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Key hooks How to make
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What to get my wife for Christmas? My creativity!
She had been asking for some hooks to hang up keys...for at least two years, though I had skills to learn to make it.
Lots of new techniques for me in this sweet little project.
I wanted to try bashing some metal and decided to use some steel wire nails [50mm long] to make these key hooks.
0:00 Cut off the head of the nails, I hammered them into a piece of timber to help in doing this. Make sure you keep these.
0:09 I used an old sledge hammer head as an anvil and took it all outside
0:14 Light up a propane blowtorch and heated up the nail heads until red hot.
0:22 Bash flat with a nice heavy hammer.
0:31 Heat up the cut ends of the wire nails and bash them flat as well.
Really satisfying.
0:44 Shape the flattened nail heads into little hearts as a little detail on the hooks.
0:55 Bend the nails to shape, I am fortunate to have a CZ metal bender which makes it easy to get consistent bends.
Clean up both the hearts and the flattened nails.
1:08 Solder the heart to the nail with plumbers solder + flux.
1:28 I took an old rusty angle bar that was being used in the garden to hold up some plants and cut off a length.
1:38 Drill two holes in each hook for fixing.
1:47 Mark equal distances along the length for the hook positions and drill a hole for fixing.
1:58 Get some steel wire pins and poke through the angle and thread on a hook.
2:02 Snip to length and hammer the end over with a ball hammer.
2:07 Align the hooks and drill through the second hole on each hook + rivet as before.
2:18 Take the timber and cut to size and give it a plane to make nice and smooth.
2:37 Drill two hidden fixing holes in the timber.
2:40 Drill two fixing holes in the bottom of the angle iron and countersink.
2:45 Spray it all with some clear lacquer.
2:50 When dry fix to the wall and...
Enjoy!
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Key hooks How to make
pricklysauce.com
instagram.com/pricklysauce
facebook.com/pricklysauce
twitter.com/Pricklysauce
What to get my wife for Christmas? My creativity!
She had been asking for some hooks to hang up keys...for at least two years, though I had skills to learn to make it.
Lots of new techniques for me in this sweet little project.
I wanted to try bashing some metal and decided to use some steel wire nails [50mm long] to make these key hooks.
0:00 Cut off the head of the nails, I hammered them into a piece of timber to help in doing this. Make sure you keep these.
0:09 I used an old sledge hammer head as an anvil and took it all outside
0:14 Light up a propane blowtorch and heated up the nail heads until red hot.
0:22 Bash flat with a nice heavy hammer.
0:31 Heat up the cut ends of the wire nails and bash them flat as well.
Really satisfying.
0:44 Shape the flattened nail heads into little hearts as a little detail on the hooks.
0:55 Bend the nails to shape, I am fortunate to have a CZ metal bender which makes it easy to get consistent bends.
Clean up both the hearts and the flattened nails.
1:08 Solder the heart to the nail with plumbers solder + flux.
1:28 I took an old rusty angle bar that was being used in the garden to hold up some plants and cut off a length.
1:38 Drill two holes in each hook for fixing.
1:47 Mark equal distances along the length for the hook positions and drill a hole for fixing.
1:58 Get some steel wire pins and poke through the angle and thread on a hook.
2:02 Snip to length and hammer the end over with a ball hammer.
2:07 Align the hooks and drill through the second hole on each hook + rivet as before.
2:18 Take the timber and cut to size and give it a plane to make nice and smooth.
2:37 Drill two hidden fixing holes in the timber.
2:40 Drill two fixing holes in the bottom of the angle iron and countersink.
2:45 Spray it all with some clear lacquer.
2:50 When dry fix to the wall and...
Enjoy!
The funky music 'Get Back' was kindly created and given free to use by Silent Partner - Available through the YouTube Create tab.
Why not subscribe to catch all of the videos as soon as they are uploaded : youtube.com/channel/UCL2soflHdZyT0PgrVxakxWA?sub_confirmation=1
Visit my website to see what I am creating at pricklysauce.com
Or Like my Facebook page : facebook.com/pricklysauce
Follow me on Twitter : twitter.com/Pricklysauce
and Instagram : instagram.com/pricklysauce
Hot news! I am now on Instructables : instructables.com/member/pricklysauce
and now on Make : community.makezine.com/share/pricklysauce/projects
Thanks for watching ' Key hooks How to make ' and please come back to watch some more.
