Tired of store bought hammers that don't get the job done ? Make your own. "Big Red" started life as the lid for an Oxygen bottle,and a s**** piece of tubing. More in my Custom hammer album on Metalshapers,org
A wood,preferably Ash,or Fiberglas handle would be first choice if you were going to be hammering all day,everyday. For occasional use in a shot bag,steel tubing is fine.
how about stealing the rubber grip off your daughters tricycle handle bar? I think the first time I saw one of those was here on the HAMB at Windfields there is a guy around here that sells english wheels and hammers at all the swap meets, I forget what he wants for a wood hammer, somethin like $60.00 bucks I think? Paul
Any sort of rubber grip would help,if it's the right size. Or that Plastic stuff for dipping tool handles in. [ QUOTE ] there is a guy around here that sells english wheels... [/ QUOTE ] English wheels painted Yellow ? That would be Dan Pascoe. [ QUOTE ] I forget what he wants for a wood hammer, somethin like $60.00 bucks I think? [/ QUOTE ] Sounds about right for a Lignum Vighte(sp) mallet. Clay Cook,and Ron Fournier, get over $100 each for their very nice blocking hammers. Beautifully polished steel heads,with fiberglas handles,almost too nice to use.
i made one of those last summer. i used a piece of a Toyota torsion bar for the handle and ran it all the way through the "head". it stuck out the other side about2 1/2" and i ground it into a SPIKE! it looks more like a mid-evil weapon than a hand tool . after swingin that bad boy a few times you feel it. FEEL THE BURN!!
Here goes nothing. I'm not sure this will show up as I'm retarded at this picture thing. This is a hammer I built a few years ago somewhat like the one already shown. The difference is I had two different sizes of oxygen bottle caps. I slid one inside the other, welded them together, then used a hole saw to make way for the handle. The handle goes all the way through and is welded on both sides of the head. The only advantage here is I have a little more weight when forming and the selection of two different radius to form with (big deal ). I made the handle a little too long but on heavier gauge materiel it forms a little faster with less effort. Frank
Here's a picture of the shot bag stand I built as long a we're doing metal forming. It was built with a rotary table I had laying around and some s**** tubing to store the hammers. Also the shot bag is one of the ones I got from our own Dondanno. He makes some awesome bags, I have two and there are a couple more on the way to me for a couple of friends who saw them and wanted one for themselves. Frank
[ QUOTE ] great workshop fab32. wish you lived next door to me [/ QUOTE ] SHEEIT! thats just one small corner!! for real!!!
i made one using the small end of a bowling pin. leave the plastic coating on there. that **** is tough! trey
Another good cheap hammer to make is to get a small sledge (whatever size head you want, I'm thinking a 2-lb. hand sledge hammer). Then shape the head by grinding away (this will take some time but can yield a sweet hammer). Co**** grit flap wheels in a grinder shape real nice but are expensive, so perhaps a hard wheel should be used for roughing your shape. Then switch to varying grades of the flap wheels. Finish off with a "metal conditioning" wheel that is like super-compressed scotch-brite, to get a polished head. Shape both ends of the hammer if desired. Make 2 or 3 hammers if a variety of crowns are desired. Install longer handles in each.
I seen "THOR" hammers made in England...! They have many different head styles for $2 each at a flea market...! That's cheap enough for my to modify the **** out of them...!
At first, I thought this was another post about mullets and that you were gonna show us a picture of you bending metal over your head. Seriously, though. That's a fantastic idea, and I'm making one right away. Too cool... Any reason you wouldn't want to plug the holes on one, fill it half way with sand or lead shot, and make it a dead-blow? Ooo, ooo, or you could weld a disc about a half inch into the big threaded end, and put screws through the sides to hold a hockey puck (Northern thinkin")... They make great body and engine mounts, too. Maybe I'll start selling hockey pucks on Ebay... I'm gonna make one of these just for choppin' ice off my windshield. JOE
I've made mallets out of old baseball bats and those wooden pinapples you can find at the goodwill. Paul
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