hi friends craig from the barefoot forge here for weld.com and today we're going to make something
weird let's make a hammerhead shark entirely out of hammerheads that's going to be weird
about 3.3 million years ago mankind invented the hammer since then man has always wondered
can i forge a bunch of these into a hammerhead shark today we're going to show you how we did it
we took a couple of three pound cross peen hammers from our local junk store and we cut the heads off
the handles we then put them in the chop saw and cut the cross peen side off right at the edge of
the eye that allowed us to maintain the eye and that formed the head and tail structure of the
shark we had to prep our material by removing all the paint and grinding it to a smooth
shiny surface that way we can forge weld these two hammer heads together which will form the body
the head and the tail structure of our hammerhead shark once they were ready we stacked the
two together and tack welded them in place so that we could heat it up and form a forge weld
we had to warm it up to about 2300 degrees once it was at that temperature we added a little borax
which acts as an efficient flux and then we forge welded it together using a 25 ton hydraulic press
you could do this by hand with a sledgehammer but this thing beats the crap out of beating
the crap out of this thing oh man we are lazy here and this tool gets it done
look at it it looks like a shark now oh no no it doesn't not yet oh it's getting
there while we forge out the body of the shark we'll talk a little bit about some shark facts
sharks date back a long long time about 450 million years they started out in the late
solarian period mankind has only existed for a couple million years and sharks have hated men
since day one they haven't hated humans they've specifically hated men according to national
geographic of all documented shark attacks since the year 1580 93 of them have been made on males
that's right sharks are statistically way more likely to attack you if you're a guy sharks are
very sexist and they intentionally attack men so think about that next time you go in the water
sharks are known as the silent killer one of the reasons for this is sharks
have no vocal cords and they use no audible sounds to communicate anger or their emotions
as far as we know sharks have no written language either sharks do not write poetry amazing
did you know that an estimated 55.3 million people died last year and of those four people
died from sharks you are more likely to be killed by a falling coconut than you are by a shark
in 2018 the state of florida accounted for 24 of the worldwide shark attacks seriously yet another
reason not to live in florida okay let's get back to this project it started to look like a shark
look at that beautiful glow okay time to clean it up with an angle grinder we're using a standard
four and a half inch angle grinder with a grinding wheel on it then we're going to
switch over to a 24 grit sanding pad which is going to allow us to have a little more control
and leave a bit of a nicer finish just trying to clean it up a little bit get up in that tail
now it's time to make some fins we're going to take the cross peen side of the hammer and
cut it into quarters and once we've got it cut into quarters we're going to cut those in half
those pieces are going to become the pectoral fins look at that squish
now let's shape it a little bit the pectoral fins are the fins that go on the bottom of the shark
and they're the fins that the shark uses for a variety of sports including badminton
volleyball baseball and basketball sharks are not very well equipped for any of these sports it's
time to position and tack weld the fins in place we'll put these pectoral fins right about there
once we've got them tacked in place we're going to seam weld them on get nice and tight
good weld on there fill it all in get some good penetration oh look at that shark coming together
beautiful it's time to position and weld the dorsal fin this important part of this
shark serves to scare the crap out of you and nothing will make you crap your speedo faster
than seeing this iconic fin show up behind you in the water now we just need to clean it all up
we'll just do a little more grinding to refine the shape wow i think we pulled this off i think
we actually forged a hammerhead shark entirely out of hammerheads it's been a fun project and
hopefully you learned a little bit about sharks along the way
thanks for wasting four and a half minutes of your life with us stay tuned for more exciting
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it's pretty cool i'm on a road trip with these vw buses making more bad decisions cheers