This video is a masterpiece! The way you demonstrate the process of making a brass machinist hammer is both informative and captivating. Your attention to detail and skillful execution shine through every step. I'm truly grateful for the effort you put into sharing your expertise with the world
Nice Koss! Liked the socket head cap screw instead of the typical wedge. Quite the hunk of Bog oak @¿@...makes beautiful contrasts with brass and steel pieces. Thanks always for you great content and creativity.
@@SimeonCogswell Good point. Agreed at some level but at 10:58 when he drills the counter bore with a drill bit (118°/135° countersink) it doesn't look like the depth is necessarily the same as the head height and at ~12:00 it looks like he may be cutting a taper ~2° on the head of the bolt?? Also my guess is the hammer head is maybe ~4oz and the press on fit he did should be enough to compress it enough for that small, light use. With all that said I may have put a bit of epoxy on it during assembly, just in case and it's still a pretty little light duty hammer.
also making the entire head out of brass instead of having just the faces be brass inserts means your going to have to re machine a new head after 4ish months if you actually do a lot of work with it
@@RedAreshan It really depends on how much tapping you do. Maybe an insert would be better. But then I would avoid brass because brass bounces a little and that isn't anything you want while tapping pieces in with a machinist hammer. For an insert I would prefer copper. (Nevertheless: The hammer looks great.)
Neat! But I’m not understanding why you preferred to use a screw to fasten the handle to the hammer head rather than the more common technique of inserting a wedge. Was it for looks?
It's not a different type of wood; it is oak, that was conditioned under bogs of rivers, lakes, swamps, etc. for long enough that it stains black and hardens.
Looks incredible as always! But I'm not understanding how that screw is doing anything to keep the hammer head on the handle.. It's just screwed into the handle below the eye of the hammer, so the head could just pull right off, and the screw would be left there in the handle right? Unless it somehow expanded when you drove it all the way down and acted like a typical wedge does and pushed the wood out into the sides of the eye of the hammer! (But didn't look like it did.) I'm an axe guy so I use wedges all the time and understand that, but can't wrap my head around this screw method. 😂 Sorry!
As you may have noticed, I am turning this screw on a lathe to a taper. This way, when I screw it in, it wedges the top of the handle and holds the hammer head firmly in place. Perhaps it should have been filmed in a close-up to be more visible
@@Koss-channel I was thinking that! And you're incredibly talented so I figured you didn't overlook something like that. A cool and interesting way to "wedge" a tool!
Привіт як завжди класна робота, маю маленьку пораду при роботі з цінними породами дерева краще клеїти до заготовки кусок простого дерева і за нього вже тримати в токарному патроні, щоб не пускати лишнє в стружку.
I made a Copper Hammer as an apprentice. The Tool & Die Maker told me it looks like crap. I told him that I know it does, it's intentional. I made it not the most comfortable and definitely not the nicest because then nobody would want to borrow it from me :) That's the reason. It was heavy enough that it got the job done and that's all I cared about. I can make amazing looking tools if I want to but in this case... I didn't. hahaha
I've already seen a lot of things. but I see the CNC file for the first time. I've already seen a lot of things. but I see the CNC file for the first time.
Что делать, если такие молотки уже есть в продаже? Что делать, если дома уже есть такой молоток? В магазинах для ювелиров такие молотки навалом, что делать?
