Rounding hammers

[Philip Davies]

Having watched,on YouTube, a video of Brian Brazeal forging tongs, I was very much impressed, not only with his method, and technique, but also with the hammer he was using, which seemed much weightier than mine. It is velocity which is a more important factor than hammer mass, but thinking that I would like to try a heavier rounding hammer, set to and made two. The lighter one is just under 4lb, but the larger is 7 and 1/2 lb, rather too heavy for me, but perhaps I can trade it. I have already replaced the handle on the 4 pounder: it was too slender for comfort.

[DIYer]

Thanks Philip Davies! We've added your Rounding Hammers to our Hammers category,
as well as to your builder page: Philip Davies's Homemade Tools. Your receipt:

Rounding Hammers by Philip Davies

tags: hammer

[Frank S]

Philip if you were to slim the 7 1/2 lb hammer down to around 6 lbs. I'll bet you will find it to be your go to hammer much of the time.
Years ago I found an old very well beat up 8 lb sledge hammer with a broken handle. it was so beat up the faces were mushroomed like you would see a chisel being after years of abuse.
I torched off the mushrooming then thought why not reshape the old hammer head into a cross peen. BY the time I was finished after cutting grinding, reducing the body then hardening and tempering I had reduced the hammer head to around 6lbs. a new handle shortened to 14" made it a go to hammer with great swing balance.