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  1. Daniel Lea (AKA 99pppo)
    The rounding hammer is definatelly great to have in your toolset! I made mine with Julien Puy a few weeks ago and I really enjoy using it. The round face allows one to make very clean and smooth products. Here is my one: It already serviced me very good making these new chissels for me: If you get the chance to make such a hammer or get your hands on one you should definatelly go for it. Although I would not want this to be the only hammer I have. It is great but don´t want to miss a traditional crosspeen hammer on various projects. - Daniel
  2. Daniel Lea (AKA 99pppo)
    You are very right with what you said. Julien is very precise about what he is doing. That he taught me: "If you think clean, if you have clean tools and you forge clean you will end up with clean product." While you are taking the heat think about the steps you are going through when the work piece comes out of the fire, because then you don´t have time to think long. Then forge this steps and make sure you work equal on both sides. Rotating the work piece when upsetting or punching is very important to keep stuff straight. And yes the thing with the flatter was to make the drift loose. Same with tapering: "When you make a bad square you will get a horrible octagon and then you will get a screwed up round. If you make a beautiful square you get a beautiful octagon and in the end a beautiful round. For me those little smart steps are what differentiates a really good "pro" smith from a fairly good armature.
  3. Daniel Lea (AKA 99pppo)
    Just because some people weren´t sure who I am in the footage above... I am the blonde guy in the blue jacket and gray-black trousers. Julien is the man of middle age with the French accent and the beard. Alec is the smaller boy with the IFI shirt and beige trousers who always switches from British-English to French in the Video. ... just to make that clear ;)
  4. Daniel Lea (AKA 99pppo)
    Dunno Stewart. It is Julien´s shop and Alec definatelly is able to decide for himself, this was and is not my beer. I wear glasses all the time, I don´t want to take any risk, but what others do in forign shops is not my business.
  5. Daniel Lea (AKA 99pppo)
    A lot of fun actually! :D
  6. Daniel Lea (AKA 99pppo)
    Sure was mate! :)
  7. Daniel Lea (AKA 99pppo)
    On Saturday Alec Steele from Great Britain was visiting his grandparents in the near of Dijon and his uncle was kind enough to drive him buy so we three could work together a little bit. Unfortunately we had only three hours or so because I had to leave for traveling back to Germany early midday already. First Alec showed me a pretty cool technique on forging a one-heat-horsehead he learned from Brian Brazeal, which can be easily applied on a lot of items for decorative purposes. Here is a video of it: Then we where forging a gigantic nail to practice striking in a triad. The bar first was drawn out on the power hammer and then we upset the head in the swage blog by hand. Here you can see a video of that process: The front one in serpentine shape is the one we made that day: All in all I had a great time during these days and I really enjoyed my trip. There was some really great craftsmanship with Julien and Alec and I am keen to repeat this someday. Thanks again also to Julien´s wife who kept me fed well and drove me to the train station(s). Soo this was my little travel diary. I hope you enjoyed it! You all take it easy guys! - Daniel
  8. Daniel Lea (AKA 99pppo)
    Hey Guys, during my autumn holly days I paid Julien Puy a visit in his shop near Dijon in France. I stayed with his family for four days. I helped him out in the shop, therefore he showed me some cool new stuff. He used to be a blacksmithing instructor for four years and did a lot of traveling around the world especially USA, the Netherlands, Germany and the Czech Republic. On the first day we made this clothes hanger: The second day we made two Brazeal style rounding hammers. One was for a customer of Julien, he was forging and I was striking. Here you can see a video of it: After that we made a second one for me. I forged and he striked. Unfortunately there is no video of it... Toolsteel with a carbon content of 0,48% was used, pretty similar to 1045 or C45 steel. The handle I made myself from African hardwood. The hammer head ways somewhat around 3lbs. It is hardened and partially tempered at the cheeks. The all-in-all price for that one was 150€ (~200$). The next day we made inter alia this axe blank from pure iron I will weld in a cutting edge and finish it soon:
  9. Daniel Lea (AKA 99pppo)
    Wow very nice exspecially for a "first project"!!
  10. Daniel Lea (AKA 99pppo)
    Nice! share your result then! :)
  11. Daniel Lea (AKA 99pppo)
    Haha yes good tool for Zobie apocalypse^^. Julien and I made an axe blank for a viking axe from pure iron I will soon weld a cutting edge in and finish it.
  12. Daniel Lea (AKA 99pppo)
    For a first pair they are quite good. It is usable, my first wasn´t, my second neither. Now I can make most of the tools I need myself. It is great, you start with very few and make more and more tools and become very well equipped with the time.
  13. Daniel Lea (AKA 99pppo)
    That was a very nice comment. Thank you!
  14. Daniel Lea (AKA 99pppo)

    Already spent a day forging with Julien Puy in France! Tomorrow we´ll make two hammers and a hatchet.

  15. Daniel Lea (AKA 99pppo)
    Nice that it seems "alive" to you!
  16. Daniel Lea (AKA 99pppo)
    A gift that you wrought with your own hands and that has a usefull purpose and will last over the next 300 years definatelly is a good one!
  17. Daniel Lea (AKA 99pppo)
    I actually first forged out a fishtail shape with the peen of my hammer, then folded the socket, then forged out the stem on the horn, then cut of about 5cm of the stock material with the cut of hardy already leaving the tip tapered, then tapered a bit more and formed the leaf out also with the peen of the hammer. After that flattened the surface with the flat face of the hammer. Having that done I chiseled in the veins of the leaf, folded up the stem and the socket, a bit tweaking around making it stand stable and then some wire brushing and as the final step I burnished the surface with WD-40.
  18. Daniel Lea (AKA 99pppo)
    I am very glad that so many people like my design and want to try it out! :) I am curious how you will put it into practice so I´d be very happy if you can post pictures or even videos of your tries.
  19. Daniel Lea (AKA 99pppo)
    Cool that my ideas are taken so good. I think I will also come up with a tutorial video soon.
  20. Daniel Lea (AKA 99pppo)
    Hey Guys, today I forged this candleholder with a leaf as a base plate. It is forged in one piece out of 20mm round stock. Regards - Daniel
  21. Daniel Lea (AKA 99pppo)
    Try try and try again I just can say! Every time it will turn out a bit better and after some while you will do that when I wake you up 03:00am! ;-)
  22. Daniel Lea (AKA 99pppo)
    Hey Guys, today Henrick and I forged our first rail road spike tomahawk. It has a welded-in cutting edge from coil spring steel. It is hardened and tempered. It has some welding failuirs in the blade but it holds firmly and has a very sharp cutting edge. Bare with us, as I said this was the first tomahawk he and I made. Take it easy guys! - Daniel
  23. Daniel Lea (AKA 99pppo)

    Forging with Henrick sure was fun! Hope to finish the rrs-tomahawk on friday!

  24. Daniel Lea (AKA 99pppo)
    Imperfections just show that it is a unique piece. Wrought be hand. There is a difference between bad quality and the blatancy that it is hand made.
  25. Daniel Lea (AKA 99pppo)
    That is one awesome idea!!!
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