[TheForge] [YAK] Anvil Orientation

[Mike Spencer]

> Since I make a few of my own hammer handles by carving them out of
> old ax and shovel handles, I am wondering if I am putting the heads
> on the wrong end.

For lighter hammers and set tools, old hocky sticks are pretty nice
and straight-grained, too.  (They must be laying around all over the
place there in Virginia, eh?)

Ummm....  You *do* know that you have to put the hammer head on the
twig end and grip it at the stump end, don't you?  You know, like when
splitting firewood, you should hit it on the end it grew from?  The
power has to flow from your hand to the work in the same direction as
sap flows in the tree or you be working crossways to nature.


(Heh.  Anything to derail another anvil-orienation bun fight.  This
old-geezer thing has got to have *some* kind of compensation.  When I
was 25 and he was 70+, Bert Shaw told me that the Pritchel Hole was
named after the guy that invented it and I believed that for several
years.  Fine old geezer, Bert.)

- Mike

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