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This image shows part of the group I keep on the bench. There are different sizes of cross peen, planishing, raising etc hammers. The rack is a piece of galvanized sheet metal bent on a brake. You can make the same thing using a piece of thin steel strap from the home improvement store or from a salvage yard. Also try heat and air contractors big enough to have their own shop for making ducts. They’ll have scrap sheet metal. The distance of the perpendicular bend accommodates your largest handle or in the pic the distance between the green and white lines. An overhead view with white the edge of the bench and green the strap. Drill holes for a couple of screws and you're set. |
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Here are a few more. The hammers in the middle with the green metallic paint are from a Sears Craftsman auto body repair set. Included were a couple of dollies, too. An excellent set if you can find one. After I bought these I had to dress the faces of the two peen to slightly convex as they were flat. I also cut about 1.5 inches off the handles’ butt and profiled them a little to balance them. The riveting hammers all have different shaped peens and I use them for various hammered finishes. The nylon faced is my baby. I use it a lot. The faces can be changed simply by unscrewing them. Out of the rack I use five hammers 95% of the time the rest, well, I probably don’t need. Oh, well...;} |
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Now, a few of the wooden mallets kept for hollow ware projects. Some are apple, beech, maple and a couple of other wood species I couldn’t pin by the grain. The dark one lower right is horn. You can also see a few of my stakes. The yellow material is corroplas - corrugated plastic. An excellent drawer liner. New 4x8 sheets are available from a large printing wholesale distributor. Sign printers are another source - they throw out the blems - who cares if one side has a run or blob of ink. Turn it over. |
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Pic hmr4 shows the rest of that drawer. There is a brass tack hammer with steel faces. Haven’t used it yet but it’s a hammer so it goes in the hammer drawer. Why do I have it? Many of my tools were bought making offers on estate sales, equip auctions etc. I always try to buy as much as I can for as little as I usually have. |
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Pic buf1 shows a cabinet I have which has the shelves removed and pegboard recessed about 8 inches in their place. This allows long peg board hooks and provides the shop with another surface. I keep my double wheel polisher on top. Note the fire extinguisher - you need at least two and I have three. Get the kind with metal valves and have it inspected every year. You don’t want to depend on that cheapo from orange Depot that has lost all its pressure because you knocked it over once last summer. I keep one extinguisher on the bench ALWAYS, one mounted on the wall by the entry door and the one in this pic is a few feet away. I can turn and within two steps have an extinguisher in my hand from anywhere in my small work area. There are few fears like the one you get watching a fire get out of control right in front of you. |
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