How to Make & Fit up Your Own Hammer Handle from Hickory Wood- Every Step 1 2 3
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- In this video I got to go to Riley Kirkpatrick's shop in Oregon where he showed me how he builds hammers and let me build one with him. This is going to be a 2-part video where this one is us forging the hammers and the next will be us putting handle shafts in them.
I'M ALSO GIVING AWAY THE HAMMER I BUILT!! Rules are simple:
Go to my Instagram @pacific.northwest.farrier.show
1-Like the Hammer Video Post
2-Tag 2 people in the Hammer Video Post
3-Subscribe to my RUclips Channel
4-Send me a DM of a screenshot verifying you're subscribed
And once the channel is at 1,200 subscribers, we'll draw one of you to win the hammer!
If you also would like to own a hammer that Riley makes, his website is www.kirkpatrickforge.com and his instagram page @kirkpatrickforge lets you know when the hammers will be live on the website for sale.
Thanks for Watching!
Nice job guys , good looking handles , well done
Glad Riley mention that about grain orientation. I build handful of Osage bows a year, and use excess material for my hammer handles. My previous driving hammer I made before my current hammer was a 10oz with the Osage where grain 90 degree to the head. You could feel a whip lash effect and it was easier on the joints. Haven't broken a rounding hammer yet to try it on something bigger
I can say that I knew a little bit about grain structures in wood handles but after hearing what Riley had to say helped me understand that much more. Glad to hear you got something useful from the video 😎
Deserve alot more views and subs, keep up the great content.
Appreciate that. Thank you
Bad ass. Thanks for sharing. Picked up a few tips and tricks from this video.
That's awesome, so did I!
I've always heard especially on ax handles that you want the grain going in line with the ax head or hammer head. Having the grain going perpendicular on a bow makes for ideally no run out on the grain and makes the back stronger. But the shock that a hammer or ax takes will make the grain separate over time if its going in that orientation. It's the same reason you orient a baseball bat to hit the ball with the edge grain. The bat is more likely to split if the grain is perpendicular to the ball when it takes the shock
An easier way to explain it i guess would be to take a stack of paper and bent the stack like you're going to fold it. Nice and flexible, but the sheets of paper (aka the growth rings in a wooden handle) want to slide against each other. That would splinter a piece of wood over time. Now take the stack of paper and try bending it the other way. A million times stronger
What kind of saw is that?
Table saw? It was a Craftsman but it’s old so idk what exactly.
Radial arm saw, gone out of fashion now with table and sliding mitre saws replacing them.