remist17 Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 I have access to 1" x1" square stock in 1080. Is this too large to shape into a hawk? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles R. Stevens Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 Nope Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Sells Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 forge it and see, We have no idea of what you can do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Evans Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 With forge work and indeed most any metal and wood work the parent material can never be "too large"...you just reduce it by forging it down or cutting it away….Sometimes a skilled smith can tease a larger object from a given parent piece than an unskilled smith, because he can work it more efficiently.The Australian Arbotech disc cutter (an angle grinder disk with chain saw teeth around the perimeter) was sold with an advert phrase along the lines of... "how to make a rocking horse…take a lump of wood and an Arbotech and remove the non rocking horse wood…"Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 (edited) You can work 1' sq stock if your powerhammer is large enough! However if you are working it by hand 1" square in high carbon steel is a lot to work. Do you have trained strikers? Friends with power hammers where you can break down the stock to where you can take over by hand? How good are you with a hand sledge? Do you have a propane forge so you can get an even heat and not worry about burning it up? Have you made a bunch of them before with other materials so it's not all new at once?"Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes!" Edited September 23, 2015 by ThomasPowers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Budd Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 1" square is the size stock I use when teaching folks to make small axes/hawks/adze by hand on courses. If you work well then you can easily get 3" long cutting edges with that size without any additional upsetting. It's a good size for hand tools only Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remist17 Posted September 23, 2015 Author Share Posted September 23, 2015 Thank you all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormcrow Posted September 24, 2015 Share Posted September 24, 2015 1" can spread out into a very respectable blade width. Certainly a better starting point in size and alloy than the railroad spikes that a lot of folks seem to want to use.I have forged 'hawks from 1" square 4140, and it is a good size for such. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgewayforge Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 you can also try and hacksaw or split the stock for your blade- now you have 1/2" x 1" stock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGGUNDOCTOR Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 I wonder how it turned out for him....the original post was from 2015 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Cochran Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 His last post was asking about 3/4" square 1080 in December 2015. His last visit to the site was June last year. That said there's no telling what ever happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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