Japanese tool making porn - traditional blacksmithing

[USMCPOP]

Wow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-46...ature=emb_logo

[kiwi]

Very Impressive

[TEK]

Really cool pops, thanks...

I am currently looking at getting another hatchet and that section making the head was pretty neat....kinda explains why some of them are so expensive...

[baldy347]

Thanks, Pops. Wonderful workmanship.

[milomilo]

That was enjoyable to watch. So much that I had to watch part 1 too.

[Lew Hartswick]

That hatchet head was amazing . The whole thing was but that part was the most!!!!
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[camdigger]

Now I am curious. What might the welding flux they use be? Doesn't look anything like the Borax I've seen used. It also doesn't seem to spray out of the weld like borax seems to.

[milomilo]

Originally Posted by camdigger

Now I am curious. What might the welding flux they use be? Doesn't look anything like the Borax I've seen used. It also doesn't seem to spray out of the weld like borax seems to.

WAY, WAY back they used fine silica sand. Looks line sand too.

[USMCPOP]

Wood ash and rice straw ash have been used for ages when welding. Ashes do have a lot of fine silica. Wood ashes also contain sodium carbonate, which acts as a flux for silica. It lowers the melting temperature and is used in making glass.

Here's a old smith showing it in use when welding up a small tomahawk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr_scZW3R7c

[Lew Hartswick]

As a text only (hard of hearing) person, the "Closed Captions" do leave a bit of "interpreting" to do but a few of the sentences still don't make sense. The biggest unknown one is, what is "ankle pins" or what was the intended word / phrase???
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