[TheForge] Farrier Hammers

[Chuck Robinson]

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Chuck
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Smith" <jerry_smith at anvilsandinkstudios.com>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 3:25 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Farrier Hammers


> 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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