Make your own RH, LH cross pein hammer...

[69_knives]

A local place has these 4# 'club' hammers on sale for $10.00 with fiberglass handles. I'm using a 3# one for my forging currently and I know it is a decent hammer, however, I did rehandle it with a good hickory handle.

So, I was reading a little exerpt from, I think, Wayne Goddard's book where he says he can forge a blade in one heat with a 4# hammer so I think to myself I'm going to start using a 4# hammer and try to get good with that...

While I was breaking the cutting the fiberglass handle off of the 4# hammer and putting the new one I had an epiphany, that I could cut and grind one of these suckers into a right handed cross peen hammer. So, I ripped over and grabbed another hammer and hickory handle and, voila!

 

[Mace]

Looks good! Nice job.:thumbup:
Mace

 

[69_knives]

Thanks!

Not bad for 15 bucks. , well, 30 bucks for both new hammers.

 

[69_knives]

http://www.iforgeiron.com/Blueprints-100-200/bp0193.html

I went and looked at that page that shows how diagonal pein hammers are used and I thought I messed up because the angle they have for the RH hammer is very different from mine. I've already used the hammer so I know I go the angle perfect and it works great.

That page shows the angle going the opposite direction of mine and straight across from corner to corner which would feel very weird for me.

I took several minutes holding a steel bar and the hammer and drew the outline of the bar on the bench then without moving, drew a 90° line across the bar outline, then held the hammer in a comfortable position across the bar outline and on top of the 90° line I made. While holding the hammer on top of the 90° line, I transferred the line marks to the hammer face and then cut with a 7" disc grinder and cleaned up with the belt grinder then finally polished with a 300 grit polishing wheel.