Wrought iron Viking blacksmith hammer #65 from the Mastermyr find
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Forging item number 65 from the Mastermyr find. This viking style hammer is made from wrought iron with forge welded steel face and peen.
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By the way just wanted to say that john you put a ton of great effort into your videos sir and we all appreciate it! It takes a lot to manage two to three cameras at once all while doing a technically difficult process. Remember to show john some love folks and hit that like button :-)
Great and true compliment coming from a great and credible source!
Thanks Roy. Mostly its just two cameras that are moved frequently.
Holy smokes!!! My two favorite blacksmiths chatting! Thank you both so much for everything.
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Nice little hammer I would love to see you make more of these type of hammers
I plan to make several
LOVE the closeup!!! Great video!! 😁👍
I made a few hammers like this only with mild steel. Not having a power hammer. Working 2 and 2 1/2 inch mild steel is just easier. I used 5160 and 1045 to forge weld on the face and peen. Come out pretty good. Thx for sharing .....paul
In my limited experience with wrought iron, I have found that using the narrowest slitting chisel/punch to make the eye imparts the least amount of stress on the surrounding material. While delamination is always an issue with wrought, a slit is better than a punch. I very much appreciate your welding the tool steel to the wrought. It is such a small window to work with but getting the tool steel a bit too hot is better than erring on the other side and not having a thorough weld. Thanks John!
Oh boy, and on a Friday morning I get a Black Bear video: saweeeeet. Looks good. Be waiting for the rest.
Saweeeeet ! Oh boy Is you an American !
# black bear forge thank you for being my teacher I got a anvil and a hamer and I am getting a forge and tongs and metle to work with i am a beginning smith you made me in to blacksmithing. # black bear forge
Allways love seeing recreations of period pieces :) looking forward to part 2
I had to stop watching halfway through to comment on how awesome your camera work is getting! So impressed. Your videos are so enjoyable to watch and they just keep getting better and better. Thank you so much for all that you’re sharing.
Love anything with true wrought iron. Love traditional tool making techniques too. More videos with wrought iron please
Thanks for posting, I consider myself a blacksmith beginner and I'm leaning and enjoying your craftsmanship.
Another excellent video. I love Fridays so much, 'cause I know I'm going to get to watch something great before work. I enjoyed watching you punch that eye solo, lets me know I'll be able to do it once I get to the heavier stock. :)
I love experimental archeology almost as much as blacksmithing. Thanks, John!
really loving the mastermyr theme, john!
I have made a smaller version of that particular hammer shape, but not steel welded to wrought iron. I'm looking forward to trying that. Thank you for working with the mastermyr find!
One thing I’ve found that really helps with the eyes on these is upset the middle to a bit over size, and use a slitting punch to start the eye before drifting. Otherwise more or less exactly how I’ve been doing my mastermyr hammers.
The great smiths of history must be looking down on this man in admiration tinged with a hint of jealousy. Imagine having nearly 100,000 apprentices?!
Great video. You continue your work even after cracks and delaminatios.
Great content as always. Can't wait to see it finished
This is a great video series, Mr John, thank you for sharing this with us.
Another fantastic teaching video!
I'm loving the dynamic camera movements on some of the shots in this video John.
Well done, & keep up the excellent content.
Thanks glad you’re enjoying theimprovements
I am definitely interested in seeing how this turns out!
Great work John, looking forward for the finished hammer !!!
Well done, sir
What a video. Thank you Mr. John. I've learned working with wrought iron one must pay close attention to the grain orientation. Its gots be the right way or things go haywire pretty much. Also learned a sharp cut seems to work out better than a flat cut. Wrought iron is a bit of a different character than modern steel. Thank you again for adding to my education in smithing sirSir
🙏blessings abundant sirSir
Crawford out 🧙♂️
I watched Nathan Allen of Conner Prairie forge two cross peen hammers at demonstrations, one at Quad State the other at the IBA yearly conference. Both times he forged the wrought into shape allowing the peen end to fish mouth. Then the piece he forge welded in was as long as the width of the hammer and square. This gave him two areas for the weld. For the face of the hammer he used car spring, almost cutting a piece into to match the size of the head, welding it on using the rest of the spring for a handle then breaking off the rest of the cut.
Looking forward to part two! Great video, John!
gosh what a tease.. I was just really getting settled into this and it was over.. Drat.. now I am gonna have to wait a week.. OH NO! now I sound like my kids!!!! Well just don't tell them! Thanks for the share carry on and we will see you next week!
Nice forging Pat from Belgium ⚒️👍⚒️
The way he zoomed in during that last welding heat made me think that the face was going to come off. So glad it didn't.
The camera work is stunning John! Great video, keep it up
Awesome project, getting close to trying that too.
Great video on wrought with welded tool steel face(s)...very hard project for most.
If I may offer a possible explanation for the delamination issue. First, you usually get less delamination from higher refined wrought iron. Hard to determine when you start just how refined the wrought is. Secondly, I noticed you continued to hammer on the sides of eye when the wrought got pretty cool (darker on the video). As you are well aware, the wrought has to be worked very hot and that may have contributed to the delamination....just speculating here.
This looks awesome so far! If you decide that the de-lam does not render this scrap, Id love you buy it from you. I am just starting my workshop and think that this would make a fantastic first hammer! if not, I will absolutely enjoy seeing how it turns out.
That was good fun to watch, must have been frustrating but it happens. Thanks for the video...
Looks good so far, on my little Samsung phone screen.
Can't wait to see it finished and hopefully used a bit.
Can you do a video on how to forge weld mushroom tools to restore them?
Great too see the laminated process. That's going to be a winner 👍
Looking really good John!
I am with you John I do not think the Vikings would care to much about a few small cracks . But in saying that how hard would have bean for a blacksmith back then . one can wonder .
thank you
Another fantastic teaching video!!
Good stuff
Awesome informational educational video experience Y'alls
These historical recreations are super cool projects. A hammer of this type is something I hope I'll be able to make some time(way above my skill level for the time being).
Rowan Taylor has a good video on making a very similar hammer, but he did the teeth for the face weld a bit differently, putting them along the edges so they sort of "hug" the iron bar instead of driving directly into the surface. It seemed to work very well. Link: ua-cam.com/video/pOc4ie78hvQ/v-deo.html
Finnish or Norwegian next Friday? Sorry, bad joke...
The hammer looks good, and a good choice for the outro music.
Did you use the coal forge to replicate historic techniques, or to reach higher welding temperatures that can’t be reached in the gas forge?
In this case its for the higher heat to weld wrought iron.
@@BlackBearForge I’ve also noticed you’ve had to defend your use of a power hammer. I guess people don’t understand before power hammers it took at least two men to shape hot metal into shape. Power hammers allow smiths to work alone and to save big money on employees. It’s not a sign of weakness or laziness to use a power hammer.
Makes me want to go make one but sadly do not posess wrought iron for body
Comment #487 lol just holding my spot :-)
Good job on both the video and the hammer! By the way, does anyone know, did Vikings really have steel similar to wrought iron? Isn't wrought iron more 'modern' when it's welded from many pieces into layers? And maybe the vikings had something like crucible steel? I'm probably wrong but I'm just wondering.
Crucible steel is way more advanced than wrought iron and while they did have some it seems to be unknown if they actually made it or if they traded for it. Vikings made bloom iron which must be refined into wrought iron to be useful.
I've seen someone forge welding a high carbon face onto a wrought iron hammer before and he kept the teeth to the outside edges not the middle of the piece. He used a flat chisel to go around the edges of both the wrought iron and the carbon steel and cut teeth that would stand upright so that when he brought the 2 pieces of mettle together he ended up with something a bit like a dogs jaw where the teeth kind of slide between each other as the jaw closes. That locked to 2 pieces together enough so that he could put them in the fire and bring it up to welding temperature.
I'll see if I can find the video again in my (probably) thousands of saved videos......... and try to delete loads of saved videos that I don't want any more while I'm at it LOL
I hope that explanation made sence to you 👍👍
[Edit]
Ok, found a video but not the one I was looking for. In this one he only puts the teeth on the carbon steel, but it does show the technique really well.
ua-cam.com/video/pOc4ie78hvQ/v-deo.html
He starts the teeth at 1:55 ish. I hope it helps you in the future 🙂
The Way you mute the anvil and those camera movements make your videos way to perfect.
Thanks
it so hard to believe that you can weld two different pieces of metal together like that
Its how welding started. It is cool to feel the two peices marrying under a hammer.
Hey john after watching this video again it looks like the wrought iron is of less then good quality. Maybe it needs to be refined a little more. The piece you got from Roy last year was of much better quality that’s got to be the reason you had so many problems. If you have more from the same source maybe spend a little wile refining it some more......thx ........paul
That is certainly part of the problem I think.
Yay!!!!!
thanks mate nice video
I can buy it, but I do need it picked up
quick question john, where can I find those books?
check any of the blacksmithing suppliers such as Pieh Tool
Cool
If it works, it's all good!
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I highly doubt that they used tool steel in the original hammer.
about burned it huh wow even you hard to believe
Couldn't the face be welded the same as the peen? Form a wedge with 'teeth' and weld that in place.
Possibly although I haven’t see it done that way before
Here is another one from Rowan Taylor
ua-cam.com/video/pOc4ie78hvQ/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/eKVEj5-R1kg/v-deo.html
Part one of anvil
Thank you for the video. I'd like to introduce you to jackcrafty (youtube handle) he approaches Aboriginal tools just like you have explained this iron age tool. His vids taught me flint knapping just like you are teaching me black smithing.
That's not split it crumbled