Justin Topp Posted November 20, 2019 Share Posted November 20, 2019 (edited) Recently I made a hammer eye punch from 1” round 4140 and I finally got to test it out today and it works much better than the 5/8” round punch I used to use. Goes through steel much faster and it’s easier for me to get a good hole. The hammer I’m working on is mild steel that I will forge weld carbon steel faces onto. I’m doing it this way because I ran out of hammer sized steel that wasn’t mild. It will be a cross peen Edited November 20, 2019 by GuardedDig2 Forgot some stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted November 20, 2019 Share Posted November 20, 2019 Got any farmers out your way? A lot of implements use hefty square stock of medium carbon steel, my old landlord had one retired in place that was a 4"x4"x20' piece with a bunch of stuff hanging off of it. Unfortunately he was doing too poorly to bug him about buying it and then I moved and I just learned that he died at 96 years of age. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Topp Posted November 20, 2019 Author Share Posted November 20, 2019 1 hour ago, ThomasPowers said: Got any farmers out your way? My whole state is basically a farm haha I’ll go out to the farm and do some scavenging for steel when I get a chance. I know there’s a bunch of large axles that will work well. I’m also doing it this way because I want to make a wrought iron hammer and I wanna forge weld carbon faces. This will be good practice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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