Making A TITANIUM FRAMING HAMMER!

welcome here so good to have you if this is your first time being here welcome if you've watched all the videos on my channel welcome here so today we're jumping into another titanium project we're going to be trying to take this piece this two inch round bar grade five titanium and we're gonna try to be making a framing hammer uh slash like carpenter style hammer i've never made one of these hammers before and i've never tried making one out at titanium because i've never tried making one tim brilliant anyways uh titanium is an interesting material because you know you just really can't work it super well it's not like steel so you kind of gotta give and take a little bit with it so what we're gonna do is heat it up here and we're going to make it into a square bar and then start sculpting our hammer out of it and let's get this piece heated up [Music] so i just got it squared up here on the power hammer just laying off my spot where i'm going to put in the center punch for the hole to start forging that in all right let's get that back in the forge so this is tool here that i'll be making the hole in it's called a slitter i always get this question too every time i use it this is a ground-up pole and i'll take a pinch of that you drop it in the hole when this goes in what it does is that gets compressed at the bottom and then it burns and because it burns it actually kind of goes pop it'll actually pop the punch out a little bit it's basically lubrication so anyways that's what that is okay we're ready to go here let's start this thing up [Music] so [Applause] [Music] [Music] okay got the hole in there and really happy with how that went so now we're gonna just put it back in get another heat on it and then i'm gonna start opening that whole lot it's called drifting with a punch we'll do it at the anvil optimistic right now this is gonna work out probably way too soon to be optimistic though okay [Music] do good job mr tim [Music] i just had to get that drift through enough so that i could push it out like that now we'll heat it up and we'll just check it out how it looks looks okay [Music] so i was able to get this drift through it actually went really well it took me three heats that's not too bad for what we're dealing with here and everything looks clean and straight so now i'm gonna actually go over to the uh fly press i'll introduce you to that we'll start setting in our first grooves here this here is the fly press martin here is working we got a little jig on the back here which he actually used for uh drawing axe handles so martin's actually just making the eye right now i'll show you that totally a sidetrack i'll show you the finished well actually they're not finished yet these are coming available end of the month here so these are the axes here and martin has made each one fit this is the most critical part of the handle each one's got its serial number in it there and then he corresponds that with the handle so then once they're all fitted up we'll take this martin will do it and he'll carve that into a nice beautiful handle and then set the wedge anyway so this is the fly price here this one comes out of the uk it's a 6 db they're numbered by the weights and it goes to 8 and then a 10. and it's a super fascinating tool on how it works it just uses leverage here so it's got these big threads here really steep pitch and then these big weights martin just watch your head okay you want to walk wonky with this one it spins like that i'm gonna land these fullers here we'll see how this stuff reacts to the titanium oh nice so the fly press is really nice for this type of work compared to a hydraulic press because you can be so controlled but you can still feel through the handle what's going on okay so now we're gonna stick it back in the forge here and then we're gonna go back to the power hammer yeehaw [Music] [Music] okay that's so that's where we're at right now now we're gonna start working on the front side of this thing [Music] so [Music] my okay back into the fire here and uh i'm gonna start working around the eye now things are looking good so [Music] [Music] [Music] this [Music] okay so the forging is done except for the split i have to do here to make the claw but uh what i'm gonna do is just wait to do that i'm gonna grind it all like let it cool off and grind it and then and then i'll come back to it right now the proportions of it are it might look okay but it's actually quite big and that's really really important to be that way with titanium because of the surface you want to grind in there quite a bit to clean it up [Music] okay here we go we're going live we're going live we're doing this [Music] [Music] [Music] get out of the lathe really happy and held that all went in now what i'm going to do is cut this off here and start working on this side of the hammer [Music] stick it caught myself on fire again oh good the pocket's still there to keep it from going all the way through don't want to burn my long johns those things are expensive [Music] okay so i made a bit of a mistake that is the challenge when you're doing something for the first time or custom work now mistake is i shouldn't have cut that groove in the front yet because i've decided now that i'm going to try to put the waffle pattern in the top of this hammer on the face of it so i got to clamp it in here so it would have been really nice not to have that for clamping stuff but i'm gonna live with it now so see how it all works out but we're gonna get this all set up have some fun machining this hopefully this will go okay [Music] [Music] okay so i just got it finished up we're going to take it out we'll get on to the next step here oh martin these look awesome look at these so if you don't know we uh do a small batch of axes we're trying to do it each month so we have these coming available and these are made from 100 year old steel i actually did a video on making them i'll link it up here hey martin can you pop a sheath off for us so we can see the inside of those bad boys martin's just doing the finishing details on them and i need to get these up on the website ready to go so i use squarespace for my website squarespace is actually sponsoring this video and if you haven't heard of squarespace it's the all-in-one platform so if you need a domain name you need a website you need a store they have incredible templates super easy platform to use let me show you how easy they're to use so i head over to squarespace go to login i click on axes then i go add physical item then i put in the details so the ax name the price drop the pictures in put in my description then i go to schedule it so that's going to be january 29th at 6 pm which is right now then i add the quantity 12 hit save and publish and then that's it i'm done and i can get back to making things that i like to make in the shop and i'll have to worry about these details so head over to squarespace.com timd to get 10 off your first purchase and get set up with your online presence okay so i just got it all set up here and we're gonna give this a shot don't exactly know how this is all gonna work out but uh here we go so i'm all set up here i'm going to put my logo in here or maker's mark whatever you want to call it and hopefully this goes okay it's not one of those things you want to screw up at this point no you don't [Music] [Music] okay [Music] okay we're going to do a little bill 9 the science guy got this all set up here to do the anodization on the hammer so the hammer is completed i degreased it off a camera got our car batteries here our solution multi-etch here so we're going to run it through it's a fun process if you haven't seen it before i wanted to weigh the hammer before i do this so this is the hammer head 10.17 ounces that's really hot okay so the multi-etch is maybe not quite as good as i was hoping but we're going to give it a shot it's always kind of a back and forth with this at least when i do it i'm telling you man there's like nothing happening oh this is why no oh there we go now she's cooking all right reinforcements have arrived got another one did you see that the whole wire went what was what happened i don't know but we had serious electricity going through that thing oh i touched the plate oh no whoa dude that is so awesome it's like is that because i accidentally touched it and it directly arc through i'm gonna pull it off and take a look at what this yep that's okay that looks so cool though doesn't it i know i'm wondering if i should i think it's because i arced it and it it put all the juice straight into it i irked it onto the plate so it was a direct short oh yeah it's perfect it is perfect i got all the colors in there that looks awesome look at that look at that gradient that's amazing i think this hit the plate the steel plate so it's a direct short and then the power went through and that wire was acting as a fuse and so it was heating up so hot okay let's roll it back cool there's one spot of contact right there that it must have arced on and so that's a blemish thankfully it's on the bottom side so i think we're just gonna say that was all part of the plan it was not okay on the handle let's do it here we go so i just made this wood handle up off camera just because i'm really pushed for time but there's nothing too fancy just a nice handle so it's all wedged up it's finished i'm just going to oil it super excited right now but i just want to see what the final weight of this thing is so it's 16.66 ounces head and handle okay we got our beat here so let's go to the closing shots show you this hammer [Music] [Music] well that's gonna be it for me today thank you so much for coming along and watching on this adventure of building this hammer if you're interested in one of my axes i got the link down below on my website check that out i'm gonna offer this hammer up for sale on ebay it's going to be an auction i'm going to let it run three weeks from the date of this video so if you're interested in that take a look at the link down below and finally i'd really like to thank squarespace for sponsoring this video get 10 off your first purchase squarespace.com tim d thank you for watching i always appreciate it grab your favorite hammer hit that like button grab an even bigger hammer and smash that subscriber button we look forward to seeing you next video

Channel: Timothy Dyck

Views: 1,341,761

Keywords: titanium hammer, making a hammer, forging, blacksmith, making a framing hammer, forging titanium, metalwork

Id: 84G-KMwnJzw

Length: 20min 43sec (1243 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 29 2021