treytheknifeguy

i think its 30 pound it is probably 20 pound after looking at my hammer i think it isnt as big as i first thought it is more like the size of a 20 pound as for swinging it one handed i can do it but it aint the most comfy on me shoulders im pretty sure the bar was 30mm but it could be bigger as i didnt measure it i just guessed from looking at it i didnt buy it i found it during roadside pickup it was just laying in the grass

the post was originally about the rebar hammer i just thought id also show me mjolnir it wont look like the comic but itll be cool as for texting the pic i have no credit or data on me phone at the moment and my phones camera is scratched

did a rough drawing in paint to give you an idea of what i did

i dont own a camera i used the schools one for the pics i posted and my phone wont connect to computers for some reason i probably should have taken pics before i took it home because it was hard enough taking it on the train once

the one in the pics is decorative although you could probably use it for breaking stuff as for me forging with my rebar sledgehammer i cant forge at home at the moment because i live in a unit and cant light it because of the smoke and i cant do it in the driveway because its a shared driveway who needs a press when you have mjolnir

id hope not about the cousin thing hahaha check thisun out though this ones more decorative and hasnt been finished but xxxx its heavy

i only know of my ancestry coz me grandad had a mark or something on his hand and the doctor said its because of his viking ancestry unfortunately i don't have it because im too far down the bloodline its funny because my grandad hates violence and the vikings where the some of the most violent war loving people in history

im sure because the hammer i made has a 1 and a half foot handle i made from some roundbar i had leftover from a vise i didnt finish and i definitely know it aint 2 pounds because my 3 pounder is like a feather compared to it i aint a big guy myself heavy tools don't bother me much though im only six feet tall but i do have a viking bloodline so im built for wielding huge hammers and swords

i didnt forge it i wanted to but i didnt have the time however i plan on eventually forging it all i know is it has to be at least 20 pounds because i swing a 20 pound easy but this not so much but as i said it could just be the short handle its not the best looking hammer in the world it looks a little crappy but it wont break for a long time judging by the thick welds ill have to remember to take a pic wen i get home

im just guessing the size and weight it feels heavier than a 20 pound sledge and is slightly larger plus the handle is shorter then most sledgies

i ended up just stacking 4 pieces of the rebar and welding them up then put a handle on it id say its 20-30 pounds and has a handle a little over one foot itll do for now

i tried making me re bar hammer and welded leaf spring on the face is looks a bit crap but it'll work next im planning a 4140 cromoly sledgehammer from 70mm round bar

i think i have hc spikes because i made a small axe and it heat treated well ive actually never found marked spikes all the spikes i find are unmarked unless i know for sure what steel im using i just make whatever from it and see how it goes i actually got a peice of flatbar from school and my teacher told me it was mild so i made a machete out of it because it didnt bend like mild and it turned out great i rely entirely on scrap steel and old files because i dont have the money for new carbon steels from suppliers

kin of unrelated but i also have a couple spikes and was wondering if they can be flattened in a hydraulic press cold because me teachers keep winjing about me using up the acetylene

i heat treated the small anvil but not the large piece maybe that has something to do with it

i made a chisel from the smaller rail but it didnt harden as well as i hoped track work hardens doesnt it maybe thats why it didnt harden i know the smaller stuff isnt as hard as the larger rail because i have a small track anvil i made by cutting it to shape drilling a hole in it and milling the top but it dents very easily the larger stuff has better rebound and is similar to the anvil in the workshop at school so i use it as is

now i just need to get some more because i only have the one length of large rail and im using it for an anvil and the small stuff is to soft

well the head on the rail is already pretty close to the shape of a sledge hammer i could probably cut a small hammer out of a large peice i rekon it would be easier if i cut out the rough shape then forged it the head of the larger rail here is about the size of a fist

i found a peice of rail track lying around the workshop yesterday and made a chisel out of it and it works pretty well so ill have to get some more and try making hammers

i used tig when i first started learning blacksmithing it worked but the torch would get too hot

i was making a knife for a mate of mine and saw a drill bit in me scrap box and thought if i just use that it will be too brittle then the idea popped in my head if i run mig welds on the outside of the steel it could potentially keep it from being too brittle but keep its high edge retention so i tried it then forged it into a blade and it seems to work pretty well has anyone else tried this i was unable to find anything else on doing this

i was thinking i might be able to try rail spikes for a small hammer because they seem to make alright tomahawks and i also have a bit of 4140 chromoly i was gonna use for a machining project but ill never end up getting it done so maybe some of that could work ive made a center punch from it and that worked so why not

also i was wondering if the bottom part of rail track would be any good for sword like a viking sword

i know the local blacksmith do alot of work for the railroad so maybe i can get some stuff from them but i heard that track work hardens so wouldn't the hammers become too brittle the blacksmith shop (thats the name of the shop) is down the road from my house but i do most of my work at school in cannington which is a long distance from midland so its always a pain to get large pieces of steel to school because i have to be able to get it on the train i tried upsetting it using the hydraulic press but it all squished to one side of the bar instead of going even

its not as easy to get known steels in small amounts where i live plus i have no source of income so i rely on scrap steel i do have some torsion bar in the workshop as well