Forging Blacksmith Tongs Without Tongs — A Beginner's First Project

The classic chicken-and-egg problem of blacksmithing: you need tongs to forge, but you need to forge to make tongs. This video solves it by showing how to make your first pair of blacksmith tongs using only basic tools — a hammer, an anvil, and a forge. No prior experience required. Once you have tongs, every subsequent forging project becomes possible.