Wooden Mallets

**Bushmiller** · 26th October 2021, 11:24 AM

MA, Bill H and Pagie

I think we have struck on another of those terminology things. Back in the UK when I worked on a Saturday for my cousin in his old fashioned hardware store we definitely called them club hammers and I really did think that a lump hammer was the American terminology.

I did a search on the Bunnings online website for "club hammer" and it returned this:

Club Hammer.png

A search for "Mash Hammer" scored a zero: I am not doubting that is what you blokes called them, but I suspect it is a popular colloquial term: A bit like a "yoube" as in you'd be F$#*@d if you were hit with one of those.

This has also reminded me I have a couple of those "club" heads also waiting for handles.

Regards
Paul

**GraemeCook** · 26th October 2021, 12:08 PM

Originally Posted by Bushmiller

... I think we have struck on another of those terminology things. Back in the UK when I worked on a Saturday for my cousin in his old fashioned hardware store we definitely called them club hammers and I really did think that a lump hammer was the American terminology. ...

And Chris Schwarz says the opposite -
"... The late, great furniture maker Alan Peters often said that one of his favorite tools was his “lump hammer,” a British term for what Americans might call an engineer’s hammer or a small sledge. Peters used his lump hammer for a remarkable range of operations, including knocking together dovetailed carcases and drawers. ..."

https://lostartpress.com/products/lump-hammer

And I knew them as "brickies hammers".

I think this will be one of those situations where different trades and different regions had different names for the same tool, and the same name for different tools.

**A Duke** · 26th October 2021, 03:48 PM

Hi'
I think that is what I call a 4lb. (Southern Africa.)
Regards

**old workshop** · 26th October 2021, 05:31 PM

Hi,

We call them lump hammers but we used to use
them for knocking cement and plaster off walls.

Martin.

**powderpost** · 26th October 2021, 09:36 PM

My bench mallet has a turned head. The ends of the head were turned to be slightly larger than a car exhaust pipe. From memory the pipe was about 50mm diameter. Each length of the pipe about 12mm was heated with a gas torch then the mallet head slipped into the heated ring. One end was done at a time. That mallet still exists after about 30 years. Admittedly it was a bench mallet and didn't get much hard work. The idea is not new and has been used for many years by wagon wheel builders.

Jim

**Mountain Ash** · 27th October 2021, 06:55 AM

Hi Paul. I wonder if it is a regional thing? Like the 1st time my MIL (from NSW) ordered scallops at a Victorian Fish and chip shop and got seafood!!

Effectively a small sledgehammer, I just realised that a regular sledgie could be called a "monster mash"....and it could be a "graveyard smash"

**Bushmiller** · 27th October 2021, 09:37 AM

Originally Posted by Mountain Ash

Hi Paul. I wonder if it is a regional thing? Like the 1st time my MIL (from NSW) ordered scallops at a Victorian Fish and chip shop and got seafood!!

Effectively a small sledgehammer, I just realised that a regular sledgie could be called a "monster mash"....and it could be a "graveyard smash"

MA

Trouble is that it is me who is moving around and I take my biases and prejudices everywhere I go.

Regards
Paul

**GraemeCook** · 27th October 2021, 02:43 PM

We do not have biases and prejudices, Paul. Everyone else does.

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