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Corss post from the Weapons board. Please direct all replies there:
http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/Forum6/HTML/000341.html

This is the warhammer a friend and I built over the last several months:
[img]http://gerfalcon.tzo.com/medieval/armor/hammer/hamm035m.jpg[/img]

For full details, go here:
http://gerfalcon.tzo.com/medieval/armor/hammer/hammer.htm

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Yehuda ben Moshe
mka Juliean Galak
http://gerfalcon.tzo.com/medieval/armor/

Sweet!

If you get to making them for production, put me at the top of the list.

I'm not currently making them for production due to time constraints - that one took the 2 of us 50-75 hours! I am hoping to get a forge set up sometime over the next year or so, once I do, I might start making more, since certain aspects would have been much easier to do hot.

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Yehuda ben Moshe
mka Juliean Galak
http://gerfalcon.tzo.com/medieval/armor/

You would think that something that started so close to done would be less labor intensive. Very nice, rock hammers are hard...

It is an admirable job of adapting a modern implement into a period piece.

Yup, you would. A lot of that time went into figuring out technique (_lots_ of dead ends), setting up equipment (my friend just got the mill recently - this was the first time it was used), and sanding. Actually, sanding (both with power tools and by hand) took more time than anything else.

I suspect a second hammer would take much less - 1/3 to 1/2 the time.

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Yehuda ben Moshe
mka Juliean Galak
http://gerfalcon.tzo.com/medieval/armor/