Anyone with an overview on how to make a hammer handle nicely curved, with varying thicknesses, with a router and a template / jig? I saw a video once where they did thes, but can't seem to find it.
MarkShultz
Sorry I can't help but subscribing to this for answers as I have a few 80-100 year old hammers that need handles . Good luck , i am sure some LJs know.
Mark - are you going to make just one handle or several ?
jigs are fairly easy to make once you determine what shape you want.
this is my father's friend, John Fetner, from Central Alabama.
they joined the Army together and went to war together.
John suffered a head injury which brought him home from the
war and ended his military service. due to the severity of his head
trauma, John did not have the mental capacity to fit back into society.
his love of "whittlin" kept him busy all day and he made pocket change
by carving hammer handles that he peddled to the hardware stores
and door to door. he would make the handle custom fit for the hammerhead,
axe, hatchet, adz or whatever.
I don't know what John would say today about our new fangled power tools,
CNC routers and such just to make plain old hammer handles.
you can see the stack of handles beside him. I don't know how many knives
he must have gone through in his lifetime just whittlin.
John passed away in 1990. (I took this photo around 1985).
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jigs are fairly easy to make once you determine what shape you want.
this is my father's friend, John Fetner, from Central Alabama.
they joined the Army together and went to war together.
John suffered a head injury which brought him home from the
war and ended his military service. due to the severity of his head
trauma, John did not have the mental capacity to fit back into society.
his love of "whittlin" kept him busy all day and he made pocket change
by carving hammer handles that he peddled to the hardware stores
and door to door. he would make the handle custom fit for the hammerhead,
axe, hatchet, adz or whatever.
I don't know what John would say today about our new fangled power tools,
CNC routers and such just to make plain old hammer handles.
you can see the stack of handles beside him. I don't know how many knives
he must have gone through in his lifetime just whittlin.
John passed away in 1990. (I took this photo around 1985).
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Mark - can you post a sample photo or sketch of the handle you want ?
and what kind of hammer and what will they be used for (mostly).
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and what kind of hammer and what will they be used for (mostly).
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I'm watching too.
I saw a utube guy teaching how to use drawknives.
He seemed to be in the business of making hammer handles. I'll see if I can find his channel. Seemed like kind of a young guy, but gave the impression that he spends hours every day with a drawknife.
Ok. Here.
Hoffman
I saw a utube guy teaching how to use drawknives.
He seemed to be in the business of making hammer handles. I'll see if I can find his channel. Seemed like kind of a young guy, but gave the impression that he spends hours every day with a drawknife.
Ok. Here.
Hoffman
I've made a couple of axe and hammer handles. Usually used commercially available ones and foremost, the ones I needed to replace for patterns, traced with a half pencil. Used a drawknife and spokeshaves followed by rasps to get me there and then sanding after that. For axe handles, I chose boards with a natural curve to the grain to help avoid runout. I'm no pro, but it worked for me.
Template and band saw will get two profiles. Then shave/sand to confort. Or send $5K on a 5 axis CNC machine, three months programming it and then it will rout you one in about the time you could use a spokeshave.
Or: http://www.qualitydist.net/dgt-03250.html
My favorite handles are not smooth. Easier to grip with flatter sides. I guess my exception ia my 12 Oz Estwing leather grip finish hammer. Don't need to grip it that hard. But a framing hammer would be better with flatter sides. I like my old Plumb.
Or: http://www.qualitydist.net/dgt-03250.html
My favorite handles are not smooth. Easier to grip with flatter sides. I guess my exception ia my 12 Oz Estwing leather grip finish hammer. Don't need to grip it that hard. But a framing hammer would be better with flatter sides. I like my old Plumb.
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