. I hope it never "sparks" interest! Looking forward to the second part, this was very interesting and entertaining! Thank you Peter!
Its scary! Gotta keep it safe.
There were the odd moments when I could smell burning hair, lol but, Beau seems to get by with it.
You're an apprentice in your blacksmith shop, but a master in everything else.
Very flattered, thank you. My skill at smithing went up a notch after this weekend.
I can't helpthinking this would have been an unbelieveable sight in the mid 1700's. Two master blacksmiths in the same location. Working in the same building. A rare sight indeed.
Indeed Al. Some of the larger centers had really big smith shops in large towns like Boston,Philadelphia, Charleston and New York, often employing dozens of men.
Brilliant! Can’t wait to see you smokeing up a storm.
Very soon! Thanks for the compliment.
That shop environment has to help improve artistic creativity . What an awesome place to spend winter days.
Absolutely, now to just find the precious commodity, time!
I've been watching for a long time, Peter. This video was excellent. Thank you and your friends for sharing their craft.
Glad you enjoyed it, Ralph and we certainly appreciate your continued support.
You can see your face in the business end of that flatter you were sent. That’s impressive work
Seriously, like a mirror, one could shave with it!
That video went by fast! Excellent video! Thank you!
Glad you liked it, Ian. Still waiting for that visit, lol.
Those two gentlemen knows their craft, very impressive 👍
Peter I enjoyed this video that you and Cathy put out so very much.
I have heard of tomahawks being actual smoking pipes, but I never realize that it was a true fact and indeed were a real thing back in that time. Thank you.
They were very common for approximately 50 years.
good morning PETER.LOVED THE VIDEO
Top of the morning to you, Robert, thank you.
Another fine production Peter! After being a welder for most of my working career, and doing a little knife making on the forge. I love watching true craftsman work their magic. Your shows just keep getting better! Can't wait till next week to see what you bring to the screen.
Thanks Jack, we got a few more coming down the pike.
A very interesting video showing true masters of probably the most important trade in the colonies, Blacksmiths built far more than iron tools they helped build the country.
Well put, John. With out them there would have never been a country.
Wow! Great job guys!
Thanks so much!
Potato leek soup is one of my favorites.
As it is mine, Kathy.
great video! and a super thanks to your guests. Mr Johnson and Mr Beckett. probably didn't spell that correctly. my apologies. Great Video thanks.
Appreciate that Charles, I’ll pass on your compliment.
I'm sorry that's not a Tomahawk it's a work of art . I would have it hanging on my wall or a art museum.
Wait until you see the finished hawks!
@@beaubeckett3175 I can't wait.
That is my hope but, I’ll be using it for what it was intended for. Well perhaps not tomahawking someone, lol.
What an honor it is to be hosting such gifted friends and their projects!!
Indeed, the honor was all mine.
These smithing videos are definitely fascinating. Thanks for sharing this Peter.
Glad you like them, James.
Excellent video. A history lesson in great forging.
Glad you enjoyed it
Here's the great consequence of what you had in mind (I guess! with the whole Woodland Escape "life" project) Peter: creating a place to enhence knowledge transmission and grand human gatherings. Bit by bit completed - like this forge - and evolving, you gave birth to a mean that perpetuate, transmit, not a end result in itself, it does what it was meant to be. Serves as technical and as well (if not more...) as personnal growth. So much generosity from you, Beau and Chris to lend yourselfs to the game of sharing knowledge and experience acquired craftmanship. Cheers to Cathy's leek soup and wonderfull footage that again enables diffusion of all this. Have a wonderfull weekend.
Hi Denis
Nice to hear from you. I really enjoyed your episode with Peter on the history and patterns of the woven Sash.
Best Regards to you!
Kind and thought provoking words my friend. Thanks so much.
Only a truly mechanical eye can appreciate the two works of art that were just formed before our eyes. Nothing more gratifying then art in the hands of two masters.
Thanks Roger, I’ll be passing on your kind compliments.
When I was a kid, I had a huge interest in history and how things were made. So I became very interested in blacksmiths, I would visit any blacksmiths locally (With the help of my Nanny and Grandpa) and I was just in awe. I really loved this episode.
You should give it a try if the opportunity arises, you’ll quickly be hooked.
I love that you talk about the history behind what you do
Thank you. About all I can talk about, lol!
'masters' are judged by their peers, it takes a lifetime of study and hammer time. Most who are 'masters', will never say they are.
So very true!
Hi Peter, really enjoyable and educational. You guys did a fantastic job !👍
Many thanks, Gil.
One of my favorite videos to date!
Thank you.
Three genuine David Crockett’s of twenty century 🦬🦫🐿️🪓
Excellent video my friend, nothing better than friends coming together feasting and one of my favorite things ,blacksmithing,forging tools. Thanks Peter for putting a smile on my face.
Couldn't agree more, Phillip … I couldn’t stop smiling all weekend.
Thank you so much for the uplifting video dear friend 🌲🌲🌲
So nice to know it had that positive affect, Ofer.
Love this video. Can't wait to see the finished hawks.
Thank you, Bill, hope to get at it this week.
Absolutely beautiful work!!! All involved job well done!!!
Thank you very much, James.
Awe inspiring, history, education, friendship, what a way to spend a weekend, thank you for sharing.
Our pleasure, Danny, glad you enjoyed.
Another great video. Thanks for taking us a long.
Our pleasure, Joseph.
What an awesome video Peter to watch three master craftsman at there craft well done guys very nice TomaHawks
There is something satisfying, almost magical, about making the things in life directly connected to one's survival and well-being and your videos manage to capture that magic. I was fortunate to have been raised in a poor family. Hunting, fishing, farming, animal husbandry gardening, and putting food by. In the summers I worked on my aunt's farm. Chicken dinner started with sharpening a hatchet. It gave me a profound appreciation for the cycle of life.
Profound words, Ward. I too grew up on a small farm, we didn’t have much extra money but, we certainly had a wealth of experiences.
Thank you again for the wonderful video. I have enjoyed all of your videos and knowledgeable guests immensely. The few videos about your back story were amazing, and the hands-on or how to videos are valuable resources of knowledge as well as a sweet taste of history. They are always educational and extremely interesting, and I can't wait for the next one to drop. My 3 year old Grandson watches them with me when he is at our home, and appears to still be a fan. He still thinks you are a pirate and likes to watch your videos with me. He said after watching this video, "I think that's a pretty smart pirate, Paw pa. He know how to do about every thing" That made me chuckle. I hope he will continue to gain knowledge by watching your videos, and will have an appreciation for history as I do. Once again, thank you Peter and Cathy for allowing me to enjoy time with my Grandson, as we both learn from you. Just a thought to ponder, I wonder how much influence your videos will have on him, and other young people in the future. God Bless.
R Billy to your grandson. Should my videos actually appeal to the young ones is extremely flattering … Thanks Tracy.
Looks like y'all had a really great time Peter! Thanks for taking us along. And, as always, thanks to Cathy as well.
TC
Our pleasure! Thanks for your interest.
Good morning from Syracuse NY USA brother and everyone else thank you for sharing your adventures in history videos
Our pleasure, Earl .
I have shared your videos with my friends
The amount of time to make a tool makes you respect that when all tools had to be made taking so much time. They are works of art. What great talents these men have in their craft. Great video.
Well said, Beverly.
Peter that's is amazing to watch the masters at work working together to make some fine tools. The bellow is doing a great job. Be safe. Talk soon!
Glad you enjoyed it, Larry and those bellows are indeed performing very well.
Excellent and fun video to watch.
Glad you enjoyed it, Gregory.
I am just finding your channel and I rather enjoyed watching the process from making the gun barrel turned into a hawk. I do make hawks myself but never from a gun barrel. This is great work ya'll and can't wait to see more from this shop.
Glad you found us. It was a pretty neat project. I’m just putting the finishing touches on mine and it turned out pretty darn good.
First time viewer here and may I say I'm hook mate . Cheers from Australia .👍🤠.
We certainly appreciate you watching and supporting our step back in time endeavour.
Excellent! Thanks for sharing
My pleasure!
Great video. Really enjoyed it
Glad you enjoyed it
There is a wisdom in the pipe tomahawk, it can be used as a weapon but more importantly to seal a deal for peace, and peace is perhaps the most valuable gift man can give to himself and the world. I hope this one is smoked by the men who at this moment can make peace. Maybe getting it as a surprise gift in the mail might fire the idea.?
Indeed, the countries of this work need to “ bury the hatchet “!
Thank you Peter for bringing history to life
Trust me Charles, it is no effort on my part it’s simply my passion.
Another great history lesson and a fine looking hawk.
Working on finishing it all up this week. Glad you enjoyed.
Especially interesting to a fellow born and bred in The fine province of Manitoba! Very familiar with lower fort Garry and upper fort Garry. 👍
And a Province with a lot of interesting history I might add. Heading through there on route to the Yukon this summer.
Awesome!! Really cool to see the process! First time actually seeing “forge welding” being done. Amazing work, and another great video!
Thank you very much!
Peter thanks for sharing your knowledge and work what a gift having Chris and Bo show the way always Freddie 😄soup looked tasty Cathy
Our pleasure!
Excellent video as always. Absolute works of art created by true Artisan's.
We all learned a lot in the making process and I’m ready to try my next without the aid of the Masters.
Fantastic, what craftsmanship. Peter, I’ve watched a lot of your videos and they are all excellent, but this one is exceptional.
Thank you !!!
Many thanks, Ryan.
One could also note that the pipe tomahawk BOWL shapes roughly corresponded with the evolution of the well known stone keel pipes (aka "petit calumaix" or sometimes "mic-mac" pipes from the ca. 1750 through ca. 1840's eras) which themselves were mass produced by French carvers for the fur Trade (Etienne Gibau of Montreal for example). In fact, one could argue the point that the "saddle" (chevron shaped bolster/filed lines) on the eye near the blade base are also derived from the St. Lawrence and Maritime stone keel pipe neck base decorations. Many early keel pipe bowl shapes were often direct effigies of "clay Indian cooking pots" but also included octagonal and "acorn" shaped bowls. The "Acorn" bowl becomes all but universal on these pipes and get TALLER into the post 1790's. The earliest French octagonal pipe tomahawk bowls seem to NOT derive from a gun barrel however, ....but certainly not from "rifle" barrels, as these were mostly made in France and not a "make-do" frontier project. The English "STANDARD PATTERN" pipe tomahawk was well established by ca. 1780 and used a less defined "acorn".....which gets more and more straight sided (occasionally "taller" too as the 19th cent. progressed (see all the Dakota pipe tomahawks from the 1850's Plains for example)......many without doubt made from used rifle barrels.
That’s great information, Kenneth . I wish I had you at my fire to extract more. Thanks for sharing.
What a great circle of friends
They’re the best and I’m indeed fortunate.
Mr. Pete......awesome video!!!! Interesting the thought behind burying the hatchet and the actual use of them. Stay well...Robin
Thanks Robin. Pity the countries of the world couldn’t bury the hatchet.
absolutely enthralled.
They are masters of blacksmiths beautiful work
Thanks Mike.
Appreciate your efforts and dedication. Your guest as well. My pipehawk is of brass. Hade it several years. Picked up on a trade blanket. Owner had never married the handle to the head and I guess I'm continuing his tradition. It's on my to-do list for a while. Thanks again and keep your powder dry!
It’s kinda like finishing the small details when one builds a house, like molding. Sometimes takes a while to get around to things, lol. Watch yer top knot!
Great video Peter, and some impressive editing Cathy. You really put that together well showing all the steps.
Cathy sure can work some kid of magic when it comes to the editing.
Thank you for sharing such wonderful video
Beautiful to see the tempered straw colour in the steel
Wow! What beautiful craftsmanship! I would be proud to own one of those fine pieces!
Thank you very much, Bernadette.
Another awesome video! Love the anvil hammer quote. Thanks for the shout out they turned out great. Make sure you do a video on the making and drilling of the haft.
Hope to be working on just that this week.Glad you enjoyed.
Amazing skill Peter!
Always a kind word sister Pat!
Thanks for sharing and showing us how things were made before machine s
My pleasure 😊, Kim.
Magnificent work, really enjoyed watching the progress.
The changing colours of the heated iron / steel are incredible.
You all obviously love your "calling" & creating your works of art.
Beau has a magnificent health & safety beard for blacksmithing - what could go wrong there - hmmm! (let's hope nothing!!)
There was a number of whiffs of burning hair in my shop , lol.
Awesome stuff! Can't wait to see it finished.
You and me both, hope to get at the haft this week.
Great video! I had been wondering about thier construction for a while. Great to see it done with traditional tools and methods.
Glad you liked it!
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I now need to find a length of octagon barrel and go at it!
It is a great project and I’m planning a few more to refine my skill.
Wonderful episode, it was great seeing the 3 of you together. I'm looking forward to seeing how this project turns out.
Glad you enjoyed it! I’m looking forward to the end result as well.
Good Day Peter & company, I shall be revisiting this video many times to get all the tips on forging up my own. Best video content that I have seen in a while, and can't wait to see the finished product.
Glad you enjoyed it, Hayward. I’ll be working on the haft and finishing the filling/sanding of the head this week.
Siyo! Absolutely awesome presentation! It was phenomenal watching them split the steel! Sgi for the great work! I look forward to viewing the pipe stems/handles. Sgi unali'i 🦅
Thanks, I hope to be working on that this week.
Enjoyed this! Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it, Tom.
Never really wanted a pipe tomahawk.
Until now.
Some thing them just an ornament but, history tells a different story of the primary use was that of a weapon.
Peter and Cathy, another great presentation, and it was so nice to see two master blacksmiths flanking Peter.
I learned something new about strawing the edge of a tool. I had always thought it was done directly in the fire.
Is that original tomahawk on loan for the project! It's in amazing shape for an original.
Best Regards
The original belongs to a good friend of mine who loaned to us to study. Looking forward to the next step in completing it.
Thanks for sharing that was awesome.
Glad you enjoyed it, Douglas.
Another fantastic video.
Glad you enjoyed it, Timothy.
I have seen an original at a local museum forge...beautiful pieces and well made. I enjoyed watching this process on your forge. You have to respect the time and practice that went into an apprenticeship.
Indeed and they often were the striker all day long!
I thought that I had lost you guys! I'm so hPpy to see you again! Will be with you until the end!
Welcome back, Millie. We didn’t go anywhere, we release an episode every Friday.
Thank you for the answer.
Any time!
Outstanding video!
Thank you very much!
I’m a new viewer. Love todays video, not only craftsmanship but historical lesson as well. Thank you.
Thanks for watching, Mike and we appreciate your interest.
Fantastic video!!👍🏻👍🏻
Thank you very much, Craig.
Hi Peter,
I love to watch true craftsmen making something out of basically nothing and Blacksmithing has to be the ultimate craft in my opinion. However, as much as I can understand the Blacksmiths of old learning through trial and error how to work a chunk of iron to form a useful item I struggle to understand how these people worked out the properties of minerals etc to assist the process. For instance, how did someone work out that Borax could be used as a flux to weld two pieces of metal together (among other properties)? Who first observed this mineral and thought, ‘I know what I can do with this!’ These conundrums fascinate me. We take these processes as part of a normal manufacturing process today but someone once had to work it out and I just can’t comprehend the thought process that they went through. It’s not as if a discovery like that would be through pure chance. I would have thought the chance of some Borax coming into contact with a hot piece of metal being worked in a Blacksmith’s Shop would be next to zero. Fascinating. 🤔
Best wishes,
Mark
Conundrums indeed. I find myself these same questions.
As always, very interesting.....
Thanks Jon.
Very cool
Thank you.
We have 1-2 pipe tomahawks, one in a hawk handle, one as just the head; decorations. Never smoked them. Lol
We took down our knife and hawk throwing block. Even though I hadn’t used it much in the last couple of years, I still miss throwing my knife and hawk.
So flint knappers have knap-ins. Do blacksmiths have hammer-ins? Lol
We do indeed!
I might just have to start a hammer in … great idea.
Good early morning Peter. Thank you for sharing with us. What a great video.
Appologies once again for my absence. I recently caught a cold of some sort and hopefully on the mend. I'm to go with a friend this morning to a native American relic show. I'm praying that I feel up to it.
Prayers that you and Cathy are doing well along with the rest of your family. I perhaps missed it but how did you acquire the authentic axe?
Sending blessings to all and we'll see you on the next show. Thanks again and God bless.
Your timing once again is immaculate! I just finished putting together a gas forge (less problems when in town). I'm looking forward to firing it up inspite of me being maybe an apprentice if that.
That’s great David and the road to being a Master!
It is a fine looking FLatter .
It is truly a work of art. Thought for a moment to put it on the mantle but, I’m sure Ryan made it to be used.
Nice work, men!! Lots of hammering, etc goes into those pipe tomahawks.
Yes it does but worth every blow.
Great content, really enjoyed this 👍
Glad you enjoyed it, David.
Hi Peter. This is a fine episode about blacksmithing with an added history of the tomahawk. Did you say every tool in your shop is handmade? That's extraordinary.
Pretty much on the tool comment and thanks for your comment.
Howdy Peter
Nice video .... fantastic
I like the old Tomahawk you say about 200 + years old ... I bet I help make it in my before life ! ...LOL ...Is the handle the same age ?
Still after being a machinist since 73 .. it is still great to watch the old way in blacksmithing , were my trade came from ....
Thanks 👍. The haft is not original. At some point it was attached for display purposes.
I’m a blacksmith in Kentucky myself, I do EVERYTHING by hand just like them. That’s something not a lot of smiths can say these days, they’ll lie to your face and say they do tho Lol where’s the handle video???
I’m starting on the haft tomorrow, Josh and we will be filming the progress.
Thank you for showing how to drill the pipe stem.
Glad to help