Man Up and see a Doctor!  Words to live by!     I nearly died when I was 28, six weeks after my marriage and we were pretty sure our first was on it's way.  After a bit of emergency surgery---15 minutes from diagnosis to going under and they bumped a planned cardiac surgery to put me on the table---my wife told me that if I ever ignored medical stuff again and died, she was going to KILL ME!  (Married 38 years in August; so the threat has worked so far...)

You mean like how well my new diet was working to defat me? I was eating Safeway salad bar salads for lunch and drinking water when I felt hungry and losing weight fast. Woo HOO I was dropping weight like I drop puns at a meeting. Deb was bugging me to see the doctor but I had a weight loss plan that was really working. Silly woman hates to admit she's wrong. I mean SERIOUSLY I'd lost weight from 195 down to 126 in 4 months!

Then I noticed I was getting weaker even had trouble trotting across a road. Soooo one day I mentioned casually I might want to see the doc. She had me in the car in about 20 minutes she and the doc had been colluding and I was met in the waiting room when we walked in. 

Gee, blood sugar running close to 900, A1c around 10 is high? Ketoacidosis IS great for weight loss though. 

Yeah, I put the weight back on. <sigh>

Frosty The Lucky.

And wearing gloves can be very dangerous as well. 
 

anything hot can get in your gloves and be held in place and burn your even worse than without.

also reduces hammer accuracy.

  Air arc slag in a glove leaves a lasting depression.  In your flesh.

Scott, Or any other place inside your clothing it gets. When I was in my early 20’s I started working in a shipyard, I was working a repair job on a barge and they sent me inside the rake, against the front header, to cut out brackets with the air gouger, first time using one no instructions provided. Didn’t take long to learn how to use it 

  Les, confined spaces are the worst.  I used to build barges in Portland and they were double hull and just welding in them was miserable.  Nevermind gouging slag.  Nowhere for it to fly off to.  Ricochet...  You had to follow your suitcase welder cord just to find your way back out.....

Sometimes I'll wear one welding glove on my holding hand.  I pick my welding gloves to fit well, and come completely off with a single shake of my hand.   I seldom wear tight fitting gloves. 

Can't read a word of your post. You might want to try a translation program if you want folk to look at, read, maybe answer questions.

I don't know about the other guys but I'm not going to run translation software to read YOUR posts.

Frosty The Lucky.

MOD NOTE: The post appears to have been spam and has been removed. 

Dress the face of your hammer.  The hammers sold at hardware stores work fine for what we do BUT the hard sharp lines from manufacture will create all kinds of marks in your work that aren't easily planished out as a beginner.   I see this repeatedly when I work with new smiths.  A flap wheel works best.  That was actually something I had to look for when I started.  Not really good at describing the process, but basically knock it down and blend it into an even radius.   Later on you may want to alter it to have multiple radii on the same hammer but that comes with time and experience. 

I assume by, "dress" you are referring to putting a radius on the edges between face and body of forging hammers. A SLIGHT radius on the face itself helps a lot as well but is less important. 

My preference for this task is a belt or even disk grinder in extremis. My goal in this case is to change the profile's edge, not just soften or polish it. Flap sanders tend to follow existing shapes, only changing them given time. 

As I said, that is a matter of preference, not right / wrong.

Frosty The Lucky.

Good Morning,

Dressing a Hammer is like playing. First you put the Pants on........

Neil

You put your PANTS on first , Neil?

Frosty The Lucky.

Learned the hard way the other day everything is always hot ( as my dumb butt grabbed the brass end of a bottle torch ) 

Welcome aboard guy with the really long login name, glad to have you.

How about telling us a little about yourself in the "Introduce Yourself" thread?

Frosty The Lucky.