Blacksmithing - Forging a scythe peening anvil
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I forge a small peening anvil, used to sharpen scythes
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Wonderful craftsmanship! Tomorrow I'm going to try making a scythe peening anvil because I have a mission to cut down long grasses in a couple of months time. My teenage daughter is apprenticing with a local blacksmith. She is doing very well. Thank you so much for your inspiring, teaching video. Many blessings and nice juicy watermelons to you! ~Wenndi
Great! Thanks
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Blacksmith, chef, gardener, toolsmith, woodworker, and magician. You, Sir, are truly multitalented.
I'm a pretty inexperienced smith, and I haven't seen a lot of blacksmithing, either on the Internet or elsewhere. But yours is some of the best I've had the pleasure to witness, due more than anything else to how methodically and meticulously go about your work. Very well done, sir, and thank you for your dedication to the craft.
Thank you Isaiah!
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Tons of pride in your work. The polishing of the anvils work surface really showed that.
I love your videos man. The calmness and the clicks and clanks of metal are like ASMR to me.
Thanks Captain!
@@torbjornahman Everything is fine, but square and flat scythe anvil is proven better. The rounded one, you are using, requires more precision. In the other words it`s more tricky :) There are more films on KZhead, regarding this matter, from the other parts of Europe. Just type "klepanie kosy". Btw: I remember my grandfathers, using square one, some 50 years ago.
@@adanio69 Ok? With the square ones you need to have crazy precision with the hammer! With this you can hold the scythe exactly where you want the blow and the hammer hit doesn't matter that much.
@@adanio69 HEJooo Z polski!!
Omg you have reminded me about my grand grand father who taught me to sharpen the scythe with the same tools... many years ago!
A whole specific anvil just for peening it. Man they took their wheat knives super seriously alright. Pretty darn cool to see
funny, that watermelon snack interlude. After a busy day of forging, nothing is more relaxing that scything a few square yards of grass.
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awesome. I like that "magic trick" to light up the forge. very good video Torbjörn
Thanks! :)
Torbjörn Åhman torbjorn is amazing magic guy
its not magic he stopped video and lighted fire and started video so it looked like magic that's all
shaik shoukath I don’t think you know what sarcasm is
shaik shoukath r/wooooosh
Really love your videos, man. I've been in the hospital for a few days and I've gone back through and binge watched a ton of your stuff. Very inspiring!
Great, thanks. Hope you're well now!
@@torbjornahman Hello, I'm from Germany, is there any way of buying a peening anvil and peening hammer from you my friend? Best wishes Damir
@@damirvicko141 Sorry, I don't make anything for sale.
The ever novel pleasure, a strange wistfulness we all have, for honest effort and the use of such in kind. It seems to me that there will always be people who wish only to observe in reverent silence, and there will always be those like this channel to reciprocate. To quote Tolkein, "It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life."
Thanks!!
Your attention to detail on everything you do is top notch
I can watch this guy all day long it's very relaxing
Jorge Perez , Your comment reminded me of a fellow saying that his wife was not afraid of hard work. Then he added that she could lay down next to it and go right to sleep. It is enjoyable to watch a useful tool appear from a piece of steel, and then see it used.
I used to harvest hay for the calves and trim the grass of the gardens with a practically identical scythe, when I was a boy. I worked with a honing steel in my back pocket and adjusted the thickness of the scythe blade on a common anvil, so as not to get thick, from filing and filing it ... All this in Viamão, state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in the 60s.
Спасибо за видео. Кузнец - это профессия! Руки золотые у тебя парень и это приятно видеть в наш век.
Петр Павлюченко, руки "золотые", только коса тупая судя по видео как она косит.
@@ezoop1 Ну, не держал он литовку в руках. Это как прелюдия к его мастерству.
@@ezoop1 он просто косить не умеет, техника хромает.
I really enjoy watching your videos and learn a lot from them. In particular, I like that no background music is heard; only the sound of metal being shaped and entire process it undergoes. Refreshing and inspiring, indeed!
Thank you so much!
Нравится. Удачи и благополучия мастер 👍
Amazing craftmanship and now also magic when lightning the forge ;)
My dad had a scythe at the cottage for the tall grass. I learned how to use it and once you have the handles set, learn the arc and keeping the blade sharp it was an easy, low effort way to cut the grass.
Wow! I thought I had seen all your projects but I was wrong and look what you have done...! What a master of your craft you are! I wish I was a young man and apprentice in so many different crafts such as yours, and sword and knife 🔪, pottery, pastry chef, and glass blower. And many more. When I was a kid we weren’t given choices like kids have today. I didn’t even know a man could be a pastry chef or Iron smith or heck a guitar maker. We were geared for industry, and women for the kitchen...I fought working in a factory and hit the world! Saw so much but decided on Medicine. No not a doctor....no, I became a Registered Nurse for 40 odd years. I’m retired now. Watching you and others blow my mind with your skill...so I shall shut-up and watch again and again. Thank you sir! Bless you all!
Thanks Mike!
The Snapping of the fingers to light the fire is a great touch lol, it was good!
It's a good old technique, almost forgotten... :)
The most beautiful forging i've ever seen, congratulations. Good job.
Wow! You're so inspiring! Thank you so much for sharing this treasure with us!
There's just no better tool for mowing than a good old scythe. Fantastic work, as always!
Thanks! As long as it is sharp, a perfect tool. A dull blade is no fun at all...
My grandfather began teaching me about steel one summer as a kid when I asked him why he beat the scythes blade on the anvil. Thank you.
i loved the video and i liked how you magically made the forge start up.
Ой как классно! Я такое наблюдал в детстве в деревне у дедушки! Ностальгия! Красивая работа!
ok! Interesting to hear! Thanks.
A good hand peened edge will keep that scythe blade ready for work for years to come. Excellent build!
Thanks
What a joy watching a professional.
4:50 I love to see how the hammer bounces on the anvil. thats a good quality anvil.
I remember reading about this technique. Probably in the 1970 Last Whole Earth Catalogue. Always wondered just how it was actually used. Only took about 45 years to find out. At any rate,a puzzle finally shown. Thanks for that.
Ha ha great! Thanks
On reflection. Have you ever tried instead of following the length of the blade,but at 90 degrees to what you are doing ,so the hammer strikes put a series of shallow depressions,similar in concept to a scalloped blade ? Stoning would then touch the slightly thicker metal. Would that improve cutting grain stalks as opposed to tall green grass such as you demonstrated? I remember as a teenager my 85 year old great uncle was unsurprisingly a master of axe and scythe. Ripe grain cuts differently from tall green grass or alfalfa or clover. Have you tried other types ? Cheers.
No I haven't tried that. Not sure if would work so well... Might be better to hone the edge with a corse stone maybe, to crate kind of micro teeth? If you peen the edge perpendicular to the edge you will end up with a warped edge since you elongate the edge with each strike.
Torbjörn Åhman You are there,I am not. Probably correct ,especially with repeated sharpening. The last thing desired would be to warp or embrittle the working edge. My guesstimate back when was that this technique was dependent on type of steel. Changing the carbon content or increasing the hardening would tend to create cracking as the thinned edge was worked. Still,stoning removes metal,this simply thins the edge. Smart idea for a frugal people. Thanks for the replies.
I love the absence of superfluous commentary. I've been given grief about being "mute". Videos that need words are books - IMO. Very nicely done! 👍👍
Thank you!
wow that watermelon he grew is amazing. keep up the good work in your garden !
WOW, that was so great. I just bought a scythe 60 with a 24 blade. Looking forward to using
Your videos continue to get better and better!
Thanks
Thank you for taking the time to pass on traditions of old because sometimes the best ways are the old ways and regardless the value of the old ways is precious and in this particular case the style of sharpening is a little bit more difficult but a lot safer and the quality of edge is as fine as any
The way these videos are shot and edited is beautiful. Very calming and flowing, no distracting or annoying elements, and a story is told smoothly. Apparently, that is hard to do, because I've seen so many bad and annoying videos on KZhead.
Thank you!!
It's strangely hypnotising to watch the white hot metal move and flow beneath the power hammer's strikes.
I know!
Honestly I thought it sounded like a machine gun
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U r right
When your forging skill reach a certain level, you can start a fire magically!
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Just watching you work removes all the tension and pressure from me
I like to look at your work very much. Do not stop, keep creating
Thanks!!
Very nice useful project! Hurricane should hit South Texas today or early tomorrow. The grass will grow quickly after the storm. How many acres can you cut per day and what is the fee? The hospitality is priceless. Su Amigo
:) Thanks!!
А такие инструменты передовались из поколения в поколение ,и были в каждом деревенском доме
Да у нас было целая фляга этих инструментов . Уехал я учится в город ну и по приезду, куда мать их дела понять не могу .
not only did i not know to to sharpen one, I had never seen one used before! I am currently in the latter stages of my forge build. I would like to say thank you, you are one of the few KZheadrs who inspired me to get out there and get it going. You are an inspiration.
Thank you so much Patrick! That is exactly what I was hoping.
Incredible mate. Absolutely loved it. I have no doubt that your videos are the best blacksmithing videos KZhead has to offer.
Oh, thank you!
Need a tool, make a tool. Very nice video. And believe it or not but from September on, I'll be in an apprenticeship as knife-smith. It was either that or the military. And not because I wouldnt cut it in any other job. I already had a finished apprenticeship. I 'collected' work experience from a lot of different branches. And most of them would have taken me right away. But I always struggled to find my place. That's why I was always interested in being a soldier. Thought it would give me that companionship and place I was looking for. I was really into it. Almost signed the contract. The duty, brothers in arms, order. You know all of that misguided bs about joining the army. Its true so far but it leaves out the unhealthy working conditions with all the lead in the air and your family life doesn't profit either from the situation. But then came my yet-to-be master around with the offer to take me under his wing. I worked for him 2 months, although without payment just to see how it works for me, how we get along etc... And I realized that is what I want to do for a living. Also you far less likely to be shot. I hope everybody who reads this already found his place or is on the right way. It can be a pain in the ass not knowing what the hell you supposed to do you with yourself next year. Or the 50 following. Greetings from Germany and be safe
Thanks. Great, good luck!!!
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Congratulations, Hopefully this will be your life’s work. I have been a machinist/toolmaker for over fifty years and know your concerns. You will need to earn a living for a long time, and if you enjoy your craft, the years will fly by. I have always looked forward to going to work, and I wish the same for you.
Some lucky ones pick in grade school but all I knew is after high school I didn't have a welcome so I left home months before gratulation time.But I did always welcome my own kids.I sign up to test for millarty but 5 people advise not to ,one was mom.
Bravo majstore,tak se kleplje kosa.pozdrav iz HRV.ZAGORJA
I've seen many videos but I did not look like this video, This is really nice and useful video
Du är faktiskt den bästa jag har nångång sett!
Tack!
No music, no blather, nothing precious...I think these videos should be required viewing for students (of all ages), because even though they would be watching another screen, they would see elemental truth in timeless human activities.
Thank you!
Bildric Thebent *Precocious, to those who scroll by and are confused. :)
Aaron Vixionni lovely words but remember that nothing "required" can ultimately be enjoyed. I'd use the word enticing...
Bullshit. Reading is a required subject in any school. Billions love to read. Myself included.
Oddly enough, "precious" works
I haven't mowed with a scythe in years, to peen it I used to use a $9 auto body dolly and a small ball peen hammer with a good flat face. I would find it really hard having to move the scythe around a fixed anvil like that. many ways to skin a cat though! My neighbor was 72 when he taught me. he had three acres of grass he would cut as winter feed 3 times during the summer. It would take him a a weekend to mow and the 3 acres by hand. He had a really old truxk with a PTO. Hi you use a hand anvil along with a small Ball peen hammer to thin the cutting edge down, it's peened down thin enough that it's razor thin. No filing, just stoning to "stand" the blade back up.
As a chef, I love this guy. Any dude who respects the blade enough to carry a steel with him out in the yard gets my respect.
Nothing better than a nicely forged tool 👍🏽⚒
Посмотрел видео до конца ,ждал когда будет нож из косы, но у вы,кузница у тебя хорошая да и кузнец ты не плохой, а вот косарь ты не какой и окосья короткая не под твой рост. А бабку или как у нас называют пятка, можно сделать из рессоры грузового автомобиля применив только болгарку
You are going to get me in trouble. I'm should be working!
You need a "boss key" on your keyboard, ha ha...
hehehe Work for you!
Ha!
Yes you should be updating us on your tiny home and that property of yours... Glad I can comment on two of my favorite channels at once.
RCotter Hammering Ha! will do! Finishing an auto body welding video then its back to drywall!
It is wonderful to make something for ourselves. A well-equipped workshop is an advantage. Thanks for the video.
Nice jump cut on the forge starting.
Very beautiful.Be careful when you work Angle Grinders.Your dust mask rope. 12:24
Yes, I noticed that too... I will get a new mask soon, those bands are irritating and dangerous....
Tip from a fellow scythe user: peen the blade with a heavier hammer, about 800-900g, using a radiused head or the crosspein if your aim is true. Then sharpen the scythe with a natural whetstone and apply more pressure. The sharpening is done whetting, the peening is just preparing the blade, getting kinks out and keeping it thin. You'll find it will actually cut the grass much easier and require less effort. Also keep the blade as low to the ground through your swing as you can. The closer to the root you cut, the smaller the change of the grass leaves dodging the blade.
That type of scythe is actually sharpened by bashing not whetstone. Basicly because it's much faster to sharpen that way and keeping it sharp is everything. I think it was more common in eastern europe.
@@rocksummit3375 I know, I made a video about it on my channel. Still, you need to sharpen them with a whetstone every now and then. In a full day of using it, you would peen/bash it maybe twice and easily tune it up with the whetstone 50 times for maximum cutting performance. A dull scythe is a very tiring tool to work with…
@@bvblacksmith Im checking out your channel!
That banging sound around the 3 minute mark is so cool
You are unquestionably one of my favorite smiths to watch work. All of your lines are so clean! You have a shop to dream of (and I do haha). I enjoy how you show each piece you make being used, and the little glimpses into your world.
Thank you so much!
I live the way you grow those melons great idea I think I’ll try next year! Great job forging
Молодец мужик!мне понравилось ваша мастерской.отличная рука.
Love the lighting of the forge humor.
Hi, i'm Brazilian , and I very like your channel , magic of forges.
Thank you!
Holy shit his name is Torbjorn and he forge metals, very relatable to Overwatch!
WOW!!! I wonder how snapping fingers can lit up a forge!!!
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Maybe it's just the way u published it.
You make the best Blacksmithing videos.
I LOVE how you just snapped and the forge ignited! I laughed so hard!!
He he...
Love your videos mate. Always interesting projects and beautifully made but also really well shot and edited videos which is a whole other skill and one that not all you tubers possess. Please, keep it up.
Thank you M!
Hi, I'm a first time viewer to your channel and I really enjoyed this video, I subscribed and look forward to watching more, cheers!.
Cool. Thanks! Check out my previous videos as well!
I've just spent the last two hours enjoying your previous videos, your presentation style is superb.
As is his craftsmanship !
Mark Schweter yeah I do like how you do thing. Slot of people forge things like knives etc and dont take the time to show us viewers how good there forge is.
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Thanks for sharing your knowledge you are an excellent craftsman. I enjoy watching your videos also because you just work and allow us to watch you without being distracted by talking. Some of the other craftsman think they have to be entertaining by explaining everything and then trying to be a bit funny. I believe these videos are not for beginner's they are for Tradesman and craftsman as you share your skills. Thank you.
Thanks!
You make this look easy, I can assure you, it is not easy at all. All the best, Edgar
Thank you!
favorite channel on youtube!
Thanks!!
jorgscz A truly satisfying experience, watching a great craftsman at his work. Excellent as always.
Torbjörn Åhman Keep up the good work sir. Lots people love ur channel.
Spokpo loko .ok!!
Все хорошо но ручку на косе длиннее надо молодец так держать новые видео лайк однозначно
Amazing! Watermelon salad also looks great
man, you are awesome! without speaking and there is no need in it! the way how accurate, how precisely you are doing everything (even growing vegetables) gives me a thrill!
Thank you!!
Hi, good are your videos, which is what you have in the mug. Sand? 7:58 Time New smith Daniel Canon M
Vermiculite! For insulation and slow cooling.
Thanks!!
While others are still making swords, you only make weeding sickles, and you don't use a weeder. You have come to peace from war, maybe this is Sweden. You only use stamping to make the steel into a perfect shape, and your craft is simple and fine. I used to think of Tao Yuanming, the earliest idyllic poet in China, from the Swedish architectural style, and now I think of this poet.
Wonderful wisdom.
Hello from Thailand/Texas!!!! We're still using your Fire Steel - awesome work. 1 year and still going strong. NE
Cool, good to know! Thanks
I love your methodical work , clean, organized straight forward. Excellent craftsman.
Thanks!
omg that navil (insert heart eyes) holy crap is so beautiful omg i cant get over it, she is such a sexy anvil!!!!!!
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Коса не под руку человеку. И точит так как будто в левом кармане пальцы запасные есть. Обух в землю, косою вверх и в перед. Левой рукой взять за кончик косы и обхватить обух подмышкой. Держать так, чтоб обух не соскочил и упереть в грунт. В правую руку камень, локоть прижать к телу!!! чтоб служил центром радиуса и круговыми движениями вымерять так, чтоб пальцами не торкнуться лезвия. Шаг в перед/назад регулировать высоту. А так да, клепальник конечно мастерски сделан. Особенно полировка)))
Забей. Чел для еуропейцев старался. А так да... С улыбкой воспринимаются манипуляции с косой и травой😁. 21 век хули там. Вот бы он скотине сено бы заготовил таким методом.... Я бы посмотрел. Может посмеялся. Может поплакал. Но чел молодец. Старается.
В России до сих пор первым попавшимся камнем косы точат...вообще дико смотреть на всё это )))
Хер на косу.на кузне вещи делает
Максим Гура: Да, главное здесь ремесло кузнеца...но как "нас" разделили искусно!!! Раньше, если ты даже это не умел делать, но точно знал - как, для чего и зачем. Сегодня это для многих непозволительная роскошь...
Максим Гура Вы очень требовательны. Наши давно разучились это делать.
In this world, people like that are needed, true artisans who recover old trades in danger of extinction or that have already become extinct. Thank you for giving a small opportunity to ancient humanity! if the grass was still cut with a scythe, the world would be better ... ¡Congratulations!
Great video! Great work! Great piece of work! True genius!😁🤟👍🛠️🔧
Странно, но технология в отбивании косы не меняется. Тысячу лет назад так отбивали. Надеюсь, и через тысячу лет будет то же самое.
And hopefully the skill to make these tools will too...
Now I'm hungry for watermelon. Many thanks.
I've fallen asleep to your videos 3 times. This is a good thing! Your videos are soooo satisfying, keep up the good work !
:) Thanks
FANTASTIC ! Never seen this information about this tool until now. Thanks for the history lesson. Or maybe I should say... reminder
:) Thanks
Don't really get what you just made... but it's amazing 👍
Молоточек для отбоя у нас используют полегче .А ещё есть приспособа со специальным бойком.
Very nice, sir. Love your workmanship. Thorough, calculated, functional, and artistic at once.
Thanks
Wonderful to see this craftmenship! Now ill go start the lawn mower
Ha ha!
Now I'm hungry.
"Babka" do klepania kosy. Ta którą używał mój tata była kwadratowa i troche większa .
@ mar1video I taka powinna być. Na tej, z filmu trzeba więcej precyzji i np. na kacu, ciężko byłoby kosę wyklepać :)
Never too old to learn something new. I had never heard of peening a blade/scythe like that and I have some mileage. ~¿@ But can now see why it's an excellent way to reshape rock dings and probably adds to the strength of the edge. Thanks for sharing this beautiful new tool with us and showing an old dog some new ways of doing things!! ~PJ
True, always new things to learn! Yes I really like this type of scythe. Traditionally we don't use this kind of scythe in Sweden, to my knowledge they used scythes with hardened blades that you had to grind. The edge might hold up for longer but correcting dings and notches are way easier to do with the hammer and anvil, rather than grinding the whole edge back.
I can do anything and watch your videos all day long. Mostly I work with a 2nd monitor that is dedicated to your channel. Thanks for being amazing!
Ha ha, that's great!! Thank you!!
Косить наклонившись не удобно, потому что спина заботит. Нужно ручку для косы делать длиннее.
excellent at forging but you need a little practise on swinging a scythe.
Thanks. I practice... I do :)
great.
So much work to avoid a mower.
But how much cooler? Also, there is something serene about not needing the ear pro'
@@Landrew0 Try forging a mower ; )
That was cool, That's an old school tool and Ill be honest, I wasn't sure at first what you were doing, but I have it now. VERY COOL
thanks
I love how you start the fire!