Dressing hammers - show us your shinies

[lorraineflee]

My lovely OH gives me tools for Christmas and birthdays, a lot of my friends think that's mean but I think it's fantastic! I'd rather have new tools than perfume and clothes any day of the week!!

I got a drill stand and a full set of saw blades in a revolving holder amongst my pressies last Chrimbo!

Lorraine

[ps_bond]

Crikey Peter, you certainly made the wait well worth it ! You must have been polishing those shinies for days You seem to have a bit of a thing about tools in general, but especially hammers, that we ladies have with shoes and hangbags Trouble is, I think I prefer shoes and handbags!

Days? Power tools... Most of those were done on a linisher first, then buffed with a sisal wheel & Abramax abrasive. I could go finer than that, but I think it's into diminishing returns - the dings are removed and there's no surface texture to imprint. Polishing the chasing hammer is just silly, really; that is for tapping tools so there's no advantage.

Now then, exactly which hammer is the before and after piccie then?

If you look at the big bundle, top centre, you can see a rusty one (although I may have ground the worst out of that one and allowed it to rust). Go right & down and you can see an identical hammer that got the full treatment. They're about 1lb, so quite dinky, but really handy for upsetting edges on thicker pieces. There's a 3lb Japanese forging hammer in there too - and a couple of the phenolic raising hammers I recently finished (which don't polish!). Another one in the shot was a chipping hammer - ground the rust off, rounded the sharp peins and polished; now it's a narrow raising hammer.

[MuranoSilver]

Oooh now that is a great collection of hammers!

[ps_bond]

It accounts for about a third of the hitting things tools I have.

[bustagasket]

as usual any thread in which geti is involved, very soon goes the same way as the others lol. we all used to be so innocent til he came along lol

[Petal]

While I was pedalling away in the garage this morning, I had a moment!

I remembered we have a Clarks CBG 6RZ benchgrinder in the garage (hidden under a load of my OH's stuff), and thought ...

I wonder if I could use the fine grinding wheel to sand my hammer, or would that be too industrial for my lovely new hammer? What do you reckon guys?

xx

[ps_bond]

I wonder if I could use the fine grinding wheel to sand my hammer, or would that be too industrial for my lovely new hammer? What do you reckon guys?

If you're very, very gentle you can take the corners off; it's not an ideal tool for the purpose as it is very unforgiving. With my belt grinder/linisher I can run the belt "slack" so that it conforms more readily to whatever I'm grinding; I don't get particularly pronounced grind marks in that way.

Best way to find out would be to get a very cheap (pound shop?) hammer and try it. A light touch, smooth passes over the wheel and don't bounce it on the stone.

Then get a spindle for the thing and use buffs & linishing compound instead

Wear safety glasses!!!

[geti-titanium]

Wear safety glasses!!!

You beat me to it!

[Petal]

Thanks for that PSB & Geti I might have a careful go with one of my OH's hammers that sit gathering dust ! Yes, I'd already thought about safety glasses .. trouble is they always steam up when you already wear glasses, don't they

I had you worried there for a minute, didn't I

xx

[lesley]

Quote:
The last time I said keep your pecker up people had a fit.

Why's that Lesley?

I think you know.