Hatchet Forged From Ball Peen Hammer | Blacksmithing

Forging a usable and nice looking hatchet out of a ball peen hammer! Possibly the coolest thing I forged so far if I do say so myself! Thanks “Bespoke Bloke Designs“ for the hammer head: Shout out to all the other makers and blacksmith that did this! It sure is a lot of effort. @Make N’ Create @Black Bear Forge @Jake’s Custom Knives @Neels Van Den Berg Check these channel out by clicking the names, good stuff!!! Honorable mention to @Brett McAfee for making one out of a steel wedge: Just a self reminder I must try to punch a hole myself. I have listed some of the stuff I use for my projects in this amazon storefront: It’s affiliate marketing, so if you order something from here you’ll help the channel for free! Thank you! Index of operation and materials: 0:20 Coke forge 1:00 I’m not sure how to explain this as I’m no blackmith expert. Instead of time stamps I think it’s better if I explain by words here: I started with a heavy hammer flattening the side of the hammer that will become the blade. Then I quickly realized the hammer was too heavy and not effective over the large area of the hammer head after the cilinder was flattened. So switched to a cross peen and little by little I moved material around to reduce the big chunk of metal that was to hammer head into a wedge shaped blade. This took a long time and a lot of work. Forging took me a day, a good 8 hrs of hammering! (so much fun but also exhausting). Also, I kept adjusting where the metal moved by working the sides as well as shown here 2:18 For last I forge the spike where the ball side was. 3:10 I left the hatchet to annheal, cooling down very slowly with the forge to make it soft and easy to grind 3:20 Grind profile, spike, and edge on the 2x72 belt grinder 5:00 Quick normalize cycle just before hardening, probably not needed after annhealing but for sure won’t hurt 5:50 Checking temperature with a magnet to reach critical (over non magnetic) 5:55 Quench in water to harden 6:10 Tempering with the forge by slowly heating to deep straw color (around 230°C) I check the hardness that came between 50 and 55 on the Rockwell scale 6:42 Remove scales with wire wheel on bench grinder 7:07 Buff edge and spike to mirror finish with fine polishing compound and cotton wheel on the bench grinder (I did some hand sanding off camera) I hope the handle part is self explanatory, if not say something in comments and I’ll write more! Thanks a lot for watching, I hope you liked the video! Suggestions and comments are welcome. Leave a like and share to anyone who might be interested! ★Patreon★ ★Website★ ★Follow me★ Facebook ► Twitter ► Instagram ►