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- Brian Starting the demo
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- Some of his tooling
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- Tongs
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- Lyle narrates the process
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- Hammer head first heat
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- Marking the center
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- Punch head geometry
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- Punching the handle hole
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- Punch both faces to true hole
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- Drift is used to enlarge hole
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- Hole is punched from both sides
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- Bees Wax is used to cool the tool head
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- Handle hole drifted from both sides
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- Tools used to forge the hammer head
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- View of top and bottom fullers
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- Fullering face
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- Fullering handle hole section of head
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- Tapering handle hole with drift
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- Bottom fullers support head while drifting handle hole
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- Double bottom fullers
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- Half way
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- Top and bottom fullers
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- Length shortening due to upseting face
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- Face bottom fuller
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- Punching touch mark
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- Punch plate
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- Starting Punch
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- Forging punch
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- Tapering punch
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- Rectangular punch face
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- Drifting a circular hole
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- Drifting hole
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- Side view of hardy
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- Gouge mandrel
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- In use
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- Fullering curved gouge
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- Finished hammer head and chisels
GCBA has adopted the 
Gulf Coast Blacksmith Association 