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TOOLS AND THE SHOP => ANTIQUE/COLLECTOR TOOLS/BOXES/HAND ONLY => Topic started by: john k on November 14, 2020, 11:17:21 PM

Title: Just a hammer
Post by: john k on November 14, 2020, 11:17:21 PM

Hammers find me.  This tiny thing begged me to take it home.  Somewhere I saw  a similar tool,  jewelers hammer, maybe.  handle shows less wear than the work faces.  Head  about 5/8 in. Diameter , both sides.  Be glad for someone to give a pos. ID.

Title: Re: Just a hammer
Post by: jabberwoki on November 15, 2020, 07:04:35 PM

Mmmm interesting little bugger isn`t it.

Title: Re: Just a hammer
Post by: skfarmer on November 15, 2020, 07:46:19 PM

cute little bugger. is the other side flat or ball pein shape like the side we can see?

Title: Re: Just a hammer
Post by: J.A.F.E. on November 15, 2020, 08:01:29 PM

I believe it is a doming hammer. Nice little hammer I would have found a place in the sheet metal tools drawer for it but likely it was for finer work.

Title: Re: Just a hammer
Post by: john k on November 15, 2020, 09:25:33 PM

1 flat surface, 1 ball peen shape but shallow.

Title: Re: Just a hammer
Post by: geneg on November 16, 2020, 07:48:51 AM

Possibly a planishing hammer for silver or very thin sheet metal.  Same purpose as body hammers, but lighter duty

Title: Re: Just a hammer
Post by: oldnslo on November 16, 2020, 02:56:35 PM

Either that long handle is purpose-built for the hammer, or I better check the baluster count on the stairs of my old house. :)