Unquestionably Confused wrote:

Duane Bozarth wrote:

robo hippy wrote:

Wood hammer handles will always loosen over time. Wood is not a stable
material, and changes/moves with changes in humidity. Soaking in a
water bucket helps. ...



That's what the wedge is for..soaking doesn't help for long and will
simply exacerbate the problem more than likely...


Vaughn & Bushnell's plant is located just north of me in Hebron,
Illinois. A friend had a chance to walk through with one of the mucky's
there at least 25 years ago.

The procedure they use is a close tolerance wood handle that gets REALLY
dried out with the end stuck in a bucket of heated sand. They set it,
wedge it and chances are that hammer/handle never again sees a relative
humidity that dry.

I've got a couple of their hammers, both are about 27-28 years old.
Original handles and tight as a ... well, you know.




Any idea who long one would need to keep the handle in the sand?

Dave