Blacksmith's Wooden Sledge Hammer & Essential Craftsman
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- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2017
- I designed this wooden sledge hammer with Scott Wadsworth of Essential Craftsman. It is a straight peen design and weighs about 3.5 pounds and the hammer head is made from curly maple. The handles are production handles that I bought on Amazon (see link below). What do you think of this Wooden Sledge Hammer?
Thank you to Scott Wadsworth of Essential Craftsman. I encourage you to check out his channel, he has excellent content:
/ @essentialcraftsman
If you are interested in buying any of my wooden crafts, check out my Etsy store: www.etsy.com/shop/EngWoodworking
Visit my website at www.engineeredwoodworking.com
Email me at travis@engineeredwoodworking.com
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I’m here watching this because of essential craftsman
Thanks buddy!
Me too
As am I...
Me too! (and because Im trying to learn how to make a hammer using easily available materials that I might find in a prison..... hypothetically)
Yeah that blacksmithing friend sent me.
You know you're doing pretty good in life when you have Essential Craftsman as a friend and mentor.
"original fidget spinner." nice execution on that line :)
Essential Craftman sent me. It's Hammer time !
"Original Fidget Spinner" Top notch!
I also came over after Scott recommended your channel.
The template for hanging the head is a great way not to have to keep taking off the head for a proper fit up. I will be adding that to my tool bag. Liked and Subscribed. EC sent me!
A little stiff and "presenty," but a good straight-forward project vid. Definitely lose the music. A good approach is rather than thinking of an "audience,:" think of a "guy." Most of us are just one guy sitting in front of a computer. Don't talk to "us," talk to "me." One guy visiting your shop and seeing what you're up to. Looking forward to seeing more from you.
This ^^ Love the project, refine the presentation.
Thank you for the honest critique. I'm working on being more natural in front of the camera. It's not my comfort zone, but I love teaching one-on-one so I'll keep your advice in mind.
@@EngineeredWoodworkingandDIY , my thoughts exactly, as a fellow engineer. The presentation felt like reading a technical report or watching a late '90's tutorial video. Great project, keep it up!
After 4 years you uploaded this video I am watching it because of essential craftsman. New suscriber to your channel.
I'm here cause of essential craftsman!!!
I really loved the video, but the stock music really didn't work for this type of thing. IMO anyway.
Here through Essential Craftsman, great joint project!
The Essential Craftsman sent me!
excellent job on the hammer, and you are right about Scott.
Essential Craftsman sent me,!✌👋
Another new viewer here that came from Essential Craftsman. Nice video and hammer. :)
Subbed ... love the Crater Lake background at the end. You are blessed to have Scott as a mentor 🙏
tone of the video is perfect. cool hammer!
Scott sent me. Im glad he shared it, I look forward to seeing your videos.
Scott sent me, you made me want to subscribe. Thanks for sharing.
Essential craftsman recommended you so here I am.
Guess how I got here, really love the collaboration
Wadsworth sent me over. Great video. I’ll check out more videos!
That was really neat and well done, subscribed.!!
Keep up the good work, cheers!!
Lol@ original figget spinner
I to came over from EC, really like the trick of using the template for getting the handle fit up in the head of the hammer, going to write that one down in my shop note book. Keep up the good work.
Nice job it came out great!! I need to make a new one
Excellent content. The cheesy techno does not amount to the level of craftsmanship.
cut out the flippy music, it doesnt really harmonize with craftsmenship IMO
I just saw the "arm wrestling" video, thought I'd check you out. I'll come back for more real soon and binge watch to catch up. Very nice wooden sledge!
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Found you thru Scott's channel ... looking forward to your content! 👍
thanks ec great channel
Good video, but the music was a bit too quiet and didn't really have that night club feel I enjoy in woodworking videos.
Subscribed essential Craftsman sent me. Great job on the hammer
Thanks!
Also here on essential craftsman's recommendation. Nice work.
New subscribers . Loved the hammer.
Howdy Travis, anouther viewer of Scott's on Essential Craftsman, just subbed to yours. You might enjoy Alex Steele's videos, amazing young blacksmith that just moved to Montana from Britain. He teamed up with a young knife maker named Will Stutter. Both do awesome work.
That is some crazy runout on that drill press.
The run out is confined to the Forstner bit and extension. It drove me crazy, but the drill press is tight.
Engineered Woodworking and DIY do you think it just wasn't chucked correctly?
Bobby Stanley re chucked it several times. I think I have a bad extension.
Yeah that was strange, like the bit wasn’t centered. Cognitive dissonance because S.A.W. highly recommended....
Watched and subscribed from Essential Craftsman!!! Great Video.
Thanks!
Sent here by Scott, subscriber for original fidgit spinner. Nice work, man.
You've won the flag in the Christmas give away. Please email me at travis@engineeredwoodworking.com with a mailing address so I can send a flag your way!
Remove the dubstep background please
Cool
Came over from essential craftsman!! Great work man!
Nice job! Came over from EC and sub'd.
Cool video on your process. Uncle Essential Craftsman sent me here. Subscribed. You seem like a likeable skilled fella. Will check out your Channel. I am now inspired to make myself one.
EC sent me. Nice hammer.
Scott W. sent me. Glad he did. Best of luck with all of your endeavors Travis!! BTW, please rethink the background music. Your channel deserves much better. IMHO softly picked and/or strummed acoustic guitar makes an excellent background track.
Noted!
Nice idea, maybe you should try creating a solid rectangular piece of lead that is a section of the hammer toward the heavy end that is sandwiched between the front hitting wooden head and main body of hammer and handle. Maybe a modular style that can have the front piece replaced when worn. Maybe I can create a drawing that better describes my idea
Using the spacer and miter saw to square up two sides of the head was very slick. That is a lot of run out on your drill press, that would drive me nuts. Nice job.
The runout on the drill press is only from the forstner bit and extension. The drill press is tight. I will tell you though that the run out did drive me nuts.
I just came here from Scott's channel and subbed you, hopping you lose the music. Great hammer video.
Nice job. I would have poured some glue onto the beebees for them not to rattle and become one
Came here from EC. Very nice project! My humble advice would be to drop the music.
Have you ever thought about making that and infusing the wood with Acrylic? You put the acrylic resin and hammer head in a vacuum chamber. It will make the hammer more dense and less apt to deform.
The point of the wooden sledge is to not deform hot metal during use. While the acrylic would toughen up the sledge's head, I'm sure that it would deform the hot metal during use. As nice as the sledge is, it is not intended to last forever.
Me too
I'm subscribed to Essential Craftsman and love his channel, so why have I not heard of you?! New sub for sure
Dru 86 thank you! His video of this sledge will be coming out shortly. Also, if you follow his spec house series, I'm the civil engineer for his project.
I wonder if in the next version, it might help to run a few dowels across the head in order to tie the layers together and resist splitting between the layers.
ncooty the one I made for essential craftsman has dowels across the laminations on the ends. Exactly what you described
I love your content. I wish your choice of background music was different or muted.
Sent by "EC". Good content, keep it up. I agree with other, music is distracting.
Scott sent me. Great video (except for the music.) Subscribed.
Why didn't you cut a new slot for the wedge, so it is perpendicular to the grain?
Essential craftsman sent me
african olive tree ..the handle as well...best allround mallet for weight and durablity
"original fidget spinner" - LOL
And by the way put a really nice hammer
Would one consider to soak the head with Borax solution to minimize burnig while working with hot Iron? BTW I subbed EC and you popped up as an recomandation.
What's the deminsions on the head
Great wood sledge hammer have you considered using Ipe instead it is very fire resistant and is very heavy
1. Also here from Essential Craftsman, you two make a great team I love a good collaboration
2. I may want to try my hand at something like this, although it make feel a little weird to buy shotgun shells for their pellets while I don’t own a shotgun. Maybe I should get a shotgun to justify the purchase lol
3. I don’t mind the music, one tip I’d give on that topic would be to use music that you like and that you’d find to be a good fit for your videos. Do you want them to be higher energy so the more mundane topics aren’t so boring? Do you want to leave the mundane topics narrative-only because you feel that no song can match it’s mood properly? Is what your showing crowd friendly if that’s what you’re worried about? Even those who don’t like music can ignore/won’t mind it if it fits the mood properly and it isn’t overdone.
4. Include the credits for songs you use, not only is it a good idea as far as karma goes, it also helps those who may like the song to seek it out. You have no idea how long I suffered in silence trying to find the song Fade by Alan Walker, turns out it’s an instrumental of his song “Faded”. Credit the songs! (:
I just came over from EC
Got here from EC. Love the hammer, lose the music in videos. I'd rather hear the tools working :)
Here from EC,which I'm not sub'd to either. I just like tools and especially non-production hand-tools. That is a wonder looking mallet. I just got in the same hickory handle for an antique hand forged ship/top maul I'm custom restoring. Why? Don't know, other than i can't stand seeing misused and neglected tools. Again; beautiful mallet, and maple is one of my faves anyway, just so pricey.
👍👍👍subbed , sent by EC
Nice! It looks like you added some darker cross-grain pins after you finished shooting the build. Just a little insurance to help prevent delamination?
Exactly. I made the dowels myself and am finishing up that video.
When you were wedging the handle you said you didn't want to split the laminated head of the sledge
It occured to me that if you rotated the wedge 90°, so that it transmits the force parallel with the long grain of the glued boards, you'd wedge the head against a much stronger axis within the wood? Could someone explain if this is incorrect? You said that the wood used was curly maple so perhaps the grain would be too uneven to allow you to glue the wedge parallel to the long grain? I'm not really sure, good video though!
You lost the plastic sheathes on those clamps too huh? Mine made it about a week and frankly I dont miss them!
Why not melt the lead and pour it in? I am also curious how you could possibly adjust the balance in the head/handle.
Pouring the lead bb's is much simpler than melting it. I try to get the best efficiency from my projects, and melting the lead would *maybe* add 1 ounce of weight to the head. Once the sledge is made, there isn't really a way to adjust the weight balance. I did make sure that the pockets had equal weights in them to balance the head.
by leaving the shot loose you also get a "dead blow" effect in the hammer too. Nice.
Your wrap up at end had a very bad echo. Try some egg cartons stapled to the wall to reduce the echo in your recording room.
Neat hammer. My only concern is failure at the glue joints from sharp hammer blows. If you did it over - would you make an adjustment to reduce this potential failure point? ( Came here from EC.)
Excellent point! Both Scott and I were concerned about delamination. I put wooden cross pins on Scott's hammer at each end to at least prevent try to prevent this from happening.
I agree, it is a nice hammer. If you do another one, you might want to consider using an epoxy vs. regular wood glue. Might reduce the chance of delamination even more. Like the use of wooden pins though, gives a nice look.
I wonder if a butterfly or other triangle joint across the maple laminate would help strengthen the hammer. Matthias Wandel showed the failing point of several joints. This hammer is using a kind of butt joint which is weaker than pocket holes. I also came here from EC. I'll try some more of your videos.
Im an metrik guy , so have to ask.
There wasnt much difference between steel beads and lead beads ?
Dosent the wood burn badly?
I subbed. I am also a "Maker"
2:58 how many clamps does one man need?
Crater Lake Oregon?
Yes, I grew up in roseburg
are you the guy who did the engineering for the new house Scott is building?
Yes, I did the civil grading work for his spec house.
It just occurred to me ... if you created slightly bigger cavities... so that the lead shot could move... you would have a smoother energy transfer at the point of impact. Also, would a replaceable hide leather face, prolong the life of the hammer?
I built the mallet based on Essential Craftsman's desired design. The options that you mention could be added to the design. If the lead shot moved in the head, it could perform like a deadblow hammer, but EC didn't want that. The leather face would not have provided a hard enough surface, and the metal would likely burn the leather in a short period of time making it unravel. Perhaps for a different use, the options you mentioned would be improvements. Thanks!
i'm here also - through Wado's tip. Have to agree that the music is painful. Yes you are probably sick of reading that. But great video, i will build mine out of Buloke (Allocasuarina luehmannii) Average dried weight is "69 lbs/ft3 " Janka hardness - 3,760 lbf (16,740 N), It is so dense it sinks even when it is dry, well the pieces i have do. It makes beautiful wooden pens or knife scales.
Back to the hammer i don't think i will need lead shot in it. There is some conjecture about the Buloke specifics, the guru's can battle that one out, all i know is it is very hard and dulls tools quickly.
Above Timber Data is from - www.wood-database.com/australian-buloke/
Essential Craftsman sent me. Do you enjoy your job as a civil engineer? I'm in the process of choosing which branch of engineering I'd like to go into.
Welcome to the channel. Yes, I do enjoy being a civil engineer. It a great balance between an office job and still being able to go to job sites.
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Good content, pace, and video work! Thank you. If you decide to remove/avoid the music, I’ll be back for more content.
Thanks Avery, my new videos do not have music based on comments. Once a video is uploaded, you can't extract the music, so my older videos will stay as-is.
Love the concept of engineered WW. please lose the music. especially during narration
Good explanation and demonstration, but the music is really distracting and doesn't seem like a natural fit for this type of video. just my opinion though...
original fidget spinner lol!!
I'm here because Scott beat you at arm wrestling;)
I'll never live that down I guess?? LOL
who keeps telling people to put this annoying music in their videos?
Its cookie cutter music and part of youtubes "Approved List of non copy right" Thats why people always use it. Frig if it were me Id grab an electric keyboard and come up with something smooth and jazz like for his videos. Gotta please the audience and this music is razers too the ear drum.
nix the background music.....I stopped halfway through.....no bueno
Well done, thank you! Just please PLEASE get rid of the horrible background “music”. It’s like having a mindless idiot chirping away during your presentation. It’s like someone slipped some damn drugs in the coffee. Infuriating lol. Thanks again.
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