Manuel-Pagani

You are right it will be a vulcano's hammer! Nice picture! It's nothing about being Japanese just what inspired this tool, after all is a thing to make a thing that I need to make other thing. It's my second hammer , the first is the 3lb rounding hammer in the photo(best and usefully thing I ever forge) and I can swing it all day so my vulcano hammer is 2.5lbs , hopefully it will suit my needs if not I make a other, but I'm optimistic

Glen I'm from Argentina , the propouse of the hammer is forging long blade tools as a "machete" and large knifes I figure out that this kind of Japanese hammer will work better for narrow and thin stuff

Today I took a section of a car axle an drift a hole through it. My pretention is to make a Japanese hammer from it so I need some advice about the proportions from someone who know something about this type of hammer and his Technic. This is my first post an I'm not English speaker so if my gramathic is not so good forgive me. Have a good forging day!

Hi Dkish , I think your forge will work to start, I recommend to experiment with making your own burner. This month I finished my gas forge and y had to say that the key is the burner, I spent a lot of hours searching and learning about propane forges from Ron reil's page and then start building my own of EZ burner , it takes three attempts to susefull (it take an whole year of experience ) but the results pay the effort. I put the burner in mi experimental fire brick forge and the result surprise me, a very good forge . So the forge it self is the easy part, it can be whatever you can afford, the best and more insulating material the best but the heart is the burner, and de iddle system. Here some photos