player unknown battleground and they
have this silly weapon the frying pan
now I thought how amazing would it be to
actually make our own frying pan but I
don’t have the skill of the blacksmith
nor do I have the tools so what do you
think I can actually help him with this
quest my father is the owner of I forge
iron comm and that’s where all the
blacksmiths come together and they talk
and it just so happens that there’s a
I just hey how about you get over
yourself
welcome back to see you it’s amazing
what you got it I mean I think you have
just about every tool that I could
possibly go then well you’ve heard of
the game and player unknown
battlegrounds one of the melee tools
which is just how it happens to be
bulletproof which makes no sense I got
hit in the planning to save my life who
said that you’re the best guy yeah yeah
I make a few frying pans now and that
five Jim Hoffman I’ve been a blacksmith
for about 35 years or so full-time right
now I’m doing mostly work for museums
frying pans are somewhat difficult to
document in the earlier periods in the
19th century in Pennsylvania a lot of
local blacksmith we’re making frying
pans they’re not using presses so
they’re hammering them it’s actually the
bottom of an oxygen cylinder and they
have different curves formed in them cut
different cylinder bottoms with
different shapes for different size
frying pans so today we’re gonna make a
historically accurate frying pan out of
a disc this is 14 gauge sheet steel I
will use the large power hammer for
kind of hard to see on this one but
there’s some cupping to the sides and
I’m gonna take that out and this larger
pan you can see the cup size that’s what
the client wanted most people want flat
size which actually work better for
cooking especially to scrape the edges
so what I’m going to do is flatten this
side out
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are you able to see the difference where
it’s flat where it’s more cup shaped
it’s also gonna open the pan up a little
bit the other thing I’m watching is
where the scale bounces off gives me an
we need to flatten this just a little
bit not be careful because if you move
it too much it just starts going back
and forth and won’t stay tight the
hedges are just a touch rough I’ll do
you let this air school because I’m
gonna drill it for the holes to rivet it
to attach it to the pan go over to the
I’m holding the handle I want to get it
line up relatively close to rim center
punch mark keeps the drill bit from
dancing around on the piece
these are commercially made rivets
they’re softer material can you use at
home and maybe if you don’t have the
commercial software rivets could you use
just a regular nail or you can use a
nail but it’s a little bit harder to
work okay so you could you can cut a
nail off but it’s gonna be harder over
but can you maybe anneal it and make it
uh sort of a weakened metal the saw
I haven’t had great success with that
hug that up I don’t want it too tight
adjustment get it so that it’s lined up
so here’s your frying pan Wow
I love the hammered finish we left on
the outside that way if we let people
know that it’s homemade and what were
you talking about before about like
adding some swirled vinegar or something
so I kind of clean that out if you soak
it overnight or even for a couple of
days it’ll help clean some of the
remnants out of there set it and forget
it huh yes that’s pretty awesome and
then we could also you know take a bet
those big shoes comfortable yes they
have a carved arch support in up
ee-ha look at that
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that tastes like success and it’s good
luck this is goodbye the final call here
and I literally even fried bacon for me
you want to cool no it’s good alright so
many of you have probably seen the tug G
frying pan we decided to make one that
was historically accurate however now
that we have such an amazing
blacksmithing friend Jim Hoffman why not
go for a historically accurate the
Viking axe maybe inspired by God of War
do not undo his work improve upon it
only there’s a lot of other things we
can do so if you have anything now that
we have a guy who graciously if he has
the time created for us please let us
know comment below and we’ll see if he
can make what someone would have
actually used so leave a comment below
what do you want us to try and build
next Jim may invite us back so that he
can help us out with when these projects
if he has the time we’ll have to set
that up with him but we’d love to hear
what ideas you have so leave a comment
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