How to bend
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How to make Cutlery hooks
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good afternoon once the craziness of
being this really big mold that's taking
up most of my time I thought I'll spring
this afternoon and just do a quick video
on how to make these hooks out of old
cutlery you see them all over over
Pinterest and just about everywhere but
I haven't been able to find a how-to
video so yeah I'm going to try and do
that today they're really fun to make
and you don't need a lot of complicated
and expensive equipment you've got a
hammer a block of hard wood or a piece
of railway line and you said to go
I've also scratching my toolboxes and
found some old chisels and that little
cone shape is ideal to shape scrolls and
things over so yeah that really came in
handy
and the other thing I found that heating
the the tines of the fork up to redheart
just with a with a gas burner softens
them quite a quite a lot and they're
just a lot easier to manipulate
on this evening one of these gas pulses
runs off her normal LPG gas bottle
okay and now we'll just let that cool
down before we start working on it okay
now the first order of business is to
flatten this whole thing out
now you want to try not to hit on the
tines too much because that will
obviously harden them again I just use
one of these nylon hammers can't you
give these a bit of a push
now let's use this and you can see how
nicely this this works okay
so we've got those two squirrels done
now I just want to do something similar
with the with inside tube as you can see
you don't really have to work too hard
because were they eating really nice and
soft
they're obviously as you as you work
them they do harden up again one has to
be quite careful of the tips because
they do you tend to snap off from time
to time
okay now I'm just going to use two
sticks just to clamp this into the vise
nice and securely
and then I'm just going to use a little
bit of masking tape my name
and then we just need to give it a twist
and just make sure it lines up again
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okay and these things happen as well the
the end of the fork snapped off as soon
as I started bending the hook on the end
so I just had to make this into a little
shorty so I'm just going to file that
round and then that will just have to be
a smaller one working with old things
I guess that's bound to happen slightly
bigger files okay now all that remains
to be done on this is to troll the two
little mounting holes in me
okay that's it for today I'm going to
walk up and have a cup of coffee I hope
you enjoyed this video please go out to
Mike a couple of these been quite fun to
tea and they actually make really nice
gift as well and I really find people
appreciate it more if you actually give
them a gift that you spend some time
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