Sam Salvati Posted May 31, 2008 Share Posted May 31, 2008 Here is some hammers I chose to use my last working days in the shop to make. I ate up 6 feet of 1 1/2 inch round 1045, and all I have left is 2 3 inch peices. Used about 50 pounds of coal, then 2 small handfulls of my emergency coke. A couple japanese cutler's/sheffeild dog head hammers, a couple cross peins, a couple DIAGONAL peens which are very fun and great tools (wish I could have gotten the eye holes in them) both a left and a right hand, a special pair of japanese sledgehammers, couple of rounding/flat hammers along with a rounding/flat striker's hammer, and a few blanks I did not have time to get the eye holes in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Salvati Posted May 31, 2008 Author Share Posted May 31, 2008 Obligatory at work pictures! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammerkid Posted May 31, 2008 Share Posted May 31, 2008 nice looking haMMERS you`ve been BUSY making all those!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simmonds Posted May 31, 2008 Share Posted May 31, 2008 Last working days in the shop???? Those look great. I cant think of a better way to burn up 50 pounds of coal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nett Posted May 31, 2008 Share Posted May 31, 2008 Last working day? Are the heads annealed of hardened? I particularly like the small rounding hammer on the lower left. How much you figure it will weigh after you dress the faces? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KYBOY Posted May 31, 2008 Share Posted May 31, 2008 Me too. Im a fan of rounding hammers anyway.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Salvati Posted May 31, 2008 Author Share Posted May 31, 2008 Last working days, as in my last weekend in the shop. Landlord is closing the building so I am out. Thanks guys! Simmonds, I thought it was VERY fun! Nett, they are normalised for now, still have to be heat treated. I think the small rounding hammer will be around 1 1/2 pounds when all done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keykeeper Posted May 31, 2008 Share Posted May 31, 2008 Cursed landlord, how dare he!:mad: Good looking hammers, Sam. So, what does the future hold for our hero? Will he find another shop? Stay tuned viewers, if I know Sam, something will happen soon. Really though, do you have another place in mind? What a shame. Hope you find a place to work, would be a travesty to the blacksmithing community if Sam can't play. Again, hope you can find a place without too long of a delay. -aaron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Salvati Posted May 31, 2008 Author Share Posted May 31, 2008 Thanks Aaron! What does the future hold?!?! I don't know, for now I will pack up the whole shop and put it in my garage and get a gas forge, make it so I can roll the anvil and a couple hammers and the gas forge out then back in when I am done. I do have a SMALL space here at my house to work, enough to play atleast, not th ebest but it will do until I can get a new shop. I don't know about travesty , maybe everyone might like a break from my endless posting of unfinished projects:D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 31, 2008 Share Posted May 31, 2008 Nice mess O' hammers Sam. Bummer about the shop. Seems to me the only pics you'll be able to post are the unfinished projects. Frosty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Salvati Posted May 31, 2008 Author Share Posted May 31, 2008 Thanks Frosty! I was pretty bummed about it, but thanks to some excellent advice from great friends and some who i hope to consider friends someday, I am back to my old self and see it as not a door closing but as another opening. I will keep looking for my dream shop of a vaulted cathedral ceilinged cave, in a semi extinct volcano with a pit of flowing lava for a forge, the golden handmaidens/forge assistants of hephaistus, 1500 pound anvil set 6 feet into the ground and 3 1/2 feet above, a nasmyth steam hammer supplied with endless steam from said volcano, a smelting operation heated from said volcano, with a few other accoutrements:D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 31, 2008 Share Posted May 31, 2008 Moving to the big island then? Before I built my current (under construction) shop I looked at every building with an eye to it's potential as a shop. One of my fantasy ideals is a cave or stone masonry building with a waterfall just outside the door, a coal seam on the other side of the door or maybe at the back of the cave and a big old scrap yard an easy walk away. There's a waterfall or fast creek in almost all my fantasy shops. Good hunting, I'm sure there's somebody near by that has a perfect shop s/he's had trouble renting out and you'll get a killer deal. Maybe they've been looking for someone to make them some extensive wrought iron accoutrements and will be happy to do a swap. Seeing as we're engaging in fantasy. Though I DO know of a couple similar patronage situations. Frosty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dablacksmith Posted May 31, 2008 Share Posted May 31, 2008 nice hammers! bummer about the shop... keep looking tho and check out museums ... you might be able to get a shop built for demos and make what you want while demoing for the museum! its worth a try... good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 31, 2008 Share Posted May 31, 2008 Lava generally has way too much sulfur to make a good forging heat source! I'd go with the stream with a 20' drop. I once found the place I wanted. Had the stream with apx 20' drop and a cave nearby, we went 3 hours into the cave and never found an end to it and almsot all of that was walking tall not belly crawl. (Not a commercial cave, we found it one day from looking at the Topos and saying "you know there ought to be a cave around here". My other dream shop location was an abandoned underground limestone mine with multiple 40" square openings over a steel drop to a stream and the inside open with several football fields of space. Then they put the interstate through the property, sigh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodge Posted May 31, 2008 Share Posted May 31, 2008 Nice looking hammer heads, Sam. Ya gonna put any handles on these?? ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dale Russell Posted May 31, 2008 Share Posted May 31, 2008 Scott ,, & Sam actully finish something .. get real .... :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodge Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 ROTFLMAO!!! Touche, Mate! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mende Posted June 2, 2008 Share Posted June 2, 2008 Cool werk dude! .. and nice "modern smith" get-up ...black t-shirt and dirty jeanz . .. and i love the shop idea ..so much so that imma start a thread on it:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodge Posted June 4, 2008 Share Posted June 4, 2008 Nice looking hammer heads, Sam. Ya gonna put any handles on these?? Sorry for the dig, Sam. I couldn't resist I have watched your progress over the last couple years and have seen it improve to far surpass anything I have pulled out of my forge. Keep up the good work and good luck in you endeavors. Hey, and put a handle on SOMETHING!! LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Salvati Posted June 5, 2008 Author Share Posted June 5, 2008 No prob Dodge:D. Thanks very much, but don't you dare sell yourself short! Once I take a few most enjoyable weekends off, I will setup the little brake drum forge and get these beasts HT'd! Then I should have the grinder setup also, so I can get some handles done as well, these are going pretty quick and I gotta get them finished! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremiah Posted June 6, 2008 Share Posted June 6, 2008 ApprenticeMan you are my HERO. Nice hammers, I aspire to one day make hammers. Check out these elfin hammers by Elmer Roush Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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