Yoursme DIY Rapid Tongs Bundle Set - Blacksmith Five types of Tongs Bundle Set with Rivets - Rapid Flat Jaw/Bolt/Scroll/Slot Jaw/V-Bit Tong for Blacksmith Beginner

Good first project for new blacksmiths and blade smiths.

I spent 2 hours with the coal forge to finish up these 5 tongs. Used a drill press for the rivet holes and got good alignment. One of the best investments for blacksmithing tools I have made in 30 years as a hobbyist. Rivets worked wonderfully once brought up to bright orange heat. Re-heated to shape and finish up the heads and make sure they were tight but not binding. I've made tongs from square stock as part of an apprentice class and the time saved by these pre-cut blanks makes it all worth while. I'm not sure why other people ranked these less than a 5 - no regrets from my experience!

These things are great. I have tried to hammer out tongs before but had no template. I made a few blanks before i tried putting these together. There is plenty of steel to add length to the handles, so that is not an issue. I saw in other post about the rivit being galvenized. I think they changed that part out. I lightly sanded it just to be sure but saw nothing.Down side is you need a set of tongs to make these tongs, lol. Aside from that this is a straight forward design easy to implement. First set took a couple hours just because i wanted to go slow and make sure everything lined up right.My only extra advice would be to have a drill press so you can set the pivot pin correctly, I don't think you could do it with a hand drill as you want a perfect straight hole so as not to get any binding in the handles (reigns).

Great product very good set to get started with and learn to forge your own

The blanks are as advertised but the problem is there is no written instructions only a Q R code and I don’t have internet in my shop! This will be my first project blacksmithing and visual reference would surely help!

These look like a very nice kit for beginners! Everything is cut precisely, all edges are clean and ready to forge into their finalized shapes.A different reviewer stated that there was a supposed danger with this kit because the rivets were coated with zinc, and that it must be removed before setting.This is false. These rivets (which are tiny) have such a minute amount of zinc on them, that they do NOT pose a risk of zinc oxide inhalation of any measurable amount. Period. End of argument.This seems to be people's favorite thing to gripe about, and they will call people out on it. You will see these same kinds of comments all over YouTube as well.I question most if not all of these people's actual experience with zinc oxide inhalation, or if they are merely just sheeple, repeating what far too many others like to gripe about.I've experienced "metal fume fever" a few times as a welder. This was while welding commercial and residential gates all throughout the day. And any gate you look at is galvanized steel. So we worked with HUGE amounts of zinc coated materials all throughout the day.As long as we paid attention to ventilation, we were just fine.These tiny rivets??? Ignore any claims that you must beware.If you are paranoid: make sure you have proper ventilation in your shop when heating up your rivets. (But that goes without saying, as anyone running a forge or foundry in their shop/garage will already have proper ventilation.)Just heat and set your rivets, make cool stuff, be smart, have fun.

These are exactly what I ordered and expected. They are of decent weight and well cut. It should be fun forming these into their final profiles to make a decent forging tongs of.

These tongs are nice laser cut blanks to forge into tongs of your choice.They are much smaller than I expected, jaw lengths about 2", but still good when finished for small work.All in all good value if you know how to finish them.Also very low carbon content steel. just FYI

They are working great!

If willing to put a little bit of elbow grease in it, they are great. Buy more than one so use one to make the second parent!😉

Many thanks, the tongs are great and they won't take much work to finish them. I'm very happy.The postage time was super fast! and the packaging was first rate!I can reccomend these to anyone else considering purchasing them.

Very very nice tool after everything was Assemble gave me five more for the price of one

Still need a forge to finish these properly, but a pretty good timesaver for 5 sets of tongs.