[TheForge] Just watched the Mythbusters try to shatter hammers

[schade at acegroup.cc]

On Dec 1, 2006, at 5:33 AM, Todd Rich wrote:

> On the plus side, it looks like their message boards are getting 
> hammered by hundreds of people saying that they were injured by flying 
> pieces of metal from hammers hitting hammers.  And several people 
> pointed out that they probably annealed their hammers rather than 
> hardening them.  Not sure, but looks like somebody claimed they also 
> quenched in 'hard water', which didn't make the video cut if they did 
> it.  It looks like it will probably be revisited.
>

There is no end to the misunderstanding of "hard" and "soft". When I 
first started sharpening scaling chisels for a foundry I was getting 
them too hard and they were breaking. The foundry people told me that 
they were breaking because I wasn't getting them hard enough.

So I started making them softer (less hard?). They don't break now and 
the foundry is happy with the "harder" chisels.

Bob