Love the little hammer! One thing you might try as an improvement or more versatility would be to round one end of the hammer keep it flat faced but round shape. A little more work for sure but might be worth it in tight spaces. Love your other projects as well! Keep the vids coming.
Brass hammy is sick. Love it. You’re head is proportionally large compared to your body. Congrats, I hear that’s a prerequisite for being on TV (Tom cruise and Jay Leno come to mind.). Just wanted to throw a shout out for the good content.
Hi Paul, nice job machining the hammer. I would always try minimise offsetting the head of the mill so I don't have to keep clocking it up. I am assuming you don't have a 45deg cutter and that is why you did the chamfer the way you did, you could also setup you piece on an angle block in the vice to accomplish the same thing. Hope this helps
Paul I really enjoyed the video. I started doing some machining to compliment blacksmithing about a year-and-a-half ago so the video was very relevant for me keep them coming. Also the isotunes I also use the model that you reviewed I also had the pro model and I buy think that the model you reviewed is much better for hearing protection purposes I don't even use the pro model anymore although I may get a second of the extra model because my battery usually runs dead before the 10 hours advertised time so it's nice to have another one charged up and ready to go. Thanks again Paul PS the tools you made for me or working out great I believe I may order a couple of your hammers in the near future.
Thank you! I’m really glad you liked it. And that’s good to know about the isotunes, i’d be interested to test out the other models to see what they’re like. And I’m happy the tools are holding up well!!
You can take WAY deeper passes, especially on something as soft as brass or Aluminum. Do some experimenting, you will be surprised. Great job on the hammer! It's really cool looking.
That Clausing lathe sounds like it has a CVT transmission haha. Check out the videos by Randy Richard in the shop. Sounds like a broken disc or tightening mechanism.
I was told by a machinist not to use compressed air to blow away the chip, anything more than what you can blow with your breath can drive the chip to where it shouldn't be. I bought a big box of chip brushes from harbor freight for my lathe after he told me that. Don't take my word for it though, but it might be a good heads up if you can verify.