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NickOHH

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  1. 3 hours ago, littleblacksmith said:

    what was the length and diameter of stock you used?

                                                                                                             Littleblacksmith

    It was just over 4 1/4 inches of 1 3/4 inch round 4140. Squared it up a bit with round edges before punching the eye.

  2. I use a similar eye punch I made . It drives pretty straight, I got off to a bad start, twisted it before I had it buried and drove it deeper than I would have liked . I will take my time more on the next and make sure I'm straight before I start smashing it :blink:

  3. the eye is a bit off center on the bottom, comes out in the center uptop.  it was worse at the beginning, corrected it some forging , its still there, but i am just being critical of my work. i will have to try using the pilot holes on the next the one, which will be VERY soon.  

  4. Had a random day off of work so decided to not let the heat and humidify defeat me and lit the forge this morning.  2.75Lbs of 4140, cross peen, differential heat treat to straw.  Its far from perfect, the eye is a little crooked but its not to bad so it should still swing just fine, cant wait to try it out now.  

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  5. Haven't been gettin to much time at the forge lately between the weather and the lack of time in the day, but I did have some time to try my first full tang knife. Made from a old Nicholson file, walnut scales , brass pins. I'm pretty pleased with how this came out. 

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  6. Good question, and welcome to the your new addiction! I thought about this same thing when I first started a couple years ago, and I must say my right arm gets a good work out swinging the hammer, but my left is right there with it.  Long or hefty pieces of steel will give your non hammer arm a surprising work out. I did a hammer not long ago out of 1.75" 4140 , hot cut it off a longer peice and my holding arm was more tired from manipulating the steel than my right swinging a 6#er.

  7. 8 minutes ago, littleblacksmith said:

    A quick question about the peens of cross/diagonal peen  hammers. which is better, a more radiuses peen or more narrow peen? I understand that less surface area contact is better, so maybe a narrower peen? I personally like the look of a fatter peen, but in the end function out ways looks.

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    Better for what ?

  8. That makes sense Thomas eggs from the store certainly are not "fresh". Last time I did it I used as much as I could dissolve in the water about a gallon , was just a couple small cable knives.  Worked for me.  

    Brine quench is more harsh than oil and could cause some issues with those alloys that like oil.

  9. 1 hour ago, Forging Carver said:

    Nice work! Did you pick up a bit of techniques when you visited rthibeu? Also, did you grind the radius of the peen or form it with a swage. I know a lot of guys do it different ways.

    i got inspired to make some hammers out at richards, and he gave me the 4140 , then we came home and i had a couple lessons from crazy ivan, stole his large radius peen, really liking it. it was just ground on a belt sander, could be forged into a swage and cut down the grinding.

     

    27 minutes ago, rthibeau said:

    "very talented and devilishly charming blacksmith"  ???  where in the world is one of them???

    OBTW, nice hammers Nick

     

    lol!! thank ya richard, maybe the next one i wont fuller so much :D

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