[BugHunter]

Jody did a video a while back about a hammer he made. I modified the materials and dimensions some and made one for myself after work tonight. Figured it'd be a fun project, and it was.

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Used 3/8 x 4 hot rolled stock and cut it into 1-3/4" pieces for the 4 sides, then one more piece cut in half for the two faces. Grabbed a hunk of DOM tubing I had laying around to make the handle.

In his video, I believe he said his was 1/4" steel 2x4 pieces and 2x2 faces. Also he had cold rolled so he didn't need the surface grinder.

Began with the dry-cut saw which did a beautiful job of cutting the parts. All of em, tubing, plug, and 3/8" flat stock. Didn't take any pics of that. I don't think it took 15 seconds to cut 3/8" x 4 pieces. The saw cut so nice the 1-3/4" piece which was cut off didn't even move when the blade passed by and no part had any burr. Impressive.

Off to the grinder to make the parts look pretty.

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Then went to the milling machine to get the parts equal width. There's no stop on my saw for part width.

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Parts are ground and polished, drilled, tapped for the plug, and ready to start assembly.

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Tacking up the parts

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Welding up the thing. Yea, I didn't care that it got toasty!

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Stuck the silicon bronze in the fillets and padded beads on the faces.

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Ground the stuff off and had lots of areas that I felt were better off patching up rather than just grinding deeper to get all the low spots, so I did some touch-up with the SB.

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Final product ready for me to figure out what handle to stick on it, and how to finish it up. Might paint the handle with clear, and I"m not sure what to do with the head of the thing. Who knows, maybe clear it all and just let the SB faces exposed after taping them off.

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I haven't decided what to do with the handle. For balance I might stick a chunk of solid material inside the last 3 or 4 inches. Perhaps a press fit, jam it in with the arbor press then weld the thing fast at the bottom. Never can tell with me.

I should also mention, if you use 3/8" stock, probably ought to do a second fill pass with the ER70S2. Without, you're using a LOT of silicon bronze!

[eelman308]

Very cool! Hope Jody sees this post

[JayWal]

Jody did a video a while back about a hammer he made. I modified the materials and dimensions some and made one for myself after work tonight. Figured it'd be a fun project, and it was.

waLv7XqTSJ4

Used 3/8 x 4 hot rolled stock and cut it into 1-3/4" pieces for the 4 sides, then one more piece cut in half for the two faces. Grabbed a hunk of DOM tubing I had laying around to make the handle.

In his video, I believe he said his was 1/4" steel 2x4 pieces and 2x2 faces. Also he had cold rolled so he didn't need the surface grinder. [emoji38]

Began with the dry-cut saw which did a beautiful job of cutting the parts. All of em, tubing, plug, and 3/8" flat stock. Didn't take any pics of that. I don't think it took 15 seconds to cut 3/8" x 4 pieces. The saw cut so nice the 1-3/4" piece which was cut off didn't even move when the blade passed by and no part had any burr. Impressive.

Off to the grinder to make the parts look pretty.

IMG_20210126_144213783_MP.jpg

IMG_20210126_144924905.jpg

Then went to the milling machine to get the parts equal width. There's no stop on my saw for part width.

IMG_20210126_151601671_HDR.jpg

Parts are ground and polished, drilled, tapped for the plug, and ready to start assembly.

IMG_20210126_161440820.jpg

Tacking up the parts

IMG_20210126_164721838.jpg

IMG_20210126_170213375.jpg

Welding up the thing. Yea, I didn't care that it got toasty!

IMG_20210126_174203300.jpg

Stuck the silicon bronze in the fillets and padded beads on the faces.

IMG_20210126_184252725.jpg

Ground the stuff off and had lots of areas that I felt were better off patching up rather than just grinding deeper to get all the low spots, so I did some touch-up with the SB.

IMG_20210126_190144788.jpg

Final product ready for me to figure out what handle to stick on it, and how to finish it up. Might paint the handle with clear, and I"m not sure what to do with the head of the thing. Who knows, maybe clear it all and just let the SB faces exposed after taping them off.

IMG_20210126_191303761.jpg

I haven't decided what to do with the handle. For balance I might stick a chunk of solid material inside the last 3 or 4 inches. Perhaps a press fit, jam it in with the arbor press then weld the thing fast at the bottom. Never can tell with me.

I should also mention, if you use 3/8" stock, probably ought to do a second fill pass with the ER70S2. Without, you're using a LOT of silicon bronze! [emoji38]

Do you take credit or cheque? [emoji846]

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[BugHunter]

[emoji38]Do you take credit or cheque? [emoji846]

You can throw one together in no time. I had maybe just a few minutes under four hours in it so far.

I'm tempted to take some torrefied Poplar that I have here at home and cut that into maybe 6 in Long strips that are in a keystone shape so they make a complete perimeter around the handle. Then J-B Weld them fast, turn them between centers in the lathe and shape them for your hand. Then sand and polish. Then take clear epoxy and coat the entire handle so you have a segmented wooden handle with clear epoxy to fill the joints, kind of like grouting them. Then before all that epoxy I could maybe turn in a few grooves and wire wrap in several places with stainless steel wire just for insurance to hold it together. Then have all that epoxy over with clear. I bet it would look cool.

[BillE.Dee]

Nice, buggy. It's a bummer that I'm this far away.