The other day I was shown this at the New Forest Show. Have you any idea as to what this is and what it was used for? Music Epidemic Sound CODY FRANCIS I Remember Well
It’s a file/rasp makers hammer. You can see these still in use by searching CZcams for Auriou Rasps where they still hand make rasps in France. He uses the hammer to strike a small tool called a barleycorn to create the teeth before the rasp is hardened and tempered.
Well spotted. One can see how its curve, and the way it's held, is perfect for hitting the tool at the right, most comfortable angle. Anyone want to see it here: czcams.com/video/sfQJIJuIbCs/video.html The relevant bit is three minutes in.
Hi Dave, the hammer you have in the film is called a dogs head hammer..... They were used in blade making......the weight is in the forward part of the hammer as the material you are working on is often quite thin so cools down very quickly.
I suspect that I'm wrong Dave, but the mushrooming is clearly from striking something hard. I've never seen one exactly that shape, but it would work well for peening out a scythe blade I have an even weirder pattern hammer for something else if you want to continue the series 😉
Isn't it a shoemaker's tool? There should be enough people still around to deny or confirm this ... Thank you for sharing this and 🌷 Love from Holland!
Logic - It was obviously used as a hammer It was used for striking something hard as the face has been peined over at the edge. The peining is slight so either the strike from the hammer was modest and/or the object being hit was small The very short handle means that accuracy and not major force was required - the weight of the head provided most of the force, not speed of travel. It would be HUGE/heavy and short-handled compared to the usual cobblers hammer, but it suggests a similar use.
@@alanchilds1456 it's the only thing I can think of where a mallet like implement has a handle that is clearly not designed for swinging, as it were. It i's just right to hold in the back of awkward places with a nice strong grip. I hope there is a follow up!
It’s obviously to generate maximum power due to the angle of the head against the shaft in a similar way to an adze- very interesting That’s about as far as my assistance goes!!😂
@@DaveKnowlesFilmmaker may the owner wasnt a pu$$ie but due to the angle of the face of the head to was for contact on a flat surface with out have to put a hole lot of force like in a Clinton kitchen
might be the hammer a wine maker uses to drive the iron bands down on a keg. A right handed man walking around the keg in a leftward circle. I would use it to buck the inside end of a nail as I hammered from the outside end. I use a bucking iron to do this while building lapstrake skiffs. It causes the end of the nail to curl over and clench the two pieces of wood together as I continue to pound the nail. This tool would be much nicer to use than the iron I have, which is more of a curved on one side puck of steel.
I think its an armourers hammer. I've just seen one on a video by Lindy Beige, Ill post the link czcams.com/video/GKPimu6O280/video.html see at 4:40 Good luck from Spain!!
It’s a file/rasp makers hammer. You can see these still in use by searching CZcams for Auriou Rasps where they still hand make rasps in France. He uses the hammer to strike a small tool called a barleycorn to create the teeth before the rasp is hardened and tempered.
Guy Martin talks to an old file/rasp maker and I'm sure he uses one of these hammers.
Well spotted. One can see how its curve, and the way it's held, is perfect for hitting the tool at the right, most comfortable angle.
Anyone want to see it here: czcams.com/video/sfQJIJuIbCs/video.html
The relevant bit is three minutes in.
You are quite right although it did take the owner some time to find out what it was.
Well that was a neat little tour you sent me on. " The Making of Auriou Rasps" on channel Lie-Nielsen Toolworks was so interesting. Thank you.
Hi Dave, the hammer you have in the film is called a dogs head hammer.....
They were used in blade making......the weight is in the forward part of the hammer as the material you are working on is often quite thin so cools down very quickly.
Hammer for Copper or Lead Guttering and Roof Flashing's on the Ridge or around Chimneys
its the metal version of the wooden bossing hammer mostly made from beach
I suspect that I'm wrong Dave, but the mushrooming is clearly from striking something hard. I've never seen one exactly that shape, but it would work well for peening out a scythe blade
I have an even weirder pattern hammer for something else if you want to continue the series 😉
Lead was my first thought. As the hand was close to the hammer head. How heavy is it? Thank you Dave.
Farrier's tool- reforming the shoes to fit the hoves after heating maybe
Isn't it a shoemaker's tool? There should be enough people still around to deny or confirm this ... Thank you for sharing this and 🌷 Love from Holland!
Hi Dave, I think its a cooper's hammer.
filemaker's dog head hammer
Making thin blades? Scythes?
Hi I think it's a tinsmith hammer, used as an anvil when they turned the edge of the tin over,? Atb, Stuart UK.
Hi Dave! I wonder if it is shaped so as to permit hammering into a concave surface?
That was my thought also. 👍
Stonemason's hammer? It's obviously designed for short controlled strikes, so my thoughts are for carving lettering or similar.
I'd have thought a cooper's tool.
Lead hammer . You can still get new ones similar looking today
For straightening horse shoes a furia's hammer?
Logic -
It was obviously used as a hammer
It was used for striking something hard as the face has been peined over at the edge.
The peining is slight so either the strike from the hammer was modest and/or the object being hit was small
The very short handle means that accuracy and not major force was required - the weight of the head provided most of the force, not speed of travel.
It would be HUGE/heavy and short-handled compared to the usual cobblers hammer, but it suggests a similar use.
riveting inside steam boilers?
I think it's a tanners tool for striking the wet hides.
Mike a good guess but it is in fact a file makers hammer.
A riveting brace. It's to hold hot rivets in place whilst they are struck from the opposite side.
You may be right
@@alanchilds1456 it's the only thing I can think of where a mallet like implement has a handle that is clearly not designed for swinging, as it were. It i's just right to hold in the back of awkward places with a nice strong grip. I hope there is a follow up!
For shoe making?
It’s obviously to generate maximum power due to the angle of the head against the shaft in a similar way to an adze- very interesting
That’s about as far as my assistance goes!!😂
Cooper's tool?
A tinkers beating tool?
Coopers hammer?
I would have used it to remove the marrow from the bones of my enemy's bones
Wow now that it a use I am sure the owner would never have considered.
@@DaveKnowlesFilmmaker may the owner wasnt a pu$$ie but due to the angle of the face of the head to was for contact on a flat surface with out have to put a hole lot of force like in a Clinton kitchen
Raising sheet metal into a bowl shape?
Reminds me of a lead bossing tool.
No it's not that.
is it a bossing mallet?
It's not for lead or car bodies but is to do with metal.
without looking at the comments its a file makers hammer ,
Is it a tin or pewter hammer
Leather work. Saddlery?
Or lead beating?
Cartwheel hammer
hammer for hitting things
Lead beater, roofing tool.
Is it the device for getting boy scouts out of horses hooves?
Almost in fact a file makers hammer,
I didn't know you had Popeye arms, Dave! Tattoos!
Furriers hammer ?
might be the hammer a wine maker uses to drive the iron bands down on a keg. A right handed man walking around the keg in a leftward circle. I would use it to buck the inside end of a nail as I hammered from the outside end. I use a bucking iron to do this while building lapstrake skiffs. It causes the end of the nail to curl over and clench the two pieces of wood together as I continue to pound the nail. This tool would be much nicer to use than the iron I have, which is more of a curved on one side puck of steel.
I think its an armourers hammer. I've just seen one on a video by Lindy Beige, Ill post the link
czcams.com/video/GKPimu6O280/video.html see at 4:40
Good luck from Spain!!
Just tell us.
Will do soon but there is at least one correct answer in the list.
Don't know what it's for but I know the guy who owns it 😉
It is a file cutters hammer so used to make files. www.dhi.ac.uk/matshef/unwin/MSfilecutter.htm