[TheForge] Dewalt new hammer and sledges

[Dave Mudge]

As far as I know, TheForge is still active. Maybe there is another site
where people are
exchanging ideas and discussing metalworking? I don't know...
What other forums do blacksmiths favor? We can have a discussion about that.

About the Dewalt hammers, the picture shows someone forging with a carbon
fiber handled hammer
and heavy work gloves. Clearly this staged to look tough to the general
(non blacksmithing) public.
I think that you will find that most blacksmiths will want to use a wooden
handled hammer
for a variety of reasons. Some of which are; "feed back", blacksmithing is
all about hammer control.
I am sure that the fiber handles feel much different than wooden handles.
Another is "fit", you can sand,
file, carve and grind a wooden handle to "fit" your particular grip. Many
blacksmiths like wooden
handles that are flat on each side and rounded top and bottom. That gives
one a better grip ("fit").
As far as the heavy work gloves, (forgive me for laughing) gloves put a
layer of insulation between
your hand and the "feedback" that you are looking for from the wooden
hammer handle.
The hammer will slip from your grip if you wear gloves thus causing you to
loose "hammer control".
I am sure that the carbon fiber handles are wonderful in some vocations. If
one is concerned with
perhaps breaking the handle, then keep practicing because that one has no
"hammer control".

Forgive me if I sound too "preachy" but I have been hammering for a long
time and mostly in an "old school"
manner. I worked on a 4 man crew and we built 5 houses in the old school
way in that the boss
wouldn't allow pneumatic nail guns (which were a new thing at the time). I
spent many years as
a jeweler with wooden handled hammers. As a blacksmith I might have 100
hammers all with wooden
handles.

dave mudge
Magic Hammer Forge
list mom for TheForge

On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 9:22 PM, Bruce . <freemab222 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I haven't seen anything but your post since January,
>
> I suspect Facebook, etc., have supplanted theforge, but I STILL won't go
> there.  (Justified, BTW, by recent revelations.)
>
> Bruce
> NJ
>
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 9:24 PM, Rob Fertner <rfertner at cox.net> wrote:
>
> > Dewalt now has carbon fiber handled hammers. The 4 lb cross peen looks
> > nice.
> >
> >
> >
> > http://toolguyd.com/dewalt-carbon-fiber-sledge-hammers-axes-exocore/
> >
> >
> >
> > By the way, I haven't seen anything from theforge lately. Is it still
> > active?
> >
> >
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > Wichita, KS
> >
> > "Today was in the 70's and Tomorrow will be in the 80's. How's your
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