Hammers
Good to have a selection of hammers – craftsman lump for punching tips and slots, ancient cobblers for flattening folds or setting stitching, small ball peen from my college jewelry making days for fine tuning copper rivets, traditional rawhide mallet for lighter punching duties, silver workers hammer for fine seam flattening and metal tapping .
I like to hang’em like meat…right from the shelving above my bench. Amazing how many time in a day i pickĀ up a hammer. Nothing sexy or unusual about hammers- but necessary nonethless. You know never to hit a metal tool (punch, stamp, etc) with a metal hammer right? I will show some examples of what happens when you dont do that some day…and it aint pretty.
Posted: November 29th, 2008 under leatherwork projects, Uncategorized.
Tags: thoughts on this & that, tools
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