Another great project and video. Glad to see you back on TH-cam. I hope you had a great trip. I'm from MO. So I've seen Osage orange trees, but I've never used the wood. Not yet.
Thank you! I thought the handle idea was interesting, too so I did. The thing is though, I narrowed the flat part of the handle a little bit by chamfering the both edges or it was little uncomfy to grab it but it's ok now:)
Cool hammer and handle. We have alot of osage orange growing around here and it is very hard but very nice stuff to work with, probably one of my favorites. It also is easily on par with hickory on shock resistance, so perfect for a hammer handle. You probably have argentine osage orange, which is quite a bit softer and a bit straighter grain. I tend to use the local osage orange on the bottoms of my hand planes as boxing since it is hard and very wear resistant, while being very very stable.
Thank you! Yeah, I looked for available wood that is good for a hammer handle and I haven't worked with. and you have good eyes. I really chose a straight grain one. In fact, I wanted 2 blanks but as a store didn't have another good straight grain Osage orange, I bought olive wood for another hammer head but I have no idea where they are from... Anyways, again, thank you for the information:)
@@YRTi I wouldnt use olive for a hammer handle tbh. Usually the stuff Ive seen for sale, that comes from israel I believe, and is quite expensive to get. It's good for projects where it is used as an accent piece and really can shine. The other wood that I like for hammer handles is black locust, that stuff is a little softer than osage, but is very close to hickory and has the same good shock resistance of osage and hickory has. I do alot of carving in it and it's quite nice to work with. It grows like a weed here and is everywhere, and is very close to osage orange in rot resistance too, hence why both are used for fence posts around here.
Thank you for the input! I've actually read the olive wood is shock-resistant and I already bought it so I'll try it anyways and see how it will go:) Well, yeah, it's pricy but as I got them when they were on sale and I only got 1 piece so the price difference from Osage was like few dollars..
Thank you for the comment! Probably, I'll start using my new tools whenever they are ready without explaining each of them, haha. It will just take time. Well, now I do need to plan my new tool storage right away...
I had no option to keep everything so I just went through old pairs of shoes that I no longer wear and took them to a thrift store to make a space for my future tool storage, haha.
@@YRTi I only keep 6 pairs of footwear, dress shoes, casual, hiking, tennis shoes, sandals, and slippers, but I wonder if my wife would notice if her shoes started disappearing... probably not, until she started finding handplanes strewn about the house instead 🤣
I have a set of 3 hand forged square head genno hammers with Japanese white oak handles, each at a different weight. They're equally as wonderful to use and to look at. :D
Nice! Actually, I have 3(300g, 375g,460g), too:) one is just a used one from my friend and another one is a Daruma style that will come to me soon. I mean, I left it in Japan along with my electric toothbrush, haha! Thank you for the comment, my friend.
Didn't forget how cool and wild you are
Thank you. I didn't expect someone properly remembers me, haha!
Welcome back. Having a custom handle makes using it more enjoyable 😄 Thanks.
Thank you! Yes, it'll be fun to use but I still don't get time to play with it at this moment... but sure I will:)
Another great project and video. Glad to see you back on TH-cam. I hope you had a great trip. I'm from MO. So I've seen Osage orange trees, but I've never used the wood. Not yet.
Thank you, Danny. I like the beautiful color of Osage Orange! It’s not difficult to play with so you should! I’m sure you’ll like it:)
Beautiful as always Mas
Thank you, my friend!
I enjoyed this video. I found it interesting that the handle reflects the shape of the head faces pretty clever. Thanks
Thank you! I thought the handle idea was interesting, too so I did. The thing is though, I narrowed the flat part of the handle a little bit by chamfering the both edges or it was little uncomfy to grab it but it's ok now:)
You are a true wild child at heart 😁great to see the most known feet on youtube, hope you had a good holiday and really enjoyed the vid
Thank you! "At heart", yes. Body, not sure, haha. It wasn't actually a holiday but I enjoyed the stay:)
Cool hammer and handle. We have alot of osage orange growing around here and it is very hard but very nice stuff to work with, probably one of my favorites. It also is easily on par with hickory on shock resistance, so perfect for a hammer handle. You probably have argentine osage orange, which is quite a bit softer and a bit straighter grain. I tend to use the local osage orange on the bottoms of my hand planes as boxing since it is hard and very wear resistant, while being very very stable.
Thank you! Yeah, I looked for available wood that is good for a hammer handle and I haven't worked with. and you have good eyes. I really chose a straight grain one. In fact, I wanted 2 blanks but as a store didn't have another good straight grain Osage orange, I bought olive wood for another hammer head but I have no idea where they are from... Anyways, again, thank you for the information:)
@@YRTi I wouldnt use olive for a hammer handle tbh. Usually the stuff Ive seen for sale, that comes from israel I believe, and is quite expensive to get. It's good for projects where it is used as an accent piece and really can shine.
The other wood that I like for hammer handles is black locust, that stuff is a little softer than osage, but is very close to hickory and has the same good shock resistance of osage and hickory has. I do alot of carving in it and it's quite nice to work with. It grows like a weed here and is everywhere, and is very close to osage orange in rot resistance too, hence why both are used for fence posts around here.
Thank you for the input! I've actually read the olive wood is shock-resistant and I already bought it so I'll try it anyways and see how it will go:) Well, yeah, it's pricy but as I got them when they were on sale and I only got 1 piece so the price difference from Osage was like few dollars..
Ahhh... the Japanese tool haul starts showing up :D Good looking hammer now that it's got a handle, nice work
Thank you for the comment! Probably, I'll start using my new tools whenever they are ready without explaining each of them, haha. It will just take time. Well, now I do need to plan my new tool storage right away...
@@YRTi haha I'll look forward to the tool storage! I've got to do some of that myself... or get rid of... nope, find more tool storage 🤣
I had no option to keep everything so I just went through old pairs of shoes that I no longer wear and took them to a thrift store to make a space for my future tool storage, haha.
@@YRTi I only keep 6 pairs of footwear, dress shoes, casual, hiking, tennis shoes, sandals, and slippers, but I wonder if my wife would notice if her shoes started disappearing... probably not, until she started finding handplanes strewn about the house instead 🤣
I have a set of 3 hand forged square head genno hammers with Japanese white oak handles, each at a different weight. They're equally as wonderful to use and to look at. :D
Nice! Actually, I have 3(300g, 375g,460g), too:) one is just a used one from my friend and another one is a Daruma style that will come to me soon. I mean, I left it in Japan along with my electric toothbrush, haha! Thank you for the comment, my friend.
No thank you for sharing.😊
Thank you for the comment as always! I always take or hope what you mean by No thank you is positive, haha. It's all good:)
@@YRTi haha , you always thanks us for watching so I ment that the all thanks to I u for your videos.
It's definitely a positive post 😊👍.