Sledge Hammers!

Square_peg said:
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Good stuff, that BLO. What brand are you using?
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I'm working off of a gallon of Kleen Strip that I picked up at some yard sale for a couple bucks. I mix it with %20-25 turpentine. When I run out I will likely move to raw linseed oil or raw tung.
 
29A5D92E-ABAF-4755-A5AF-9BBD439D9802.jpeg So I didn’t read through this whole thread (yet) but wanted to show y’all what I just bought for five dollars. I think it’s amazing! How much work must have been done with this thing...! What do y’all think? What should I do about the rust? Thanks.
 
khukoo head said:
View attachment 877550 So I didn’t read through this whole thread (yet) but wanted to show y’all what I just bought for five dollars. I think it’s amazing! How much work must have been done with this thing...! What do y’all think? What should I do about the rust? Thanks.
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Awesome ! I say that was inferior hammer to begin with. Should not have mushroomed so badly no matter how much it pounded on something.
Its a cool specimen, give it a scrub & oil. Put on display...
 
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I'm not sure it was inferior. It's better to mushroom than to chip and explode like some of my heads. Nothing like pounding on a wedge and suddenly having chunks of your sledge flying around. A neighbor had a sledge shard imbed itself in his chest. Can you see a name on it?
 
I can’t spot any markings on it, but if I do when I clean it up, I’ll post pics. Inferior or not, it blows my mind. I love it!
 
My slip fit Italian sledge hammer was asking for a stubby handle, so I made this one today out of a piece of ash. Drops in in seconds, so I can swap handles as needed.

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jblyttle said:
Functionally perfect, cross wedging still has room for improvement.

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Beautiful old hammer there.

Really makes me want to find myself an old 16oz'er.
Believe it or not my first hammer was an old 25oz HART framer and I still do not own a 16oz claw hammer.
It's probably not a huge importance but I know one would come in handy here and there.
 
Hickory n steel said:
Beautiful old hammer there.

Really makes me want to find myself an old 16oz'er.
Believe it or not my first hammer was an old 25oz HART framer and I still do not own a 16oz claw hammer.
It's probably not a huge importance but I know one would come in handy here and there.
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I have a 5 gallon bucket 1/4 full of claw heads.
 
FortyTwoBlades said:
My slip fit Italian sledge hammer was asking for a stubby handle, so I made this one today out of a piece of ash. Drops in in seconds, so I can swap handles as needed.

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I love it. What's the weight of the head, and is it made for a specific use or just an all around basher. What steel, made for forging? Are they for sale?
 
jblyttle said:
I love it. What's the weight of the head, and is it made for a specific use or just an all around basher. What steel, made for forging? Are they for sale?
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It's this fellow, here. It's a 3000g (6.6lbs) nominal head and with the stubby handle it weighs 7lbs on the dot. I put it on the stumpy handle both for forging work when I really just need to mash stuff, but also for general heavy driving, like pounding stakes. The steel is their trade secret, but based on the composition info they were willing to provide me it's a modified silicon-manganese spring steel with extra carbon.
 
I like the idea but I have buckets full of bigger heads. I have been playing with fixing/modifying older heads, and just picked up a couple of drifts. I think that I will try changing the eye shape on one next time and turn one into a slip fit. Maybe I'll like it, maybe I won't but I have hammer heads coming out of my ears.
 
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