Making A TITANIUM HAMMER
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- Опубліковано 6 сер 2020
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Taking on the challenge of forging a hammer for the blacksmith shop from Titanium! I want to see how a titanium hammer performs compared to a steel hammer! It definitely is not the easiest material to work, but it is very rewarding to work with titanium. I thought it would be especially cool to try and anodize the hammer and have a cool blue looking hammer! Hope you enjoy/enjoyed the video!
My name is Timothy Dyck. I got hooked on blacksmithing when I was 13 years old. I quickly realized that in order to keep blacksmithing I needed money to buy costly supplies, so I started making small items and selling them at the local farmer markets. The farmer markets turned into craft shows and craft shows turned into custom projects. Right out of high school I had the opportunity to apprentice under a blacksmith, where I worked with him for four years. We did projects for some of the most prestigious houses around the rocky mountains and were apart of many large public sculptures. I learned many valuable lessons while working under his training, but the desire to set up my own shop and go out on my own was always something I dreamed about.
So in 2013 I started setting up my full time blacksmith shop out of BC, Canada making custom projects and products like railings, gates, lights, stairs, fences and all the many blacksmithing tools required to keep the blacksmithing shop running. I love what I do and this is my dream job. I enjoy showing you what's going on in the blacksmith shop through the lens of a camera and would love to have you along for the ride as I live out my dream of being a blacksmith in the 21st century.
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Titanium is VERY reactive with Oxygen, Hydrogen and Carbon amongst other things at high temperature. Heating in a blacksmiths forge with Charcoal / Carbon is a sure way to contaminate the outer skin and lead to a poor surface and the potential of stress and cracking of the surface. Better to use either electric or gas (and an oxidising atmosphere to reduce the possibility of picking up free Hydrogen). A sensible working temperature for Grade 5 (6AL-4V) is 925 to 950C. The density of Titanium is 56% that of steel, so you are going to have one really light hammer.
Something else to be aware of, Titanium fines/ swarf from machining (and the grinding operations if you do a lot) can produce a thermite reaction if you have iron / steel swarf & fines left from previous operations. Ensure you clean down the machine and separate the different materials. Should a fire start that involves Titanium swarf / fines then dry powder or dry sand to smoother the fire is the way to go, using Water can give rise to an explosion.
Retired now, but working in the Titanium industry for 40 years, along with Zirconium, Hafnium and Niobium amongst other things.
That's really interesting. Unless I'm mistaken, I thought thermite was aluminum oxide and iron oxide, so why does the steel and titanium shavings produce a reaction?
@@obh7762 You can make thermite mixture out of many different elements and oxides. Only requirements are that the end products are thermodynamically more stable and that the reaction produces enough heat to be self-sustainable. You can even make silicon dioxide (sand) and aluminium thermite and produce elemental silicon though its really hard to ignite.
@@obh7762 Can be produced from other materials. Titanium has a very high attraction to Oxygen and in certain cases can take it from other materials. Also worth bearing in mind that the fines can ignite spontaneously and the recommended way to store it is submerged under water. Swarf / fines fires can be huge, I've seen 100ft tall swarf fires, they are white hot and you cannot get anywhere near.
Yep...melted a Cincinnati turning titanium with the wrong coolant
Also reactive with Nitrogen...
He literally has the Tools to make Tools that help him make more Tools, what a loophole
It’s like in order to make money you need to have it lol
Gotta spend money to make money
Great minds think alike!!!
Ditto
You took the words out of my mouth!
The small talk about coking while the hammer was heating up was much appreciated lol.
Ya it's better than linus's segway to a sponsor
If u know what I mean😉
@@doitwithnick501 nah
Imagine if they put a sticker in the package saying, FRAGILE.
XD
lmao if that did happen and they did take care of the "fragile" titanium and not the real fragile packages, it would be much more hilarious
Stove jebs aren't u dead
Don't u know it's illegal to comment while being dead😑
Walter Walter
"24 Volts is about the color I want"
The color of d e a t h
titanium: is a lightweight high impact strenght expensive metal
him: i'll make a hammer out of it
“Whosever holds this hammer, if they be worthy, shall possess the power of Tim, eh”
Next Episode:
Making a NETHERITE HAMMER
LOL neverite doesn’t even exist LOL!!!
@@habibi_nation3673 it does exist in y15 nether
@@eggegggegg it’s a j9kwfg
@@habibi_nation3673 I bet you don’t even know what Minecraft coordinates are.
@@c.j.7688 HEY!! DONT TALK TO ME LIKE THAT, IT IS RACIST TO TALK TO ME LIKE THAT!!! (sorry for all caps 🧢)
FYI: Be careful with the accumulation of titanium grinding dust. It's pretty flammable.
God yes, it's like magnesium nearly.
😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳
If that is going to be a problem it can be extinguished by suffocating the flame with a bucket of sand.
But i think the accumulation from projects like this is pretty low and since most of the process include hot forging it will generate a surface of titanium oxid wich is not combustible.
It had been different if it was in a factory where one used cutting tools and could grinding in order to shape large amonths of metal, that type of fire can be extremly hot, but in this case i think it shall be fine if one just keeping an eye on it for some houers, titanuim dust will not lie and pyre smoldering like beads from an oxygen torch (or sparks from angle grinders on close range) hitting regular dust (at least not as far as i know) it either burn rapidly with an intense fire or does not. Most industrial fires directly caused by man that occured in the area where i live had it's origin in hasty works with Oxy/AC torches (mainly deconstruction works on dismantling areas where people get tired and went home to early and did not use proper heatprotection blankets) and people forgot to sitting firewatch after the wok was done.
It all burnt as he ground it
@@miguelcontreras5782 I think you're saying its not flammable since its all burnt up from the grinding? If so that's false. I worked at an aerospace company welding titanium. I was shown a controlled demonstration and it lights up pretty violently.
Oh man, I thought it's McConaughey forging some cool shxt
That's exactly what I thought on another one of his videos. He looks and sounds like McConaughey.
@@rt9519 6y6
Its Methew McConaughey
Its Mark Zuckerberg
C'mon tars
Being that titanium is roughly half the weight of steel, sure, it takes less energy to swing, but it's not better. The weight of the hammer is what flattens steel more than your own arm strength.
But who cares titanium is cool lmao
You’re right
If he can create a high momentum and direct this to the hammer by having a fixed arm (just small joint movements) he can create even more impuls to bend the metals he is working. But since he is using more muscles to make his arm more rigid, he will probably get tired sooner and his joints might take more damage.
kinetic energy is mass times the square of velocity - so doubling the mass gives you twice as much energy; doubling the speed gives you four times.
energy has to come from somewhere, you can't just make something weigh less and voila you suddenly hit everything twice as hard
@@krakowski_6237 Of course - but as you swing the hammer, it's lighter, so you can accelerate it faster in the fixed length of time of your strike - so you can put more energy into it during the swing.
I would recommend getting a shop apron to protect your clothes. My high school had a number of them and they worked amazingly well.
"Got another battery, the neighbors are going to miss that later" lol sounds like I'm watching the Red Green show.
“If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.”
Now do another one of tungsten, would mess with friends and family being handed one after the other :D
edit: regarding the Metric/imperial : ua-cam.com/video/hid7EJkwDNk/v-deo.html :)
Tungsten doesn't forge. It just degrades and throws off dangerous fumes.
@@SnowblindOtter are you thinking of tungsten-carbide? Pure tungsten is an element... what would it degrade into? Now, getting it to 3700k - that is the challenge :D
@@DanielChristiansen it oxidizes and flakes off rather than homogenize into different shapes
@@DanielChristiansen I was thinking about tungsten carbide, yes. Most people talk about 'forging tungsten' referring to tungsten carbide.
However, I will point out that the *MELTING* point of elemental tungsten is 6,200 degrees. Its Brittle-Ductile Transition(also known as Forging) temperature is around 800 degrees. Getting pure tungsten to forging temperature would be easy enough, really, but the problems would arise from the uncertainty regarding how toxic tungsten oxide species are, and the fact that enough tungsten to forge could be more expensive than pure gold of the same amount.
Also, I deliberately converted my temperatures to Fahrenheit. I apologize if you'll have to convert them back, but I'm not a fan of Celsius/Kelvin. It's just the one Metric unit that's not superior to Imperial.
Daniel Christiansen The temperature required to make tungsten soft enough to try to work would be well beyond what you could do in a home shop. The melting point is over double that of most steels.
That was cool. The way you was swinging it was crazy. Looked like it was super light. I'm glad to see your back.
Please keep making more videos.
You the man.
Thanks for sharing.
I can't believe this went through the mill like that! Looks really nice with the symmetry and the color you achieved👍
So as a home smithy, I’m so surprised at the titanium. It stayed red for FAR longer then steel would. I also was impressed by the lack of impurities flaking of in the hammering process (saw someone else mentioning it too). Great vid!
Nice to hear this stuff from a Canadian 🇨🇦 it makes blacksmithing and forging sound easier thanks bro!
It's a joy to watch such fluid movements under the big hammer - nice work!
Watching this is nice. All of your movements are fluid and clean. Love it good work!
Bro, that’s the kind of a content I personally, and I think other people want to see! This is a great video! Amazing job getting an titanium hammer idea! Keep going my man!!! 👏👏👏
Love it when you work with Titanium. Keep up the good work.
Thank you! More to come!
Timothy Dyck Why not use natural gas for heating the forge? It pretty much reaches full temperature within 10 minutes of ignition.
years ago I built and worked on equipment at a forge specializing it titanium and the black smith knocked me out a titanium digging bar, It was one of my most prized tools my whole working life. So strange and light with such power and strength, and the blue green sparks and spooky sound when you hit concrete. Out of this world fire work show. Loved the looks of coworkers when they picked up my pry/digging bar and it was NOT what they thought.
Word of caution!! titanium shavings can auto ignite similar to magnesium and need special fire fighting equipment and storage considerations.
It's a visual satisfaction to see this man at work. I enjoyed every bit of the video.
I admire you.
in all the smithing videos I've watched online and fordged in fire episodes IVE NEVER SEEN SOMEONE work a power hammer like that....
WOW....
Are you even blacksmithing if you aren't setting yourself on fire?
No u Are not
Are we gonna gloss over the fact that he said “leg-pant”?😂😂
certified dwarf classic
Setting myself on fire was an almost daily routine due to my reluctance of wearing flame resistant overalls
@@Mat0305 when I did rural firefighting, even with flame resistant clothing, some of us were setting ourselves on fire daily anyway.
First time coming across your channel, this was really cool to watch and i like how everything is recorded/edited with a good mix of dialogue and actual work. Great job. I don't really watch this sort of stuff but i definitely enjoy things that are made from metal.
Gotta love the unedited raw footage of his forging.
26:25 When you go from using steel tools to mithril tools in Runescape
And thus, Timothy learned the most valuable lesson of stepping foot in a blacksmith shop: Always wear Boot-Cut or Relaxed-Fit jeans.
Pants don’t matter. He needs a smithing apron.
gloves also seem like a good idea. Ones hands are still the most powerful and versatile tool, you don't want to damage them
I personally wear a tracksuit. You can wear whatever you want, it's the apron that's necessary
@@velocitypeasant5832
Well no, you shouldn't wear synthetic materials like nylon or spandex because they'll melt under heat and stick to you. A girl in my welding class had that happen.
@@jacobg5122 that's fair. I was basing that from my own experience, and I haven't had anything happen to me.
iv had a titanium hammer in my hands for 4 years now. I remember the day i switched that how much i like it. Great video brother.
Wonderful, beautiful build. Monster hammer and mill you have. Keep stirring the solution while anodizing
With the anodizing of titanium, while a big set up like that works, I find more success when I use just some 9V batteries in series with a positive lead to the titanium, and a negative lead attached to a brush or sponge soaked in some electrolyte solution. It’s quite literally “brushing” on the layer of titanium oxide, and the variable voltage (depending on number of 9v batteries) lets you make lots of different colors. It also lets you make it multiple colors too if you are into a look like that
I didn’t know they made blacksmiths from Minecraft in real life. That’s so cool
Yeah dude I was surprised they copied something from a block game.
I can tell somebody’s gonna get whooshed
U are extremely stupid
@@zzleeep3433 r/wooosh. Had to do it to em.
@@leeditor7906 already happened.
Truly a work of art, and interesting to see the process. Such a nice sound when struck, too 🙂
Good to see somebody make Blacksmithing Fun..My dad was a blacksmith i always enjoyed watching him..
Good stuff Thumbs up
Looks like that would be the perfect finishing hammer with it being lighter but still maintaining the larger size!
Mike Bogausch interesting idea! Now I’m thinking about hollow steel hammers.
@@cholulahotsauce6166 check out tinsmith hammers - they've been around for couple hundred years :)
" _Tims Hammer Case hardened_ "
Condition: Factory new
Price: _"Titanium is really expensive"_
I got a case hardened stiletto knife minimal wear
nah more an anodized navy. the "yellow" part is not really yellow its just reflective so it doesnt work.
For a mechanic there is nothing more beautiful than these white titanium sparks. Titanium is by far my favorite metal, maybe even element.
it's so hypnotizing to watch you work! loved it
At last, something in the UA-cam recommended that's actually interesting
OK, throwing sparks is not a big deal in a forge; everything throws sparks at some time!
If you are banging away on some piece of automotive nature, those titanium sparks could ignite fuels/vapors.
Pretty unlikely, but not impossible.
The stuff sparks with the slightest provocation...not like ferrocerium, but it's not a placid metal.
Folks in petroleum industries use non-sparking bronze alloys in their tools; this is the opposite!
Cool project!
Bronze Alloys? The most common anti spark alloy is beryllium copper, not bronze.
@@Toxicity1987 Bronze will do too
Or brass as I've used on tuprintine systems at paper mills .
Just stumbled across your channel. I appreciate your humorous, positive and silly/cheery attitude. Keep that up. Subscribed.
You put so much time into this good job !
Tim: I'm going to cut a piece from this titanium
10 seconds later...
Tim: That literally took forever
Thanks youtube for suggesting me this video. Now, I can crack a walnut.
SO cool! great work.
This channel is so incredibly underrated. The production quality and content is fantastic.
I just really enjoy watching you practice your craft. Beautiful looking hammer too. Interested in hearing how you like it in the long run. Does it perform well for it's weight? How does it stack up against a two pound steel hammer? Maybe we will find out after a couple of videos, maybe even on the next one. I hope it's not the next one but instead we get to watch you use it in a couple videos and then you make your judgement.
bloody hell bud, you've got the most stereotypical Canadian accent i've ever heard!
Right, eh?
@Luke yeet how would you know? did you ever live in alaska?
Is that what it is?! I thought he had a lisp or something.
You are the number 1 lobster
Trailer Park Boys "Decent" I lost it after that! 🤣
Nicely done... I like the soap bubble coloration.
The finessing is marvelous
Tim: "its really light"
me: "make a massive hammer out of titanium that weighs as much as an average hammer"
that hammer looks like it barely weighs. Titanium is a tough material, yes, but I don't know if it's the best to smith with. there might just not be enough hammer to hammer.
Love the color!
Beautiful handy work.
He lool liks Mathew Mcconaughey. Allright allright allright.
Dough Marcaida: your hammer sir, will Kill...
Keeel
really great work. the blue titanium looks amazing. well done
This guy seems really nice and genuine
You should have put on a "Ti" for the elemental abbreviation. And it still would've fit with Tim
Do Inconel next!
I know right! Would be pretty cool!
Beautyfull work,thank you sir!
Found your channel and saw the titanium hammer build! Liked it so much that I will hang around and I subscribed to see more! Great job Tim! 👌🦾
i’ve always wandered why does anvils have that nose now i know
i was wondering about the hole myself. now i know too
yep
It called a beak abd the hole is a hidey hole
Nose? You mean the horn of the anvil
I’ve seen farmers use it a lot for bending horseshoes to the right size for a particular horse
No one:
This guy: I use the hammer to make the hammer
It is 1AM and I am watching some guy making a hammer
Fun project. You got inquisitive and pursued a vision. Good for you! I like you enthusiasm and desire to grow out of experience. Great skills. I like your shop & learned something more about titanium.
"He used the hammer to make the hammer"
This meme was made by floor gang
So how was the first hammer created 🤯
@@Brand0nDz Which wuz foist: chicken or chicken ??
Raymond Ashby Archaeopteryx fossils, which are the oldest generally accepted as birds, are around 150 million years old, which means that birds in general came after eggs in general. That answer is also true-the egg comes first-when you narrow it down to chickens and the specific eggs from which they emerge.
So someone had to make the first hammer the hard way 🤣🤣🤣
The hammer looks like the hammer from the game: Getting over it with Bennett Foddy😅😅
@Jack Langley you got me!
awesome connection bro what if (hear me out) hammers look the same
for a reason
@Jack Langley I had the exact same thought. It was like I physically couldn't read anything after "the game." until I lost. I blame the internet.
That turned out great!! Love your shop, have a few toys I would love to have in mine.
I used to swing a titanium Stiletto framing hammer. It was a 14oz hammer with a 28oz hit. No carpal issues after swinging it all day like I did with an Estwing. Best tool I ever bought as a framer because, not only did I bury nails in less swings, but I didn't need to swing it as hard!
Crafting a diamond pic when your used to mining with a Iron pic
Nobody :
Timothy: makes a hammer with a hammer
You did an amazing job as always!
This looks like an absolute master piece
Making coke:
Cook the coal (coke the coal).
Once the coal has been cooked (coked), it is coke.
To coke means to cook.
Similarly, the noun coke means cooked coal.
If that's not as clear as mud, I'm going home.
...and if you cook coke you get crack ! Lol. ...ill see my self out now
mud isn’t clear???
@@dingus6317
It's a MrPete222 saying. He's known for saying that after explaining a process in detail.
"Whosever holds this hammer, if they be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor".
Turned out really nice
Keep up the fantastic work buddy
Your anvil isn't answering? That's why it's ringing when you're forging.
What do you mean?
@@hughe29 titanium is hard as s**t. most of the energy gets dumped on the anvil when u try to hammer it. i heard some stories about people shattering anvils while working on titanium.
Epic win
b v titanium isn’t hard at all. It is very tough though and deformation is quite difficult as well as wear resistance even when it is hot. when it comes to splitting an anvil in half those are just made up stories.
@@kajiarrow7761 i mean titanium is kind of hard
The rule for blacksmithing i know is : your hammer should be always from a softer metal then your anvil to decrease prremature wear on your anvil which in most cases is pricier...
This is my first time to see your video and it was so interesting and fun to watch!
This so incredible!
You know if you hit titanium onto a titanium surface it makes a sonic boom, maybe try making a titanium anvil and see if it’s true
Not sure if you are joking because there's no way that's remotely possible.
why do people think titanium is magical or something lol
Vanadium is pronounced almost the same as “Canadian.” You should be able to say it like a pro.
think canadium then slap the V on, vanadium
Vuh nay dee um
@огромная эрекция
DA
I have the same...
they miss all chemical education in the schools and even not know how pronounce propelly the names of elementairy body
Leland Holton Great explanation
@@joshschneider9766 That's what I thought, but Google says "vuh·nei·dee·uhm", whatever difference that makes. P.S. IANAL in this case means I am not a linguist.
*Excellent work* 👍👍👍👍👍
Good work on titanium. 👌👌👍
I hit the subscribe button with my sledgehammer, now my phone wouldn't turn on.
Him: *uses titanium*
Me: Good enough but if you want stronger metal you should’ve have used Tungsten
@@tejassingh5344 then use graphene
@@tejassingh5344 I admire your intelligence
Then use nuclear pasta
B11 - JoshuaSiriban weapons grade uranium is strong and dense..... just saying.
@@theblacktemplars2483 it can also kill the wielder from radiation sickness
A weapon of true destruction
It has a really nice sound when hit!
Beautiful hammer . good job
I don't know how you even afford or find a piece of titanium that large.
It's around 15 dollars per pound I think
@@averygoodfantasticname4206 Depends on quality, size, and weight. titanium is really expensive still, considering that titanium is a very expensive metal to be using to make hammers out of.
On the website, that piece of titanium 2x36 inches is $350
@@portajohn That's expensive for 3 feet of stock.
This looks like a hammer that Apple made
like all appearance and price tag? and less performance....oh yeah uncool apple
Awesome job Looks sweet
You my friend are a joy to watch
Used one of the lightest metals then disappointed when not heavy enough?😂
titanium sparks are no joke. burn through most materials. and good luck using an end mill... titanium loves eating bits
@@BloopTube I can only imagine...
BloopTube I used only 1 set of inserts on the titanium hammer I made
I think I remember that titanium coming off the lathe can catch fire in the bin. Maybe the hammer will work better with copper or a softer metal.
Why not water jet the holes?
Nice work. We posted this video on our homemade tools forum this week :)
Honestly this is just really neat