Thank you! And sorry for the late answer, I don't know why I didn't get notification. I did the forge that way welding many plancks of metal toghether simply because I didn't have any circular receptacle of that size at the moment, but I ended liking the shape too. Then it's just two layers of ceramic wool in the inside snd some refractory mortar over them to encapsulate the fibers. Have to say that can't get it to forge weld though.
I don't know exactly the reason for this exact shape, after all, tools evolution is different in different parts of the world depending on the needs of the craftmen. But the differences you find with a "usual western hammer" are, for example: the head can be long and have more weith while the face of the hammer is still small, so it is more acurate and drives more force into little sections of the object you are forging; the balance of the weight is forward and it gives a different sensation while hammering (You can like it or not); also the angle of the handle with the head makes it confortable to make bevels on blades.
@@aikabacrafttools9129 these forward heavy hammers, you find them all over the world in conjunktion with the forging of bladed tools. And throughout the ages, smith graves from viking age norway has revealed hammers indistingushable from japanese blade smithing hammers… Probably the most unique ones are the sheffield cutler-hammers
