On Feb 25, 3:39*pm, Gunner wrote:
Ive been cleaning up my tools, putting new handles on the (rather
large) number of hammer heads Ive aquired over the last few
years..and was cleaning up a 4lb shop hammer head and noticed it was
marked with some various casting graphic marks and started
wondering..is there any source out there that cover this sort of
thing?

This particular head has two triangle shaped graphics, one with a
single dot in it..and the other with 3 dots in a triangle shape and
what might be a makers mark..but its been bashed on at one time and
unreadable..or its the hammer end of the casting sprue...shrug.

No biggy..but was wondering if there are any websites that covers this
sort of thing? *I did a couple minute search..but my Google Fu must be
weak today.

Anyone?

Gunner


Probably drop-forged, not cast, don't recall any of my collection
being cast except a cheapy all-in-one that had screwdrivers in the
handle. Zinc head, brass-ish screwdrivers. Don't have anything like
those marks on any of mine, either. Most of the carpenter's hammers
have "Stanley" on them, the blacksmithing ones were mostly homemade,
looks like. Have a step-great-grandfather's, two grandfathers' and my
dad's hammers, makes a number of bucketsful. And rehandling old
hammerheads is a great idea, particularly if you get a free bucket of
handles to go with. Kind of wonder about the home-smithed variety,
some of those don't have tapered eyes. Relatively easy to put that
feature in when they were made, just wonder why they didn't do it.
There may be few stores that carry replacement handles, but not around
here. Would rather sell you some import crap hammer for a
replacement. Last spare handle I saw on a store peg was half the cost
of one of those pieces of crap, too.

Haven't seen anything on hammers specifically, but there are a number
of old handtool sites out there that might have some info if you'd
care to wade through them.

Stan