BeaverNZ Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 Over the last couple of weeks I have been making some tooling to make axes in the power hammer and got to use them over the weekend, It all worked as planed untill my diesel forge burner packed up as I was doing the forge weld. The hand held tools are made from digger track spring so should be a 5160 ish type of steel and the power hammer mounted tooling is just heat treated 1040 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianinsa Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jspool Posted March 31, 2018 Share Posted March 31, 2018 Very interesting. I would love to see a video of your WIP if thats available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iron woodrow Posted March 31, 2018 Share Posted March 31, 2018 WIP it! WIP it good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeaverNZ Posted April 1, 2018 Author Share Posted April 1, 2018 There is no video of making the axe unfortunatly I will wait until I get better at it first, and nothing apart from a few pics of the tooling I cut the three inch bar down with the horizontal metal cutting bandsaw and then bent it cold in the press which took about 50 tons force as I used two pieces of aluminum close together to get a small radius bend then removed the excess with a cutoff disc and clean up on the linisher platten. I have just found the video that I got the idea from, its in the axe section of IFI have a look "Forging a colonial axe" its a good old youtube vid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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