The Tongs page...

I created this page to hold links to all my posts on easy tongs.

How do you make stuff if you don't have tongs,and are not ready to make them...Look Here!

This one includes the easiest tongs ever... but you need a vice to make them...
Easy-cut-and-weld-tongs.html

Easy cut and weld tongs the original page with instructions


How to make tongs from pre made tong blanks and where to get them?

Tongs made from other things you can buy

Tongs from harbor freight pliers...
Tongs from Nippers


This is a post on all kind of stuff you can buy cheap to get started.

All kinds of cheap tools to get started


A quick and dirty page on welded tongs If you can weld and cut, but not really forge yet an easy option


Abana(National blacksmiths organization) handout on making tongs,

More Easy Tongs, from harbor freight long needle nose pliers 2 for around $10, and from nippers, and a simple joint you cna make the fist day with thinner material

Another option for easy tongs is making them from cheap long needle nosed pliers set you get at harbor freight.

The set I got had orange rubber(plastic) on the handles, this guy has a great tutorial on making them.

Here is a nice tutorial on making them out of a set of nippers,which you can get cheap used (new aint cheap)

http://www.hammertyme.com/index.php?threads%2Frepurposing-hoof-nippers-into-tongs.496%2F

Hre is a digram of the first kind of forged tongs I made, pretty easy can make them out of stock the size of the reigns (handles) you want... just bend, flatten, rivet an go.