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NickOHH

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  1. Went out and bought handles for the small cross peen for Marcy and my 2.5 diaganol peen. Will probably make the handles for the others, just feeling lazy and want to try it out.
  2. Looks like you guys were havin some fun, super grattifing making your own tools now to use them to make even more!
  3. I'm by no means an expert or a farrier but it looks like a farriers anvil to me from the skinny waste and shape of the heel . Could feel a little more "springy" than a thicker wasted shop anvil.
  4. I came up with a simple solution, slightly flattend it on 4 sides to make it easier to hold with the tongs and to to sit flat on the anvil , then used a small hardy swage to keep it from moving around and helped keep the punch square. Worked great. I'm gonna have to learn to swing left handed too so I don't get to lop sided, it did take so determination to punch but overall wasn't TOO bad.
  5. Haha, yea something like that told ya I was there to learn ! Thank ya! Let's see some of these tools y'all did!! Thanks Ethan, getting the hang of em, no striker for these, just me, a and a 6 pound hammer, got my work out in.
  6. i ground the first 2 yesterday and did the heat treating, after of course i forged a 1# cross peen. Then today i stepped it up a bit and cut off a peice of 1.75" 4140 that came home with us after visiting Rthibeau up in michigan, gotta put it on a scale still but should be right around 2.5#, Diagonal peen, gotta grind it and the cross peen before they get hardened and tempered. gonna have to get on some handles soon.
  7. nice drift, im after an axe drift soon, what kind of steel did you use for it?
  8. Forged a couple of hammers today out of 1.25" torsion bar today, one straight peen and one ball peen, both come in around 1 pound, be good for Marcy, and good practice for me before i jump into some bigger ones. Pictures of the ball peen and after they are finished on the way, gonna grind and heat treat tomorrow afternoon.
  9. No, I was just trying to figure out why annealing it was in the question , sounded like it should he wanted to he wanted to normalize not anneal it after forging, and was making sure I wasn't missing a reason to not skip normalizing it.
  10. Sorry that was poorly phrased. Anneal before hardening, everything I saw on it was normalizing wasn't nessecary so couldn't it just be forged then hardend and tempered with good results?
  11. Looks like tempering at 1000-1200 degrees f , pretty hot when your used to working simple steels.
  12. Annealing for is something like let it cool no more than 50 degrees an hour. Forge it, and use it, or forge, heat to orange and let it cool, maybe in front of a fan, no?? I tried to link an old thread I found, real quick using the search but it won't let me post it.
  13. No we didn't, that's how ya get the curse to stick so consider yourselves lucky! That hammer head was trying to take you out though, maybe another sacrifice needs to made to Clincus.
  14. She's a beaut, Clark.
  15. Leaves can be carefully removed using the oxy acetylene ratchet pretty easily.
  16. I would say go with something like s-7 or h13 , something tough, made for hot work, after all it will be seeing a lot of heat, my eye drifts are not but if I was buying stock for them which I soon will hopefully it will be one of them probably h13. No fun to work by hand but will be worth the effort.
  17. I like that one, no walls so it will always face the door ... I'm gonna have to stock up on beer and start dropping more lol! Hahahaha, very true, very true! Lol
  18. Hammers are typically easier to dress and typically easier and cheaper to replace.
  19. Yea that's a good way to warm up, first time with even 1" mild it seems hard... Then you try something actually tough to work. Once you know what to expect it's much easier, ya don't wear your self out in the beggining trying to get it goin.
  20. I didn't even think about that, don't know if they will still just replace power equiptment like there handtools but they are good about getting parts unless the maschine is real old .
  21. You don't have the tooling to make the drift but you have enough to make something with the drift??
  22. Even if it doesn't have a legible number you can measure inside bore , diameter , and width and find a bearing for it pretty cheap
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