Found this over the weekend
Have never seen a ball peen with a leather handle. Thought it was an Estwing but handle says MALCO.
Google doesn't show any other examples of a ball peen with a leather handle.
(10-09-2018, 05:16 PM)C. in Indy Wrote: This summer I found one of my Great-Grandfather's hammers and put a new handle on it. That started me on a slope...
Here's my bench stuff now (omitting sledges and hatchets). From left to right:
- Modern Stanley AntiVibe hammer, does indeed work pretty good!
- Just got here from Grainger... A British joiner's hammer or Warrington hammer, very cool. You don't see many in the USA.
- My reliable Craftsman ball-peen.
- The 2-lb ball-peen from G-G-Father which I re-handled, modifying an ACE H/W handle.
- A cross-peen hammer which I handled from scratch hickory, probably my favorite of all these for how it feels and swings.
- A reliable rawhide mallet.
How about yours?
Chris
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My hammer's bigger than yours.......
Last summer's Avengers movie had a pretty cool scene where Thor's new forged hammer needed a handle. I have since been re-handling some handles and very much enjoying the process.
I am ugly -- but my nephew got the movie-star looks. Prior to Christmas Story, prior to Night Stalker, Darren McGavin had a "Thor" encounter of sorts. Anyway, this represents me giving a re-hung vintage hammer to my "Thor" nephew. He does have quite the handy mechanical aptitude and I think he's going to like the vintage tool:
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