Adam Savage's Hammer Is Garbage

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Just a word of warning for anyone wanting to replicate this. Making hammers out of random metals can be a really bad idea. Before more precise mass productions, hammers would often chip and could lead to severe eye injuries. As long as it is for a small “tappy” hammer like Adam’s and you use it accordingly, it is fine. Just be careful if you make something larger and use it to strike harder objects. Oh and wear eye protection!

That used to be a pin for holding the bucket onto an excavator! The top is missing the wings on either side that prevent it from falling out. A big cotter pin goes into where that bolt is so that you can hot-swap various tools such as a hydro-hammer onto the machine for various tasks. The wings shear off after a while from scraping against the sides of the trench/ hole you are digging.

I really admire your ability to look at something and see that within it there exists a completely different object - and then to draw out that new object as something beautiful and useful from what was once rusty detritus.

Thank you for illustrating the difference between a toonk toonk and a pop pop.

There was a show on TV in the UK when I was growing up called "Scrapheap Challenge" and this kinda reminds me of that. Thanks for spreading the nostalgia Adam!

You forgot one vital process before inserting the handle... You forgot to re-harden the steel. Your actual design looks to me to be perfect for shaping (flattening) and getting dents out of sheet metal. Useful for when repurposing scavenged sheet. Nice job. ...and remember; You can never have too many different kinds of hammers. Like any kind of tool; It will be the one you don't have that you will need most for a specific task.

Making the handle for a hammer or axe fit your hand perfectly is a truly nice feeling.

watched tons of mythbusters when I was a kid.. now 33 years old trying to learn woodworking, so you can imagine how happy finding this channel made me lol. thanks adam

More scrap challenges please!! This was inspiring

27:45 "Buddy you're a boy, make a big noise, playing in the street, gonna be a big man someday..." 😁🤘 Anyways, Adam your videos never cease to amaze! I've always appreciated the "one man's trash is another's treasure" philosophy, but it was quite satisfying watching you give something a new, practical purpose as opposed to its previous one (being trash). Good stuff

Adam is one of the biggest hoarders I know who will ACTUALLY use all the crap he ends up saving... I challenge you to do a 1 day build with some items in your shop you haven't touched in years!

I know it’s not the normal material for your creations, but seeing steel being machined in this video with your unique approach to problem solving was fun to watch.

If from a pallet, HIGH probability of red or white oak. It warms my heart to see a piece of actual debris turned into a nicely crafted tool. The faces of the hammer probably need some case hardening. Speaking of the faces. That divot on the small face will transfer its pattern to anything it hits. You probably want to machine it out. Finally you might want to file the hole for the handle to make a slight taper (as others have mentioned) allowing you to secure it with a wedge in your handle. As it is, that head will slide off at some point. You may notice it happening and correct the seating... You may not til after it becomes a projectile.

Some buildier is going to be like, ''where did I put my chunk of metal'' and Adam will be like, '' I dunno but here's a cool shiny hammer''

Handle pin insertion done to "We will rock you" by Queen 🤘😁🤘 The hammer turned out great! It's always a joy to watch you build and I'm so envious of your Shop. It's the ultimate maker space IMHO. 😀

The soundscape on this was is excellent. All the right whirs and buzzes but no peaking. Good work.

Nice hammer! A tip for making hammer handles: You shouldn't make a 90 degree step in the handle where it meets the head. It should taper so you can tap it in further if it gets lose. The taper also helps with hammering it into a hourglass shaped hammereye.

Hey adam, material engineer from Brazil here, Amorphism of the structure is not the cause for hardness, for example glass is almost 100% amorphous and extremely hard, and diamonds are 100% cristaline and hard as well. Cooling fast metals makes them harder because it doesn't allow enough time for the metal's atoms to arrange themselves in a more disordered manner (not more amorphous), resulting in a more tightly packed crystal structure and a harder material.

Was anyone else singing "We Will Rock You" to themselves while Adam hammered that metal wedge in the top of the handle? 🤣🤣🤣