quick tongs

[Otto Gori]

Made this slightly past time.

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[Ray Rogers]

Very cool ...

[metal99]

Pretty sweet man. Are you going to make a video of the rest of the procedure?

[Crex]

That guy works awful hard to produce a set of tongs. Hammer is over weight for anvil, anvil is not stable, and he works the steel too far into cool. He could reduce his time and effort by 1/3 to 1/2 by changing these simple variables.
Still....his mechanical design approach is good for a solid set of tongs just kind of on the heavy side.

[metal99]

The first thing I noticed was the anvil bouncing a bit. I know it made a HUGE difference when we made our anvil stand a lot heavier.

[Crex]

Undersized anvil and oversized hammer is an inefficient use of energy and things will bounce. Simple physics.
"made our anvil stand a lot heavier" - you added mass to your anvil via the stand, usually a good move (unless you do a lot of traveling demos, that is).

[Otto Gori]

Here in brazil, anvils are very dificult to find.I'v looked for this one almost a hole year...

I'v aready fixed the bounce.

And, I'v aready purchased a 160Kg anvil I'v found it by luck...

[metal99]

160kg??? Wow man that's huge!!!

[Crex]

Anvils are like that. They hide out, takes a lot of looking to find a good used one.
Great find. Happy for you, that bigger anvil shouldn't bounce. Glad you got the other one tied down better. Just use it for lighter hammer work.

Met a lady at my last show that was from Uraguay. Said her uncle was a bladesmith and blacksmith (farm implements). Always interesing to meet people from other places that actually know what you are doing.