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15th May 2004, 01:30 PM #1
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Mystery Hammer
It's that time of the week I'm afraid, where I find another thing in the back of the old trunk, and have to decide what it's future will be.
I'll keep this one, but what is it's purpose?
I remember playing with this hammer when I was a small boy, using it as a geologists pick to split shale in my never ending quest for fossils.
It is quite light (350 grams/ 12 oz), and has an overall length of 200mm (8in) and a handle length just a tad under that.
My guess is that it's some sort of cabinet maker's tool, but the hammer head is flared indicating repeated contact with something bigger than a tack! Why is the "nail pulling bit" on the side, and should the chisel end be sharp?
The handle looks as though it has been cut short, but the tool is perfectly balanced with this handle length, leading me to suspect that it was trimmed deliberately as a "tuning" measure. I doesn't feel right with a longer handle (albeit that I just taped an extension to it to see what it was like).
Thanks again in anticipation,
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15th May 2004, 02:09 PM #2
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Would it be a slate roofing tool?
It looks like the chisel end is used for trimming slate tiles, and the dohickey on the side is for pulling nails out of slate tiles, and the hammer end, well..............
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15th May 2004, 06:25 PM #3
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hammer
:confused: not a "slaters" hammer, could be for wooden shingles.
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15th May 2004, 06:30 PM #4
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It could be something to do with upholstery. I'm sure I have seen similar tools in one of their shops
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15th May 2004, 08:15 PM #5
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Bit like a Slaters hammer but possibly a Shingles hammer.
My father brought some like that from England (1954). The only diference being that the long flat end was more pointed for punching the nail holes in the slate.
I like the idea of a shingles hammer as the flat could be used to lift a broken shingle for replacement.
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16th May 2004, 10:38 PM #6
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Shingles and shakes are usually fixed with shingling hatchet, a cross between a small axe and a hammer. It does look more like a slate fixing too, to me.
Mick"If you need a machine today and don't buy it,
tomorrow you will have paid for it and not have it."
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22nd May 2004, 09:42 PM #7
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Don't pick on me, I told ya's I got a slow internet connection!
I reckon its a hammer for wooden boxes.
The long pointyish (get that into the spellchecker) end for opening the box, the nail pullering thing, well thats obvious, and then the hammery bit. (thats fer whacking nails)Boring signature time again!
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22nd May 2004, 10:06 PM #8
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Well nothing definitive yet guys, but I am happy with the slate option until someone can give me a absolute confirmation. (Although that flies in the face of Whiskers comment...so maybe I shouldn't jump the gun.)
Confusion reigns!
Thanks.
P
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22nd May 2004, 10:22 PM #9
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Tool
Actually, this is a oral surgery implement used by dentists in the early 19th century. :eek:
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22nd May 2004, 10:28 PM #10
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You are wrong Gary. It is a medical instrument for use in prostate surgery.
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22nd May 2004, 10:30 PM #11
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Maybe you are both right...maybe it's used for oral surgery, but going the long way round....
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23rd May 2004, 10:06 AM #12
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You're thinking of the more expensive, extra long version, with the right angle bend in the handle and the light on the end.
When in the shop, always remember that proper lubrication is the key to extended tool life and quiet operation.
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23rd May 2004, 10:56 PM #13
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slaters tools
drawings of slaters tools are shown at http://www.hytile.com.au/tools.html. Slaters hammer is shown with a point on one end for punching nail holes. I have seen them used on my fathers roof. Still think that it is a shinglers hammer.
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24th May 2004, 07:48 AM #14
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Ask the Mullumbimby timbers guy, he should know if its a shinglers hammer :confused:
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24th May 2004, 08:01 PM #15
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I still reckon its for wooden boxes. remeber back in the old days EVERYTHING came in wooden boxes, then got tied up in brown paper and string.
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