A sad case of HAD emerging...

I know that at first glance it looks like this should be in the hones section, but I'm talking hammers here.

I did not even notice it start to gain on me. I had the usual hammers - mauls, club hammers, claw hammers, cross pein hammers, sledge hammers, etc, but then these little fellers began to join in...

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Some are just useful for a variety of purposes, one was a serendipitous find - the small welders hammer - and others sort pinning very well.

Of them all, the most satisfying ones are the ones I have adapted - the uglier looking ones - usually with a small thin beak - admirable for collarless pinning.

It was only as I moved workshops that they came out of the woodwork. But, I caught myself looking at a three-hammer ball-pein set the other day, so I must stay on guard.

A small collection to be sure, but it smacks of larger to come...

Regards,
Neil

I get nervous when I see a lot of hammers in one spot. That was ever since Chieffy told me I was as closed up as a bag of hammers. Hate it when people try to sugar coat things. ;)

Bob

That "hammer" on the far right looks just like a straight razor! ;)

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That "hammer" on the far right looks just like a straight razor! ;)

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Well, ... it has been 'hammered' a bit! :)

Regards,
Neil

Neil, we need to hook up sometime and go get "hammered":rofl2: You had better watch out because files will be next, then pliers and...

Steel, I was thinking that one looked rather out of place. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FClGhto1vIg

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I get nervous when I see a lot of hammers in one spot. That was ever since Chieffy told me I was as closed up as a bag of hammers. Hate it when people try to sugar coat things. ;)

Bob

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My dad used to tell me that his younger brothers toolkit consisted of a bag filled with hammers.

If something didn't work, he began battering it with a tiny toffee hammer. It that didn't cure it, he moved up ... and up ... and up... right the way up to a huge lump-hammer. In the end he usually had a trip to the dump in store.

I visited him once - he had just bought a shop and was putting up a nice newly sign-painted sign board - with 6 inch nails. Around one nail head were 4 'half-crowns' (what we used to call the circular impressions left in wood by the face of the hammer when you missed the nail). The others were not much better. One had bent right over and he just banged it into the sign, sideways. He had also hit his fingers.

They don't make old fashioned workmen like that anymore - thank God!

Regards,
Neil

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They don't make old fashioned workmen like that anymore - thank God!

Regards,
Neil

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That would be news to some millwrights I used to work with. Seem their motto was "If it doesn't budge get a bigger bumper bar".

Bob

That is very strange Neil ...... I only have hammers I absolutely cannot do without ......... :p

First up, are old work hammers, carpenter, carpet layer, ironworker and welder ;
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These are these are various hammers used for hobby purposes ;
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My old tool belt from my ironwork days with my 6LB 'beater'. Drove many a pin with that baby connecting iron. Sold the belt and beater on ebay for $500. Kinda miss it but it set in a closet for 25 years so I figured someone would make use of it and I bought a razor with the $ that I am making use of. :chapeau

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An afterthought ......... :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVi3AVfwpek

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Neil, we need to hook up sometime and go get "hammered":rofl2: You had better watch out because files will be next, then pliers and...

Steel, I was thinking that one looked rather out of place.

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I am glad, really, glad and touched that both Steel and yourself noticed that 'one of those things is not like others'!

Don't get me started on files and rasps, BTW - mine are all small ones including flats, square, half rounds, rounds, tapers, needles/rat-tails, but there are a fair few of them, as well as small diamond files. A good file is a friend indeed!

Regards,
Neil

My Favorite Hammer is a made in England, warrington framing hammer,perfect balance.

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My Favorite Hammer is a made in England, warrington framing hammer,perfect balance.

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Thanks for that - it would have had to come from over my side of tne pond, wouldnt it?!

You could have done the decent thing and pretended it came from Outer Mongolia, but no, you had to tell the truth and now I feel like I have a damn monkey on my shoulder whispering "ooh, lets look out for one, you know you want to..."

Its definitely HAD.

Regards,
Neil

I'm being worked over by another HAD. As in Hasselblad. Incredibly out of reach on my entry into the photo world. They still aren't cheap. But as Carlos will tell ya about his Rollei - it only hurts once.

Between the Heljestrands, a swedish mixer for breadmaking (ankarsrum), and the 'blad(s), you'd think I was subsidizing the Swedish GDP (not that they need it). Each is a wonderful tool.

'Hope you get to enjoy those tools, Neil. I expect that woodworkers. like hobby machinists are always craving contact w/ the gray-haired masters that can teach more tricks than any class or trade school. Have a blast.

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Thanks for that - it would have had to come from over my side of tne pond, wouldnt it?!

You could have done the decent thing and pretended it came from Outer Mongolia, but no, you had to tell the truth and now I feel like I have a damn monkey on my shoulder whispering "ooh, lets look out for one, you know you want to..."

Its definitely HAD.

Regards,
Neil

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Well Neil, if the truth be told,unless your going to frame up a Dog house for the mum-in -law,you really do not need one:)

Okay, I came, I saw, I confess. I can use my right and left hands for hammering. Since the first tack hammer I made in 7th grade I have learned how to use a hammer. I have a collection at the welder, a collection in the leather tool chest, a collection in each of my 3 rollaways. A bucket full of used and some broken. I have a dozen on the workbench, and 6 or 8 more big boys on the floor standing ready all in line. I have wood , lead, brass, leather, plastic, rubber, steel, cast, forged, in every shape and size you can imagine. My favorite is one I keep in the fridge.

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I'm being worked over by another HAD. As in Hasselblad. Incredibly out of reach on my entry into the photo world. They still aren't cheap. But as Carlos will tell ya about his Rollei - it only hurts once.

Between the Heljestrands, a swedish mixer for breadmaking (ankarsrum), and the 'blad(s), you'd think I was subsidizing the Swedish GDP (not that they need it). Each is a wonderful tool.

'Hope you get to enjoy those tools, Neil. I expect that woodworkers. like hobby machinists are always craving contact w/ the gray-haired masters that can teach more tricks than any class or trade school. Have a blast.

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Blads aren't bad, I have three but I use the Mamiya's, especially the 645.

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Blads aren't bad, I have three but I use the Mamiya's, especially the 645.

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The older folding style cameras are still pretty usable, and there were a lot of top grade models, like the Super Ikonta, Agfa Anscs, Perkeos, Mamiyas, etc, and particular the Voigtlander Bessa II. I have had a fair number (got some on display and three boxes of misc folders), but like the Bessa II best - whopping 6cm x 9cm negative, superb lens (three models) and an excelent co-incident image viewfinder.

The Baby Speed Graphic (6cm x 7cm I thin) is another contender - very functional camera with interchangeable backs, a small version of its 4x5 inch format bigger brother - I have had both, but only kept the baby.

For 6cm x 7cm the old interchangeable back/lens/finder Mamiya RB rollfilm camera (not the twin lens C330 type) is great - still got one of those. Heavy weight, though - not a good hand-holder.

I got into the quest of the perfect negative -stray dirt specks, hairs, emulsion defects, scratches etc were a bit hard to retouch on the negative with medium format, so I made the leap from 4x5ins camera, to a 5x7 inch Gandolfi Field to an 8 x 10 inch Kodak. Sadly, I still have those too.

My wife wants me to label everything with prices, just in case I decide to push up the daisies any time soon. Practical, that's what she is.

Regards,
Neil

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Okay, I came, I saw, I confess. I can use my right and left hands for hammering. Since the first tack hammer I made in 7th grade I have learned how to use a hammer. I have a collection at the welder, a collection in the leather tool chest, a collection in each of my 3 rollaways. A bucket full of used and some broken. I have a dozen on the workbench, and 6 or 8 more big boys on the floor standing ready all in line. I have wood , lead, brass, leather, plastic, rubber, steel, cast, forged, in every shape and size you can imagine. My favorite is one I keep in the fridge.

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I love that hammer - got to get me one...!

I don't know whether to call you lot 'enablers' or 'disablers'...

Regards,
Neil

A song i play alot on guitar :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpCV2wgoxC8

Hey Neil ,
The boilermaker in my blood was thinking damn they are some nice hammers, I like the different styles
Then I see the razor in there and clicked that these are all tiny Peening hammers LOL
Now I like them even more

Neil, any kids with the name Jack?