Visit my website--- www.mrpete222.com TUBALCAIN MAKES A LEAD HAMMER MOLD in this 2 hour long 6 part video. Includes pattern making, lathe work, milling, foundry, casting, melting, and more.
Thank you Mr. Pete for a wonderful series. You're correct in saying that many of us won't make a lead hammer but some might use this knowledge to create some other part needed using this process.
Thoroughly enjoyed all six parts of the series. Boy, you sure knew where to choose the end of each video to have us champing at the bit for the next part! You know it really doesn't matter about the cost or time involved. Some are happy just to buy the tool as the end product, but the likes of you and I and all your subscribers want something more from the process because we have such rich imagination. We like to see an idea take shape and physical form. The satisfaction at the end is something that can't be explained to people that don't have or appreciate it.
Thank you sir for a great series. Clearly you worked hard here, and the end result is educational and entertaining. Hope you continue to share the knowledge.
Enjoyed every minute of the 6 part series. Classic tubalcain ... "I made this back...., well..., you know when I made it, when I was in my prime!" *lol*
Awesome series! Very informative. I've sort of known how it was done from books but I've never seen the entire process done from end to end. Thanks so much for providing this!
I think it is much more rewarding to make things rather than buying them. I followed all six videos in the series with great interest - thanks for your time and efford! I teach ten year olds and once in a while we cast tin in homemade sand molds. It seems to be among the activities they remember the best.
Tubalcain, It is as you say, true, that a lead hammer could be purchased, or a manufactured mold could be purchased, along with a handle to make a lead hammer. The true value of this video series is (yes, I watched the entire series today), that you have demonstrated all the most commonly used processes, in logical series, involved in the manufacturing of cast products. Whether it be hammers, cast gears, many tools, even the machine tools that many use and much more. Thank-you for putting this together and sharing your knowledge. I find for myself, there is a great deal of value in this video series, even if I am unable to use the information and knowledge immediately. I am sure many others feel the same way as well. Another wonderful how its planned, performed, completed, how-to, video. Thank-you!
I'm seeing ready made lead hammers on eBay going for as little as $25. The 5# hammer molds can be had for as little as $100. Mrpete your hammer et al is .... Priceless!!
Excellent video series Mr Pete, and I agree with many of the other comments, yes you could go out and buy a dead blow hammer, but we all know Tubalcain Jnr. for one will always treasure this lead hammer and the mold that made it. He certainly is one lucky lad to have a Grandpa who can and will take the time to show him how to make really useful stuff as well as record it to you tube for everyone else. These sort of skills are being lost and I may not need to make a lead hammer as such but in my job who knows.
Great video Mr. Pete! Superb detail and execution. The fact that this particular item can be bought for a few bucks doesn't in any way take away from the fact that you have now taught us how to make any other items that we can craft a positive for. Thanks for taking all of the time to put this great series together.
Hello Mr. Peterson. This series was GREAT! How I wish that I would have been fortunate enough to have had you as a school teacher, or my next door neighbor. Please keep up the good work and continue educating us. Best regards to you and all American veterans on Memorial day 2014!
This was a great series and I agree with one of your commenters, that this hammer is priceless to some and I'll bet Tubalcain Jr. will keep it for an entire lifetime himself.
MrPete, you keep up the good work. Whether a lead hammer can be bought for $5 or not is irrelevant, the making of it and your taking the great deal of time to make it and sharing is the point. I personally probably won't ever make a lead hammer, but I immensely enjoy your videos and really look forward to your new ones. Every time I watch one I find something in them I can use or didn't know. So, once again, keep up the good work and I hope you keep making and mostly YOU keep enjoying making them. Thanks.
Just finished watching all 6 parts! Great stuff! Glad there are people like yourself putting this information on UA-cam so young guys like myself can learn a thing or two.
I think that what you are doing is important. You provide a foundation of which a lit of our technology is founded on. You go back to square one and its incredible how it's all done. I plan on being as knowledgeable as you are one day. So anyone that says that there's no need for what you do is a fool and a lucky one at that. So thank you.
I agree wholeheartedly with your comment Shex...It is very important that these things be passed on to our young people..CNC and Solid Modeling and the like are wonderful tools and should be embraced but there are times when all the modern knowledge just won't compensate for a persons memory..A person can read a thousand words and it will not replace an hour with good teacher or an hour of experience.. I fear at times that these things are being lost...Your comments and the others I have read, give me hope for the future of the trade..
Daniel Hoffman Thank you. For a while I have had Long shot but looking for a table and other parts for my Kalamazoo Bandsaw 610, here are the part numbers. C6A-1222 Adjustable Table CK-10AL Table Support Arm K-38B Support Arm Tightener ng that it's vital to know the basics. And yes, cnc and everything modern is fanominal and great, but it's the theory of what if that i think about often. If a small community was cut off from everyone and what not. Well, everything that relies on mechanical power can be converted to use a steam engine or something that doesn't require electricity to work.
Thanks for the series, watched every segment, while it's true I will probably never make a lead hammer I can appreciate your skill and innovation in making it and the video. Watching your videos adds bits and pieces to my slowly growing bucket of knowledge, however at 74 my buckets got a few Holes in it, but a few of the bigger chucks just might get stuck in there. Thanks HH
I'm the "master caster" for a railway preservation group up here in the Great White North. This video series, along with your other videos on pattern making and pouring metal have given me great ideas on how to get things done, the end result being a series of casting for a steam locomotive we've been restoring. Enjoyed this video series greatly. Thanx for the great work and for sharing it all with us.
Hi Pete, Your videos are fantastic and never boring. You have made more than just a lead hammer which is a valuable tool; you have made a highly professional mould, what a feat. To add to this further you have generously and painstakingly given us your personal and detailed approach step by step from beginning to end. I for one appreciate your work and humour here as I am sure do many others and I have learned so much thank you. My own lead hammer was made during my apprenticeship in an automotive machine shop with 11R and 11D white metal scrap from the bearing re-metaling plant where I sweltered so much in those hot summers. It was poured into a can with the pipe handle tinned and filled right to the top which helps to balance it in the hand. Some forty five years later it’s still a good tool.
I really enjoyed watching this series. Never saw the whole mold making process before. Thanks so much for all the time and effort to produce such a fine video.
Thanks for the informative series of videos. Granted, you could go down to the hardware store and purchase a dead blow (they won't allow lead anymore) hammer. The same is true of making something on the lathe or mill. But you have had the fun of doing it! You had hold the item in your hand and think "I built this!" That's a pretty great feeling!
Mrpete,thank you for the lead Hammer videos,I thoroughly enjoyed watching them,learned a few thing,although I would not attempt to do what you do but every video you make is interesting to watch,you are down to earth and your videos are easy on the eyes and ears.please keep it up.
I´m gratefull for your disposition tho share this lengthy experiment. As you told at the end of part #6 one can buy a lead hammer for about the same amount of money you spend on the handle and the rest of material used in the project. But you taught the whole process. Thank you very much!
Awesome Series, I Love Pattern Making & Foundry Work, Its Almost Magical What Can Be Done With It. I Like To Look At The Old Machinery Magazines From The Late 1800's & Up Because Its So Amazing To See What People Used To Make & The Skill It Takes To Do It.
Outstanding!!!!! MrPete222 I always enjoy watching and listening to you, even if its something I already know how to do or have done. I STILL learn something. To those who fill the need to point to the cost of this project-I just had to say its not always about saving money or making a profit BUT for the Pure Satisfaction (as in my case)& enjoyment of making something from start to finish and or in teaching someone else how its done. A++++ Mr Pete
Great video, and great subject for a project. And it is a project that others can copy for their own use and experience. Thanks for taking the time to share this with us.
Great job! I now have a better understanding of the mould making process. Thanks for taking the time to do this video. I do have a good understanding of how long it takes to make a video, I'm lucky it I get one out in a month. if your curious about my metal videos you can find me at Dale Derry on UA-cam.
I so enjoy your video's. In today's America where so much manufacturing has gone (along with the knowledge) it's interesting to see what the steps are in making a simple tool like a lead hammer.
Very nice job. Great videos. The details are what makes this so good. 1 thru 170 in two months. You keep going and I'll keep watching and learning. I and many others, really care about what you are doing. Hope you live a very long and healthy life.
Nice $1000 hammer ;) Enjoyed the series; shows why having molds made costs so much and this is relatively simple. Yes, you can buy one for $5 made with piss-poor Chinese lead so full of contaminants it will just.dissolve in a few years. You have a useful hammer that will give you satisfaction of knowing it represents another excellent set of videos. Good job :)
Wonderful series! Thanks for the education. It may be a simple lead hammer, but the day may come when we will have to make things "from scratch" again. Thanks to you, we will have a clue as to how it's done.
Love the series of mold making steps. Very nicely done. I agree there are not a lot of interest in doing it from scratch like that. If I had all the tooling and the time, I just might do the same, but having neither, it is always fun to watch.
Mr. Pete, I just watched all six of your videos on making the lead hammer and I am at ugh about how many talents you are so good at. I thoroughly enjoyed the whole series. I need a led hammer or two for my lathe and mill but I think I'll try it wirh the tin cans like in your other video. I have watched so many of your videos and haven't watched a single one that I didn't learn a lot and really enjoyed. In fact, there are probably ten or more that I have watched several times such as all the ones that say anything about a 12" Atlas/Craftsman laehe. I have two Atlas/Craftsman lathes, one 12" (1951 101.07403 ) and one 6" (1945 109.20630) both of which I am rebuilding. Mr. Pete, I'm like you, I tend to ramble on but I don't see anything wrong with that. I'm 78 years young and I think we've earned the right to ramble on even if nobody listens. Good day and may God bless you and yours.
That is a Nice well made Hammer ..This has been a Great video series and I enjoyed every episode Thank You for the time and effort you put into making it
Like the American C-clamp in video. As a Iron Worker they are a must!! No Chinese crap will do.....Armstrong only, maybe a Bessey or two. Thanks for all the teachings Mr. Pete!!!!!!!!!!!
With the pipe around .858 you could buy bicycle grips for the handles, they are made for .875 (7/8") bar. You might need some glue but maybe not. Excellent video. I look forward to your new material, I think I have watched all of the ones on youtube and I bought your series on the Craftsman/Atlas lathe. Thank you.
Yup, I watched the entire series. Quite a process. I have poured some lead but not to this degree. It would be fun to do it. Of course I don't have a foundry.
I think you did a GREAT JOB and I was transfixed watching this series. Jaw dropping on the floor and such. Well, not quite on the ground, but I liked it a lot :) I watch all your vids, and thank you for taking the time and trouble to make them. God bless you and yours.
Really nice series of videos. Learned some great tips. Now when we calculate your time and the cost of the materials, you probably have a excellent $1000 lead hammer. And yet... I want to make one too :-) Thanks for perserving these important techniques and caring enough to share them.
There are too people that will go out and make one..... 😄 I didn't do it quite the same way though. I sand casted my favorite brass hammer and made a lead one with a pipe handle similar to what you did but I used pipe caps instead of sand and cast an aluminum ergonomic handle over the pipe first. Made a real comfortable 4 pounder. Sand casted the basic handle from an old eastwing brick hammer I liked. So yes we do.. 😀
Nice job Mr Pete, My high school shop techer had me make a lead hammer mold for are bridgheport nut, I made it out of plate steel and used a wrench for a handle. It worked out well but I liked your better. Thanks agen for all the grate vids.
May cost $5 to buy one already done but the entertainment value is priceless. Thanks for the videos.
I enjoyed this series very much. Even where it is impractical to make things yourself, it is still so satisfying to do so.
I don't care how long it was, this was a fun series to watch. I enjoy watching an artist at his work.
Thank you Mr. Pete for a wonderful series. You're correct in saying that many of us won't make a lead hammer but some might use this knowledge to create some other part needed using this process.
Thoroughly enjoyed all six parts of the series. Boy, you sure knew where to choose the end of each video to have us champing at the bit for the next part!
You know it really doesn't matter about the cost or time involved. Some are happy just to buy the tool as the end product, but the likes of you and I and all your subscribers want something more from the process because we have such rich imagination. We like to see an idea take shape and physical form. The satisfaction at the end is something that can't be explained to people that don't have or appreciate it.
Thank you sir for a great series. Clearly you worked hard here, and the end result is educational and entertaining. Hope you continue to share the knowledge.
Possibly the best video series on youtube. Thanks for sharing these great tips. Its also very inspirational.
Enjoyed every minute of the 6 part series. Classic tubalcain ... "I made this back...., well..., you know when I made it, when I was in my prime!" *lol*
Awesome series! Very informative. I've sort of known how it was done from books but I've never seen the entire process done from end to end. Thanks so much for providing this!
I think it is much more rewarding to make things rather than buying them. I followed all six videos in the series with great interest - thanks for your time and efford!
I teach ten year olds and once in a while we cast tin in homemade sand molds. It seems to be among the activities they remember the best.
Tubalcain, It is as you say, true, that a lead hammer could be purchased, or a manufactured mold could be purchased, along with a handle to make a lead hammer. The true value of this video series is (yes, I watched the entire series today), that you have demonstrated all the most commonly used processes, in logical series, involved in the manufacturing of cast products. Whether it be hammers, cast gears, many tools, even the machine tools that many use and much more. Thank-you for putting this together and sharing your knowledge. I find for myself, there is a great deal of value in this video series, even if I am unable to use the information and knowledge immediately. I am sure many others feel the same way as well. Another wonderful how its planned, performed, completed, how-to, video. Thank-you!
+rohnerw Great comment-thanks for watching
I'm seeing ready made lead hammers on eBay going for as little as $25. The 5# hammer molds can be had for as little as $100. Mrpete your hammer et al is .... Priceless!!
Very nice series. Appreciate all y our hard work to bring it to us.
Excellent video series Mr Pete, and I agree with many of the other comments, yes you could go out and buy a dead blow hammer, but we all know Tubalcain Jnr. for one will always treasure this lead hammer and the mold that made it.
He certainly is one lucky lad to have a Grandpa who can and will take the time to show him how to make really useful stuff as well as record it to you tube for everyone else.
These sort of skills are being lost and I may not need to make a lead hammer as such but in my job who knows.
Thank you very much.
Great video Mr. Pete! Superb detail and execution. The fact that this particular item can be bought for a few bucks doesn't in any way take away from the fact that you have now taught us how to make any other items that we can craft a positive for. Thanks for taking all of the time to put this great series together.
Mr. Pete - you done yerself proud, and most of us get it. It's not about a $5 dollar hammer, it's about the process.
Experience is the best teacher, but you come in a close second. Thanks again.
triac777 Thank you
Hello Mr. Peterson. This series was GREAT! How I wish that I would have been fortunate enough to have had you as a school teacher, or my next door neighbor. Please keep up the good work and continue educating us. Best regards to you and all American veterans on Memorial day 2014!
Thank you very much.
We may never make one but the knowledge you gave us will last forever.
I 'm proud to say I made my lead hammer mold a number of years ago and have recast my hammer many times. Sure beats buying new hammers
This was a great series and I agree with one of your commenters, that this hammer is priceless to some and I'll bet Tubalcain Jr. will keep it for an entire lifetime himself.
MrPete, you keep up the good work. Whether a lead hammer can be bought for $5 or not is irrelevant, the making of it and your taking the great deal of time to make it and sharing is the point. I personally probably won't ever make a lead hammer, but I immensely enjoy your videos and really look forward to your new ones. Every time I watch one I find something in them I can use or didn't know.
So, once again, keep up the good work and I hope you keep making and mostly YOU keep enjoying making them. Thanks.
Thank you for taking the time to make these videos and share this process! You are an artisan when it comes to metals.
Just finished watching all 6 parts! Great stuff!
Glad there are people like yourself putting this information on UA-cam so young guys like myself can learn a thing or two.
Thank you once again Mr. Peat. I am in Thailand this month and it was great to watch a craftsman from the good old USA.
I think that what you are doing is important. You provide a foundation of which a lit of our technology is founded on.
You go back to square one and its incredible how it's all done. I plan on being as knowledgeable as you are one day.
So anyone that says that there's no need for what you do is a fool and a lucky one at that.
So thank you.
THANKS FOR WATCHING
I agree wholeheartedly with your comment Shex...It is very important that these things be passed on to our young people..CNC and Solid Modeling and the like are wonderful tools and should be embraced but there are times when all the modern knowledge just won't compensate for a persons memory..A person can read a thousand words and it will not replace an hour with good teacher or an hour of experience.. I fear at times that these things are being lost...Your comments and the others I have read, give me hope for the future of the trade..
Daniel Hoffman
THANKS
Daniel Hoffman
Thank you. For a while I have had Long shot but looking for a table and other parts for my Kalamazoo Bandsaw 610, here are the part numbers.
C6A-1222 Adjustable Table
CK-10AL Table Support Arm
K-38B Support Arm Tightener
ng that it's vital to know the basics. And yes, cnc and everything modern is fanominal and great, but it's the theory of what if that i think about often.
If a small community was cut off from everyone and what not.
Well, everything that relies on mechanical power can be converted to use a steam engine or something that doesn't require electricity to work.
shexdensmore
Ignore the bandsaw stuff. Prime example of how modern day technology isn't always the best.
Thanks for the series, watched every segment, while it's true I will probably never make a lead hammer I can appreciate your skill and innovation in making it and the video.
Watching your videos adds bits and pieces to my slowly growing bucket of knowledge, however at 74 my buckets got a few Holes in it, but a few of the bigger chucks just might get stuck in there.
Thanks
HH
I'm the "master caster" for a railway preservation group up here in the Great White North. This video series, along with your other videos on pattern making and pouring metal have given me great ideas on how to get things done, the end result being a series of casting for a steam locomotive we've been restoring. Enjoyed this video series greatly. Thanx for the great work and for sharing it all with us.
THANKS for watching. Glad I have been some help --good luck on that restoration.
I really enjoyed this series! Thanks for the time and effort, Tubalcain!
Thanks for doing that whole series of videos on that hammer. I have found it most interesting to see that project from start to finish.
Thank you Sir, that was a great series.
Best wishes, Brendan.
I watched all 6 parts and enjoyed all of them.I would have watched as many as it took to see this to completion. Thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hi Pete,
Your videos are fantastic and never boring. You have made more than just a lead hammer which is a valuable tool; you have made a highly professional mould, what a feat. To add to this further you have generously and painstakingly given us your personal and detailed approach step by step from beginning to end. I for one appreciate your work and humour here as I am sure do many others and I have learned so much thank you.
My own lead hammer was made during my apprenticeship in an automotive machine shop with 11R and 11D white metal scrap from the bearing re-metaling plant where I sweltered so much in those hot summers. It was poured into a can with the pipe handle tinned and filled right to the top which helps to balance it in the hand. Some forty five years later it’s still a good tool.
+Phil Tams Thanks for watching & for the kind words. You greatly encouraged me!
I really enjoyed watching this series. Never saw the whole mold making process before. Thanks so much for all the time and effort to produce such a fine video.
Thanks for the informative series of videos. Granted, you could go down to the hardware store and purchase a dead blow (they won't allow lead anymore) hammer. The same is true of making something on the lathe or mill. But you have had the fun of doing it! You had hold the item in your hand and think "I built this!" That's a pretty great feeling!
Thanks!
I have just watched all six videos of this project.
Thank You for the knowledge that you have and are prepared to pass on to the rest of us.
Thank you very much
Mrpete,thank you for the lead Hammer videos,I thoroughly enjoyed watching them,learned a few thing,although I would not attempt to do what you do but every video you make is interesting to watch,you are down to earth and your videos are easy on the eyes and ears.please keep it up.
Thank you very much.
I´m gratefull for your disposition tho share this lengthy experiment. As you told at the end of part #6 one can buy a lead hammer for about the same amount of money you spend on the handle and the rest of material used in the project. But you taught the whole process. Thank you very much!
THANKS
great series mrpete enjoyed every minute of it thanks for sharing
Thanks for this series. For all us tyros there a bunch of good info. It's the little things that we don't know that you help so much with.
Awesome Series, I Love Pattern Making & Foundry Work, Its Almost Magical What Can Be Done With It. I Like To Look At The Old Machinery Magazines From The Late 1800's & Up Because Its So Amazing To See What People Used To Make & The Skill It Takes To Do It.
Thanks
Loved this series. watched each with great enthusiasm. thank you so much. it was very enlightening.
Outstanding!!!!! MrPete222 I always enjoy watching and listening to you, even if its something I already know how to do or have done. I STILL learn something. To those who fill the need to point to the cost of this project-I just had to say its not always about saving money or making a profit BUT for the Pure Satisfaction (as in my case)& enjoyment of making something from start to finish and or in teaching someone else how its done. A++++ Mr Pete
Thank you very much.
Great video, and great subject for a project. And it is a project that others can copy for their own use and experience. Thanks for taking the time to share this with us.
Excellent series. I enjoyed it very much. I always get a laugh when you point of some people's comments like the one about removing labels.
Great job! I now have a better understanding of the mould making process. Thanks for taking the time to do this video.
I do have a good understanding of how long it takes to make a video, I'm lucky it I get one out in a month. if your curious about my metal videos you can find me at Dale Derry on UA-cam.
Thanks--will check out your videos.
As always, a great series of videos. Thanks for sharing.
Was very interesting to see the process in detail. Thank you for taking the time to record it!
I so enjoy your video's. In today's America where so much manufacturing has gone (along with the knowledge) it's interesting to see what the steps are in making a simple tool like a lead hammer.
That was a real masterclass Mr Peterson, thoroughly enjoyed it. Thanks.
Very nice job. Great videos. The details are what makes this so good. 1 thru 170 in two months. You keep going and I'll keep watching and learning. I and many others, really care about what you are doing. Hope you live a very long and healthy life.
+john ingardia THANKS FOR WATCHING-keep watching
Nice $1000 hammer ;)
Enjoyed the series; shows why having molds made costs so much and this is relatively simple.
Yes, you can buy one for $5 made with piss-poor Chinese lead so full of contaminants it will just.dissolve in a few years. You have a useful hammer that will give you satisfaction of knowing it represents another excellent set of videos. Good job :)
Again I say, whatever you do is still way better than watching TV.. I have buckets
of alum & brass swarf and you have me thinking now......
sam
Wonderful series! Thanks for the education. It may be a simple lead hammer, but the day may come when we will have to make things "from scratch" again. Thanks to you, we will have a clue as to how it's done.
Love the series of mold making steps. Very nicely done. I agree there are not a lot of interest in doing it from scratch like that. If I had all the tooling and the time, I just might do the same, but having neither, it is always fun to watch.
Thankyou for taking the time to make these videos. You are quite the inspiration to everyone interested in shop work
Mr. Pete, I just watched all six of your videos on making the lead hammer and I am at ugh about how many talents you are so good at. I thoroughly enjoyed the whole series. I need a led hammer or two for my lathe and mill but I think I'll try it wirh the tin cans like in your other video. I have watched so many of your videos and haven't watched a single one that I didn't learn a lot and really enjoyed. In fact, there are probably ten or more that I have watched several times such as all the ones that say anything about a 12" Atlas/Craftsman laehe.
I have two Atlas/Craftsman lathes, one 12" (1951 101.07403 ) and one 6" (1945
109.20630) both of which I am rebuilding. Mr. Pete, I'm like you, I tend to ramble on but I don't see anything wrong with that. I'm 78 years young and I think we've earned the right to ramble on even if nobody listens. Good day and may God bless you and yours.
That is a Nice well made Hammer ..This has been a Great video series and I enjoyed every episode Thank You for the time and effort you put into making it
Really great series enjoy each one. Thank you
I'm actually sad to see the project come to an end. Very informative and enjoyable.
hi mr Pete great set of video,s learned a lot about casting alluminium and lead,dave in the UK.
Like the American C-clamp in video. As a Iron Worker they are a must!! No Chinese crap will do.....Armstrong only, maybe a Bessey or two.
Thanks for all the teachings Mr. Pete!!!!!!!!!!!
Great learning series that highlights the critical path planning in each segment. Thanks for your effort! Dan
Excellent series of videos. I learned so much. You are a great teacher...a true Sensi.
Nice, informative set of videos. The casting process looks to be as much creative as it is technical.
+ILGopher Thanks for watching
TaDa!
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This was VERY enjoyable and can't wait for the next project!
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Thanks Mr. Pete!
I WATCHED ALL 6 VIDEOS, AND ENJOYED ALL OF THEM. THANKS MRPETE
great series, great job, can't wait for some more videos :)
Thanks for keeping these skills alive, great work.
With the pipe around .858 you could buy bicycle grips for the handles, they are made for .875 (7/8") bar. You might need some glue but maybe not.
Excellent video. I look forward to your new material, I think I have watched all of the ones on youtube and I bought your series on the Craftsman/Atlas lathe. Thank you.
This was a wonderful series of videos.
Thank You for putting the time into your videos, they are really enjoyable.
Sue...
Thank you, I really enjoyed the journey and learned a few things on the way. A pleasure to watch.
Tubalcain...pride of Illinois!!!
Fantastic video Mr. Pete! I learned more than I thought possible.
Great video series. Very well explained and illustrated showing the process and steps required from concept to final product. Thank you.
Thanks for another informative series!
Watched the whole series! Awesome videos!
MattsMotorz Thanks for watching
Well, I certainly enjoyed that series. Good teaching for sure. Thanks.
very interesting, a good way to transform a trade into an art !!!
Nice to see the process from start to finish. Thanks for the video.
Yup, I watched the entire series. Quite a process. I have poured some lead but not to this degree. It would be fun to do it. Of course I don't have a foundry.
Matt Wilkins Thanks for watching
I would never make a hammer but I could use the same process to make any part I required. That's what I got from the videos. Thanks!
I think you did a GREAT JOB and I was transfixed watching this series. Jaw dropping on the floor and such. Well, not quite on the ground, but I liked it a lot :) I watch all your vids, and thank you for taking the time and trouble to make them. God bless you and yours.
Thanks for watching and your kind words.
Really nice series of videos. Learned some great tips. Now when we calculate your time and the cost of the materials, you probably have a excellent $1000 lead hammer. And yet... I want to make one too :-)
Thanks for perserving these important techniques and caring enough to share them.
Nice hammer and a great series! Just sat through all six! :)
+Jay Williams Thanks for watching all 6.
thank you for the great useful project and as always i really enjoy your humour and natural flow of it :)
Loved the video! When you see all the steps required in mold making, you have to wonder if it's worth it!
Hi mrpete222, Great job, best ever, I had a good time watching. Thanks M.K.S.
Great video, can't wait to see that lead hammer in use!
Good man, thanks for your time!
Regards from Scotland.
There are too people that will go out and make one..... 😄
I didn't do it quite the same way though. I sand casted my favorite brass hammer and made a lead one with a pipe handle similar to what you did but I used pipe caps instead of sand and cast an aluminum ergonomic handle over the pipe first. Made a real comfortable 4 pounder. Sand casted the basic handle from an old eastwing brick hammer I liked. So yes we do.. 😀
Great video series, everything went very well. Thank you and keep em coming.
Thanks Heaps! Enjoyed you humour.
Love this little series! You should do more like it :)
Well I may never need to make a hammer but I have very much enjoyed seeing how it's done, thanks as always for your videos.
Very nice work mrpete, Thank You.
Nice job Mr Pete, My high school shop techer had me make a lead hammer mold for are bridgheport nut, I made it out of plate steel and used a wrench for a handle. It worked out well but I liked your better. Thanks agen for all the grate vids.
Fantastic Great video
Thanks for your hard work
Thanks, an enjoyable hour or so well spent
Excellent series.
"Too Loose La Trec" LOL. I thought I was the only one who said that.