anvilfire iForge Demo J and L hooks

J-J : `02:50:37`	This is a (sideways) set of his and hers bath towel hooks, about 7" tall and made of 1/4" round stock..
J-J : `02:51:25`	I saw them several years ago in a house i was working in. the owner had died, the house sold and i never knew who made them.
J-J : `02:52:00`
J-J : `02:53:13`	To make the ladies hook, draw a dull flat point on one tip of 26" long x 1/4" round stock, working the the far edge of the anvil.
J-J : `02:54:07`	reheat 18", including the newly dressed tip, and wrap it around your small anvil cone.
J-J : `02:54:21`	i do 3 wraps
J-J : `02:55:39`	Reheat, lay the coil flat on top of the anvil and flatten it...sort of looks like an electric stove coil heating element
J-J : `02:56:20`
J-J : `02:57:33`	reheat and using your small ball pien hammer as a fuller, drive the ball pien into the arm of the j-hook ljust below the coil (with will be a screw hole recess)
J-J : `02:58:52`	SAFETY NOTE; For driving in the ball pien fuller, use a soft faced hammer so as not to chip one of the hammers and do serious harm to your body.
J-J : `02:59:23`
J-J : `03:00:27`	now go to the remaining end, flatten a bit and spread with the cross pien, then spread and texture with a ball pien.
J-J : `03:01:15`	now make a scroll end by rolling the flattened tip AWAY from the coil
J-J : `03:02:31`	you can do this with a small scroll tong, needle nose pliers or with the hammer and far edge of the anvil, rolling it down first, then turning it up and rolling it toward you.
J-J : `03:03:13`
J-J : `03:04:04`	now roll the jhook around the small anvil cone or on the front of the anvil horn. we want about a 2" dia J.
J-J : `03:04:45`
J-J : `03:05:31`	this completed the "female" coiled j-hook. the process is different for the male squiggle version...
J-J : `03:07:24`	use 16" of 1/4" round for the male j-hook. Form the j-hook tip first (the small scroll tip), then then 2" dia J roll, then match the length of the first hook and turn the top to the left by 90 degrees as shown on the following picture.
J-J : `03:07:54`
J-J : `03:09:07`	now draw a tapered round square point on the end sticking out to the left.
J-J : `03:09:38`	that's round or square, depending on your preference
J-J : `03:10:03`
J-J : `03:10:39`	take a heat and close the circle like in the first picture
J-J : `03:11:20`	reheat and place upsiode down in the vice. and make the squiggle with your scrool tongs or needle nose pliers.
J-J : `03:12:08`	now reheat and form the screw recess with the ball pien fuller, matching location to the first hook.
J-J : `03:12:23`
J-J : `03:13:02`	now you have a hook even your significant other can tell from yours!
J-J : `03:13:20`	questions?
J-J : `03:14:26`	lastly, i'd like to give you a few creative things to think about.
J-J : `03:14:58`	i think i said up front they are 7" tall.
J-J : `03:15:33`	ah, yes...wiggling spurm and coiled egg. nature at her best :)
J-J : `03:16:06`	to think about:
J-J : `03:17:23`	the J-hook and L-hook are close relatives, the L hook usually being used for full-brim style hats while the J is used for ball caps, clothing, towels, etc
J-J : `03:18:25`	The L hook, can be made with a tall stem so that the design on top is visible even when a hat is hanging in place.
J-J : `03:18:59`	Consider one job i did for a college basketball coach hat rack...
J-J : `03:19:47`	a long stem L, with the top of the L flattened into a foot, large enough for two small rivets
J-J : `03:21:13`	then I made 4" dia convex dishes, stippled them with a dull round nosed punch, and using a chasing chisel, made the 3 linds all basketballs have, you know one vertical, one curved on either side.
J-J : `03:21:51`	I attached the dish to the L with small revits.
Steve2 : `03:22:15`	do you think that those could be made out of Octogon material or would the shape be distroyed by the hammering?
J-J : `03:22:35`	I made them of stainless, and burnished after forging, so the highlights were a deep black and the rest glistening stainless.
J-J : `03:23:22`	so, the point of all this is: don't just think of J or L hooks as the simple things all beginners do. These are huge sellers in my business. Just be creative :)
J-J : `03:24:33`	and, you would have to be really good to make these out of 6 or 8 sided material!
J-J : `03:25:07`	the trick would be to water cool all except the very small area you wanted to move.