Thread: Hammer Handles - Where to buy?

Gday mate, maybe see who sells this mob's stuff in your area.


Cheers..................Sean

Same place they sell forkandles, (Ronnie Barker joke)

You could make them yourself with a spoke shave, rasps and sandpaper.

Mick

Originally Posted by journeyman Mick

You could make them yourself with a spoke shave, rasps and sandpaper.

Mick

Or can also be done on a conventional wood lathe. Links here, here, and in a Project Gutenburg book here.

Interesting stuff, off axis turning.

Detailed guide to fitting hammer handles, fixing loose handles, etc is here.

I've kept an old broken shovel handle which should yield a couple of handles.


Cheers................Sean

Imported isn't necessarily good. I went through several hickory handles until I replaced both my wooden handled hammers with good old Aussie HW. that was almost 20 years ago and I still have the same handles.

The amazing thing is having owned the same 2 hammers for 25 years - (one was the old mans) without loosing them. In the same period I have lost countless others - eastwings, fiberglass handled, steal handled etc but the wooden ones stay by me.

Thanks for your replies and the links. I think I'm being drawn into the "Darkside".

When I do climb down from the belltower and venture out into the real world with my shopping list, I always return home disappointed - has anyone else noticed how difficult it is to buy things these days.

The stock holding and choice of product in the hardware barns is diminishing rapidly and when you do find something to buy it often not priced and naturally there's no-one to ask - the tool barns are not much better.

BTW the brand of wooden handle I bought was "Bonser" Dont ask me how I remember but I used to choose that brand over others because they usually had nice straight grain and felt good in your hands.

Originally Posted by jow104

Same place they sell forkandles, (Ronnie Barker joke)

I can imagine him saying this in a cornish accent, but I still don't understand. In the Australian vernacular...please explain.

prozac

Ronnie Corbett asks the shop assistant(Ronnie Barker) for four forkandles.

and he really wants four candles.

Not fork handles.

Or was it the other way round?

Ri...ght? Yeah, no, I got it. Thanks. Think I may even be able to remember the skit, vaguely.

prozac

Originally Posted by scooter

Gday mate, maybe see who sells this mob's stuff in your area.


Cheers..................Sean

Spotted Kruger hammer handles in my local B^^^^^^s tonight at $7.17

Well I have been useing a timber handled 24 oz English Chinney for about 30 years, wow I am getting older.
Anyway I have tried the H/wood ones once and I broke it in no time, I stick to the Hickory handles and let me tell you I have done some atrocious things with it and it is still going.
Ow thats right, I get my hammer handles from Blackwoods.

Just an update - no one including Blackwoods seem to stock hickory handles in Brisbane - the only online listing I have found is an auto tool supplier in Melbourne who have replacement hickory handles in their catalogue - I will try ordering some from them next.

In the meantime, I have tried a couple of the better Kruger hardwood ones I could find - they used to have a premium hickory line but no one seems to stock them anymore - as one salesperson said, no one asks for handles anymore, they just buy a whole hammer.

What a wasteful world we live in.