| Project by rdwile | posted 265 days ago | 1134 views | 7 times favorited | 7 comments |  |
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Made a few plane hammers for gifts for some friends. I had a machinist friend make the brass heads for me and I turned the handles from a few different sticks I had laying around: The handles are curly maple, walnut burl, curly ash, Brazilian rosewood!!, ash and cherry. The wooden hammer tips are threaded on and are made from desert iron wood.
I needed only a few but my machinist made me a dozen, not sure what I am going to do with that many hammers…
This was a fun project and each one has little subtleties which make it unique.
-- Richard D. Wile, http://richard-wile.blogspot.ca/
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JR45
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#1 posted 265 days ago
These look really neat and practical. I could use one myself. I’m sure that local LJ’s will take them off your hands (for a small fee?).
Jim
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MonteCristo
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#2 posted 265 days ago
Very nice hammers !
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sprevratil
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#3 posted 265 days ago
Very nice. I second on taking one off your hands. If you want to de-clutter, just PM me.
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jcees
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#4 posted 264 days ago
Can I be your friend? HA, really nice job, your friends should be proud.
always,
J.C.
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#5 posted 258 days ago
Beautiful Hammers… I love home made tools….
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Caleb James
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#6 posted 139 days ago
What is the diameter of the brass? I think I will make one like this. I have some 9/16” brass rod in the shop. Seems like 3/4” would be better though.
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rdwile
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#7 posted 132 days ago
These are 5/8” diameter brass rod, that’s plenty for a plane hammer. Good luck!
-- Richard D. Wile, http://richard-wile.blogspot.ca/
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