Kevin Olson Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 Finally found a hammer at a garage sale. Unknown brand but the face is hard enough to be chipped. The file scates good. The pien is soft enough to be deformed by use. Defiantly some differential harding here. I finally have something to experiment with from a heat treat standpoint that only cost 2 bucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Hammer Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 All of my hammers are junk store / antique store / garage sale / Ebay finds. They work well and yeah you pick them up for a few bucks. I do have 2 Harbor Frieght hammers that I bought when I started forging. Once profiled correctly, the HF hammers actually work just fine. I had to really reshape the handles making them much thinner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KLO Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 just use a file or old rasp to remove the mushrooming then harden the pein and bevel the edge of the head somehow so as to not damage your work with the chip in the side, I hade one similar but soft all over and it wrecked the work when I hit it off-centre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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