Sure glad you built the timber frame barn before you got so busy with job. Great place to work on your time off.

You seem to be getting more efficient with your forge work (not that I know much about it). You're a busy man and I hope you find some time to relax every now and then.

Good to see you Jim and well . Enjoy the show thanks for sharing this video with us

looks good Jim nice to see again hope everyone is well

Hello Buddy!!! so nice to hear you've been busy earning doing what you like best!!!

The hammer looks great Jim. Good to see you out in the shop again. Looking forward to the next video Jim. Have a great week. Dan.

Looks great. I'm looking forward to those timber framing tools.

Looks pretty decent ole boy. I'm sure it will do just fine. Keep up the good work 👍

Nice job especially for your first. I need to get a press made one day.

👌👌👍👍 Well done Jim. Thanks for the video.

Hi Jim, One thing I did know is you weren't goofing off! You are not that type of guy! I figured you were busy farming, haying or making lots of tools for selling. And of course your chilling etc job. Your tool making is getting faster for sure! Hammers made pretty get beat up anyway and since it's yours, so be it. As always God bless and take care buddy from your long-time California subscriber. Careful with those shorts as you came to close to 🔥 burning 🔥 those leg hairs off, ha!

Hey Jim missed ya great video as always look forward to seeing a slick being made 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

Looks good, hope it works well for your needs.

Howdy Jim, Hammer looks great. I am still putting together some tooling for your Lathe, hopefully it is soon so I am not shipping a pallet.

It may not be pretty but the edges that count look pretty good!

“I don’t always work with glowing hot steel, but when I do, I do it in shorts.”

Prof not to be a safety policeman but " Shorts and No steel toe capped boots when smithing " !! Nice starter hammer, take care on the road

Not too bad for a 1st !!! Brother

Nice Job!

I gotta say Jim you’re a brave man doing that in shorts 😢

Purdy is in the eye of the beholder (or maybe the hand of the wielder)! You have certainly come a Long way from cutting a sledge hammer down to make a pein hammer that deserved a Norse name all on it's own! Got to say I'm liking it, but the real test is how it handles ...... and you didn't tell us that ;o) My guess is that it might be a bit hard on the hand. Looks can be deceptive (and she really does not look bad at all) but it looks like the center of gravity would cause the hammer to jolt your fingers when using the pein. It might not be noticeable though and would depend on your stance when hammering so feel free to ignore or correct me on this ;o)

👍👍👍👍👍looks great!

Good to see ya Jim ! Nice job on the hammer 🔨 Look forward to the next project.

Reuse / repurpose is the way to go. Turning those tines into hammers and anything else is a plus AND nice looking hammer 👍. Thanks for the video sir. (Do you plan on making a flat / rounded hammer as well ?)

Not to change the subject, but would you ever use construction adhesive in a scarf joint, please?

At first I thought 4140 was the kind of stainless I admire, 4120. 4140 is good stuff though it has less than 1% chromium, I've studied it some. Does the handle on your billet get hot at the end? I have probably 304 stainless.