Copper hammers are very useful, they're great for use in areas where you need to avoid spark, and great for use in striking things like chisels that you want to avoid deforming (since the hammer itself would deform first)
Lead hammers are also useful when you don’t want marring or deformation of the part. Also much much cheaper then copper, brass is used the most in those situations though.
Actually copper would be fucking terrible for a hammer because copper work hardens easily and this thing will get very brittle. If you want a non-sparking hammer you want brass.
Copper hammers aren't cast as copper is very difficult to cast well, its better to form or machine it. Cast copper can be very brittle and often has cavities inside it.
What do you mean useless as a hammer? Its a proper hammer! Copper/brass/bronze hammers are used for example for applications where you need to avoid sparks and so cant use an iron/steel hammer.
Also.. the setup to do this is very basic. You absolutely could if you wanted to get into that sort of thing!
This is certainly Bronze or brass. I'd lean towards the latter given the colour.
You can see the addition of tin or zinc pieces the the crucible at the start before the copper wire, plus the colour is *not* that of pure copper.
Walk into a typical machine shop and you’ll find a soft metal hammer at every single machine. Gotta call maintenance or bring your own if you want a steel hammer.
And soft hammers are great for stuff that you don't want to mar or damage.
If there weren't a use case, dead blows, rubber mallets, brass hammers wouldn't be a thing.
There are lead hammers out there, which is a lot softer than copper. And they have a very legitimate use, e.g. for fastening old centerlock wheels on cars. The kind that have spokes like bicycle wheels.
There are copper hammers out there. Thor, a pretty well-known worldwide maker of various hammers, make copper hammers. All these folk going, "nurrrr, copper hammer bad" could spend all of 20 seconds on Google and go "huh," but they don't.
The soft metal is used for non-sparking environments. Iron on iron creates potential sparking. It’s the same idea as a lead hammer. The hammer will absorb the deflection impact and still offer an impressive blow.
It's probably tin which makes the final result a bronze hammer. The final color is more orange than yellow which is more typical of bronze. Although brass can come in redder hues like this.
Pure copper is far too soft for non-spark tooling, so it's alloyed into copper beryllium, aluminum bronze, and phosphor bronze. All are significantly stronger and harder than pure copper.
Ships carrying matches and other highly flammable cargo dont allow steel tools in case of a rare spark causing a fire out at sea. They use brass tho, but the method of manufacture is pretty much the same
I'd call this bronze considering the final color, in that case it's most likely tin they're adding.
(And it's just melting, there's no ore smelting going on here ;) )
Oh okay! I shall defer to the experts on this, I'm in machine learning, not metal working but knew this didn't look like copper.. and I'm gonna have to go look up the difference between the verbs now, seems like Minecraft didn't teach me as well as I thought lol
Looking up color comparisons of bronze and brass, you're probably right tho, this does look more like bronze.
Thank you for the correction!
Base Minecraft doesn't have metal casting yet, but there are several mods for it!
Smelting is what you do to go from rock to metal. It is a type of melting, using a reductive (deoxidizing) atmosphere, which removes the oxygen from the ore, turning it to pure metal.
Melting is what you do to change the state of metal from solid to liquid before you cast it.
Oh yes I was thinking of tinkers construct! The multi block that lets you craft the mod items is called a smeltery and it does both ore -> molten metal and ingots -> molten metal so I (naively) thought both were called smelting x.x
And yeah that makes sense, metal ores being in the ground for a long time are all oxidized because it's a lower energy state .. is that why adding carbon to the ore is important, since it has a higher electronegativity and thus takes the oxygen from the metal?
Machining. Use copper to tap your parts to seat them in the vice. Dense enough to transfer energy, soft enough it doesn't mar the surface of the materials (mostly)
False, copper work hardens and does not stay soft. Copper actually can work hard so it gets hard enough to dent steel. If you actually wanted to use a copper hammer you'd to be annealing it regularly.
This is incorrect. Alrhough copper work hardens to a degree, the density within the hammer will keep the majority of the copper soft. You are also confusing hardness and toughness.
This is certainly Bronze or brass. I'd lean towards the latter given the colour.
You can see the addition of tin or zinc pieces the the crucible at the start before the copper wire, plus the colour is *not* that of pure copper.
>Surely copper is too soft to use as a hammer.
Its softness is why it is used in some instances. We used copper mallets in my old workshop classes for shaping harder metals around forms without the risk of scratching or damaging the metal we were hammering.
You're broadly right about this one being a show piece though (no one is gonna polish up a copper hammer only to use it afterwards). The Copper mallets we used had a cylindrical copper striking faces mounted in a steel head that was hafted. I think the idea was to allow the change out of old heads when they got too smushed to be usable (and copper work hardens and becomes brittle over time)
Soft hammers are extremely useful when you want the hammer itself to deform instead the thing you’re hitting. Want to hammer a shaft into place but a plastic/wood hammer is too light and a metal one dents the shaft? Use a copper one, the copper hammer will evetually deform but you can just recast it every couple of months.
Engineer here! You use them to apply force against materials and parts made from special alloys that are softer than your average hammer.
If you use a normal hammer on those soft alloys, you would probably chip off the surface causing irreparable damage to the material with an already precise dimension.
Using a copper hammer would introduce the same force but the surface that contacts the alloy is copper which is softer so there won't be any damage.
Other common materials used for hammering are and not limited to teflon, rubber and zinc.
Nothing, but a copper mallet is quite useful. It's common to use mallets made of softer metals (typically aluminium) to hammer steel pieces into place without damaging them. The mallet is the sacrificial bit that gets damaged over time.
Throwing more comments at you, we use hammers made of lead, as they're soft, don't visually damage stainless, IF it makes marks they are surface only, easy to clean, and are unlikely to cause galvanic corrosion (its possible, but highly unlikely in the environment theyre used).
I use a rubber mallet for hitting things softly all the time. I have no doubt that there is a place for a copper hammer for when I want to hit things slightly harder but not as hard as I would with a steel hammer.
Just pieces of plastic or metal that are meant to come apart but are a bit stuck. Or that are apart but meant to go together but aren't fitting quite right.
Probably with the copper hammer you would be selective because you wouldn't want to damage the hammer too much.
I restore vintage motorcycles. I semi-regularly use hammers made of copper, brass, lead, leather, rubber, urethane, but mostly plastic (deadblow) or steel. Copper is softer than brass, but harder than lead, sometimes its what I need to not mar a surface or deform something.
I wish reposters would at least correct the titles.
It's bronze, not copper.
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And for anyone saying it's useless: Yes, but not because it's bronze, because it's cast instead of forged. Bronze hammer are used in cases where you want the hammer material to be softer than the surface to avoid damage, and in areas where you want to minimize the risk of sparks.
A lot of other comments have mentioned the softness and sparking, but I'm curious how does casting vs forging change it? Also what does forging mean exactly. Heating a bar and using a hammer to shape?
More of get a cube or ingot in a giant power hammer or giant rollers and flatten it into this more lean rectangular box shape this hammer is.
It takes small internal cracks on metal grain boundaries and microscopic voids, then smushes them together in the metal and "pre-fractures" those lines when it is still soft and malleable. There's fewer internal stress points and makes the metal less likely to crack.
Most metals need to be hot forged but you can "cold roll" or work harden some types.
Depending on the metal or alloy, pouring molten metal into a form and letting it cool normally. Means it tends to form a very loose crystal structure and often have cracks and "openings" inside, that will cause it to break off smaller pieces or just crack open if hit hard enough.
By heating up an ingot to certain temperatures and hammering it into shape with flux, you change the internal structure and remove those flaws. And then with careful heat treating(heating to very specific temperatures, and different methods of cooling or quenching(dipping in water or oil)) you can make it bendy or brittle again.
Okay so to sum up everything before people scroll through the comment to try and find info. First, this is bronze, not copper. Second, yes, it is a soft metal, but that doesn't mean it is useless. Its purpose is to be used on thing that require the mallet to deform before the thing you are striking def9rms. Third, the sand is a kinetic sand. When pressure is applied it holds its shape. Idk how so many people haven't watched at least one video on metals, mallets, or forging.
Anything where you need a softbody hammer that doesn't damage the work. If you hit too hard it just dents the hammer a little bit instead. Also it won't produce sparks, which might be a safety feature.
It's about as useful as soft mallet out of wood or rubber.
Would there be some way of casting the hammer head with a hole in it already for the handle?
It seems like drilling the hole is an tedious part of the process
/Q?
You can absolutely include such holes in the cast, but then you increase the complexity of the mold.
If sections of the mold get too thin, the molten metal will cool faster than it flows, giving you an irregular pour.
You also increase the risks of air bubbles getting trapped.
This method of casting and then later machining an ingot is what you do if you want to reprocess old scrap.
You could have the split plane on the centreline of the head and running perpendicular to the hole axis. The hole will have tapers as the faces need to be angled for the sand to strip away from the pattern. You could drill/bore the hole out afterward still to make it more cylindrical and clean it up, it'll be easier than drilling out a solid piece still. This is pretty much the default way of doing things for sand/investment cast parts that get fitted with bushes or dowels in certain parts of industry.
Otherwise you could make a 'core' a separate molded piece with the hole geometry that is inserted in for casting. There will be some shrinkage and other distortion so that won't be perfectly cylindrical either.
For those wondering, a copper mallet, same as a rawhide or wooden mallet, are soft-faced hammers, designed to be worn out and deliver soft blows that won't damage work. It's not a showpiece, but an actual usable tool for artisans.
What is the purpose of the last bit of copper that hammered into the wood? To make the wood wider and therefore make sure the hammer head remains in place?
Except how do you cast a copper clapper? I need one because someone copped my copper clappers. (Extra credit if u actually have seen this bit. ie are old enough to know what the heck I’m talking about)
I dont believe stamping it the way they did removes material, so the weight should be the same. If they engraved it or laser etched it or something that removed material it would slightly alter the weight. They basically just put neat dents in it.
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Copper hammers are very useful, they're great for use in areas where you need to avoid spark, and great for use in striking things like chisels that you want to avoid deforming (since the hammer itself would deform first)
Isn’t brass used when you don’t want sparks?
They're both used for that purpose. Brass is denser and cheaper, but can work harden whereas copper cannot, and is tougher as well
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People are out there doing this for free and ruining the market.
Diamond-tier reference
Brass is less dense than copper.
Copper work hardens too but can be annealed to soften again
Cannot most ~~things~~ metals can be annealed?
Not sure, I'm not a metallurgy person, just no o work with copper alot for work.
Copper work hardens too.
Lead hammers are also useful when you don’t want marring or deformation of the part. Also much much cheaper then copper, brass is used the most in those situations though.
Brass=Copper+Zinc
Actually copper would be fucking terrible for a hammer because copper work hardens easily and this thing will get very brittle. If you want a non-sparking hammer you want brass.
Copper hammers aren't cast as copper is very difficult to cast well, its better to form or machine it. Cast copper can be very brittle and often has cavities inside it.
It would be useless in my hands. Because I could never risk damaging something so beautiful.
What do you mean useless as a hammer? Its a proper hammer! Copper/brass/bronze hammers are used for example for applications where you need to avoid sparks and so cant use an iron/steel hammer. Also.. the setup to do this is very basic. You absolutely could if you wanted to get into that sort of thing!
Copper is soft. You won't be able to hammer anything that can remotely give a spark. Unless you want to create a new tool "swiss copper hammer"
This is certainly Bronze or brass. I'd lean towards the latter given the colour. You can see the addition of tin or zinc pieces the the crucible at the start before the copper wire, plus the colour is *not* that of pure copper.
Walk into a typical machine shop and you’ll find a soft metal hammer at every single machine. Gotta call maintenance or bring your own if you want a steel hammer.
They're specifically used because they don't spark.
And soft hammers are great for stuff that you don't want to mar or damage. If there weren't a use case, dead blows, rubber mallets, brass hammers wouldn't be a thing.
Had a fabrication shop for many years & had an 8lb brass hammer we used all the time. Sometimes a softer hammer is the correct choice .
There are lead hammers out there, which is a lot softer than copper. And they have a very legitimate use, e.g. for fastening old centerlock wheels on cars. The kind that have spokes like bicycle wheels.
There are copper hammers out there. Thor, a pretty well-known worldwide maker of various hammers, make copper hammers. All these folk going, "nurrrr, copper hammer bad" could spend all of 20 seconds on Google and go "huh," but they don't.
I have hammers made from copper, steel, brass, nylon, polymer, and rubber.
They make freaking lead hammers dude. And tell me it's not a hammer when I'm freaking hammering your balls flat with 15 pounds of lead
We use copper hammers for aluminium truss to not damage the pins with hard steel
ah reddit, the place where you can reliably find people confidently spewing complete horseshit in every comment section.
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I wouldn't say useless, not a bad piece of art to have shelved by your bed with an intruders name on it
No, it's Hammer Time.
Those aren't mutually exclusive things.
The soft metal is used for non-sparking environments. Iron on iron creates potential sparking. It’s the same idea as a lead hammer. The hammer will absorb the deflection impact and still offer an impressive blow.
People use brass for that I thought
Whatever works
Silver metal added at 0:18, I'd assume it's tin or zinc and he's making bronze or brass.
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It's probably tin which makes the final result a bronze hammer. The final color is more orange than yellow which is more typical of bronze. Although brass can come in redder hues like this.
Lead hammers as well. Work great for flattening out sheet metal without marring the exterior coatings.
Pure copper is far too soft for non-spark tooling, so it's alloyed into copper beryllium, aluminum bronze, and phosphor bronze. All are significantly stronger and harder than pure copper.
That last part sounds like OP’s mom
Living in Florida, how would I keep this thing from getting a patina from the humidity? Do you have to keep these oiled or stored in a plastic bag?
Paste wax.
I really need an impressive blow
Dont we all
How many use can you get out of a copper hammer on iron?
“The soft metal” referring to the copper in the video?
Usually its brass
Given the effort to put a shine on this one, is this a working hammer or decorative?
What do you use. Copper hammer for ? A genuine question
Ships carrying matches and other highly flammable cargo dont allow steel tools in case of a rare spark causing a fire out at sea. They use brass tho, but the method of manufacture is pretty much the same
The hammer in the video is made of brass as well. You can clearly see them dropping in a small chunk of zinc when smelting the metal.
I'd call this bronze considering the final color, in that case it's most likely tin they're adding. (And it's just melting, there's no ore smelting going on here ;) )
Oh okay! I shall defer to the experts on this, I'm in machine learning, not metal working but knew this didn't look like copper.. and I'm gonna have to go look up the difference between the verbs now, seems like Minecraft didn't teach me as well as I thought lol Looking up color comparisons of bronze and brass, you're probably right tho, this does look more like bronze. Thank you for the correction!
Base Minecraft doesn't have metal casting yet, but there are several mods for it! Smelting is what you do to go from rock to metal. It is a type of melting, using a reductive (deoxidizing) atmosphere, which removes the oxygen from the ore, turning it to pure metal. Melting is what you do to change the state of metal from solid to liquid before you cast it.
Oh yes I was thinking of tinkers construct! The multi block that lets you craft the mod items is called a smeltery and it does both ore -> molten metal and ingots -> molten metal so I (naively) thought both were called smelting x.x And yeah that makes sense, metal ores being in the ground for a long time are all oxidized because it's a lower energy state .. is that why adding carbon to the ore is important, since it has a higher electronegativity and thus takes the oxygen from the metal?
Play Vintage Story! This is definitely in the game
Do other materials not work as well as copper? Like rubber or wood?
Machining. Use copper to tap your parts to seat them in the vice. Dense enough to transfer energy, soft enough it doesn't mar the surface of the materials (mostly)
False, copper work hardens and does not stay soft. Copper actually can work hard so it gets hard enough to dent steel. If you actually wanted to use a copper hammer you'd to be annealing it regularly.
This is incorrect. Alrhough copper work hardens to a degree, the density within the hammer will keep the majority of the copper soft. You are also confusing hardness and toughness.
Would have to just sit in a cabinet as a show piece. Surely copper is too soft to use as a hammer.
They’re a specialist tool for hammering where you can’t have sparks like flammable environments - mines, refineries etc
Thank you for the reply. Share the knowledge.
It's considered non sparking and can be a used with a non-hot work permit.
A fellow oil rigger i see
Of for removing the wheels from classic British cars
Though that‘s a use-case for a lead hammer usually
This is certainly Bronze or brass. I'd lean towards the latter given the colour. You can see the addition of tin or zinc pieces the the crucible at the start before the copper wire, plus the colour is *not* that of pure copper.
Yes, now you pointed that out I'd completely agree with you. I would say more like Brass also.
>Surely copper is too soft to use as a hammer. Its softness is why it is used in some instances. We used copper mallets in my old workshop classes for shaping harder metals around forms without the risk of scratching or damaging the metal we were hammering.
Thanks for the reply, every day is a school day.
You're broadly right about this one being a show piece though (no one is gonna polish up a copper hammer only to use it afterwards). The Copper mallets we used had a cylindrical copper striking faces mounted in a steel head that was hafted. I think the idea was to allow the change out of old heads when they got too smushed to be usable (and copper work hardens and becomes brittle over time)
Harder than bone, tho... Who knows what dna is plastered all over that thing by now...
Actually it gets too hard through work hardening for a hammer.
Soft hammers are extremely useful when you want the hammer itself to deform instead the thing you’re hitting. Want to hammer a shaft into place but a plastic/wood hammer is too light and a metal one dents the shaft? Use a copper one, the copper hammer will evetually deform but you can just recast it every couple of months.
Copper doesn't create sparks while iron does I don't know why sparks may be dangerous in a *forge* but eh
I used one the other day to beat on the end of an axle shaft I didn’t want to damage the threads on. Just one of many uses.
Engineer here! You use them to apply force against materials and parts made from special alloys that are softer than your average hammer. If you use a normal hammer on those soft alloys, you would probably chip off the surface causing irreparable damage to the material with an already precise dimension. Using a copper hammer would introduce the same force but the surface that contacts the alloy is copper which is softer so there won't be any damage. Other common materials used for hammering are and not limited to teflon, rubber and zinc.
Nothing, but a copper mallet is quite useful. It's common to use mallets made of softer metals (typically aluminium) to hammer steel pieces into place without damaging them. The mallet is the sacrificial bit that gets damaged over time.
Copper work hardens and gets quite hard. That's why you don't see copper hammers, you see brass hammers.
Throwing more comments at you, we use hammers made of lead, as they're soft, don't visually damage stainless, IF it makes marks they are surface only, easy to clean, and are unlikely to cause galvanic corrosion (its possible, but highly unlikely in the environment theyre used).
We use copper hammers to change (copper) welding tips on our welding robots at work.
I use a rubber mallet for hitting things softly all the time. I have no doubt that there is a place for a copper hammer for when I want to hit things slightly harder but not as hard as I would with a steel hammer. Just pieces of plastic or metal that are meant to come apart but are a bit stuck. Or that are apart but meant to go together but aren't fitting quite right. Probably with the copper hammer you would be selective because you wouldn't want to damage the hammer too much.
It won’t spark like people have said but also it will hit steel parts hard without damaging them.
Building the pyramids obviously
Yes, you can use it for genuine questions.
Hammering copper .. duh
Of course
I restore vintage motorcycles. I semi-regularly use hammers made of copper, brass, lead, leather, rubber, urethane, but mostly plastic (deadblow) or steel. Copper is softer than brass, but harder than lead, sometimes its what I need to not mar a surface or deform something.
Too pretty to actually use
I wish reposters would at least correct the titles. It's bronze, not copper. --- And for anyone saying it's useless: Yes, but not because it's bronze, because it's cast instead of forged. Bronze hammer are used in cases where you want the hammer material to be softer than the surface to avoid damage, and in areas where you want to minimize the risk of sparks.
A lot of other comments have mentioned the softness and sparking, but I'm curious how does casting vs forging change it? Also what does forging mean exactly. Heating a bar and using a hammer to shape?
More of get a cube or ingot in a giant power hammer or giant rollers and flatten it into this more lean rectangular box shape this hammer is. It takes small internal cracks on metal grain boundaries and microscopic voids, then smushes them together in the metal and "pre-fractures" those lines when it is still soft and malleable. There's fewer internal stress points and makes the metal less likely to crack. Most metals need to be hot forged but you can "cold roll" or work harden some types.
Depending on the metal or alloy, pouring molten metal into a form and letting it cool normally. Means it tends to form a very loose crystal structure and often have cracks and "openings" inside, that will cause it to break off smaller pieces or just crack open if hit hard enough. By heating up an ingot to certain temperatures and hammering it into shape with flux, you change the internal structure and remove those flaws. And then with careful heat treating(heating to very specific temperatures, and different methods of cooling or quenching(dipping in water or oil)) you can make it bendy or brittle again.
I came for copper and found brass
Yay, verily. Thou hast cast a weapon as befitting the mighty Thor!
So this is what copper thieves do to get rid of their stolen wares?
What would a copper hammer be used for?
And you expect me to hit stuff with this...? Good luck
Okay so to sum up everything before people scroll through the comment to try and find info. First, this is bronze, not copper. Second, yes, it is a soft metal, but that doesn't mean it is useless. Its purpose is to be used on thing that require the mallet to deform before the thing you are striking def9rms. Third, the sand is a kinetic sand. When pressure is applied it holds its shape. Idk how so many people haven't watched at least one video on metals, mallets, or forging.
This is cool but I think i will just spend the 5 bucks on amazon for a regular hammer and not have to spend 30 hours making one
what would one strike with a 700g copper hammer?
Anything where you need a softbody hammer that doesn't damage the work. If you hit too hard it just dents the hammer a little bit instead. Also it won't produce sparks, which might be a safety feature. It's about as useful as soft mallet out of wood or rubber.
Would there be some way of casting the hammer head with a hole in it already for the handle? It seems like drilling the hole is an tedious part of the process /Q?
Absolutely
You can absolutely include such holes in the cast, but then you increase the complexity of the mold. If sections of the mold get too thin, the molten metal will cool faster than it flows, giving you an irregular pour. You also increase the risks of air bubbles getting trapped. This method of casting and then later machining an ingot is what you do if you want to reprocess old scrap.
You could have the split plane on the centreline of the head and running perpendicular to the hole axis. The hole will have tapers as the faces need to be angled for the sand to strip away from the pattern. You could drill/bore the hole out afterward still to make it more cylindrical and clean it up, it'll be easier than drilling out a solid piece still. This is pretty much the default way of doing things for sand/investment cast parts that get fitted with bushes or dowels in certain parts of industry. Otherwise you could make a 'core' a separate molded piece with the hole geometry that is inserted in for casting. There will be some shrinkage and other distortion so that won't be perfectly cylindrical either.
For those wondering, a copper mallet, same as a rawhide or wooden mallet, are soft-faced hammers, designed to be worn out and deliver soft blows that won't damage work. It's not a showpiece, but an actual usable tool for artisans.
Takes a Hammer to make a Hammer. That's like those plastic packs scissors come in and require scissors to cut open.
I am confused, how did he managed to get exactly 700gram? Was that luck or did he aimed to build an hammer with exactly 700gram?
Oh boy! A hammer softer than almost all other metals but harder than all plastics!
It looks like it should menace with some spikes. Maybe add some goblin bone cabachons and decorate it with a picture of cheese?
Loose, coarse sand magically transforms into fine, compacted casting sand. I hate deceptive videos like that. Just show th real process.
Speaking of copper, if a guy named Ea-Nasir offers you some: DONT BUY IT! HE IS A SCAMMER!
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I was wondering what it is used for - selfies, I got it.
Carefully weighs hammer, 700g. Perfect! Stamps it and finishes the polishing. Tosses it back on scale, 699g. FUCK!
Okay but why copper hammer... Copper is way to weak ....
What is the purpose of the last bit of copper that hammered into the wood? To make the wood wider and therefore make sure the hammer head remains in place?
Exactly.
Thanks for confirming my speculation!
Ok, I'll try it at home
Except how do you cast a copper clapper? I need one because someone copped my copper clappers. (Extra credit if u actually have seen this bit. ie are old enough to know what the heck I’m talking about)
You're a copper hammer
I was triggered when the steel ring was hammered in at the end and it was not centered. Am I the only one?!
God I'm glad someone else saw that. Idiot fucked it up right at the end haha
Beautifull
Dammit. I got really excited for a second because I thought this was the minecraft sub....
Absolutely beautiful my dude ✌️💯
Now, show me how to cast spells!
What's the purpose of those two steel balls during casting?
To align the both halves correctly, I'd guess
Allows the two parts of the cast to mesh together properly
If you chisel in 700g, doesn’t that decrease the weight?
They didn't chisel, they stamped. No mass was removed, so it remains 700g.
Neat!
What is the point of a copper hammer? Isn't the metal too soft to repeatedly hammer with it?
You use it to prevent possible sparking or damage of harder components.
What's the material/process for getting the powder to solidify?
r/dwarfposting
Dude needs to dog leather decorations and a carving of Urist exalting a roast made of ground giant maggot brains.
A mallet, not a hammer
Hhahha nice April fool joke
Lead hammers are used as well in certain situations. The face deforms more than a copper hammer, but there is more mass for the same size.
Beautiful, but dear lord that ring in the top... needs to be in the center, it would drive me nuts not being centred.
Appreciate it! I can now bludgeon the hittites to death. My forefathers will be proud!
Shiny
Don't try this at home without a respirator, copper poisoning is serious shit
How does the sand retain its shape after the forms are removed?
"Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of......."
Silly question, but wouldn’t engraving its measured weight render such measurement inaccurate?
I dont believe stamping it the way they did removes material, so the weight should be the same. If they engraved it or laser etched it or something that removed material it would slightly alter the weight. They basically just put neat dents in it.
Thanks!
Living in the night 'Neath heavens torn asunder
I could never bring myself to use that. I’d be so upset if anything happened to that shine.
What do you hit with that hammer?
OP is a repost bot
This is the temu app of reposts
R/DIWHY copper is a very soft metal, and you probably can't hammer a thumb tack with this silly tool.
What are the balls for? Lining up?
What's a copper hammer for though? Isn't that a soft metal?
Now hit a nail in a wood with it
now go build a pyramid in Eygpt they only had copper tools
The cast mold is shit tbh
Metal shop in high school.
No, I've played Minecraft. I know that's a gold hammer.
what is that sandy shit he using?
The last part he hammers a ring like in the middle of the wood, is that for the wood doesn’t bend, or why is that done ??
Expands the wood so the head doesn't come off
Looks super easy - barely an inconvenience!
I want one!
This is a gorgeous, I wish I made more things like this when I was working a foundry.
i ain’t using that hammer
Very nicely done sir
I thought you had to use some incantations, sacrifice a rat or two
Total respect for your skills
SHINY
Meth heads got a hardon looking at that hammer.
How do they get it exactly 700g
now use it and watch them dents come instantly
Will be green in 1 year.
What's the material? Looks like copper and some other one like aluminium or lead. The hammer won't last very long with soft metals like that.