[TheForge] Farrier Hammers

[Jerry Smith]

Phlip,

That is the type of hammer I am looking for, if some
one can make one for me or some one recommend the
steel I can use, I can machine one out.

Jerry

--- Saint Phlip <phlip at 99main.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> Jerry Smith wrote:
> > Saint Phlip,
> >
> > Thre one that I used in the past was round in
> shape
> > with a slight doming for the hammer face.
> >
> > Jerry
> >
> > --- Saint Phlip <phlip at 99main.com> wrote:
> >   
> OK, what you want is a "turning hammer" as farriers
> call it (It helps 
> "turn" the shoe- in other words, bend the 1/4" X
> 3/4" or 1" bar stock 
> the hard way). Smiths call it a rounding hammer. Has
> a mildly domed face 
> on one end, and a flat face on the other- most
> farriers who use them 
> regularly will mark the handle in some way, so they
> know by feel which 
> face they're hitting with. I like them, because,
> like the Uri or Czech 
> hammers, they're balanced, and the weight is
> (usually) all close to the 
> handle- as has been mentioned, this helps quite a
> bit with avoiding 
> having the hammer twist in your hand, and an oval
> diameter handle is 
> quite enough to prevent twisting and blisters.
> 
> Shouldn't be terribly expensive, if you look around-
> otherwise, the urls 
> to Kayne's 
>
(http://www.blacksmithsdepot.com/Templates/cart_templates/cart-detail.php?theLocation=/Resources/Products/Hammers/Rounding_Hammers
> or to NC Tools (http://www.nctoolco.com/tools.shtm )
> will get you by for 
> considerably less than $160 ;-)
> 
> I lucked out on mine- wasn't able to afford a new
> hammer, at new prices, 
> so I'd been haunting the flea markets looking for
> one, and one of my 
> favorite tool booths saw me coming, and GAVE me one
> ;-) The guy gets old 
> hammers at yard sales, and wherever, and cleans them
> up and re handles 
> them- this one he hadn't worked on, and since I
> insisted I wanted it 
> NOW, what did he want as is, just gave it to me ;-)
> 
> BTW, the other type of farriers hammer is shown by
> the ones below the 
> turning hammers on the NC site. They look rather
> like an oddball 
> standard claw hammer, but in this case the claws are
> designed to catch 
> and twist off the excess horseshoe nail before you
> clinch them over, to 
> set the shoe.
> 
> Saint Phlip
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