[TheForge] Hammers

[Andrew Vida]

"R.C.Mundt" wrote:
> 
> Does anyone have a recipie for making good feeling hammers? 

	I think that is not an ares where any standard formualae
	can be said to apply across the board.  Different people
	like different things.  Weight is one factor.  I can 
	swing a 2.5# hammer until you got old and died.  Give me
	a 3# hammer and my arm withers in about five minutes.  I
	have no idea why this is so, just that it is, so I am one
	that is very sensitive to weight.  I'ive watched Tom
	Latane use a 5# single jack to draw stock for a couple
	of hours without missing a beat.  People be different.

> Quite  a few years ago I wanted a soft hammer so I made one outa
> a piece of cold rolled and ran brass on one face, It really turned
> out nice, so nice that myself and others used for everything under
> the sun , so my hammer is beat to pieces right now.

	Can't you rerun the brass face and add a little?

>  This was just an accident, I don't know beans about making hammers. 
> Why is one hammer balanced and another one nothing more than a club?

	As for that, weight is one factor, but another it the diameter
	of the handle.  I have watched many smiths, particularly the
	less experienced ones, wielding hammers with these thick
	handles.  It took a while for me to figure that one out, too.
	I had a favorite hammer but I always got fatigued, but there
	was this large Stanley ball pein that I could work all day
	long without tiring.  I finally figured out that the Stanley
	had a very narrow handle.  When I whittled the other handle
	way down, I was in heaven with that hammer.

	You could also try making Wayne Goddard's shock absorbing handle.
	
> Randy Mundt
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