HF planishing hammer

didn't know if anyone was interested in a HF planishing hammer, but they have this one on sale for $120 on the website.

I thought it might be of interest to some of you.

Chad-

 

Who's gonna be first to take a gamble and buy one of these?

 

Is something like this any good without an English wheel or a lot of talent or will it look like you shaped something over a stump with a ball peen hammer?

 

I believe you smooth it with the planishing hammer after you shaped something over a stump with a ball peen hammer.

 

I was going to try, but my local store doesn't stock them.

 

Hey,
With a little less of a learning curve that an English wheel, you will
produce parts jus slightly faster with a planishing hammer. Don't
let the relative simplicity of the Ewheel fool ya, to produce really
good parts, it does take some skill. A planishing hammer requires
a large compressor and makes gobbs of noise, notta good thing
if your neighbors are close .

S****ey Devils C.C.

 

They are on backorder till late Jan. There is a lengthy thread on metalmeet about this planishing hammer.

 

SO... short of searching all of metalmeet,,,,,,,,,, share with us what they said about it.......

 

Hey,

Jus judgin from the size of the hammer on the HF unit, you won't
be duing much planishing, and no shaping with it. A real planishing
hammer would be on the order of a #5-#7 hammer to really
move and planish anything thicker than 20 gage sheet.
And as to those "chrome plated dies" come on?

S****ey Devils C.C.

 

sure as hell seems like a good deal. I have the leather beatin bag, but the metal is so beat up and I have no way to smooth it out. This would be great if it doesn't fall apart. Does it include the air hammer? That is probably the weakest link in it.

 

A real planishing hammer hits at 10000 hits a minute and this one is only going to hit at 3000 a minute so it will not planish the metal. Metalshapes,Bluto or Jeese James need to weigh in on this one to give more info. I worked with Metalshapes for a long time and was able to learn alot about these hammers since he has one. I think I might have found a orginal one and I have been looking for one for about 5 years. As far as I know there are not real repops of a true plaishing hammer.

 

just what i need, my neighbor is a ***hole! hope that basterd is really loud! merry christmas to me!

 

hi ron,

actually even the good ones are run between 3- 4000 rpm max, there are two great repops of a cp hammer one being gitzit on e-bay, the other clay cook proline hammer. got to use both at metalmeet and prefer my mechammer (mechanical planishing hammer, look it up on metalmeet) to the cp hammers. (personal preference , my hammer is so much quieter)

the planishing hammer isn`t real good at shaping (its slow) ,its real strength is planishing.

heres a homemade planishing hammer i made for portable jobs, still uses the good dies. good dies, correct die alignment ,and air regulator along with my junk footpedal have made this a cheap and pretty good hammer.

gary

 

i beg to differ. i built my own using a ten dollar HF air chisel. hits at 2500-3000 bpm just like this one will. plenty fast. it will planish anything we would be working with. it'll do some shaping too, but it's not made to do serious shaping, that's why it's called a planishing hammer, not a power hammer! you wanna shape, that's what the shot bag and hammer is for. my planishing hammer will take care of all the walnuts i throw at it, and i don't see why this one wouldn't too.

 

Thanks for the info I will check those sites out.

 

I think I may have to take a gamble on one of these....I do most of my shaping on a bag, but man planishing by hand gets old....

 

My ****ty hf hammer came in, had to fit the hammer to the frame, grind the nubs off the 1" dies, fill the frame with sand.....and what do you know, I made an ashtray in 5 minutes, yes it works well, the dies are just small. You won't be building the blastolene special....but what the hell

 

is a planishing hammer and an air chisel the same thing?

 

Think the chisel beats slower, but yeah

 

I built a p-hammer a couple years back for about $50, and an afternoon worth of work. It's easy, cheap, and works very well.

Here's a link to photos: http://www.metalmeet.com/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=3176

Ben

 

I did the same thing as ben for about $60, it has worked well for everything I use it for.http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=95584&highlight=planishing+hammer

 

Hey,

Yes and No! How's that for a ******** answer?

The air hammer portion of a planishing hammer, a real one,
not this Hong Kong phooy P.O.S., is a well balanced, well made
tool. You can dial down the hits-per-minute with this tool to
better control the shaping/planishing process.
An air chisel, or "muffler cutter" on the other hand, is a pretty
crude tool with poor balance and not much control, except the
air supply.

S****ey devils C.c.

 

i know with my air chisel you pretty much have to push it into your work for it to have much effect, what kind of clearance do you need to have between your tooling?