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This has got to be the best looking handle I have ever hand carved for a hammer.
I acquired the wood from a downed tree out in the woods, it fell over from a storm and was pretty much dead for a very long time. One of the reasons why it had had died was because it was a victim of oriental bittersweet vines weighing its branches down.
The head for this hammer weighs 3 pounds and was manufactured by Picard. They make fantastic blacksmithing hammer heads, but their handles are poor quality.
I have figured out what species the tree is! It's ash. American ash. Now that I know that, I want to collect more wood from that tree, since ash makes for great handles.
I acquired the wood from a downed tree out in the woods, it fell over from a storm and was pretty much dead for a very long time. One of the reasons why it had had died was because it was a victim of oriental bittersweet vines weighing its branches down.
The head for this hammer weighs 3 pounds and was manufactured by Picard. They make fantastic blacksmithing hammer heads, but their handles are poor quality.
I have figured out what species the tree is! It's ash. American ash. Now that I know that, I want to collect more wood from that tree, since ash makes for great handles.
Category Crafting / All
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 1280 x 453px
File Size 140.8 kB
Thank you very much. The weight matters more than the manufacturer. I am a little disgruntled with Picard, because they make low quality things and sell them for absurd prices. You could look on amazon and see that some of their tongs are literally misaligned in the product images and have very crappy looking edges.
The steel is good, I bought it solely because it's a French pattern cross-pein hammer. I love French cross-pein hammers.
The steel is good, I bought it solely because it's a French pattern cross-pein hammer. I love French cross-pein hammers.
The secondary hand grip, or the swell, is actually the primary grip. The neck of the hammer is not really meant to be grasped when forging, it's basically a thinned area of the handle so that entire length of wood has more springiness to it. The springiness of a wooden handle allows the operator to use it more efficiently. This same sort of springiness applies to axes and adzes . It doesn't really apply to long shafted sledge hammers or pick-axes, hoes.
When the springiness is a factor for an axe, it's more so to allow it to whip better into the trunk of a tree rather than to recoil back up into the air (to save effort in swinging) like with a hammer.
When the springiness is a factor for an axe, it's more so to allow it to whip better into the trunk of a tree rather than to recoil back up into the air (to save effort in swinging) like with a hammer.
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