John Martin

We don't all make knives woody. Lol. Unicorn, one of our guild members made a sweet back-scratcher out of one.

I just made a hoof pick for my aunt tonight out of a RR spike, Picture attached.

Wow Jerry, four burners for a little forge like that??? Trying to burn the forge up??? Lol, could you explain why you have the four burners in that forge??? And maybe a BP for it??? It looks really nice and well made.

That's almost the best kind of stand, $5, the best is free. Good job. Hope it works well for you.

Um, a drill and a drill bit. Buy one of the ones that are used for drywall for putting huge holes in walls, but get one for wood. (Many actually). The other thing is you drill a circle and then punch the inside out and sand it. I'd go with the drywall one though, faster and easier.

Lol, nails. im going to wedge it soon.

Eh, not to sound really dumb, but a what's a pawn shop again??? lol

Okay Chris, did you get the 4140 from speedy????

Ill see if I can get a webcam setup with RT sometime soon. I also have access to the 4140, but it'd be about $10 more for a foot of it. doesn't matter that much to me, but I'd rather go with the 8620 as it's a lot like 4340. I'll go with SQ stock, but should I use 1.5 SQ stock 4" long or 2" SQ stock, 3" long???

BTW.....

Well today in-between heats of two of my knives, I made this little hammer out of 1045 3/4" stock, 4" long. This is a little welding hammer I guess. I got my technique done for making hammers other than punching and drifting., this was really easy, but I need some drifts & punches.

Hey all, I was wondering what kind of steel to use and what thickness to use as well for my hammers.

I am looking at either 1045 steel or 8620 steel, almost same pricing for me and should I use 1 1/2" round stock or 2" round stock???

I will be using 3" sections of each to make my hammers. Ordering them in 12" sections.

Thanks in advance,
John

Glad to have this off of your chest rich??? Great work!!!

As alwats Art, awesome. Great job, you'll have to show me some tricks this spring when I make my visit up by you.

First time forging, are you sure??? Nice job man!!!

Are you gonna do anything for a handle on those quentin???

BTW, we tempered both of those at 370 for 40 minutes.

Yeah, quentin handle got burned in the fire while we were talking. lol, i gave it six months, he took one swing. lol.

Lol, thanks. I'll call you later, I have off this week, and we should do some forging, like maybe have you come over on friday??? I got A FULL weld on this one, just didn't mess with the edges.

Thanks donnie, any questions or things to do or not to do?

Well, I still need to wirebrush the head and then beeswax it. I've rough cut the handle and will sand and re-stain and re-burn tomorrow if I have time. It's a leaf spring, welded together.


Somebody please lemme know how to post dimensions for a hatchet.
Blade Length: 5"
(Sharp part)Bit Height: 2"
Blade Height: 1.5"
Eye Length: 2" Width: 1.25"
Handle: 13" From top of the hatchet to the bottom
Hand made wedge.

Head weight: 1lb 4oz Overall weight about 1lb 9oz.

Light hatchet, but this thing is a worker. My brother put it through it's courses today. Lol.
It's also a real nice throwing ax??? I can always get it to stick.

Annealed Twiced.
Then hardened 1.5" up from the start of the blade.
Tempered at 470F for 30minutes and then 510 for 45minutes.
This was a rush job, the whole thing, got up at 6am, got it down by noon. We were going to our land at 1, and I wanted to have it down by then. I think it's a good job for being rushed and for this being my first hatchet ever. The welding was pretty easy on this one, I've heard a lot of people having problems when welding it around apipe or drift or whatever, I didn't have much trouble. Yes, I didn't weld the edges real good, but it was a quickie. my brother used an exacto knife to put those things in the handle think there like lotr runes??

Be as harsh as you all want!!!

Best regards,
John

I still need to get cable. Lol, were are some places that I can look or call for GOOD cable that doesn't have a synthetic or rope core??

Grat job John keep it up. HT details??

Black Maple Forge, do a search for threads started by me, and for the thread title do "Charcoal Making Report"

Nice knife man ,really like it, way better than my first attempt. :)

Sweet, how much grinding/sanding did you end up doing?

What's micarta???

Check your PM box.

That's what I'm planning on, wrapped in cord. Just parts of it.