Customer request hammer, but I don't know the purpose

[BartW]

Hello Guys;

 

A good customer of mine wanted a specific hammer made.  He wanted a 60°  sharp cross peen back end. Weigh around 1 kilo (2 pounds). He wanted resistant steel; but I don't have any EN9 of C50 or something like that, so I took a piece of this huge coil spring (40 mm diameter rod). It was a bit of a bear to forge straight and to punch the hole; but I pulled it off. I treated it as if it were 5160 - so annealing cycles and all that, hardened in oil completely; then ground it so I could see bare metal; and heated up the drift and put that in the eye untill both the peen and the face were about blue.

This is for all intends and purposes the first hammer I ever made myself by hand. 

However, I have no idea what the form is for ... I'd use it as a chisel.... but it forges quite nicely too. Oh, I epoxied everything together (handle, wedge, eye) and I rubbed the whole hammer with it to prevent it rusting. The handle is boiled linseed oil finised.

 

greetz; Bart

Edited December 11, 2018 by BartW
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[jeremy k]

You should ask the client what its use is for, if its a bottom tool to be struck you may need to change your heat treatment.

[stevomiller]

Very nice work Bart, especially being your first made by hand.

And, very strange hammer profile........ I’m interested to hear what they plan to use it for?

[ThomasPowers]

I'm familiar with a cabinetmakers hammer used to start nails being held between fingers; but that has a flat small straight peen not a sharp one.

[VainEnd84]

Looks like a farriers clipping pein hammer

[BartW]

Well; the customer collected his hammer today, and over a coffee & a whisky, he told me what he wanted the peen like this for.

He wants to work sheet metal (steel & copper), and he wants to shape the peen the way he wants with the specific radius of his choice. 

Well; that works for me. He was happy with his hammer, and I like the design as well. Gonna make a couple for myself