Soulsmithing - Installation of Japanese Power Hammer

I brought back from Japan two power hammers: a belt hammer - on wich the head is suspended by a belt, and a spring hammer - on wich the head is suspended by a set of leaf springs. This is the later.
Here's a recap of Dave J Friesner from Crossed Heart Forge and I working on the forge's heart:
Part 1: • Soulsmithing: adventur...
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Part 4: • Soulsmithing 4: advent...
Thanks to Dave, Dad and neighbors Pierre and Onil for their assistance!

[@stevesyncox9893]

Very very cool man! Awesome job.

[@user-dl3cj9rv8c]

From Japan. This forging hammer was manufactured by Terasawa Iron Works in Niigata Prefecture. Also, Fukui Prefecture also has a company that manufactures forged hammers, but it is a belt hammer. It is made in Fukui prefecture, we call the name of the company "Taniguchi" or "Fukuda". "Taniguchi Ironworks" has inherited the "Fukuda Manufacturing Division" which had already gone bankrupt as a company.

[@Soulsmithing]

コメントありがとうございました！このハンマーは寺澤ではありません。クラッチの部分を見る解ると思います。 I wish I had a Terasawa: the Ferrari of power hammers ;-) This is a Fukuda Spring Hammer #4. I didn't know Fukuda had been bought by Taniguchi after they went bankcrupt. Do you know if Taniguchi is still in business? またコメントして頂きたいと思います！

[@user-dl3cj9rv8c]

Oops. It was not Terasawa forging hammer. From the figure I thought it was a Terasawa forging hammer. Although I may smolder with my hobbies, I am not professional or businessman of a manufacturing company. But, there are places I am familiar with Japanese style forging hammers. Please take care.

[@gregf8167]

very very cool Pierre! living the dream.

[@Soulsmithing]

Greg Foster Working on it!

[@loslosbaby]

Great planning on the concrete! Hard to imagine all the features in the concrete alone!

[@Soulsmithing]

Greg S. Yup! The whole setup looks very simple once completed. Totally japanese in a way

[@therewasatime8777]

outstanding work

[@Soulsmithing]

working metal Nice of you!

[@UsDiYoNa]

Gorgeous forge set up, and an absolutely gorgeous child as well.

[@Soulsmithing]

Isaiah Gilchrist-Myers thanks! One took a lot more work than the other but both were team efforts :-)

[@asten0ownage]

looks amazing!

[@Soulsmithing]

Thanks!

[@NKG416]

Can't wait to see you start forging!

[@Soulsmithing]

I'm Bored Me neither!

[@classicstudio3527]

Sir...this is the most polite,well behaved,neat,and most functional machine compare to others... And additional weight can be sat on the spring ...either tighter for heavy hit or vise versa... Salute broo...

[@MiSaSwords]

Fantasique ! Comme il me tarde de voir tes oeuvres !!

[@Soulsmithing]

Michael Sabatier a french swordsmith Et moi donc!

[@laetpat]

Bonjour à toi, Encore une belle vidéo pour nous faire saliver... ou patienter... Merci pour le partage. Encore beaucoup de chose à installer ?? Bonne journée... et vivement ta prochaine vidéo.

[@Soulsmithing]

Merci! Il me reste le plancher à finaliser (là où je m'assois), l'enclume à installer et la hotte de forge à concevoir, fabriquer et installer. D'ici 2022 ça devrait y être ;-)

[@foodfuntraveltechnologyart9407]

Nice

[@mimiporsche]

Beautifully I admire you

[@Soulsmithing]

mimì Yamaha Thanks for your support!

[@amjadhossen6924]

New machine video

[@sampathsurendra2610]

Please give me the contact number ASAP,

[@ME262B2]

Shop Cat says it's purrrrfect!

[@perfecthumangames4713]

Hey! Thanks for putting all this information out there! I've been curious about something for a while, and I'm sorry if this isn't the appropriate place for it... how are the eyes of Japanese hammers punched? I don't see very many anvils with holes in them! Are they welded?

[@Soulsmithing]

Drew Wadford Thanks for viewing! Punched all the same but we finish them on a little forged cylinder freely dropped on the anvil so the drift can go through

[@makmurjayatarigan2288]

Drew Wadford

[@Faisal_Lubis]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@Feovlad]

Could you, please, give a link to buy the same BELT japanese power hammer. Thank you.

[@Soulsmithing]

Feovlad unfortunately they don't make them anymore! You have to hunt used ones down through word of mouth. If you're serious enough I could help you. One shop might manufacture one on order, but budget about 1.3 million ¥ FOB their shop in Japan.

[@Hasard19]

Combien pèse la masse et l'enclume du marteau pilon ? Excellente vidéo au passage

[@Soulsmithing]

Merci! Aucune idée ;-) Je ne l'ai jamais pesée. À l'oeil je dirais environ 60kg. L'enclume pèse 300kg, selon le manuel d'instruction qui venait avec...

[@ryanward8039]

Where might I go to find a Japanese power hammer and ground anvil? I am in the process of designing a traditional Japanese blacksmithing shop with a few modern pieces of equipment. I have looked everywhere but to no avail. I fear that their rarity may be extremely prohibitive. I hope I am wrong.

[@Soulsmithing]

Are you willing to pay 15-20K? Where are you located?

[@sheep1ewe]

Interesting, it´s actually first time i see a Japanese powerhammer outside Japan. It loks a bit different concept then my German made one.

[@Soulsmithing]

I'd love to see pictures of yours! There are actually two types of japanese hammers: spring and belt. This is a spring hammer.

[@sheep1ewe]

I will try to take some pictures of it in the future, when i remeber to bring back my camera... :D Interesting, i hawe only seen this type on pictures and some movies, I will deffinitly do some more research about those both types of japanese hammers. Interesting tecnic too, with that pit, i hawe seen it in some Japanese knive making shops and it look like a useful concept with all machines gatered together in a circle around the pit. Personally i hawe the deepest respect for the Japanese culture, their inventions and improvements of imported inventions. I realy looking forward to see more of Your progress with this! (I subscribed so i can follow this)

[@Soulsmithing]

Thanks so much! This is very encouraging. Traditional oriental forges were simple holes in the ground, and the blacksmith would sit on the ground. This is how I learned and how I work. A "modern invention" was to dig a hole so the smith could work standing up! The hammers are also built to be installed on the ground.

[@sheep1ewe]

Wery interesting! Most of older types of western made industrial powerhammers where also made for worinking sitting down on a stool. Modern blacksmiths often wonder why they are construckted so strange, and rise up the fundament, but i tried that method when i was working for a friend, end he showed me how those hammers where intended to be ued in old scool factories, and i must say that it was supprisingly comfortable to use if one working with it a whole day. But, in modern western Blacksmith amateur workshops there are often lot of wrong and missconceptions, out of space, etc so one hawe to run around a lot, standing like a cheesebow when trying to lift hewy pieces of iron, etc. It take some time to learn the misstakes by other paeople, but adding some personal changes (for example, since i am a tall person so i rised up my hammer a bit from the floor and made the working table a bit higher.) But constructing the working area also are lot of fun and a learning process. A part of this profession is that there is always lot of new and exciting things to learn and i realy lowe when one can see an idea You hawe in Your head slowly come to life as a real, working thing.

[@Soulsmithing]

Absolutely: blacksmithing is a source of continuous wonder!

[@federicobaena7729]

Great work, try to protect your eyes when working wood, steel, etc. No second chance.

[@Soulsmithing]

Eyes are sacred indeed! Thanks

[@Dragonden1]

Интересный молот, хороший шабот!

[@chrispalfy7632]

how did you locate a unit like that for sale in Japan? It makes me want to go to Japan....

[@Soulsmithing]

I apprenticed there so I was in the network. When I started planning moving back, I got the word out. It's really by word of mouth for there never are hammers advertised for sale. You have to find an older smith willing to part with his equipment, which is exactly what those two hammers were. The belt hammer I got from a man I respected so much: he was 91, had been a village blacksmith for 60 years and accepted to part with his hammer, saying «I might not use it anymore» and his wife wispering to me «He hasn't used it in ten years»... I felt terrible, but his power hammer lives on with me. He passed away the following year. Hope I had nothing to do with that. There's one manufacturer who still makes spring hammers in Japan on order: 1.5M¥ each. Top quality machines.

[@makmurjayatarigan2288]

Soulsmithing

[@jondueroe9918]

Hi Soulsmithing - can you give info on the guy in Japan making spring hammers? I'm searching for one to go to Denmark where I live. Tanks Jon

[@islandblacksmith]

excellent! linked from episode 4: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iafSma2El9mWnqc

[@Soulsmithing]

Thanks Dave!

[@perwetano]

ídolo T_T

[@user-ti6py3hk9s]

Молодцы умеют

[@MIRAMICHIBILL]

Where is this located?

[@Soulsmithing]

MIRAMICHIBILL In my backyard ;-) ! An hour East of Montréal, Canada

[@geraldposey1496]

Couldn't you have mounted the anvil at floor level and made a platform for the hammer? Then the anvil would be at a reasonable height.

[@Soulsmithing]

All the trouble I went through to put the anvil at that specific height was exactly to have my anvil at the reasonable height. The point is, what's the reasonable height! In my case, I work sitting on the ground, so the anvils' (power hammer and hand forging anvils) are to be at about 8-10 inch from the ground. If I raise any of those surfaces, I have to raise the whole setup, including the forge itself, where I sit (the ground!) and the hammer. I prefer lowering the anvil ;-)

[@Fruehauf-vh4nn]

Seems a bit low for comfort.

[@Soulsmithing]

Yeah, it gives terrible back pain when you work standing next to it ;-) I'm just sitting legs crossed, pretty cozy actually.

[@Fruehauf-vh4nn]

@@Soulsmithing ... My days of sitting down and getting up easy are over. And forget 'legs crossed'! Nice job, take care.

[@Soulsmithing]

@@Fruehauf-vh4nn It did take me a year to get used to it during apprenticeship. I wouldn't do it any other way now. Thanks for your interest!

[@Jarvis30]

i disliked this video. there was 8 minutes of filler in an 8:40 video. i don't need to see where you dumped wheelbarrows of dirt from your excavation, i watched the video to see something about a powerhammer. if there is more, change this title to "part 1" Try saying something or at least putting some kind of text. i would like to learn how a Japanese power hammer is different but you explained nothing. since i know nothing, i don't know why you installed it 2ft into the floor then stand in a 2ft hole next to it to use it. can't you just install it at ground level and stand at ground level?

[@Soulsmithing]

joe wehrwein You make a very good point about explaining what a Japanese power hammer is. I'm so deep to my neck in this that I fail to remember most people on Earth don't have a clue. I'll sure make a video about that! Thanks for the input. If you want, I'll also make video about how I dump dirt :-)

[@polishavenger1]

Joe, I feel that as a crass American, I'd like to address your comment in a way that Soulsmithing, who is a polite Canadian, has refrained from doing. The title of the video is "Installation of Japanese Power Hammer", NOT "Introduction to" or "Explanation of", or "Just for Joe because I know EXACTLY what he wants to see".....and what we got to watch was EXACTLY what the title implies. I watched from beginning to end and loved every minute, and, because I can read, I knew what was going to happen and was not surprised in the least when I saw what was advertised. You say you "know nothing", that's not Soulsmithing's problem, it's YOURS, and your comments reflect a sense of entitlement that none of us are, well....entitled to.

[@Jarvis30]

polishavenger1 well, also being a crass american, i would like to say that you have no business speaking for someone else. Soulsmithing responded to me with the message he wanted to give me and you have no right speaking for someone else. I can honestly say i have watched many thousands of youtube videos, many of them instructional or demonstrations, and i felt this one was below par. Reguardless of the subject, i felt much of the video to be meaningless as i stated in the video with moving dirt, and the lack of narration was also unappealing. If you follow basic production points on making KZbin videos, this one is sub par. I have an educated opinion on the video. You are more that welcome to leave your opinion on the video also, but why do you feel you need to defend someone else when they clearly answered me in their own words the way they wanted to.