FieryFurnace Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 Sometimes I get to make hammers, which is a nice change from production work and just generally regular blacksmithing. Here are a few highlights from 2013. My dad strikes for me, and some is also done under the tire hammer. When I do get to make hammers, I make them out of 1045 most of the time, but sometimes I use 4140. This hammer has decorative cheeks and a heavy scotch bright finish. I think it was a 4 or 4.5 pounder. Here is another decorative cheek hammer with no handle. I think it was about a 3 or 3.5 pounder. These are tough to make because if you slip with the dies, it will beat up the ridges. Here are two cross peens in the 2.5 to 3 pound range. One of these is 4140 just because I had it in the right size. This first one was made with smaller radius fuller dies, while the second picture is of one done with the bigger dies. The smaller dies give kind of a neat look, just to mix things up a bit. This is the one done with the bigger dies, and I did "hollow" cheeks on this one. Hollow cheeks look kind of neat to me. I did this hammer just to be different. I didn't particularly love this hammer, but it was sort of neat looking. And so there! Those are highlight hammers of 2013. Hope you enjoyed the pics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arkie Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 Beautiful hammers!! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mudman Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 Love it! I see my hammer in there! =) I must add that Dave has been great to deal with since my very first purchase from him. One of my hammers arrived with a warped handle, it is the nature of wood. Dave was not to blame, despite my attempts to buy new handles, he sent me new ones for free! Dave has made me a total of 4 hammers now, 3 rounding hammers in various weights and a cross peen as seen above. He's also made me two hot cut hardies. Great to deal with, quick to get back to me, and always helpful. I'll be purchasing many more things from Dave in the future! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thingmaker3 Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 When I looked at the thread title, I had two thoughts. First: "I've never heard of 20 series steel." Second "it won't have enough carbon, will it?" Clearly I need more coffee... Dave, those are really nice hammers. The decorative cheeks look great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BackyardBlacksmithin Posted February 8, 2014 Share Posted February 8, 2014 So what do you charge for one of those rounding hammers? Say 3.5 or 4 pounds.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FieryFurnace Posted February 10, 2014 Author Share Posted February 10, 2014 Thanks for the complements guys. This isn't an advertisement thread for hammers. I just thought I'd share some of the more unique hammers I made last year. Backyardblacksmithin: check you PM's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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