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Havoc91

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  1. In my case the plates are 4 inches wide,8 inches tall and 5 mm thick poliamide plus 2 mm thick steel plate epoxied on the back,the ram is 4 by 20 inches square tubing but to give it its final weight I forged a piece of steel to fit snugly inside the ram.Than drilled some 1/2 inch holes on all 4 sides of the ram,fitted the piece of steel inside and filled the holes by welding them and also welded all around the lower edge where the two pieces meet but the beauty of building a tire hammer is that if you understand the basic principle of how it works you can adjust the build to the materials you have available.Here is how the wear plates are fitted.Good luck with your build!!!

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  2. This is my take on the tire hammer! I built it without any plans or precise specifications,I just
    downloded every picture of a tire hammer that I could find and did a lot if reading on the tire
    hammer topics.The rest I figured out by myself.I built it only from scrap iron  that I had collected
    for this project in about two years time,the only parts that I had to buy is a bearing and the
    polyamide wear plates.I also have to go to a machine shop and make a new motor pulley,the
    one that I have is not machined and has some play in it.
    This summer I will have to build a new bigger shop, I had to put the hammer inside the old
    temporay shop to cover it from snow and rain.

    Here are a few pictures, not very good quality but will give you a idea.

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  3. Last summer my uncle came to visit me from the US and saw that I was working on an axe,so he asked me if I cam make him an axe and a knife.Today I managed to finish them and before shipping them I took a few pictures.

     

     

    The knife is 52100 ball bearing steel,the handle is walnut and stacked leather.

     

    The hawk is W1 tool steel and the handle is oak wood.

     

    Hope he'd like them :D .

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  4. Havoc, excellent work!  thank you as well for posting such thorough WIP photos here and in your hot set thread :)

     

    now the questions:

    what size/steel did you start with?

    final weight of the heads?

    would you be so kind as to post a photo of the business end of your (what appears to be) slitting chisel and drift?

    photo as well of what you use to fuller behind the face/pein? are you using a hardie/top combo, just one or the other, or a guillotine?

    do you have any pic's of the handle without the head attached, or a shot of your wedge layout?

     

    sorry to bomb you with questions, im getting overly excited about forging hammers being just over a month away from a hammer class at the end of September :)

    I started with a 8 cm long and 2 cm thick round piece of W-1 tool steel ,the weight of the heads is aprox 200 grams a piece and for the slitting I used the hot set from the other post ,here are a few pics of the tools I used.

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  5. Looks like a nice chopper, what steel did you use for it?

    All just one bit of steel or did you add a different steel for the axe bit???

    Looks like it should handle some medium chopping tasks, Needs some more close ups of the good the good stuff, the steel!

    I don't know what type of steel they use in pickaxes but it holds a very fine edge,it is forged from one single piece of steel no bit welded.

    These are the only pictures that I have,as I said i gave it away to a friend,in future projects I will take pictures of the forging process and closeups of the finished product.

  6. This is an axe that I forged for a friend back in January,sorry that I don't have pictures with the forging process but I wasn't thinking of posting it back then.

    It is forged from a pickaxe,the slot is made by slit and drift method,all hand forged no power tools,just the grinding involves power tools,the handle is acacia wood.

    Hope you like it.:) :) :)

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  7. Now you know you can't just throw's some pretty pics and not give any details.  What's it made from, handle materials and such.  We've gotta know. <_<

    I think the steel is the same as ball bearing steel, i made it from a bigger ball that is used in oil pumps,the handle is made out of stacked brass,wood and thick pieces of leather.If somebody knows the type of steel used in these balls i would be greatfull to know myself.And by the way I am new to this forum made my account 3 days ago.

    If you have any more questions I will be happy to answer.

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