War Hammers vs Other Hammers

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Ай бұрын

Today we take a look at the characteristics that differentiate war hammers from other types of hammers, demonstrate why you shouldn't try to fight with a 12lb sledge-hammer, and why armoring hammers aren't good for driving nails.
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Nathan Clough, Ph.D. is Vice President of Arms and Armor and a member of the governing board of The Oakeshott Institute. He is a historical martial artist and a former university professor of cultural geography. He has given presentations on historical arms at events including Longpoint and Combatcon, and presented scholarly papers at, among others, The International Congress on Medieval Studies.
Craig Johnson is the Production Manager of Arms and Armor and Secretary of The Oakeshott Institute. He has taught and published on the history of arms, armor and western martial arts for over 30 years. He has lectured at several schools and Universities, WMAW, HEMAC, 4W, and ICMS at Kalamazoo. His experiences include iron smelting, jousting, theatrical combat instruction and choreography, historical research, European martial arts and crafting weapons and armor since 1985

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@phillipmargrave Ай бұрын

You really nailed it with this one and hammered the point home.

@vyr01 Ай бұрын

Another smashing video

@richstone2627 Ай бұрын

I showed up at a friend's home to help build his garage with my war hammer. I had it covered with a piece of leather so no one could see the head. When we got ready to build I pulled the cover off, took a swig of my Spaten and said ok let's do this. I had a dozen carpenters give me the strangest looks.

@HobieH3 Ай бұрын

Want!

@SuperFunkmachine Ай бұрын

A 20lb hammer is great if your fighting a brick wall and useless for anything else.

@WhatIfBrigade Ай бұрын

Once you get to 20lbs just attach it to a mill and let water raise and lower it. Much easier to move objects into the hammer's path than to swing it.

@martinhg98 Ай бұрын

Even in medieval iluminated art thay are often very big

@johnfisher7757 Ай бұрын

Nice looking War Hammer! Good video, I enjoyed that 👍

@armsarmorinc.4153 Ай бұрын

Thanks!

@hellomate639 Ай бұрын

One project I want to take on is making as big of a weapon as I can make that still retains martial practicality, and imagine that someone like Eddie Hall would be able to wield it like a normal sized person would wield weapons that are just on the very edge of practicality. It's likely to be a two-handed sword with a particularly long handle, long reach, and a lot of taper.

@Eulemunin Ай бұрын

Yay Maybe it cost #20. But what would that be with inflation?

@WhatIfBrigade Ай бұрын

Hollywood portrayals of massive weapons annoy me. I know they do it for dramatic effect. But not only would they be unwieldly, but the writers are overlooking velocity. If you give World's Strongest Man a lightweight hammer he can swing it faster and especially on upswing or side swing the impact will be a huge amount of force concentrated in a small space. A 20lb hammer is a handicap you give a strong opponent so you can fight them more easily.

@beepboop204 Ай бұрын

but what about the MC Hammer

@phillipmargrave Ай бұрын

Can’t touch this

@b.h.abbott-motley2427 Ай бұрын

While this is all very reasonable, we do have certain credible historical accounts of fighting with extremely heavy weapons. For example, Cheng Zi Yi's 17th-century manual on a the da dao (a long-bladed polearm in this case) describes it weighing 10-20 catties (13-26lbs). Cheng likewise describes the bian, a bludgeon wielded in both hands, as weighing 11-22lbs. Now, these weights could be translation errors, original errors, jokes, conventions, or whatever. However, we have tons of 17th-century accounts of soldiers using their muskets as clubs & indications that this was at least moderately effective. Muskets of the period often weighed 12-16lbs. Musketeers in the English Civil War supposedly frequently preferred clubbing their muskets to using their swords. So there may be situations where a heavy bludgeon gets the job done. & there is at least one 16th-century English morningstar (spiked club) in the Tower of London that weighs 11.56lbs.

@armsarmorinc.4153 Ай бұрын

true but it is best to gauge the displacement of the weight across the piece 12 lbs on the end of a four foot haft is very different than the weight evenly displaced or focused in the center. There are also the iron hafts sometimes seen in Asian arts that are heavier than just a wooden stick of the. same length.

@bartweijs 29 күн бұрын

How do you actually make those warhammers ? I mean you can't really use the normal hammer making technique because of the spike on top and the square-ish wooden shaft. I suppose you make it in parts and assemble and peen/rivet together? I attempted to make one before, but I ended up tigwelding the langets.... They look great tough.

@armsarmorinc.4153 26 күн бұрын

there are usually a couple of parts that fit together, our production ones we cast the parts.

@markmankey5556 Ай бұрын

I was recently watching the third hobbit film with my kids and my son looks over at me "Dad, why are they charging into the enemy with that massive axe held over their head? As soon as they swing they'll be dead." It's amusing as even the target audience for such a film knows better. Seeing someone skillfully wield a realistic or period hammer, I think that would be an interesting scene. They could even have a scene where a character picks up an absurdly large axe or hammer and someone corrects them.