[TheForge] Re: blacksmith question holding hammers

[Ralph Douglass]

--- Mike Spencer <mspencer@tallships.ca> wrote:
> 
> 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.

That is what I do as well. In fact other than being
mostly rectangular ( as seen from the end) the side
profile looks mostly like the standard handle, just
narrower.

Ralph

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