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Lord dont give her ideas! ROFL

Good job man! Looks great!

Sounds like a good woman! =) My wife also keeps me focused. I mean she will not allow me to settle on somthing I want. If I was looking for a 6" vice and found the 4" she would say something like that as well.

Yeah I tried to dress it with a grinder and got it more flat than rounded, Just havnt had a second to go back with the angle grinder and round it up.

I made a heart for my wife for her birthday over the weekend. It was my first heart.

I love it! Good job!

I am about 20 minutes in to the show currently! This is awesome!

Thanks for all the replies guys! 2 Big Blu hammers are on my Christmas list a 2.4lb #2 Cross Peen and a 2.6lb #5 Rounding hammer. Until then the Estwing will do just fine. If it makes me pretentious well....If only I cared! Happy Smithing! Hope to meet some of you one day and have a beer!

Thanks Frosty! We did discuss handle lengths, I was told your hammer handle should be the same distance from where your wrist breaks to just about your funny bone.

That was my reasoning behind BigBlu. Their hammers said they were made and dressed by professional smiths for blacksmiths. I also agree more money does not always mean a better product. The better tool isn't always the most expensive one. Which is why I kept going back to BigBlue, I found hammers ranging from $60 to $300+. BigBlu fell in the middle of that range.

I was not attempting to buy "skill". I know skill comes from practice, and experience. But with all tools I buy and use, I buy the best quality I can afford. I have been using a Estwing Cross Peen hammer from Home Depot, and I noticed a major difference between my instructors hammer and mine.

Hey every one! Just wanted to say HI! I started smithing a month or so ago. Saturday I spent all day with a smith of 30 years getting some formal instruction. It was a great time and I learned so much. Cannot wait to take some of what I learned back to my home forge and get busy. I am in the market for some hammers, does any one have any experience with BigBlu hammers? Are they quality?