>I wonder if the plain-as-a-mud-fence handle was really necessary? heehehehe
Not at Tonelaria Grandstaff, obviously...<g>
> It kind of looks like finding a small "overhead" drift pick head, and then reforging from there would get you one? Of course you'd have to find 2 mini drift picks.
Um, these seem to weigh in at two to four pounds. If I have to (and I don't want to if I can help it) I suppose I could forge modify one of those cheap square headed numbers from Horror Fright.
> The only guy I know who might find an original one, if you wait long enough, would be my good friend Tony Seo.
Well, I'm not fussy about having an old original (of course, I wouldn't object to an old one!). Thing is, I've watched several videos of modern Spanish cooper factories, and they are still using the same hammer. Somebody has to be still making the danged things. But who?
>I never saw one of those massive wide curved coopers hand adzes for sale anywhere,.... ever.
I actually have, but I sure don't want to pay those kind of prices. There are a couple of perfectly serviceable D.R, Barton cooper's azes already in the shop. Good enough for me, anyway.
>Really though, hornswaggling the Fort's blacksmith shop into making you some would be the best option.
I kinda think that I can do at least as good a job as the fort's blacksmith can. I remember when he had never worked a forge.
The trouble with doing searches for cooper's hammers is that 95% of what comes up is stuff on Alice Cooper, Mini Coopers, and brand new tools made by the Cooper's Tool Group. The other 5% is junk. Grrrrr!
