Tongs!!

This super awesome tongs video was posted to Don Fogg's bladesmith forums last week. It does a really good job of showing all the steps and none of the processes are particularly difficult. When I made my first pair we were shown how to make "Poz" tongs. To make each jaw we slit the mouths of the jaws to take the bar stock we were using and used a piece of the stock to make the jaws fit. I think I much prefer to twist and use the square stock to make the impression. We also punched the hole for the rivet. I think I prefer that because it will leave most of the material that's there to start with. Plus the bulge from punching looks good :)