First Tooling

[JoeYunker]

My only education thus far has been YouTube, books and learning by trying on my own. It’s not the best way, but it’s what I have access to at the moment. I’ve made my first hot cut chisel, hammer eye punch, round punch and hammer eye drift. I’m trying to make some hammers with a hand eye punch. The first one is mystery material from some machinists parallels I got from a junk sale. The eye is pretty off and it took a few days just to punch it. I’m working on another one using a 1.750x4” round of 1045. It’s been much easier to punch so far, but without knowing the proper geometry of a hammer eye punch, no striker or striker anvil etc, it’s still slow going. If I were smart I’d have made a handled hammer eye punch first. Just a few photos for critique.