Cool last name. LOL. Sincerely Hal Hansen

Great work as always ❤❤

Didn't know I ever needed a fire welded hoe before today, but now, I know my life is incomplete.

Great and sturdy looking hoe, man but that weld scar looks deep. It's an extra pain to bevel the edges and get the angle/thinness right but it's one less point of failure and place for corrosion to fester if you do. I usually forge with wrought iron tool bodies and the shear plane you can get had ruined a few of my early attempts at chisels.

My worse injury when I tried to move a 125 lbs anvil by myself. I weigh 145 lbs. I dropped it on the tip of my pinki. I nearly passed out on the waiting room floor in the Emergency room. Those cartoons where they drop an anvil off a cliff onto someone and they are fine in the next scene- they are not true.

The raking @1:13 , so satisfying 😍😍😍

Great looking handle. Nice piece of wood to start with too. But I have a few tips I’d like to share, being a somewhat experienced woodworker myself: If you turn the chisel the right way around you’ll find it works a lot better. The way you hold it, it digs into the wood. Tighter releasecuts with the handsaw reduces the risk of tearout. Not that you seemed to have any issues with that on this occasion, probably because the grain in the woodpiece was so straight, but it’s good practice to put them tighter. And I second the recommendation in one of the other comments about getting a drawknife. But I usually prefer a spokeshave myself. And after that I use rasps extensively, just like you do. Last, but not least, it’s good to be aware of the hazards of thick axehandles. If the handle doesn’t flex enough, the shock of the blow will be directed up into the arms and cause problems in the elbows. Historically, handles have been a lot slimmer that what we see today. And in those times, people worked a lot more and harder with their axes than what we do today. Steven Edholm(Skillcult) and Ben Scott talks about these things on their channels. Ben said at one point that most historical handles have a crossection of about 36x20mm(1 7/8” x 3/4”) and it makes a lot of difference working with that. You can easily develop muscle inflammation such as tennis elbow if you work with a handle that doesn’t flex properly. Thanks for a nice video, hope you’ll find my comments useful.

very good

Sheeeeeesh

Gj bro

Satisfying ❤❤❤

keep your hands away from heat always

That's why I always wear a glove on the drift hand or I use tongs to hold it so my hand is out of the way. I have done this before not as badly as what you experienced but it hurts to chop on your finger like that

Pressure, and elevation, and cleaning.

Holy hail!

Good job man! And not just on the handle, your video & editing skills are something to aspire to. Maybe one day I will get there 😂

Bro, you should get a draw knife. They work great 👍

Looks better than a bought one and the oil really brings out the grain.

He just kicks the wood apart 😂😂 love it

Yucky

Awesome👍

Beautifully done!!

now you know good work perseverance.

Thats silly

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Beautifully done sir! 👌

Outstanding work 👏👏

Epic!!

So satisfying 😍

Hold the tongs between your legs when you need both hands. If your piece does not lay flat then your anvil is at the wrong height. Watch the farrier vids in the world championship tong making and farrier contests. Obviously you want the reigns to be cool so you dont roast your nuts. Forge On!!!

Wow, itu terlihat sangat indah. Disatukan dengan baik!

Glad ur ok from that...😇

Hi it is beau and scott

I refinished My post vice with a face shield gloves and an apron from all those needls flying everywhere. You need a vice to hold your vice in. The funnest part was that bolt I had to reforge the shape of it to get it to fit better....Nice job but where is the spring and the mounting clamp??

Oooooohh belly That must’of hurt like hell ,whoo

Get a bit of gaffer tape round it and finish the job ! I work a lot without gloves, my own preference .... but you do have to accept you will get a few dings along the way,

that looks like ti hurt like a bitch but not that bad overall. in my class two people where doing smith and striker for sledge hammer heads and the sledge missed and smashed his hand into the white hot hammer head.

Had that happen, not as bad though. The splinter embedded itself in the crock of my elbow, didn’t stitch it and it healed up fine but I still have the scar!

All part of the fun. If you work with your hands, you will get bit.

Goodness! How did that heal up?

Nice

Good job 👍 but it's missing the mounting bracket and the return spring! Cheers

Nice job, very wel done. No machine work involved thankfully Iron City hardware is the Gold Standard, which is why so much of it survived the war years scrap drives.... You deserve credit for the restoration, good going! Love that wire brush!,

Kick A$$ rope!

My dad, who was a mason as a young man, warned me of this possibility. The burrs that break off a high carbon chisel are sharp as glass & move like a bullet. That looks like 3 or 4 stitches to me...retempering the chisel was the only solution my dad had back in the day. Grinders make it easier to dress chisels now. Nice looking hammer. Hope you can finish it soon.

Gotta get on the face shield with the wire brush! The little needles shooting from the grinder will take your eye. Awesome Clean up!

I think it needs a spring

Nice cleanup, now to make the 4 missing parts. The spring will help open the jaws, the base plate and the two wedges to hold the whole ball o wax together. I just bought a 4 inch Iron City myself and it has modern replacement fixes to the wedges and spring. It works but I am going to try to replace the way it was from Pittsburgh, hand forged.

Boy that thing is a monster.. You did a good job....