[TheForge] Re: blacksmith question holding hammers

[Mike Spencer]

raplph.d.> I reduced the size of my handle with a drawknife and with a
raplph.d.> belt sander. So that it is about 1/2 the size it was and it
raplph.d.> also have a more rectangular cross-section now.

That's what I do too, with a couple of further refinements on the 1#
to 2.5# hammers I use most often.  I can't control a hammer with (what
seem to me to be) the Great Fat Logs that pass for hammer handles as
they come from the store.  And I try to leave a bit of the Great Fat
Log at the butt to give me a tactile clue, should my hand get near the
end ofthe handle.

- Mike

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Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada 
                                 
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