Tool Talk
Blacksmith and Metal Working Forum => Blacksmith and Metalworking Forum => Topic started by: skipskip on October 20, 2015, 08:52:02 PM
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found at the flea, but I cant picture it's use or name. any help?
prolly a pound maybe a bit more
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5627/22319755606_d4175b9de0_n.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/A1jzJw)AOCT 497 (https://flic.kr/p/A1jzJw) by Skip Albright (https://www.flickr.com/photos/skipskip/), on Flickr
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/702/22319755196_ae03b785f4_n.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/A1jzBs)AOCT 498 (https://flic.kr/p/A1jzBs) by Skip Albright (https://www.flickr.com/photos/skipskip/), on Flickr
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Looks hand made. Each end kind of looks like an antique masons hammer, but usually the other side would be flat not a straight pein as well... It might have started life as a masons hammer, broke or something, so they had the left (in the first picture) end forged down to match...
It might have started like this: (They are two different hammers... with slightly different proportions, but I couldn't find a top view of exactly the right thing for some reason)
(http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/z/hD8AAOSwv0tVFFlH/$_35.JPG)
(http://thumbs4.ebaystatic.com/d/l800/pict/201423657050_1.jpg)
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found at the flea, but I cant picture it's use or name. any help?
prolly a pound maybe a bit more
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5627/22319755606_d4175b9de0_n.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/A1jzJw)AOCT 497 (https://flic.kr/p/A1jzJw) by Skip Albright (https://www.flickr.com/photos/skipskip/), on Flickr
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/702/22319755196_ae03b785f4_n.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/A1jzBs)AOCT 498 (https://flic.kr/p/A1jzBs) by Skip Albright (https://www.flickr.com/photos/skipskip/), on Flickr
Maybe for dressing millstones?
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I'm with leg for a millbill. I have descriptions around here someplace, but I'll have to look around for it
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Mill pick heads typically have the faces and eyes oriented at 90 degrees relative to that one. I would go with stone masons hammer.