Daswulf

Thanks for all the helpful ideas. I tried to post a couple times and it's giving me a hard time. Then it seemed the site was down . 

Anyway I'm going to weld the cracked area and finish it out to work out the process. I think I could have gone about the fullering part better. It could be the steel but I'll blame my process for now. 

Dissapearing post again

Was attempting my first body hammer tonight. It was going as well as expected until I got to drawing out a longer taper on what would be a long cross pein. I noticed a crack in the fullered part. I kept it at a good heat while working it and didn't hit it while it was cooler. Starting stock was axle shaft my guess 1045 or so. No quenches and as I said it was always worked orange to bright red hot. Not under. Any ideas how I cracked the steel? 

Great anvil in my opinion. I have one similar with a slightly smaller hardy hole. Yeah the horn can be cleaned up easy. Could have just been from the use the previous owner did. Get it on a stand and get using it. Both my anvils are around 100# and so far I haven't been worried about a bigger one. Even forged 2  3# hammers on em. 

Yeah we like pictures  

Beautiful " leftovers" ! Love the look of that 3 strand twist pattern blade. 

As you should be! Beautiful Anvil!

Bud, depending on the condition of that anvil it might be perfectly usable without welding a plate on it. A few imperfections don't ruin a work piece. And hot steel your hammering into shape is way softer then a dead sounding anvil. But it's yours and you do what you see fit. Maybe give it a try first unless it is severely messed up. 

 Better to start late then never   

It was a great learning experience, and fun. I think they are a couple beautiful hammers but my opinion might be biased haha. 

Heres some more pics. The last one was the starting stock. 

I have been thinking of making one myself. Nice work Nick. 

53 minutes ago, Helzehen said:

One from this weekend while trying to do too many things at once and burning off pieces of my goofing around project;

"There are no mistakes, only leaves."  - Me

As every time I ruin something, I turn the remaining steel into a leaf. Haha

Ok Sparky haha. 

One from yesterday after hot slag tried to take my eye out..... " Ok, I think it's time to wear safety glasses. "  Safety first

" I always remember PPE After I get hurt."

Sounds reasonable to me. I would do the same. it looks thick enough and not so much of a bend so i would doubt it would have an issue bending it cold but i would probably warm it up a bit with a torch.  Just my opinion.

Hi Bud. Welcome! What part of PA are you in? There are a couple hand fulls of Pennsylvanians on here. If ya could, put your general location in your profile, there might be other blacksmiths close by. 

  If you feel like it, in "Introduce Yourself" tell us a little about yourself. 

16 hours ago, Stephen Jones said:

evenings wheel ?

 

I like it! 

8 hours ago, ausfire said:

OK, Das, here ya go! Very nice too, I might add.

 

 

Now that's a beautiful sight! I take mine medium rare, but that's a job well done! 

Nice chisel work on that second one. What size was the chisel you used on the round?

Yeah that's a bargain anywhere around here! I wouldn't blink. I just made a spring for one I have and will be making another for a post vise I'm trading to a friend. There are different style springs and mounts, but I could try to get pictures of the process on the one I will be making if it would help. That will be in the near future. 

If you can hunt down a spring shop( place that makes leaf springs and coil springs for vehicles) you can probably score the correct size stock that will make it easy. Then you'll need to make the mount plate which shouldn't be too difficult. I'm still working on mine when I get time and again I'll be making another one for another vise that I will try to get detailed pictures of the process and style I will be making. 

Great find!

I was going to guess that you forged the edges back round but grinding works too. did you grind instead of forge because it was easier for you, or was it to preserve the chiseling?  

Cut the key pin holes last night. I'm sure it'll need some adjustment when I make the keyed pin and the tension pin for it.  Didn't get to too much else yet. But my friend sent me some other pictures he took. The 3rd pic is my complete vice that I'm styling it from. 

Thanks Pete. I owe the inspiration to fix these guys to you. well, and my want to use em.  I also like to try to keep them original as possible. lots of life left in em.

Got a good start on making some parts for my big post vice yesterday. It was missing the mount and spring, the handle was way undersized and sloppy ( think it had been replaced before) and it had an old window weight welded on the leg making it sit way too high for a vice that size. A friend stopped over and helped me out wire wheeling and ideas, also supplied the leaf spring from a spring shop. We will be fixing another post vice I gave him.  

We got the start to the mount and forged out the spring to match the style on my other post vice. Cut off the window weight. Then I made the new handle. That was a new experience for me upsetting and forging the ball shape. My friend opted to drill a ball and weld em on but I just couldn't do it the easy way   We made a mount out of an axle planetary gear and die ground a large nut to mount on my other post vice to help shape the inner/ shaft side of the ball. The other end once through the screw was a challenge and the mount was sacrificed for that one. I feel it turned out pretty good and the rusty stock seems to match the rest of the vice which will get cleaned up a bit more once we finish the mount.  I'll keep you Posted on the rest of the mount making.

Looks like a fun tool.  and probably less messy then that time i carved pumpkins with a chainsaw. (<---not recommended) 

I like it.   might be a lil hard to control the axe part with a small round handle. Could probably weld another portion of bar to the handle area for more stability for using as an axe. Otherwise it may want to glance to one side or the other when the axe hits a vampire zombie coconut   

That's pretty awesome Black Frog. 

Was that a bolt, or did you chisel it? 

Good work. I didn't find the audio to be bad. 

Just have to see how the cut end forges. Could do the same thing as some sort of holder or hook.  On the art side of things I get all sorts of crazy ideas. Just that it's hard to explain them.  Any way of finding out the kind of steel used?