u/chrisfoe97

Here I'm using a guillotine tool to forge in the troughs on a hammer I'm making

Forging a large double bit axe by hand takes a lot of patience, needing to try and forge everything nice and even and symmetrical

As forged, has not touched a power tool yet minus cutting the billet

Punched in three heats by hand, using a soft 4 pounds Sledge

I made these tongs to pick up smaller things in the forge that my larger pickup tongs can't pick up, and also for the fact I really enjoy the process of tong making. Ignore my dickhead neighbor on his 4 wheeler in the background

4 pounds rounding hammer out of 2" square 1045 with a 14" burned ash handle. Been on a hammer making kick lately and wanted to forge a rounding hammer that isn't the typical brazeal style with the troughs. I really love this style of square flat face and one round end for the rounding side. I forged this by hand out of 1045, it's one of these instances you wish you could have a power hammer or press to get that clean rounded half, but goes to show you can do anything per forging equipment can do just slower and sometimes less accurately. Overall super pleased with the result and decided to do a mirror polish even though it's kind of pointless

My first attempt at a uri hofi hammer. I never really got the appeal but wanted to make one anyway, but now that I've made it in absolutely in love with it. It is hand forged from forklift tine, and has a burned 15" octagonal ash handle

Hand forged grilling spatula, the handle is forged from a railroad spike, the blade is cut from a circular saw blade

A birthday gift for my mother. The handle came out a bit long, if I make another one I'll make the proportions better

As forged, no grinding yet.

I modified a really best up old Sledge by forging it into a large 7ish pound diagonal peen, this is specifically for driving drifts and drawing out lugs so I don't have to stop using one hammer and pick up another. I don't know why I never thought about combining the two hammers I use into one, but this hammer is going to get A LOT of abuse so that's why the "flat face" is very rounded with heavy chamfers

I'm sorry to say my mother's dog passed away unexpectedly, so I made her a fitting grave marker. She was a very good dog. She will be missed

Spent the last couple days (months) making a new anvil stand. My old one was literally splitting apart from the force of the hammer blows, so this huge block of maple I hewed should do the trick

Newest commission: 5 pound splitting axe, the customer requested a version polish on the bevel and it looks super nice. The head is hand forged from forklift tine, has a curvy 32" hickory handle with paduk palm swell, and comes with a sheath which isn't shown in the video. Heading out to it's new owner today

My first fill sized double bit axe, this is based off of a puget sound style axe. The head is hand forged from railroad track and the handle is a real sleek 32" hickory. Now to make a sheath for it

Head is railroad track, and the handle is ash

Head is railroad track, and the handle is ash

Commissioned hand forged saddle axe! This is my first time forging one and it was way trickier than expected. Keeping things symmetrical on both sides was very challenging for me. This was forged from railroad track and it has a nice 15" ash handle. This thing is so awesome I might just have to make one for myself

I sometimes am lucky enough to have my gf be my shop apprentice and help me forge these big axes out. Here she is holding a 6lb splitting axe commission so I can use a 20lb Sledge hammer to really get the bevel forged down in 4 or 5 heats. If I did this alone it would be double or triple the amount of effort.