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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: jabberwoki on August 27, 2024, 08:02:39 PM

Title: WEIRD HAMMER
Post by: jabberwoki on August 27, 2024, 08:02:39 PM
Saved this from the scrapper or worse.
Any clues as to it`s intended use?
Title: Re: WEIRD HAMMER
Post by: skipskip on August 27, 2024, 09:19:10 PM
not a hammer, its a "struck piece" used by blacksmiths  your apprentice holds it by the handle and you whack it with an actual hammer.

Not sure what this particular one does

Skip
Title: Re: WEIRD HAMMER
Post by: Yadda on August 27, 2024, 09:21:52 PM
Cool!
Title: Re: WEIRD HAMMER
Post by: lptools on August 27, 2024, 10:10:03 PM
Hello, jabberwocki and skip . I think that profile  is called  a fuller. And I agree that it is a struck tool!
Title: Re: WEIRD HAMMER
Post by: moparthug on August 28, 2024, 12:47:57 PM
Looks like it's been hammered on, could it be a body hammer of some sort? Beat that wrecked '38 Chevy back into submission?
Title: Re: WEIRD HAMMER
Post by: jabberwoki on August 28, 2024, 07:34:25 PM
You don`t need a hammer to beat a chebby up just some harsh words will do the trick.  :grin:
Title: Re: WEIRD HAMMER
Post by: Sudsy on August 30, 2024, 08:07:47 AM
Looks like a hardie hole tool that's been beat on outside of the anvil
Title: Re: WEIRD HAMMER
Post by: lptools on August 30, 2024, 11:30:14 AM
Hello, Sudsy. One of the photos shows a broken handle still in the eye!
Title: Re: WEIRD HAMMER
Post by: Sudsy on September 01, 2024, 06:52:01 PM
So it does

Now I'm go with an autobody shop hammer
Title: Re: WEIRD HAMMER
Post by: lptools on September 01, 2024, 07:25:14 PM
Hello, Sudsy. I'm sticking with what Skip and jabberwoki  said. The tool was held by the handle by one person and placed where needed. Then it was struck by another person , remember this is hot steel being formed. Also , I am pretty sure that the 1-1/2 on the piece shown is either the size of the fuller , or the width of the fuller head. Auto body hammers are not usually marked for size. Figure D-1479 shows a fuller with an eye for a handle, this tool is meant to be struck by another forging hammer. Clicking on the photo will orient it to the correct position.
Title: Re: WEIRD HAMMER
Post by: midnitemack on September 02, 2024, 03:12:09 PM
Quote from: Sudsy on August 30, 2024, 08:07:47 AM
Looks like a hardie hole tool that's been beat on outside of the anvil
I jumped to that conclusion too initially until I saw the handle hole !!!!
Title: Re: WEIRD HAMMER
Post by: jabberwoki on September 03, 2024, 09:06:28 PM
Ok so vintage?
Title: Re: WEIRD HAMMER
Post by: Uncle Buck on February 06, 2025, 10:55:59 AM
Absolutely a hammer as evidenced by the hole for the hammer. Note, it is not a round hole either, but the commonly found on hammer heads, elongated.
Title: Re: WEIRD HAMMER
Post by: wvtools on March 24, 2025, 10:00:52 PM
It is not a hammer.  It is called a struck anvil tool; a top fuller in this case.  You hold it on top of the work, usually with a bottom swage hardie tool under it, and then hit this tool with the hand sledge.  It takes three arms to perform this function.  That is why most blacksmiths had apprentices/helpers and why someone invented a trip hammer.
Title: Re: WEIRD HAMMER
Post by: oldgoaly on March 30, 2025, 08:17:41 PM
looks a bit like  the one  top right of this page