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Viking-style leafing hammer(ish)


Pault17

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I was browsing through some Aspery videos and watched his leafing hammer tutorial.  I had a piece of 7/8 square mystery hardenable steel and decided to try a viking-style design.  I used about 4.5 inches of the bar to get a just-over 1 lb hammer. I upset the striking end to 1-inch forged to shape. I triple annealed then tried hardening in vege-oil. The hammer got hard, but a file stuck a little.  I started over again and quenched in water, and the file skated like glass.  I blacksmith-tempered with a hot drift and got the face and the been to bronze/straw.  I repurposed an old handle that had broken off, and finished with tung oil.  The handle is shorter, but I favor the shorter handles anyway.

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