Possibly The Easiest Axe/Hammer Eye Punch You Can Make? Easy to make axe eye punch and drift. 

Let me kkow how you get on.

Too kind and it was but I made a mistake with the editing and had to cut some out on RU-vid editor. Lol

Glad you enjoyed it

For all your tooling? Far I find it a little hard and unpredictable but if it works for you. Thanks for the comment.

You can make chisels and slitting punches the same way.

let me know what you think. If you can find the spring and the time its easy.

@@danielmoss2089 yes sirSir. Sorry I was on the quad squad Voxer chat talking about your video. Yes to the idea great idea. Yes to the springs I've got virgin kw steering axle springs that go about 3/4 in thick by 5" wide. I really want to make hammer eye set. Your tutorial here And in person is spot on perfect. Sorry for the delay respond to you. Btw are you on the new Voxer chat. Do you want to be? You are a member of the quadsquad you know

I've stopped using H13 cause it's too unpredictable. So far just caused a bit of damage to tools but it could have got someone hurt. Never used S7 but if it works for you it's all good. Thank you for the great comment.

@@danielmoss2089 only issue with S7 is it gets pretty spendy buying it. But with proper hardening and correct temper done in a real heat treat oven it has amazing resistance to deformation and galling. Cheers😁

H-13 has held up great for me, but I shy away from using it anymore since it is so hard on grinding belts. It also tends to chew up my hammer dies and that gets old fast.

Best of luck thanks for the comment.

Have you got any video of making that? I'm a beginner and would love to see and try it 👍

@@Zogg1281 The pass through or the hanging basket bracket? I've no video of the bracket and it went with the client at the end of the weekend but I do have some photo or video of a pass through somewhere I think from years back.

@@ianlowe4666 I was more interested in the bracket as I've seen the techniques before. I thought it would be a good protect to practice a lot of the skills I've seen and come out with a finished project at the end. Thanks for the info and idea, I'll have to try to plan something out myself 👍

@@Zogg1281 Ah, sorry. I think there are a few variations of the idea online. That said it's probably a better exercise to design your own whilst trying to include as many processes as you can.

@@Zogg1281 It was something akin to this: www.inwoodforge.co.uk/gallery/external/garden/02.php There's also another like it within this gallery as well: www.sussex-forge.com/bells.html Hope they give you some ideas.

Did heat treat its and I'll be making an axe soon with it and I'll show it again. I have a video of the hot cut some where using tine works great and Elliott made a bunch of punches using tine for the classes I was running and the work well also. Drift has a bevel down one side and then I made sure it was nice and smooth. No sharp edges.

Thank you for the great comment.

I didn't heat treat the drift. If I had I would have shown it. Sorry auto correct.

You could or you could cut up higher on the tine. I think this was ment to be as simple as possible. The upset add a level of difficulty that might not be so easy for some. Good question

Made all the tools needed to make the axe with of the shelf steel by hand.

I do I didn't in the tutorial as I forgot it. Lol. Linseed oil bees wax and graphite.

Its a bit more work but i you normalize it and don't mind the extra forging you should be fine. best of luck and let me know how you get on.

@@danielmoss2089 oh I don't mind the extra forging I see it as extra practice as I'm new At Blacksmithing. It's going to be about 3 weeks before I can get to it but I'll let you know how it all works out. Thank you for sharing this with us.

It was leaf spring from my Toyota I believe 5160. I think?

I bet you don't believe me but the anvil isn't far of my knuckles in the position you have described. it's about an inch or so off. I honestly appreciate the concern but I have some counter arguments. Firstly not sure if you saw the power hammer? Most of my actual work is done on the hammer or with stickers. Or with tools the push me up right it is often finishing work that I do on the anvil bent over. So a lot of what people see on RU-vid is out of character for my normal set up. Great points thanks might make a video on this.

Great advice sir! I only started smithing about 11 months ago so hadn't done my back any damage that way yet. My smithing tutor teaches the proper upright stance in his forge and is very fierce about keeping his students hammering the correct way. In saying that, even though my smithing had nothing to do with back injury, I needed emergency surgery on my lower spine about 6 months after starting smithing. This taught me how easy it is to injure your spine and how scary the potential aftermath is! If I hadn't been caught when I was I would now be paralysed from the waist down, making my smithing hobby a lot more difficult to pursue. The damage I took was due to bad posture for years as well as wear and tear due to age, but everyone who does a physical job should take note because their work could be causing the same kind of damage even though they don't realise it even if they are aware of the potential problems. If I could change the world, it would be to make everyone aware of how they can look after their spine at all times.

@@Moondog-wc4vm sorry to hear about the back. I hope it got sorted. I'm shock that in six months of full time blacksmith you hurt your back due to poor stance at the anvil. Ive been luck I guess cause after 10years almost not one issue and I was a fitter before working on heavy plant. (I was a fitter from 16-23.) I've had a very physical life up to this point. However like I said in the other messages I have the anvil set up for my average type of work which covers the support of the power hammer and sticking. Not Lone Forge work. I mostly work on my own for RU-vid videos. (or by hand only.)

@@danielmoss2089 Hi Dan, sorry forr the confusion, I didn't mean to give the impression that I hurt myself at the anvil. The injury had nothing to do with blacksmithing, my tutor teaches good stance and hammer technique and his anvils are set up the same sort of height as yours. I just thought I'd put it out there for people that it can be really easy to damage your back really badly and anyone in an active job should always be aware of that for their future health. The injury came from a simple everyday movement, reaching out to pick something up, I wasn't even bending over and had no weight on my skeleton at the time. It stopped me smithing for 16 weeks unfortunately.