Hammer With Replaceable Faces

[jjr2001]

Nice hammer ! Could you tell us how you did the fluting?

Hello aphillpmarcou, sure can. I used a hex 5C collet block to hold the handle in the milling vise.
The mill was fitted with a rounded end carbide end mill. Since I only have a mini mill,each pass
with the mill was limited to about .012". After 3 passes the collet block was rotated to the next
side to be milled. Five rotations and it was done.

If you have a spin indexer then that could be used as well by rotating the handle 60 degrees after each "side" has been fluted.
The other option would be a rotary table mounted horizontal on the mill.

Cheers, JR

[Blackbeard]

Well done! You could market these to a lot of crafters!

[jjr2001]

Thank you Blackbeard.

[Captainleeward]

A fine piece of work jjr2001 . thanks for sharing. Cap.

[jjr2001]

Thanks Cap, Making the three hammers was a most enjoyable project.
I think I will make a ball peen and cross peen as well....one of these days!

Cheers, JR

[wizard69]

Actually a way to mark projects that doesn't involve branding might be very useful. Generally I think of that as a punch but a "hammer" designed to be struck by another might do the trick.

Back in the day, they had something I'll refer to as a "timber marking hammer" because I don't know the correct term. Basically, it was a hammer with a relief carving of logo/initials/whatever in the striking face. Smashing it into the cut end of a log permanently marked that log. Think of it as a branding iron that required no heating.

We don't need to mark logs in our shops but the concept of a "marking hammer" may be applicable to some other problem. Texturing material, as is sometimes done to leather, is a possibility.

Again, just ideas to help make your time in the shower more productive. :-)