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10th April 2020, 07:07 AM #1
'Ammer 'Andle
Scratching around for projects in the lock down I remembered my Dad's old Warrington hammer head which has been lying in the bottom of my tool box for near 30 years. It's a Stanley No.2 (12 oz.) and was probably the first tool I ever used. Whenever I asked if I could help him while he was making something, he'd give me this hammer, a handful of nails, a block of wood and tell me to hammer all the nails in. I never did discover why he wanted them .
The handle is black cherry and shaped using a spokeshave, chisels and rasps and files then sanded through the grits. I used the same jig I'd made for a walking cane shaft (see earlier post).
Tip: Because the shaft profile is oval, I found it paid to establish the stub that goes inside the head first and dry-fit the head before shaping the rest of the shaft. That way I could ensure that the long axis of the oval shaft profile was aligned with the axis of the head (hope that makes sense!). The wedge is made from Matai which is close grained and tough. I still need to insert a couple of metal wedges laterally in the head. Finish is BLO and once cured, I'll wire wool in some wax.
This should have taken a day to complete but I kept being interrupted by SWMBO with her Honeydew projects.
Pete
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10th April 2020, 11:02 AM #2
That's come up really nice. Fitting the head first so that everything was aligned correctly was smart thinking. Wouldn't have been better if it was a bought one and now it's truly an heirloom.
Dallas
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10th April 2020, 01:33 PM #3
My very first job as an apprentice for the first week was cutting and nailing Hwd skirting blocks, the cuts on some blocks had a remarkable resemblance to creeper cuts and a lot of blocks I'm sure were held in place by the weight of lots of bent nails
The person who never made a mistake never made anything
Cheers
Ray
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10th April 2020, 05:20 PM #4China
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Nice fix, I use my Stanley Warrington all the time.
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10th April 2020, 08:45 PM #5
I was taught as an apprentice, to put a "new" hammer handle in a short length of 50mm steel water, and leave it in the sun for an hour or two hours to dry out a bit. The idea was that the wood would swell as it absorbed moisture from the atmosphere.
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10th April 2020, 09:37 PM #6Member
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Hi Pete, I can relate to your story about your Dad giving you a hammer, nails and a block of wood. I not only was given the same task, only with a claw hammer which was also used for the follow up one of pulling all the nails out and hammering them straight for reuse - i still will reuse a nail on an appropriate task!
I hope that you get a lot of enjoyment out of your "new" hammer.
Owen
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10th April 2020, 11:53 PM #7
Pete
Seeing as how you have adopted use of the dropped "h" for this old tool, perhaps you should bestow the name "Henry" or more pointedly " 'Enry" on it.
You are of an age where if you followed boxing as a lad you would have been familiar with British boxer Henry Cooper, who was one of the few men to put Muhammed Ali on the canvas. In fact if his eyes did not cut so easily I would suggest he would have been World Heavyweight boxing champ. Anyway that is a bit of background, but coming from the east end of London he tended to drop his "Hs" and his natural left hook became known as:
" 'Enry's 'Ammer."
Good job on the 'ammer.
Regards
PaulBushmiller;
"Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts, absolutely!"
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11th April 2020, 06:21 AM #8
[QUOTE=Bushmiller;2182275]Pete
Seeing as how you have adopted use of the dropped "h" for this old tool, perhaps you should bestow the name "Henry" or more pointedly " 'Enry" on it.
Paul, that sounds like a plan. How does 'Pete's Pounder' or maybe 'Woodhutt's Whacker' sound? Any other suggestions? Pete
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