jimmyw

Terms are really crashing between english and swedish and even more as I don't understand the terms, or rather how to use the different techniques. I can't seem to find just clear information like a step-by-step how to actually harden/temper any piece. The reason I'm using the hammer is because that's what I have. I got the idea from Old Hickory Forge on YouTube as he makes a hammer eye punch from an old ball peen hammer. I don't have too much material yet so I'm using what I have. I don't have a blow torch yet. I only have my homemade forge made out of an old fireplace, a anvil and my current hammer pretty much. I've made a pair of "african style" tongs and a pair of flat bit tongs out of rebar that works somewhat okay. Alright Thomas. So Forge it to what I want it to look like, grind it etc > Normalize it (3 times as Latticini said?) > heat up the punching side > quench > temper it by heating up a drift and placing it on it am I getting this right? Thank you all for help.

Alright. I've read "Introduction to heat treating" and it doesn't answer my question about normalizing the old hammer before I forge it into a punch. But if I understand correctly, I don't need to normalize it? Or rather, It normalizes in between my heats while forging the piece. In that case I can just heat it up, forge it as I want > Harden it again > temper. Or am I wrong here? There may be a language barrier here. But as I read the post, to harden it - Yes, I heat it up to critical temperature(where the magnet no longer holds) and then quench it fast in water. Then to temper, you mentioned to use an oven for example and pre-heat it. For my case I can't use the kitchen oven, but I've seen people on YouTube heat up a drift and then placing the hammer head over the drift and let it set.

Hello. I'm Jimmy and I'm very new to blacksmithing. I've recently set up a workshop and started to forge a bit. I'm very intrested of making hammers and I've watched a ton of videos on YouTube about pretty much everything there is somethings I just can't make clear and I hope someone can make them clear for me today. First off, Right now I'm making a hammer eye punch out of an old cross peen hammer I found out in the garage. It's an old hammer so I guess it's been hardened and tempered before, right? So, do I need to normalize it before forging it? And if I got the normalize part right, I heat it up to cherry red and then just let it cool by itself? Or can I just forge it without normalizing it? Alright, so when I get to the point where I've forged out the punch and all, to temper it I heat it up to red hot, then quenching it in water. Then to anneal(?) it, as it's very fragile at this point I heat up a drift and place the hammer head over that until I get like a violet color on both sides? I hope to get some help here as the only Swedish forum Antracit.se seems to be completely dead for many years. I'm planning to make my hammers with C45/SS 1672 steel to begin with Thanks, Sincerely.