Your tooling development videos are your best content, imo. Thanks for showing us all your tries and mistakes, they save other smiths countless hours in the shop! I was shocked that removing the backstop improved the performance that much!

@Lynkah

10 ай бұрын

I couldn't agree more. I'm not a handy guy, but seeing the development process is always fascinating. Trial and error in action.

@frzamonkey

10 ай бұрын

the backstop was stopping the tool from actually moving the steel in the direction away from the wedge.

@rustjupiter

10 ай бұрын

I love the development videos. Watching his process for producing products is fascinating.

Some of the most interesting videos on the net that I've seen to date. Great job Timothy

Two new shop supervisors show up just to keep Timmy in line! Love it.

The best part of any job is the development process Tim , In my 45 years of as a boiler maker _ welder, 25 years wear in the development of products Best years of my life . Now I'm retired I watch videos like yours and mate you make me feel young again. So thanks mate and keep up the grate work . Cheers from Australia . ⚒👍🤠.

Bingo! I was screaming at my phone, Just get rid of that backstop cause the metal has nowhere to go! Maybe make that backstop so where it’s quickly adjustable so you can use it at the end when it’s nearly to final dimensions but leave it out of the way on the first initial squish so the billet has room to go where it’s gotta go 👍 love the tooling and R&D episodes

The time lapse of you shaping the hammer head from that long piece of rail track is brilliant 😁

Seems like the eye could be formed in the upsetter but that material drift with the removed back means it has to be planned out perfectly. Love the toothpaste effect on that last ingot!

Tim, your videos always look great. You're a true artist. I gave a little shout when you upset the last blank. It goes to show that perseverance pays. What a great example. Keep it up bud!

Love the tool development process. Your videos are amazing I am never upset. No pun intended

Howdy, I just seen you are in the latest edition of Farm Show! That's awesome! Keep hammerin'

👋,love the thought process on the tooling

I Always look forward to your vids Tim

Always very awesome to see you work Timothy. creativity idea sir. hope it works out well for you. cant wait to see more videos an projects soon sir. keep up the great craftsmanship an hard work. Forge On. Fab On. Weld On. Keep Forge Lit . Keep Making. God Bless.

I love your tooling and process videos.

Thanks for showing your tooling process - always very interesting.

Impressive how fast that bandsaw cuts! ;)

@irvinhofer2021

10 ай бұрын

It's sped up... BTW

@The_Smith

10 ай бұрын

@@irvinhofer2021 :)

Enjoy seeing the process

When you make "tooling" you are making exactly what any factory can do. The "hand"forged is taken out when you do this. Congratulations, You are a factory now

You are on the way to figuring it!, remember to allow for the weight of the eye, in your starting stock, and leave space for the material to move into, think of the hot iron just like water, it can't be compressed, it has to go someplace. FYI, I love the shape of the hammer with the bit on the end of the peen, looks like a whale! Constant volume is fun, just do the math and allow for loss from scale! Of course it is easy on my part to give advice from a 1000 miles away ;)

Your videos are fantastic!! On par with Trent Palmer!!

Timothy brilliant video 📸👍

Looks awesome mate! Great work! I didn’t notice if you did it or not, but when I make cross peens I usually offset the eye in the block, and the small side becomes the cross peen end, this helps get that good center of balance. But I’m probably telling you something you already know. Keep up the good work tim!

I kept thinking why not make a second “final final finisher” tool that cleans up the angles while also cleaning up the hole. One last squish to force everything into shape and alignment. But I’m no expert and that’s probably a dumb idea… lol

IT IS TIME BROTHER , we need you to post again !!! we need a new fix !!!

Once you get the setup figured out, you should be able to make the occasional titanium hammer as well.

You should add some relief notches in the upsetter tooling for the eye punch so you can grab the block with your tongs easier

Name one dog hammer and the other one tongues.

Could punch/drill holes in your dies and plug weld the parts for the back side for more strength in the welds.

What if you put a "mandrel" in the upsetter jig to ensure the taper is in the right place relative?

Love the video, especially the tooling production ones for the learning, love the fact you show mistakes and the development from them. Like the previous commenter I was surprised but the backstop removal working so well. I do wonder however if you could have the punch on the same tooling as the cross pein tooling. That way the eye would be constant with the pein dimensions. Not sure if that would work, maybe worth a mull over? Keep up the good work! Dare I ask? Is that a Martin mark II working in the background? 😀

I spy, with my little eye, another blacksmith guy! Who was the dude in the background?

Have you considered making the forming tool convex on each side of the eye so the drift operation warps the sides closer to flat?

I'd say you might have been pushing that power hammer's limits (just a bit)!

I like heavy weight forward hammers if you are going to scrap the rejects ill take them as long as there is a good handle hole

I'm wondering why you don't put bevels where your tooling, walls/punch, welds to your base plate? Would it not be stronger using a multiple pass fillet weld? IDK, you're getting into forces I'm not familiar with. I just made highway equipment. We overcame any weakness with tons of steel, so giant welds were the only welds.

Great video, I love seeing the iterative thought process. I just purchased a 225 ton hydraulic press with hammer making in mind! I am not familiar with your equipment, is the Upsetter hydraulic? If so, how powerful is it? You probably have a relief valve somewhere, how many PSI did you set it up?

Moving on to next things…like .50 cal center punches?

Would it be possible to have the wedge and a front and back plate (from camera viewpoint) leaving any spread to go out to the right (where you removed plate at end) and you could cut/grind just that end until you get the start and finish weight dialed in? Then for the eye, make a vertical wedge at back of the form to gauge the handle hole distance from wedged end? (Sorry for lacking terminology) 😂

This video was very upsetting.😉

that billet in 9:00 , still good for my use. i have small hand and muscle :D

If you're going to work without the stop, I'd flip the dies around so you can get it square easier.

Ok questions. Can the hammer weight differ between blanks? If so should you cut to a length then squish to length. Then put in the upseter. To get a uniform weight and size. Also you have to weld the front or the tool will not last

What would it take to get a hold of a couple of mistake hammers? They’re still usable.

You doing alright Tim? You sound a little sick!

I claiming the name.... Name the hammer... "The Upsetter". OR you can call it Whaley McWhale Hammer.

@epicname1549

10 ай бұрын

Yeah... Again... You should name it "The Upsetter"... Make it 4 pounds... Able to upset bigger things

If you would put a bevel on your pc where it welds It will be WAY STRONGER

I'd make tooling where you could actually make two hammers at once by pinching the peen area and have a hammer head come from each side. Just start with a longer piece of stock.

hay Tim who is the guy in the back round of the shop.

what kind of machine is an upsetter is actually?

I am dying to know who makes the upsetter ....the brand name i need that for my shop ...does anyone in the comments what company makes the upsetter machine??????

Lol! You wing something so hard it gets wung!

What a cute doggos_)

When does one stop being a blacksmith. And start becoming a local factory

I'd just bandsaw the angles in... could pump em all out from one bar

Maybe The Upsetter wouldn't be so upset if you gave it (I don't know its gender) a nice-sounding French name? I dub thee The Perturber!

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Need to forge a Anvil to sell and stamp on it dont be a D$#k use a Dyck Anvil! Or don't Beat your D$&k Beat a Dyck Anvil need to catchy like alex Steele when he sold his anvils ,grinders and hammers even sold forges. I want a Timothy Dyck Anvil. Mabey even make a starter kit Hammer, tongs, file, ect then sell the big dogs 100 plus pound Anvil gas forge or coal forge with hand crank blower? I mean I'd rather get it from you than a place like vevore. Just a thought and making a joke. Love your content keep em coming please🙏🙏🙏

Do you break your nose when you were younger?

So the goal is to mass produce cross pein hammers. So what makes yours better than any of the other forged carbon steel mass produced cross pien hammers that sell for $20-40 all day?

@franksworld9922

10 ай бұрын

So, your goal is to shame another for wanting to put one of his hammers in more people's hands? The answer to your question is that he uses higher quality materials and pays better attention to qc,and is not mass produced in China. The amount of hammered he makes mor than likely is under mass production numbers by far.

@bronchiosaurus2766

10 ай бұрын

well i get your point, but you could make that argument about anything we buy that comes from god knows where, has been made god knows how made by god whos who.

@adammizell6227

10 ай бұрын

Quality of material and the level of quality control are going to be two big factors of the value of these hammers. Supporting someone we enjoy watching would add to that value as well. If you want a $20 hammer with $20 worth of time, effort, and materials, then buy one.

@franksworld9922

10 ай бұрын

@adammizell6227 that is exactly what I said.

@franksworld9922

10 ай бұрын

@bronchiosaurus2766 That is not the case in this situation, my friend.