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24th April 2024, 06:23 PM | #1 |
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Would a war hammer need a hardened face welded to the body of the hammer? Picture #2 one can make out the weld line.
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24th April 2024, 07:27 PM | #2 |
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25th April 2024, 05:47 PM | #3 |
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At 2 lb, a kilo, I do not believe it is a cobblers hammer, but some sort of machinist/smiths hammer would make sense to me.
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25th April 2024, 07:44 PM | #4 |
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If necessary it would obviously make a ferocious weapon. I think we suggested in earlier discussions that the presence of langets might make objects more likely weapons of some sort.
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26th April 2024, 10:42 AM | #5 |
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Given that, as it goes, this is not an intended weapon, let us move this thread to the Miscellania Forum ... and see what further comments show up.
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28th April 2024, 06:56 PM | #6 |
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Maybe an antique slater's hammer?
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29th April 2024, 01:01 AM | #7 |
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This hammer looks pretty similar to a hammer owned by a fencer I used to know. He had it made by the local smith --- this was 1950's, when we still had smiths in country towns.
He put up rural fencing, the spike end was used like a carpenters center punch, ie, to provide a location hole for a nail to be driven or drilled. The fencer put up rural fencing using Australian hardwood bush timber, he was driving relatively large steel spikes. |
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