Blacksmith Forging a Leaf Key Chain

Here I show you how I forge a Leaf Key Chain. I have reduced an almost 2 hour process to just under 6 minutes. Please visit my website for more of my work:
www.ironoakforge.com
www.ironoakforge.etsy.com

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• blacksmith
• fire
• forge
• anvil
• hammer. tongs
• leaf
• key
• chain

[greenbrad182]

that looks really good, but isnt that a little big to be a key chain?

[Zsartell]

@greenbrad182

I guess that's up to you. Bulky keychains seem to be popular right now. I also make smaller ones.

[mattkestel]

Wow, very,very nice. i am in the process of making my own shop. i just need a welder and anvil and finish building my forge. i learned a trick from a old blacksmith to reduce the "ping" place a "S" hook in the hardie or pritchet hole and place a 10lb. hammer at the end. So all you hear is "thump,Thump" instead of "ping, ping"

[Zsartell]

Thanks. The "S" hook idea is good. I use a chain wrapped around my anvil and have various tools wedged in between the chain and the anvil. This seems to work very well also. Good luck with your shop!

[randompieceoftoast]

Very nice! Now this is something I'd love to learn how to do sometime when I'm older. Thank you for the video!

[Zsartell]

Your never too young to learn.

[hexusziggurat]

@NyppoN "if it where at 1800-2000 the bar would have melted away! :P"

i think he means degFAHRENHEIT not degC. Most smiths i know of work in degF(typically b/c of higher temperatures) in which case most optimal forging ranges are 1800 to 2500dF typically (the metal will start to melt at 2700dF...where forge welding is possible between the 2700-2750 degF range).forgeweld degC is 1482.223 up to 1510.

Being in a world-neighborhood we must accept others work by a differing system. hope this helps.

[HWPcville]

@Zsartell A large magnet attached under the heel of the anvil also helps deaden the ping.

[BackWoodsPuppy]

@NyppoN Welding heat is usually 2300-2400 F, and it's certainly solid then.

[Zardoz5280]

@Zsartell  harder to lose such a big keychain end, the objective really.

[TomaNicTurtle159]

can I buy One

[hexusziggurat]

great work Zsartell! I make key chains every so often myself for our customers. If you come to my neck of the woods in Canada ,BC SouthEast corner ...send me a pm!

[TheXENitz]

nice done

[dogfootrot189]

@NyppoN actually, his comment is consistent with the temperature scale in fahrenheits, not degrees celsius, which is resumably the scale you were using

[NyppoN]

Hey dude! you know nothing about heath! 1800-2000 degrees..the temperature it has when you take it out of the fire in the begningn is about 1200 degrees haha! and the steel turns white at 1400degrees!

if it where at 1800-2000 the bar would have melted away! :P

Plz look up the facts before you telling stuff to others!

[scorpio11778]

I just bought the clover keychain on ETSY the other day and I can't wait to get it. That is so cool how the process is to making it.