Honestly, I used to forge every knife with a 2-pound cross peen for an hour straight

Now I just use a 3-pound rounding hammer and get the same shape in 20 minutes after a smith in Austin showed me his technique. Anyone else switch up their primary forging hammer recently?

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the_andrew11d ago

Okay but "for an hour straight"... were you actually timing yourself at the anvil? That sounds like a workout, not a knife. The new hammer sounds faster, but I guess I just don't get why the old way needed to be that hard in the first place.

aaron17610d ago

The old way was just how we learned.

cameroncarr11d ago

Yeah @the_andrew, it does sound a bit extra. Maybe some people just like the hard way for the story. Honestly, most of us just want the knife without the workout.