There's just something about watching a tool come to life! Thanks for the video. Please keep them coming.

This guy is amazing. I started following when i watch the piece of clay episode. Love the videos

Hephaestus himself showing approval with the thunder and lightning.

@danielfiedler2189

3 жыл бұрын

Mixin up mythology, m8 :)

Thanks for the awesome video. Your work has been a huge source of inspiraton to me and to many others. Thanks again.

Good ol Mississippi T-storm in the background...a fitting nod from the thunder god!

Pure awsomeness!!! Thank you sir

thanks for putting this online! my wife and i took a class with you at johns earlier this year. our footage sucked. had such a great time, thanks again! happy thanksgiving!

@BrianBrazealBlacksmith

6 жыл бұрын

Alex Brazan you're welcome.

Been a fan of yours since you first started putting videos up, Brian. If you’re ever in eastern PA, would love to have you stop by the shop. Thanks for all of the time and effort.

@BrianBrazealBlacksmith

5 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome.

This is perfect! Thank you!

Was Referred here by Jacob Edens on Bladesmithing For Beginners I looked through some of your videos and liked what I saw so I Subscribed

Great video can't wait for part 2👍

@boediethebuilder918

6 жыл бұрын

Oh that was quick lol

Brian Brazeal - Happy Thanksgiving Brian! Be sure to please wish Ed and the rest of your family a Happy Thanksgiving as well. Two more things to be grateful for! Two awesome videos from you. Was that Ed striking?

@stronglikemonkey

6 жыл бұрын

Brian Brazeal - Its very obvious that you have worked with him before. Seamlessly awesome! Please tell the person that is helping post the videos Thank you! It is greatly appreciated!

Real nice.Thank you.

Been waiting for this one ever since I first saw Alec's a few years back :D thank you very much Brian and all the best

@SuperGokuSon

4 жыл бұрын

Yea me to but they are never in stock so I went on ahead and purchased a Daniel Mosler,s Blacksmith's Square Circle Rounding Hammer 4 lbs for 180 bux well worth it!

Thank you for these videos Brian! Any chance you can talk about or show us the hardening process you go thru with these?

@BrianBrazealBlacksmith

6 жыл бұрын

Shane Smith it should be coming soon.

@MetalSmithForge

6 жыл бұрын

Brian Brazeal Thank you!!

Brain do you dip the drift in oil ? Great videos... I need another pair of hands myself not easy on your own

@BrianBrazealBlacksmith

6 жыл бұрын

Shaun Miller no I don't when I am making just a few things. I have used several drifts and cooled them in oil when I've done 20 or more at the same.

Brian, when you do the troughs what diameter Fuller's are you using? Thanks for more great videos. Your instruction has helped me refine my processes.

@BrianBrazealBlacksmith

6 жыл бұрын

Mitchel Perkins the fuller was made in a swage that was made with a fuller that was an inch and a half diameter. The fullers are only about 5/8" wide though.

@mitchelperkins6723

6 жыл бұрын

Brian Brazeal ok thanks again. I've been busy completing top and bottom tools. , Just a few more yet to be complete up to 3" .

Hi Brian,Thank you very much for posting the new videos! I really appreciate you taking the time to make them. Do you have plans to shoot any videos on making top fullers? I'm having a little trouble figuring out the steps on my own. Thanks again for all you've done and continue to do.Paul

@BrianBrazealBlacksmith

6 жыл бұрын

price403 Hey Paul, we're going to be filming everything here in Kenya, tools, joinery, and techniques.

Awesome video Brian I really enjoy seeing your work...do you still offer tool making classes these days?

@BrianBrazealBlacksmith

6 жыл бұрын

Michael Foster not the individual ones, but I will work with groups. I'm leaving for Kenya on Monday. My brother and I are going there to set up a blacksmithing program. It not just the tools to make tools anymore like I did with individuals. We're making everything : forges, anvils, tools and showing what to do with it all, so we can leave them with everything to teach others.

@michaelfoster5559

6 жыл бұрын

Brian Brazeal that is amazing good luck and safe travels sir

Thanks so much for sharing this. I am very excited to make the tools needed to forge a square/circle hammer. From what I see, the tools needed are a flatter, a cupping tool, a top and bottom fuller, hammer holding tongs, a hammer eye punch and a hammer eye drift. That should keep me busy for a while!! Is there any tools I may have missed?

@BrianBrazealBlacksmith

6 жыл бұрын

VanIsle Cane Rods don't forget the "hump tools". Those are the two tools that support the hammer at the troughs while you drive the drift after you have forged the drift. I have to laugh every time I hear or see someone refer to a hammer like this made from square stock as a "square circle hammer". Many hammers like this have been made from square stock long before that phrase was coined. There's no such thing as a square circle. :)

@SlappFunk

6 жыл бұрын

Brian Brazeal . Thank you. From this moment forward I will refer to it as only a hammer. I will make sure not to forget the hump tools.

@stronglikemonkey

6 жыл бұрын

Brian Brazeal - I think people are referencing Alec when they say square circle hammer. That's what he calls his version of your design. It seems strange to me as well. The first time I heard him use that phrase, it was kind of weird.

@duesing6

6 жыл бұрын

Correct me if im wrong on this but Alec is making hammers that are a circle on the rounding end and mostly square with corners cut off on the flat end hence the square circle hammer.

early christmas present!

I've been wondering what is the reason for thinning out the stock between the cheeks and the striking faces? Is it cosmetic or is it to draw out the material to being the striking faces further from the handle?

@BrianBrazealBlacksmith

5 жыл бұрын

Neither. It isolates the different areas like the cheeks so you can easily draw them out. It also isolates the faces for when you may want to make a ball, straight, or cross peen.

Thank you for the video....

@BrianBrazealBlacksmith

4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome.

How the hell are you this accurate punching round stock

So appropriate to be forging a hammer during a thunderstorm.

@BrianBrazealBlacksmith

6 жыл бұрын

Nathan Gambino that was actually just wind blowing tree limbs against the tin on the shop.

Woohoo new videos

Are you rotating the drift strike angle to keep from getting a flat spot on the hammer sides? Great video, thanks!

@sashapopovic3320

6 жыл бұрын

if you wanted to rotate the drift, you could, but most smiths probably dont because your drifts should be made of high carbon steel to prevent that sort of thing.

@esnyd

6 жыл бұрын

No, I meant he is rotating the angle at which he places the piece on the anvil. It's very subtle but he is moving it side to side between each strike, it has to be intentional.

@BrianBrazealBlacksmith

6 жыл бұрын

Eric Snyder yes I am intentionally moving the drift side to side to support the drift while driving it before I have any cheeks. When making smaller tools the need for this is more noticeable because they can actually try and sink into the hole, but it also helps preserve heat by moving the billet instead of bearing down in one spot. You do not want to do that once you have cheeks started because that would damage the cheeks.

Hello, how do you make the rounding fuller for the round part of the hammer?

@BrianBrazealBlacksmith

5 жыл бұрын

I believe you are talking about the ball swage or cupping tool as I've called it. Am I correct?

@wolfparty4234

5 жыл бұрын

Brian Brazeal yes. I’m sorry, you are correct. Have you or can you make a video on how you make it? Btw. I am working on saving money to make a trip out to Oklahoma to see you and take a 3day course from you. Do you know when your leaving the country like you mention to me before.?

@BrianBrazealBlacksmith

5 жыл бұрын

@@wolfparty4234 I'd be glad to do a video on it, but that requires a third person besides my brother and I. I've shown many people and groups of people that tool, yet no one has ever taken the whole process. It takes 15 to 30 minutes to forge the tool with explaining it as you go. If you are wanting a class here before I get busy, the sooner the better. I've already got a few that want to come in the fall, and I have not been letting people know I am available yet.

@wolfparty4234

5 жыл бұрын

Brian Brazeal ok great!! Funny thing, I looked way back into Alec Steel’s videos today and saw you and him making one when he was very young!!! Hahaha! It’s amazing that some of the blacksmiths I have been following reference you and how you blacksmith. Some will and have said that it’s the best way to do things, the Brian Brazeal way!! Have a great day and I will email you very soon!!!

What is the radius of the round face? 12”?

@BrianBrazealBlacksmith

Жыл бұрын

It is more of a squashed ball instead of radius.

Thanks Brian! How long would it take you forge a 3 1/2 lb. rounding hammer by yourself, and how would you go about holding the steel while you forge? Jerry

@BrianBrazealBlacksmith

6 жыл бұрын

Fossils etc. It takes about 40 minutes to forge a hammer like this with a striker.

You should add some audio overlay or so.ething to your videos, alot more people would watch them