More videos on power hammer techniques

Here is a good idiots guide to heat treatment. As I will be making different top and bottom tools for the power hammer, correct heat treatment is a must.

I have using industrial forging videos as reference for different forge processes. Everything is the same as on the anvil, just bigger and often more precise. I like the idea of having your entire process planned and calculated so that the correct amount of material is used and little is wasted. It seems to maximize the potential of the hammer.

Software that predicts the movement of hot steel, who knew? Probably overkill, but still would be cool to have a go with.

Here is an other industrial forging video. I like the offset bottom block. 

Interesting tong jig for the bottom die. Noting very arty going on here, just efficiency. Similar jigs could be set up for doing elements with multiple set-downs in process. 

These guys are just forging tapers, but doing it ver efficiently. It shows how much you can do in one heat with the machine set up properly and enough practice. 

An other example of an industrial smith maximizing the potential of the hamer by using special dies for the job.

Here is a great example of getting your process down on the power hammer. This guy is a little off in his material estimation, but does a great job of using all the swages to maximize the control of the hammer.