Another Sweetheart tool

[JimReed@Tallahassee]

I was cleaning up this family tool for my son today and noticed a special logo stamped on it.






It is a Stanley Sweetheart hammer! Pretty cool.

[wood-chips]

Very cool!
What is the cleanup going to consist of?

[JimReed@Tallahassee]

Very cool!
What is the cleanup going to consist of?

This hammer has a story. It belonged to my wife's dad. One of her sons just moved into a new house and I thought he might like to have his granddaddy's hammer. Her three sons were very close to him and I am sure my son would appreciate the gesture. Interestingly, during the Sweetheart era (1921-1934) grandfather and his brothers ran a moonshine still in the hills of east Tennessee. Maybe this hammer was a part of that history.

So the cleanup was a gentle thing. I brushed off the rust and flicked off the white paint drops. Then I stamped granddaddy's name on the heel of the hammer.



The last thing was to give it all a healthy coat of Johnsons paste wax. And here is the result.

 
 My goal was to save memories and make it look like it had just come out of granddaddy's tool box.

[Tony Z]

Amazing what is found during clean-ups! When I started accumulating vintage tools long, LONG ago, Stanley Sweethart was the hallmark I searched for.

[Bill_Houghton]

Nifty, and a good story to go with it.  I wonder if it drives the nails straighter?