DAN17

ill try and figure out the picture thing, I did not quench or heat treat it. My thinking was wow this stuff is hard to work on hotter the better was my logic. I have access to a power hammer. I can't run it because i don't know what kind of oil it takes in the oiler. Thanks for welcoming me to the forum to,

What color should I forge these to avoid cracks?

hi fellows just want to introduce myself i mainly make horseshoes. Im working on making other tools as well as needed. Is there a section to horseshoe making?

Yesterday in class i decided to experiment with forging a old ball pein head into a tomahawk. I got the metal to a white heat and started shaping the hammer portion. I kept getting cracks along the the edge of the blade portion making it unusable i tried forge welding then got another crack. I have ran into this before with rasp metal making knifes out of it sometimes when i hit this type of metal it explodes. Thanks for the input guys, I'm guessing the bullpien is made out of some type of carbon steel. I don't run into this problem with car springs. This is my first post on IFI