In this video, I restore 10 hammers that I have had lying around. I did not use them because they all had their own issues but after a bit of clean up, I plan to put all of them to work. Most of the handles were loose and almost all the faces hat chips and deep dents in them.
Timestamps:
0:00 Start
0:29 Taking the heads off the handles
1:11 Into the Evaporust
1:34 Out of the Evaporust
2:26 Wire wheeling the heads down
4:26 Cleaning up the rock chipping hammer
4:50 Re-dressing the hammer faces
6:21 Polishing the faces to get rid of any remaining imperfections
6:59 Prepping the ball/cross peen hammers for paint
7:39 Painting the heads
7:49 Hammers go into the oven to help the enamel cure
7:57 Prepping the handles
8:24 Burning the handles to give them a unique finish
10:41 Sanding the handles to prep for the final finish
11:13 Finishing the handles with beeswax finish
11:51 Cleaning up the broken handle
12:32 Re-seating the blacksmithing hammers on their handles
12:55 Wedging the heads in place
13:13 Finishing the tops of the blacksmithing hammers
13:27 The ball/ cross peen hammers are done drying
13:34 Re-seating the remaining hammerheads
14:18 Tightening the wedges on the rock chipping hammer
14:22 The final product
31 июл 2024
