Blacksmithing Essential Skills - Forging tapers by hand

This week we go over the basic skill of forging clean tapers free from hammer marks and scale.

We look at the tools and techniques required to forge:
1. Square taper
2. Octagonal Taper
3. Round Taper.

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[jc.considine]

Nice work. Great to see basic skills shown. :)

[starforged]

On all my punches I put a round bar perpendicular to the handle about 3" down from the top. Then I give a good hit leaving a groove. This keeps my round punch from rolling off the anvil and also orients my punch. I always put the groove on top so I don't end up with an upside down mark. Got the idea from my letter and number punches. Got the inspiration from picking up my punches.

[georgegriffiths]

I have a bucket full of 16mm off cuts I warm up with one and show basic skills to my grandson no such thing as scrap ; )

[paulorchard]

Simple tapers? Such as these I would expect that an apprentice would have to master in their first year? Its a fundamental skill required to knowledgeably move forward! Its great you put so much emphasis on basic skills that are not sexy and often just get brushed aside because I just want to make X!
Loving this content, recent subscriber and keen to see more!

[y-notforge]

..a Very Good educational and presented video sir. Well done...!

[fouledanchorforge]

Great video let's make a bottle opener it's beer 🍻 time cheers

[borrago]

You forgot to adjust yhe endpoint in your editor before you tendered the video. You have 2minutes of black space at the end.

[xrexc]

Awesome video! I hope maybe you can help me. Why do my tapers keep ending up hollow on the tips? I heard you quickly mention it but I dont understand what you mean. I put the noo noob as I'm sure you can see lol