The first photo shows the set of hammers that I am forging with and they are very near to my forging station.
most of my forging 90% is done with the cast 3# and the forged 3,3#
The 4,4-5,3-9,25 -# I use very seldom for punching big holes or when I need
single or some very heavy hits for a short time . from the shining handles one
can see that they are in yse all the time.
Using a heavy hammer for forging is not depending on power but only on technic .I can forge with the 3 - 3.3 - 4.4 # hammers hours long and I am
74 years old.
In Germany in the old times before the II WW in the forging schools they had a speciel program to teach the use of the striking hammer. 14 kg -30# hammer was one of them.
Bipolarandy I do not understand the first line of your thread for me it is still very interesting because we all learn a lot from different aproches to the problam I think u have to tink it over again
Hofi
the 4.4# hammer on the photo that was in 1993 is 15 years old with the same mapel handle that I produced with the drawknife that I sent pix of to the other thread and glued with the ''sikaflex 11 fc'' and still going strong