Sam Salvati

I taught a hammer making class this past weekend at the Guilford art center in CT. It was a blast! Everyone learned alot myself included. The class involved forging a slit drift punch from 6150, heat treating of that tool, then using it to slit and drift 1 1/2" 1045 and forging it into a finished offset hammer of the type bladesmiths like. I paired them all up, on striking for the other then they switched both for forging the tool then forging the hammer head. None had ever done any striking before. Forging a drift tool shorty drift Long drift Drifts cooling Drift clean up... Sam explaining what the class will be doing next. A few types of hammers... Not sure how THAT got on there! Everyone paying attention!

knifemaker Ariel Salaverria will braze into his damascus, find it on his site: http://www.aescustomknives.com/ I imagine you could do it with gold but very expensive.

You just lost one of the best beer holders in the world!

If you are still in NYC, contact Larry: http://nyblacksmith.com/

YES please do this!!!!!!!!

Please do Bruce I'd love to see them.

Pictures?

I missed page 2 of this thread! Rob, thanks! GO for it! the tools I posted are easily used by hand too, I have no doubt you could make one in a day. I will have to watch Duma, it looks good. Bob, I'd love some hickory or white oak if you could find any. I can work a rough blank no problem. Robert, thank you. It's pretty handy as a dagger, but it really is meant to be mounted. but it could be a dagger no problem and a belt sheath would rock, a few guys do socketed handles for knives and daggers. where in north Jersey are you? Do I know you?

one man's trash is another's treasure :D

wherever did you get the idea that a "speed build" was a good idea?

The 2b is beautiful!

like forging a bevel on a dagger, take flat bar or whatever then bevel one side then the other working the ridge to the center.

a RR car axle makes a great anvil! you could also scale down your ram size and scale up your BPMs, like the old helve hammers running at 400BPM that only had a 15 or 20 pound head

this fellow came up with those plans:

Aldo's the man

Kind of hard to once it's a solid bar LOL

I found the link, PM if you want it. nothing much other then some pictures from the site and stuff. I took a walk on saturday, took a look in they're scrap bin, LOTs of springstock.

LOL!

Those look great Brian, gotta make some of these! I love combo tools

Larry, thanks! I always wondered if that would work

How many polearms have you made? you sound like you have quite a system down so you must have made and hafted quite a few let's see some pictures!

Thanks guys, was sort of an accident but it worked out. I could make one intentionally in probably 30 minutes. One of the biggest stumbling blocks for beginners forging a hardy is forming a sufficient shoulder for the hardy hole, the pritchel being smaller it's easier.

I saw small "pritchel hardies" in some old shop photos, they are pretty handy when another tool is occupying the hardy but you need a hot cut but that's not too often. forged it from 3/8" by 2" a 5160 drop. Nice thing about it is you can spin it to any angle, do a linear groove down the center of a leaf then spin it to cut in the veins. not for heavy cutting of course, but a neat little tool.

Your pictures too big.

look at this forge: