September 4, 20187 yr This is the video on the Wrought iron hammer build.. It's a combination of film and stills..
September 4, 20187 yr Jen, Huzzah! A tour de force. Well done. Most informative. It's just the right speed for an old gaffer with A.D.H.D, Thanks, SLAG.
September 4, 20187 yr Very nice hammer and an excellent video showing the process. Thanks for sharing.
September 4, 20187 yr Author Thanks Guys.. Not my usual hammer style but wanted to try something different.. So far it swings very well.. Got to spend about 20hrs with it so far and it's a pleasure to swing..
September 4, 20187 yr Wow! That was a great video. It answered tons of questions I did not know I had. An inspiration to someone getting back in the heat. It is also encouraging to learn that hopefully some day I will drop stuff much less often than I do now..... Thank you, Zeke
September 5, 20187 yr Author Zeke Zabo.. Secret to not dropping stuff is having the right fitting tooling.. But your very kind to say that.. Sadly in the demo trailer nearly all the work was done with only pickup tongs.. so there were tons of drops.. Wasn't till the second weekend demo that I dragged the hammer making tongs out of the storage barrel.. Even with that they were not able to be used as the jaws are huge and the fuller was designed to sit nearly flat on the anvil so there was no way to get the hammer in the tongs close enough to actually use it.. So switched over to the hollow bit tongs which were a little small.. This is the first hammer I've made in 15 years and the first steeled wrought iron hammer.. I've made top and bottom tools with steel faces but first hammer.. I don't pick things to make that are easy very often now.. I pick things that push my current comfort level and see about trouble shooting what is taking place.. I like a challenge.. LOL.. 1forgeur .. Thanks
July 13, 20205 yr Author Sorry.. the wrought iron came to me from a fellow smith who is also a iron worker.. He works on huge renovation projects like bridge fitting and such. He worked on the "Longfellow bridge" in Boston, MA when they did a refit and this bar was one of the treasures that he and another smith salvaged . Sadly roughly 2/3rds of the wrought iron went to scrap before he had permission to take it home. I ended up with about 3 pieces besides this and made 2 hammers from it. So, the life of this wrought iron is a very good one and now lives life as a hammer.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longfellow_Bridge
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