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Classic Auto and Motorcycle Tools => Classic Auto and Motorcycle Tools => Topic started by: skipskip on September 15, 2013, 04:02:21 PM
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I bought a box of body hammers today and this was in it.
I assume it was used for body work, but is it actually a body tool?
looks more blacksmithy to me
for extra credit, what is it called?
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blacksmiths "flatter" but tinsmith's are known to use lighter ones. please post pics of the other hammers!
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We seem to be doing hammers this week ;P
>please post pics of the other hammers!
Yes Yes Yes!
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Original post shows a boilermakers hammer.
The reply with three pictured are, top to bottom:
1.Boilermaker flatter
2.Body dolly w/handle
3. Body Dolly w/handle
All struck tools used in smithing such as flatters, butchers, swages, fullers, etc. will have a substantial mass above the handle hole, otherwise the hole will distort after being struck.
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pics of the hammer pile.
one snap-on,one matco, several fairmount and a couple shy ones who wont say their name. and a tack hammer, tho I can see how that would useful in bodywork.
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more at the end of this set :
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body men would tack in the upholstery back in the day before all the plastic
door skin hammer is nice
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Isn't it a short handle for a blacksmiths hammer, wouldn't they want there hand a little farther back?
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Isn't it a short handle for a blacksmiths hammer, wouldn't they want there hand a little farther back?
Not necessarily. The first thing my first blacksmith teacher did to a new rounding hammer was cut the handle down to 10 or 11 inches. He was a third generation traditional smith from a German family. Short handles seem to be a German smithing tradition. They work just fine. The way I was taught, you don't swing a hammer like a carpenter does, so the length of the handle doesn't add much of an advantage.
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The *flatter* and other struck blacksmith tools, I often find with any old thing for a handle. Cut down shovel handles, even pitman arms. No need for a good heavy handle on a struck tool, it is just needed for holding the head in place. Ideally the smith had a helper that would bring the iron to the anvil while hot, then the smith would place the struck tool where needed, and strike it with a heavy hammer. Heavy as in 3 lbs. or a bit more. Those are some nice tools. Now who has some pics of *slappers*?
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Isn't it a short handle for a blacksmiths hammer, wouldn't they want there hand a little farther back?
That was my thought, but all these hammers came from a body shop, and I guess they were modified to make body work easier.
Or being a CB, he used whatever handle he found around the place.