I picked up one of Eaglewoods great aluminum hammer heads a few weeks back. Any one in the market should def. take a look at them...Clay does a great job.
A beast weighing in just over 20lbs.
With my gym membership expired I quickly went to town on having as much aluminum removed as possible...reducing the weight to a manageable 13 lbs.
The material below the scroll work on the ends was removed as well as all material below the cap stone...just leaving enough material on the bottom of the hammer to secure the handle.
The test scroll inlay that I did is "OK"...but with a 1/32 endmill took FOREVER...and the results still are not as fine as I would like them.
If anyone knows of a supplier for some kind of deep aluminum etching or something I would love to hear about it. I am trying to go down about 1/32 in depth with the inlay on a 1/8 piece of aluminum.
The plan is to hard anodize all of the aluminum grey-ish and then go back in and weather/age it relative to the supplied pic....thats why all of the various bits will need to be aluminum.
Tomorrow I am going to machine the runes into the new cap stone...completing that part of it.
Thanks for looking.
Jason
A beast weighing in just over 20lbs.
With my gym membership expired I quickly went to town on having as much aluminum removed as possible...reducing the weight to a manageable 13 lbs.
The material below the scroll work on the ends was removed as well as all material below the cap stone...just leaving enough material on the bottom of the hammer to secure the handle.
The test scroll inlay that I did is "OK"...but with a 1/32 endmill took FOREVER...and the results still are not as fine as I would like them.
If anyone knows of a supplier for some kind of deep aluminum etching or something I would love to hear about it. I am trying to go down about 1/32 in depth with the inlay on a 1/8 piece of aluminum.
The plan is to hard anodize all of the aluminum grey-ish and then go back in and weather/age it relative to the supplied pic....thats why all of the various bits will need to be aluminum.
Tomorrow I am going to machine the runes into the new cap stone...completing that part of it.
Thanks for looking.
Jason
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