Stone cold to white hot in under 50 hammer blows

[Glenn]

We have all heard the story of making the metal hot by hitting it with a hammer. Well Moony from Australia turned on the camera and in 30 hammer blows produced color and in less than 50 hammer blows got to white heat.

 

 

'>Moony makes metal hot with a hammer

 

 

I would suggest he take the hot cut out of the hardie hole when he used the anvil. And maybe even put on a pair of safety glasses.

 

 

Let us see your video of getting metal hot by hammering on it. Yes we will count hammer blows.

[Stephen Olivo]

One of these days I am going to do that to light my fire on a morning.  :D

[ianinsa]

Moony, looking good there!

[Frank Turley]

I've heard that some Japanese bladesmiths have a little morning ritual where the smith and striker(s) use friction heat blows on a piece of iron. When it glows, they light the rice straw with it and then comes the charcoal and eventually a forge fire.

[Francis Trez Cole]

Frank that is a great way to loosen up and get in the grove for a days worth of work.

[Eddie Mullins]

I have heard of hammer blows heating metal or maintaining heat, which I did not doubt, but this really was an eye opener.

 

Great video. How about the next volunteer uses larger stock ? : )

[ianinsa]

Moony is from Australia! Those boys are tough :rolleyes: ... he could probably do it with 2'' (50mm) he just didn't want to scare the nippers :D ....Or put Bic out of business!

[forgemaster]

Moony probably had a pair of safetys on, just on the top of his head where he normally wears them!

 

You can get it hot quicker if you use a bigger hammer too.

[Nobody Special]

I tried this a few times with some mild stock a little over 1/8". Flattened out and started losing heat again, maxed out a little past where it would make paper smoulder. Think I need to turn it more and maybe use 1/4". Ain't giving up yet.

[yahoo2]

I have the white hot to stone cold in under 50 blows technique down to a fine art, if anyone wants some tips on that  :huh:

 

I heard on the grapevine that "the moon" gnaws on steel offcuts while he is forging and spits out slivers of perfectly layered damascus.

[Bruno C.]

Super Cool.  I'm gonna try that now.     :)   Gotta add a hammer and anvil to my fire starter kit now.

[Dan P.]

I don't know about white hot, but here's my attempt;

 

http://s1354.photobucket.com/user/dpcutlery/media/MVI_1546_zps5ebb4e95.mp4.html

 

 

[Dan P.]

I don't know about white hot, but here's my attempt;

 

[MOONY]

Hi  all,  yes, didbrookforge  he got it.  It's not hard to do just good hammer control  

  good on you,  light your fire of life and enjoy  

 moony  

[Admanfrd]

saw a 2 ton power hammer maintain heat on a piece for a few minutes. several inches thick

[beth]

moony i knew you were a class act :) and you dan! loving the skin test - id have believed you anyway :) i might even have to try this, i refuse to believe it is a man thing....

[the iron dwarf]

moony has an advantage, out there it is nearly hot enough to forge so he did not need to raise the temperature much, :)  here it is much nearer freezing so may be harder work

[Dan P.]

It's really not that difficult, just maintain a steady pace, and as Moony says, make sure you use dead soft wire.

Target starts to get quite small toward the end!

 

So, who's up next?

[basher]

I have tried and my 6mm round just cracks up after around 20 blows.......I shall try and anneal some.....

[the iron dwarf]

i tried recently, after a few seconds it spilt into 4 pieces but went from cold the too hot to touch, will find something softer to try

[beth]

are we saying anneal to get it soft enough then?

[Dan P.]

Yes, you've got to anneal it otherwise it goes into little bits. 

[Dan P.]

And go slow (ish).

[beth]

ok slowish, but steady rhythm ...

[the iron dwarf]

mostly with 6mm i often see very rough cold finished, some looks like a long pitch studding and rarely see black mild steel and it varies a lot.

will try some 8mm next time